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Brogden address:
1202 W. Johnson Street
Madison, WI 53706
Waisman address:
1500 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705
Brogden shared lab line:
608-262-4443
(rings in 366, 381)
Lab fax: 608-265-2875
Research Staff
David Bachhuber
Research Specialist
206 Waisman
608-890-2672
I work on MIDUS, a longitudinal study that is examining well-being and its relationship to emotional resilience. My duties include running experimental sessions and assisting with data analysis.
Amelia Cayo
Research Intern
T-113 Waisman
608-890-3073
As a Research Intern, I am responsible for making precise volumetric measurements of medial temporal lobe structures by analysis of structural MR images. I conduct this analysis for a number of cognitive studies on both normal and clinical development. I also assist in training others to collect these measurements.
Larry Greischar, Ph.D.
Assistant Researcher
371 Brogden
608-262-9944
Larry's website
I research new methods of data analysis and write computer programs to apply them.
Frances Haeberli , M.S.
Assistant Researcher
T-119
608-262-8772
I have been collecting data for our study investigating the impact of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) on preschool teachers in the Waisman Center’s Early Childhood Education Program. Our current focus is reviewing curriculum, developing our research strategies and laying the ground work for translational research projects in school and community settings. I will also be involved in developing functional imaging research programs for the research projects within the Center for Investigating a Healthy Mind.
Lauren Hazen
Associate Research Specialist
368 Brogden
608-263-0130
As an Associate Research Specialist, I run experimental sessions and assist with data analysis on a psychophysiological study that examines the relation of working memory capacity and the ability to regulate emotion, pain and attention.
Luke Hinsenkamp
Associate Research Specialist
392 Brogden
608-262-9937
As an Associate Research Specialist, I help run experimental sessions and analyze behavioral and electrophysiological data from a study that examines the relation of working memory capacity and the ability to regulate emotion, pain and attention, as well as MRI work with the TeenEmo study.
Scott Kalin
Associate Research Specialist
206 Waisman
608-890-2674
As an Assoicate Research Specialist and a co-coordinator of the NCAAM- funded center on meditation and neuroplasticity, I aide in study task development, collecting data, pre-processing, processing of data and data analysis.
Adam Koppenhaver
Research Specialist
206 Waisman
608-890-2672
As a Research Specialist, I recruit participants, run experimental sessions, and help process data for a study that investigates and analyzes the neural mechanisms of deception and for a longitudinal study that examines well-being and its relationship to emotional resilience.
Katie Nondahl
Associate Research Specialist
206 Waisman
608-890-2961
As an Associate Research Specialist, I am primarily responsible for recruiting participants and logistics. I am currently working on a study investigating the effects of meditation on well-being.
Diane Stodola
Associate Research Specialist
A125 Waisman
608-265-9118
As an Associate Research Specialist in the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, I am involved with recruiting participants, running subjects, and data processing. I am currently working on studies involving different forms of meditation and their effects on well-being and emotion regulation.
Matt Sutterer
Associate Research Specialist
S111 Waisman
608-263-1069
Matt's website
I assist in preprocessing and collection of medial temporal lobe regions of interest from structural MR images on a variety of developmental, clinical, and cognitive studies. I also help in training others to trace these regions of interest.
Elizabeth Vanderwerff
Associate Research Specialist
371 Brogden
608-262-9944
As an associate research specialist, I recruit participants, run experimental sessions, and assist in data analysis for a study examining how empathy and compassion influence economic decision-making and prosocial behaviors.