Brain, Behavior, & Cognition Department of Psychology Northwestern UniversityOffice: Cresap 309 Email: reuveni@u.northwestern.edu Current Research My research has two main avenues of focus. The first aims to characterize the nature of Implicit and Explicit memory systems interactions both behaviorally and neurologically with the goal of developing effective training methods that allow expression of both systems where appropriate. A major focus of my research involves characterizing implicit mechanisms of learning and information processing, as well as methods of promoting them. In addition, my work investigates the so-called “cross-system credit assignment problem”. I am generally interested in the following questions:
In order to tackle these questions, we use behavioral paradigms, neuroimaging, and computational process-models of human category learning. The second avenue of research is aimed at improving the current state of data acquisition in behavioral research. There currently exist several major limitations to behavioral research that does not rely primarily on survey data:
We aim to provide a solution for these problems by developing a stand-alone online platform for gathering millisecond timing, interactive behavioral experiments. This project allows researchers to interface with Amazon Mechanical Turk, as well as individual or group invitations handled by the researcher. We provide a mechanism for gathering and storing data in a secure and fully auditable platform that allows greater access to a more varied population from which to draw data. *This project is in Beta testing and is called “Empirical”* Select Presentations “Modeling Memory Systems Interactions During the Development of Decision-Making Expertise” 2018 “Cognitive Expertise by Repetition Enhanced Simulation-based (CERES) Training” 2018 “PINNACLE 2.0 – A Theoretical Process-Model of Human Visual Category Learning” 2017 “Dissociating Explicit from Implicit Strategies in Two-Dimensional Category Learning” 2016 Education 2014 – Present: M.A., Ph.D Graduate Student, Northwestern University 2012 – 2014: B.A. with highest honors in Psychology, University of California at Berkeley 2009- 2012: A.A. in Psychology, City College of San Francisco |