Our Team
Vishnu “Deepu” Murty
Principal Investigator
murty@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Memory, Motivation, Threat, Decision-making, Clinical Risk
Daemon/Familiar: Koala Bear
Blake Elliott
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Memory, Attention, Motivation, Neuromodulatory Systems, Psychopathology
blake.elliott@temple.edu
Daemon/Familiar: Emu
Lena Skalaban
Postdoctoral Fellow
skalaban@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Episodic & Semantic Memory Interactions, Development, Goal-states
Daemon/Familiar: Gibbon
Nicholas Ruiz
Graduate Student
nick.ruiz@temple.edu
Research Interests: Memory, Substance Use Disorder, Craving, Agency
Daemon/Familiar: Giraffe
Steven Martinez
Graduate Student
stevent.martinez@temple.edu
Research Interests: Decision Making, Memory, Social Media Habits
Daemon/Familiar: Turtle
Ga In Shin
Graduate Student
gshin@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Episodic Memory, Emotions, Memory Updating Processes, Functional Neuroimaging
Daemon/Familiar: Capybara
Ziyuan Chen
Graduate Student
ziyuanch@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Goal-Oriented Memory, Arousal, Memory Consolidation, Event Representation
Daemon/Familiar: Sloth
Ryan Gerald Monkman
Graduate Student
rmonkman@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Memory, Emotion, Emotion regulation, fMRI
Daemon/Familiar: Mountain Goat
Gavin Schneider
Graduate Student
gsch@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Integrative Arts Interventions, Communication, Emotion, Clinical Risk, Trauma and Stress
Daemon/Familiar: Dragonfly
Yifang Liu
Research Associate
yifangl@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Episodic Memory, Semantic Memory, Consolidation, Agency, Prediction
Daemon/Familiar: Atheris
Eric Cruz-Mendez
Research Associate
ecruzm@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Substance Abuse, Behavioral Neuroscience, Psycholinguistics
Daemon/Familiar: Axolotl