untitled document home about us current research people publications employment participation lab members dr wen li lab director e-mail wenli@psych wisc ed canlab-west canlab-central waisman center department of psychology room 515 324 w j brogden hall uw-madison uw-madison 1500 highland ave 1202 w johnson st madison wi 53705 madison wi 53706 phone 608 890-1685 phone 608 890-2924 website website elizabeth krusemark post-doctoral fellow ekrusemark@wisc edu in the can lab i conduct both psychophysiological eeg and neuroimaging fmri experiments that examine how threat emotions such as fear and disgust are encoded at early stages of visual perception distinguishing between these two emotions within the domain of general threat processing additionally i am interested in the temporal dynamics of threat processes from early perception to later processes that influence behavior given the sensitivity to threat among anxious individuals it is important to examine encoding of threat as a function of anxiety recently i have conducted a neuroimaging experiment to understand how anxiety affects sensory perception in the olfactory modality this investigation examines whether anxiety induction anxiety facilitates sensory perception of subthreshold negative odors at behavioral and neural levels emily cahill clinical psychology graduate student ecahill@wisc edu research interests i am most interested in using cognitive neuroscience methodologies to investigate how perceptual abilities differ in anxious and nonanxious people currently i'm curious about ecologically-valid modeling of socially-threatening information in the laboratory and how to best measure and elucidate the cognitive and perceptual differences that contribute to anxiety personal interests i usually wind down from a long day at the can lab with handcrafts embroidery origami beadwork decoupage ceramic painting and much more my geekery doesn't stop at the lab door i love to read play board games create statistics-themed baked goods dress in costume for local events and hang out with other nerds yuqi you clinical psychology graduate student yyou2@wisc edu research interests i’m interested in both positive and negative dimensions of affect as well as the cognitive neural and biological correlates associated with each dimension i believe that research on positive and negative affect could potentially reveal shared distinct neural mechanisms ranging from a perceptual level to an experiential level my clinical interest would be to understand the neuroscience underlying the pathology of anxiety and other mood disorders personal interests explore the nature science fiction visual arts dance grocery shopping lucas novak individual graduate major lrnovak09@gmail com research interests would like to learn more about the effects of anxiety and depression on cognition as well as learn more about the olfactory system and improve on the presentation of odor stimuli personal interests psychology especially behavioral abnormalities cognitive and perceptual psych and social psych medicine especially neural medical sciences and pathology jaryd hiser lab technician jhiser@wisc edu research interests i am interested in using fmri and eeg methodology as a means to determine how multimodal stimuli are represented and encoded in the brain i am also interested in learning how emotion fear disgust etc can change this process at a very early level personal interests golf music and most of all the cubs go cubs go undergraduate researchers devan friedl dfriedl@wisc edu marc lonergan milonergan@wisc edu dayne legreid dlegreid@wisc edu mathias smrekar msmrekar@wisc edu katrina kopplin kkopplin@wisc edu jiho shin jshin32@wisc edu kendra patlak patlak@wisc edu alex quilling aquilling@wisc edu iris ai-ting wu awu5@wisc edu kyle ferris kdferris@wisc edu yan zheng yan z hope@gmail edu byum hee kil bkil@wisc edu jordyn rasmussen jkrasmussen@wisc edu former undergraduate researchers an-chieh chang doctoral student dept of communicative disorders uw-madison stacy lorenz psy d student dept of psychology xavier university david rozek doctoral student dept of psychology notre dame university collaborators coming soon university of wisconsin-madison psychology department 195 brogden hall 1202 west johnson street madison wi 53706-1969 phone 608 890-2709