Principal Investigator

Postdoctoral Fellows

Graduate Students

Lab Manager

Research Assistants

Kristina Krasich, Ph.D.

Kristina earned a B.A. in Psychology and English from Duke University and went on to earn her Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Kristina studies how attention — and distraction — affect visual perception, memory, and the culminating attribution of causal judgements. She is currently using behavioral, eye tracking, and neuroimaging techniques for a multidimensional view. Kristina is also interested in exploring how her research interfaces with philosophical concepts regarding responsibility and moral agency.

Samuel Murray, Ph.D.

Samuel earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Wake Forest University and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. His work focuses on the psychology of acting over time and how vigilance interacts with attention, memory, and control to facilitate temporally extended agency. Additionally, he works on normative questions of moral responsibility — especially responsibility for negligence — and has an abiding interest in the history of early modern philosophy.

Trey Boone, Ph.D.

Visiting Fellow

Trey earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Lewis & College Clark, an M.A. in Philosophy from Simon Fraser University, and a Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on explanation and causal inference in neuroscience, with specific interest in how the robustness of neural functions presents challenges for standard approaches to causal inference in biological systems. Trey also has active interests in philosophy of perception related to attention and vagueness in perceptual representation.

Felipe De Brigard, Ph.D.

Fuchsberg-Levine Family Associate Professor of Philosophy

Associate Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience

Core Faculty, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences & Center for Cognitive Neuroscience

Felipe earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Colombia, where he studied philosophy and neuropsychology. He earned a masters degree from Tufts University, where he studied philosophy and cognitive science under the direction of Daniel Dennett. Then, he earned a doctoral degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he studied philosophy and cognitive neuroscience under the direction of Jesse Prinz and Kelly Giovanello, respectively. Before coming to Duke, he spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow in Daniel Schacter's Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory Lab at Harvard University. With Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, he launched the Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy that have been hosted every year at Duke since 2016.

Kevin O'Neill

Kevin is a PhD student who joined the lab through the Cognitive Neuroscience Admitting Program. He received a B.S. in Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he worked in the Rensselaer Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (RAIR) Lab, and later worked as a computer scientist at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Currently, Kevin is working with Felipe De Brigard, John Pearson, and NRL to investigate how the brain coordinates cognitive processes (e.g., attention, perception, and memory) to support inference and reasoning in a variety of domains.

Anna Smith

Anna is a first year Psychology & Neuroscience Ph.D. student working with Paul Seli and Felipe De Brigard. After receiving her B.A. in Cognitive Science from Carleton College, Anna spent two years working with Dr. Michael Yassa on studies of episodic memory mechanisms and performance trajectories associated with healthy and disordered aging. She hopes to tie in her previous work on the nature of episodic and semantic representations, her love for interdisciplinary science, and a personal drive to create and consume art, to pursue a body of research that illuminates stages and conditions of the creative process. Anna also serves as Co-director and Instructor for Duke Neurosciences Camp, a residential summer camp for high schoolers.

Brenda Yang

Brenda earned a B.S. and B.A. in Neuroscience and Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Southern California. Then, she worked as a high school science educator in northeast Los Angeles through Teach for America before entering graduate school. Now she is a PhD student in Psychology & Neuroscience who entered through the Cognitive Neuroscience Admitting Program. She works with Elizabeth Marsh and Felipe De Brigard to study questions relating to imagining, belief, and education. 

Matthew Stanley

Matthew earned a B.S. in Psychology and a B.A. in philosophy from Wake Forest University. He joined the lab through the Cognitive Neuroscience Admitting Program and is currently a PhD student in Psychology & Neuroscience. He works with Roberto Cabeza, Felipe De Brigard, Elizabeth Marsh, and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong to answer questions involving memory, morality, truth, and reasons from computational, behavioral, and philosophical perspectives. 

Maria Khoudary

Maria earned a B.S. in Psychology and Philosophy from Boston College, where she worked in Maureen Ritchey's Memory Modulation Lab. Now, she manages the IMC Lab and coordinates the Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy. She is interested in confidence & metacognition, interactions among memory, attention, and perception, and philosophy of neuroscience.