People

Dan McCarthy

B.A. Psychology / Spanish Grand View University

M.A. Social Psychology University of Northern Iowa

I'm a third year doctoral student at UNR. I received my master's at the University of Northern Iowa where I conducted research on face recognition and issues related to eyewitness identification. I am fascinated by the brain's ability to organize complex environmental stimuli into rich, understandable experiences. My current research mainly focuses on form and motion perception and how these processes interact with one another at the neural level to construct our conscious perception of the world. I am also broadly interested in visual attention and synesthesia. When I’m not working in lab, I love playing music, going to concerts and exploring nature.

Principal Investigator:

Dr. Gideon Paul Caplovitz

B.A. Computational Mathematics UC Santa Cruz

M.S. Mathematics Courant Institute NYU

Ph.D. Cognitive Neuroscience Dartmouth College

Curriculum Vitae

Graduate Students:

Undergraduate Students:

Christopher Blair

B.A. German University of Nevada Reno

M.S. Psychology University of Nevada Reno

I'm a fourth year graduate student at UNR. The entire field of psychology still fascinates me, but there are a couple of areas that I find particularly interesting. One of those is language, and specifically the processes involved in the learning and expression of secondary languages. I'm also interested in memory, mostly because of how it contributes to the subjective experience of the world each of us has.

Kyle Killebrew

My name is Kyle Killebrew. I am currently a psychology undergraduate at the University of Nevada Reno. I am originally from Las Vegas and still return there in my time off school. I love to be busy and learn new things all the time. I am also an active member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and love being a part of it. For recreation I go snowboarding with friends and ride quads with my family. I also consider myself a huge movie buff.

Diana Cordeiro

Now a Masters Student with Dr. Eiling Yee at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language.

Alex Boswell

B.A. Psychology Western Kentucky University

I am a second year graduate student at UNR. I received my B.A. in Psychology from Western Kentucky University where I worked under Dr. Farley Norman in his Vision and Haptics Lab. I am interested in learning more about the processes of the brain and the specifically visual system. In my spare time I enjoy juggling, watching many movies, gaming, and being kind of a geek. Click HERE for a copy of a paper I co-authored on 3D shape perception.

Lab Alumni

Lianne Barnes: Honors Student

I am a graduating senior studying psychology and sociology. I am fascinated by synesthesia in all its forms, and am looking at grapheme-color synesthesia for my Honors thesis. I also am interested in researching the neural correlates of empathy and altruism, particularly the process by which prosocial concern becomes altruistic action.

Gennadiy Gurariy

B.A. Psychology John Carrol University

am a first year graduate student at UNR having received my BA in psychology from John Carroll University. Trying to understand the seemingly endless complexities of how our brains manufacture this particular version of reality has given me a much deeper appreciation for what it means to be alive. Thus, I find the study of our perceptual abilities quite intriguing and also take great interest in their neuropsychological and evolutionary perspectives. In my spare time I enjoy reading, creative writing and hiking with my dog.

Jessica Goold

Now a Graduate Student in the lab of Dr. Ming Meng at Dartmouth College.

Colin Kupitz: Honors Student

Now a Lab Manager in the lab of Dr. Julie Golomb at Ohio State.

Megan Stricker: Honors Student

Now a Medical Student at the Saba School of Medicine.

Research Assistants

Amy Kaplan

B.A. Psychology UC Santa Cruz

I am a recent transplant to Reno and am volunteering in the Caplovitz Vision Lab to get a good taste of what pursuing a graduate education in Psychology would be like. My undergraduate education addressed many different aspects of the study of human consciousness--from critical theory and political philosophy to language studies and cognitive psychology--and I am currently caught between looking for similarly broad programs, or deciding to specialize. In the lab here I am working on an investigation of a conflation of terms being used in vision research today and am excited to see where this research will lead me. Outside of the lab, I draw comics, brew beer and try to get paid for graphic design work.