Principal Investigator
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Adrian Gilmore
Adrian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. As an undergraduate, he double majored in Psychology and Classical Civilizations at Colby College. He then spent several years working as a lab manager & research assistant for Daniel Schacter at Harvard University. He completed his PhD in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, where he worked with Kathleen McDermott. He then became a postdoc, and later a research fellow, at the National Institute of Mental Health in Alex Martin's Section on Cognitive Neuropsychology. Adrian is broadly interested in the cognitive and neural processes associated with human memory retrieval. Outside the lab, Adrian can be found biking, chasing frisbees, or playing Mario Kart with his 6-year old daughter. |
Graduate students
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Mervenur Ayyildiz
Mervenur is a first-year Cognitive area PhD student in the Psychological and Brain Sciences program. She completed her BA in Psychology at Marmara University in Turkey, and her MSc in Psychology, Neuroscience and Human Sciences at the University of Pavia in Italy. She conducted her thesis research on memory reconstruction at the University of Glasgow under the supervision of Prof. Maria Wimber. She has been working on memory research for the past six years, and she is mainly interested in the dynamic nature of autobiographical memories. Outside the lab, she can be found traveling, baking, and having FaceTime calls with her 4.5-year-old cat, Fındık. |
Heaven Dixon
Heaven is a 2nd year Bridge scholar who joined the lab after completing her BS in Psychology at Mississippi State University in 2024. She is currently investigating differences in the perception of real and artificially-generated photographic stimuli. She is planning to apply the skills she learns in the lab to a PhD program cognitive neuroscience or neuropsychology.
Heaven is a 2nd year Bridge scholar who joined the lab after completing her BS in Psychology at Mississippi State University in 2024. She is currently investigating differences in the perception of real and artificially-generated photographic stimuli. She is planning to apply the skills she learns in the lab to a PhD program cognitive neuroscience or neuropsychology.
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Amanda Holt
Amanda is a Psychological and Brain Sciences PhD student in the Cognitive area. She received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ballet from the University of Utah. Amanda previously worked with Dr. Cory Inman in his lab as both a research assistant and lab manager. Amanda’s research focuses on the neural and cognitive mechanisms that support recognition memory, with particular interest in how the parietal memory network distinguishes novel from familiar experiences. Outside of her research, Amanda enjoys dancing ballet, reading, cooking, and spending time in nature. |
Undergraduate research assistants
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Sofia DiCostanzo
Sofia DiCostanzo is an undergraduate student at the University of Delaware studying neuroscience as well as dance. In the future, she hopes to lead her own research on the connections between dance and the brain. Aside from academics, Sofia is also on the club cheer team at UD and Impact Dance Company. |
Nonhuman research affiliates
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Ori Gilmore
A somewhat clumsy feline with a mysterious past, Ori can often be found poking his ears into Zoom calls, sleeping in a patch of sun, or ambushing unsuspecting toys. His interests lie in trans-species prospective memory: he wants to optimize the conditions under which his adopted humans will remember to give him treats. Fındık Ayyildiz
Fındık investigates novel techniques for attentional capture in humans. Using her keen scent memory, she tracks the frequency with which Merve offers “scratchies” to other cats—likely for nefarious purposes. Nevertheless, she is patiently waiting for Merve to finish her PhD and return home so that their play sessions can resume. |