
About PURSUE
PURSUE is a collaborative initiative to facilitate the training of undergraduates in cognitive electrophysiology. Our website contains instructional tools and teaching materials to guide educators in developing curricula for EEG/ERP classrooms and lab environments.
About the Primary Investigators
The PIs have extensive experience teaching undergraduate-level EEG/ERP methods in their research labs and courses. They are leading a group of experts in cognitive electrophysiology to create high-quality open source educational materials. The PIs embrace a student-centric approach to education that inspires student-faculty research collaboration.

Cindy M. Bukach, Ph.D.
University of Richmond
Dr. Bukach is an Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and the MacEldin Trawick Endowed Professor of Psychology at the University of Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Bukach’s research uses behavioral and electrophysiological methods to examine the factors underlying category specificity. One extension of her work is to better understand and ameliorate racial bias and other race effects.

Jane W. Couperus, Ph.D.
Mount Holyoke College
Dr. Couperus is a Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at Hampshire College and Visiting Professor at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts. Dr. Couperus’ research seeks to understand the brain over the course of development. She investigates the development and functioning of visual selective attention using behavior and elecrophyiological methods.

Catherine L. Reed, Ph.D.
Claremont McKenna College
Dr. Reed is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and the McElwee Family Professor of Psychology & George R. Roberts Fellow Professor of Psychology at Claremont McKenna College. Dr. Reed’s research uses behavioral and electrophysiological techniques to study perception and action. She examines the influences of the body on attention, perception, and emotional processing.
Faculty Learning Community:
Participating Faculty
The Faculty Learning Community (FLC) was formed to participate in the development and assessment of PURSUE’s electrophysiological methodology teaching materials. The FLC also provides a professional community and support network.
Mara Breen, Ph.D.
Mount Holyoke College

Dr. Breen’s research focuses on speech prosody and uses event-related potentials to measure real-time scalp electrical activity to more accurately measure the timing and interaction of cognitive processes.
Rebecca Compton, Ph.D.
Haverford College

Dr. Compton’s research investigates attention, executive functions, and emotion using EEG/ERP and eye-tracking methods. Her textbook Cognitive Neuroscience, coauthored with Marie Banich (Cambridge University Press, 2018), is a great introduction for undergraduates as well as graduate students.
David Leland, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin Eau Claire

Dr. Leland uses electroencephalography (EEG) to study the neural underpinnings of cognition, motivation, and action.
Erika Nyhus, Ph.D.
Bowdoin College

Dr. Nyhus’ research focuses on the neural processes involved in higher-level cognition, including executive functioning and episodic memory. Her research has addressed these topics through behavioral and neuroimaging (EEG/ERP), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) methods.
Jeffrey J. Sable, Ph.D.
Christian Brothers University

Dr. Sable’s research focuses on attention and perception, especially in the auditory system, using event-related brain potentials to study these processes.
Anjali Thapar, Ph.D.
Bryn Mawr College

Dr. Thapar ‘s research examines age-related differences in perception, attention, frontal lobe functioning, and memory using models of information processing and electrophysiology.
Consultants
Cobblestone Consulting
Cobblestone Applied Research & Evaluation, Inc. specializes in designing and conducting program evaluation and applied research studies, largely drawing on social science methodology.

Rebecca Eddy, Ph.D.
Founder & President

Monique Matelski, Ph.D.
Director of Research and Evaluation
General Consultants
Luck and Kappenman lead an NIH-funded summer workshop on ERPs that attracts researchers from around the world each year (the ERP Boot Camp). Luck oversees the development of a leading software package for ERP data analysis (ERPLAB Toolbox).

Steve J. Luck, Ph.D.
Director of the Center for Mind & Brain and Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis

Emily Kappenman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology at San Diego State University
Current Staff and Student Contributors
Undergraduates contribute to the creation of all PURSUE materials (courseware, multimedia tools) and original research.

Aditi Chitre
Claremont McKenna College

Alejandra Lorenzo
Mount Holyoke College

Alexis Lee
Claremont McKenna College

Anwen Tobalske
Claremont McKenna College

Archa Dileep
Scripps College

Astrid Petropoulos
Claremont McKenna College / Carleton College

Cam Smith
University of Richmond

Chandlyr Denaro
Reed Lab CoordinatorClaremont McKenna College

Claire McLam
University of Richmond

Elizabeth Roy
Mount Holyoke College

Fiona Hinds
Mount Holyoke College

Grace Wallsinger
Mount Holyoke College

Heather Shipley
Claremont McKenna College

Jasmin Joshi
Claremont McKenna College

Jiaan Shang
Mount Holyoke College

Julia Cruz
Claremont McKenna College

Kendall Stewart
University of Richmond

Lauren Selkin
Mount Holyoke College

Nadia Bukach
Website & Project CoordinatorClaremont McKenna / University of Richmond

Natasha Matos
Mount Holyoke College

Nicole Joh
Mount Holyoke College

Noa Sadeh
Mount Holyoke College

Olivia Clarke
Mount Holyoke College

Olivia Stibolt
Lab ManagerUniversity of Richmond

Shuyang Lin
Mount Holyoke College

Sonali Sikder
Mount Holyoke College

Sophia Rose
Claremont McKenna College

Sukhneet Kaur
Mount Holyoke College

Urvi Suval
Mount Holyoke College

Wenqi Zhang
Mount Holyoke College
Past Staff and Student Contributors

Aalok Sathe
University of Richmond

Abraham Saikley
Claremont McKenna College

Aditi Garg
Claremont McKenna College

Adrienne Jo
Claremont McKenna College

Amy Lowe
Hampshire College

Anthony Burre
Claremont McKenna College

Audrey Siqi Liu
Claremont McKenna College

Brianna Charlton
University of Richmond

Callie Cinque
University of Richmond

Christopher Cotter
University of Richmond

Eliz Akin
University of Richmond

Emilia Hagen
Claremont McKenna College

Emily Diamond
Claremont McKenna College

Emily Lavine
Claremont McKenna College

Flavia Nwanko
Hampshire College

Hannah McCarthy Potter
Claremont McKenna College

Heather Welty
Hampshire College

Jackson Zeladon
Claremont McKenna College

Jake Cardwell
University of Richmond

Jessica Kim
Claremont McKenna College

Josh Ortiz
Claremont McKenna College

Juniper Hollis
Hampshire College

Kira Bartnick
University of Richmond

Kirsten Lydic
Hampshire College

Lexi Frost
University of Richmond

Madison Lodge
Claremont McKenna College

Matthew Strange

Morgan Berlin
Claremont McKenna College

Owen Neubeurger
Hampshire College

Pascaline Munezero
University of Richmond

Patrick Sutphin
University of Richmond

Sally Borgatti
Hampshire College

Thalia Viranda
University of Richmond

Ting Chen
University of Richmond

Yaritza Bushnell
Hampshire College

Zachary Cole
Lab ManagerUniversity of Richmond

Zara Cannon-Mohammed
Hampshire College

Zoe Pestana
Hampshire College