Current Members
Mark Wallace
Laboratory Director
Director, Vanderbilt Brain Institute
mark.wallace@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests: Multisensory processing, development and plasticity, developmental disabilities
Has been known to: herd cats... in both the figurative and literal sense.
Ryan Stevenson
Post-doctoral Fellow
ryan.a.stevenson@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests: Multisensory processing and imaging
Has been known to: go on rants about proper grammatical use of the English language.
Walter Lee
Research Assistant
Research Interests: Working with electrophysiology equipment
Has been known to: clean cats from time to time.
Matt De Niear
Graduate Student
matthew.a.de.niear@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests: neuroimaging of clinical populations
Has been known to: argue about the pronunciation of words like coffee and dog.
Dipanwita Ghose
Graduate Student
dipanwita.ghose@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests: Multisensory integration and its coding in the brain
Has been known to: become impatient and drive herself crazy!!!
Juliane Krueger Fister
Graduate Student
juliane.krueger@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests:functional connectivity of the anterior ectosylvian sulcus and its effects on behavior and perception
Has been known to: talk too loud.
LeAnne Kurela
Graduate Student
leanne.r.kurela@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests:Multisensory integration and processing in awake and behaving animals, coding and functional connectivity in the brain
Has been known to: run from lab to lab across campus multiple times a day.
Aaron Nidiffer
Graduate Student
aaron.r.nidiffer@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests: Multisensory integration in the awake and behaving cat, auditory development and plasticity
Has been known to: have reaction times three standard deviations faster than normal.
Justin Siemann
Graduate Student
justin.k.siemann@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests: Multisensory integration and deficits in developmental disorders
Has been known to: repeatedly win debates about college football with colleagues.
Tiffany Woynaroski
Graduate Student
tiffany.g.woynaroski@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests: using multisensory integration to clarify the nature of developmental disorders and to predict long-term outcomes
Has been known to: get caught binging on candy and Diet Coke at all hours of the day.
