Research Coordinators

Nicole Massa, BSc completed her Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience and Psychology at Trinity College in May 2023. During her time there, she studied value-driven attentional capture as well as the interaction of expectation and attention. She is currently exploring the physiology of sleep-dependent memory consolidation in Autism Spectrum Disorder using wearable EEG devices. 

Katie Ostrow, BA completed her Bachelor of Art in Psychology at Middlebury College in May 2023. At Middlebury, she was involved in research surrounding the connection of sleep to mental health as well as how different measures of sleep (i.e. Actigraphy, self-report, etc.) relate to anxiety among college students. She will be examining the effects of auditory stimulation on sleep dependent memory consolidation in patients with schizophrenia.

Tori Dixon, BSc completed her Bachelor of Science in Psychology at Northeastern University in May 2024. At Northeastern, she investigated anxiety and depression in chronic illnesses as well as neuropeptides in autism. She is currently using wearable EEG devices to investigate sleep physiology in adolescents with autism.