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Meet The Wallace Lab

From left to right: Hari Srinivasan, Adam Tiesman, Sarah Vassall, William Quackenbush, Ansley Kunnath, Anna Machado, Ingrid Shragge, Adriana Schoenhaut, Dr. Mark Wallace, Dr. Marcus Watson, Eliza Brandon, Dr. David Tovar, Mckenzie King, Sam Rosencrans. Missing: Dr. Henry Ong, Andrew Kim, Emily Garcia, Shatakshi Goyal, Harper Marshall. 

Dr. Mark Wallace

Dr. Mark Wallace

Dr. Mark Wallace

Title: Laboratory Director

Research interests: multisensory processing, development and plasticity, developmental disabilities

Has been known to: herd cats...in both the figurative and literal sense

Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

Email: mark.wallace@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience:  Watching a movie at IMAX theater

Publications

Dr. David Tovar

Dr. Mark Wallace

Dr. Mark Wallace

Title: Research Professor

Research interests: Multimodal AI Models, Neural Representations, Physiology, VR/AR, Clinical Neurology

Has been known to: build models

Hometown: Columbia, MD

Email: david.tovar@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience: Digging fingers through sand

Publications

Dr. Marcus Watson

Dr. Mark Wallace

Dr. Marcus Watson

Title: Software Developer

Research interests: generalizable tools for psychophysics, eye movements, childhood synesthesia, visual attention

Has been known to: do both dumb and fun things on skis

Hometown: Wakefield, Quebec

Email: marcus.watson@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience:

Dr. Henry Ong

Dr. Henry Ong

Dr. Marcus Watson

Title: Research Program Manager


Adam Tiesman

Dr. Henry Ong

Eliza Brandon

Title: Research Assistant

Research interests: motion processing, Bayesian causal inference, decision-making modeling, attention

Has been known to: force lab members to rock climb with him

Hometown: Washington, IL

Email: adam.j.tiesman@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience: a warm bowl of soup on a cold rainy day

Eliza Brandon

Dr. Henry Ong

Eliza Brandon

Title: Recruitment Coordinator

Has been known to: have only pictures of her dogs in her camera roll

Hometown: Chicago, Illinois

Email: elizabeth.g.brandon@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience: Smelling peonies

Adriana Schoenhaut

Adriana Schoenhaut

Adriana Schoenhaut

Title: 6th year neuroscience phd student 

Research interests: motion processing, non-human primate behavior and neurophysiology, decision making models

Has been known to: sit at her desk in bizarre positions 

Hometown: Stamford CT/Summit NJ

Email: adrianaschoenhaut@gmail.com

Favorite Sensory Experience: curling noodles around a fork


Publications

Hari Srinivasan

Adriana Schoenhaut

Adriana Schoenhaut

Title:  Ph.D Candidate in Neuroscience 

Research interests: Sensory Systems in Autism (focus on Peripersonal Space)

Has been known to: weave poetry and philosophy together—finding meaning in the mundane and wonder in the profound.

Hometown: Cupertino, CA

Email: hari.srinivasan@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience:  The deep, resonant hum of a Tibetan singing bowl—like a wave of sound that settles into the bones, both grounding and expansive at the same time

Publications

Ingrid Shragge

Adriana Schoenhaut

Ingrid Shragge

Title:  M.ED Candidate in Child Studies

Research interests: Females with ASD, masking/camouflaging, social interactions 

Has been known to: have a array of fidget toys and tennis balls while she works

Hometown: San Francisco, CA 

Email: ingrid.shragge@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience: Eating the exact same thing at the same time as someone else

Sarah Vassall

Harper Marshall

Ingrid Shragge

Title: PhD Student

Research interests: sensory processing in autism; sensory development; cross-diagnostic research

Has been known to: talk politics when nobody asked

Hometown: San Diego, CA

Email: sarah.g.vassall@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience:  the visual experience of sludgy rock music (I have synesthesia)

Emily Garcia

Harper Marshall

Harper Marshall

Title:   M.S. Student 

Research interests: Multisensory integration and attention within virtual reality (VR) environments

Has been known to: teach her dog new tricks

Hometown: Burbank, California

Email: emily.e.garcia@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience: smelling candles 

Harper Marshall

Harper Marshall

Harper Marshall

Title:  1st Year PhD Student

Research interests: The role of higher-order cognitive processes in multisensory integration and perception

Has been known to: ride horses through the Starbucks drive-through

Hometown: College Station, TX

Email: harper.marshall@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience: listening to the rain

Ansley Kunnath

William Quackenbush

Ansley Kunnath

Title:  PhD, MD candidate

Research interests: neuroplasticity, cochlear implants, audiovisual training, neuromodulation

Has been known to: explore over 60 coffee shops in Nashville

Hometown: Allentown, NJ

Email: ansley.j.kunnath@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience:  driving through a car wash

Publications

Anna Machado

William Quackenbush

Ansley Kunnath

Title:  PhD Student in Biomedical Engineering

Research interests: Neural computation, semantic binding across development, plasticity of audiovisual learning

Has been known to: turn board games into life-or-death combat with little mercy

Hometown: Fife, Scotland

Email: anna.machado@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience:  Watching the sunset

William Quackenbush

William Quackenbush

William Quackenbush

Title: 3rd Year PhD Candidate

Research interests: Autism, motor stereotypies. sensorimotor integration, active sensing

Has been known to: know the melody to everything and the words to nothing

Hometown: Howell, Michigan

Email: william.quackenbush@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience: The reverberation of an orchestra in a church

Publications

Kalina Stoyanova

Kalina Stoyanova

William Quackenbush

Title:   Research Assistant

Research interests: audiovisual motion perception, sensory integration

Has been known to: skydive!!

Hometown: New York

Email: kalina.stoyanova@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience: The feeling of velvet (especially the shaggy rugs and blankets)

Mckenzie King

Kalina Stoyanova

Samuel Rosencrans

Title:   Research Assistant

Research interests: Neurodivergencies (Autism and ADHD), psychology through art, aphantasia and hyperphantasia

Has been known to: watch 12 hour video essays while making art.

Hometown: Fayetteville, TN and Gulf Shores, AL

Email: mckenzie.r.king@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience:  Rubbing the divot in my crystal necklace like a worry stone. 

Samuel Rosencrans

Kalina Stoyanova

Samuel Rosencrans

Title:  Research Assistant

Research interests: The role of music in multisensory integration. How multisensory integration can explain the origins of the self. 

Has been known to: spend multiple days at a time on a ladder.

Hometown: Glen Head, New York

Email: samuel.g.rosencrans@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience:  Listening to Music

Samir Mansouri

Samir Mansouri

Samir Mansouri

Title:  Research Assistant

Research interests: Multisensory Integration, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), Evolutionary Neuroscience (how brains evolved in humans)

Has been known to: watch sports all day every day. 

Hometown: Westchester, New York

Email: samir.m.mansouri@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience:  Haptic feedback on Playstation controllers

Mingyang Jiang

Samir Mansouri

Samir Mansouri

Title:  Research Assistant

Research interests: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Manipulation

Has been known to: play the violin for 12 years

Hometown: Suzhou, China

Email: mingyang.jiang@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience:  whistle classical music melody

Andrew Kim

Samir Mansouri

Andrew Kim

Title:  Research Assistant

Research interests: Effects of Multisensory Integration on Cochlear Implant Patients

Has been known to: obsess over soccer

Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia

Email: andrew.s.kim@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience:  Scratching an itchy spot

Ivy Lin

Shatakshi Goyal

Andrew Kim

Title:  Research Assistant

Research interests: computational models, quantitative psychology, sensation and perception, language and literacy

Has been known to: be directionally challenged 

Hometown: Murfreesboro, TN

Email: ivy.lin@vanderbilt.edu

Favorite Sensory Experience:  feeling different textures/materials

Shatakshi Goyal

Shatakshi Goyal

Shatakshi Goyal

Title:  M.S Student

Research interests: Temporal Rhythm in WM

Has been known to: Dance in the rain

Hometown: Boise, ID

Email: shatakshi.goyal@gmail.com

Favorite Sensory Experience:  Dancing barefoot in nature

Wallace Lab Alumni

Lauren Bryant - Microsoft

IIiza Butera -  Accenture

Jacob Feldman - Vanderbilt University

Justin Siemann - Sontag Foundation

David Simon - Amgen

Gabby Dicarlo - Mass General Hospital

Dave Hairston - Army Research Laboratory

Juliane Krueger-Fister - Duke University

Leslie Dowell Kwakye - Oberlin University

Paul Laurienti - Wake Forest University

Chris Lovelace - Shepherd University

Aaron Nidiffer - University of Rochester

Jean-Paul Noel - New York University

Collins Opoku-Baah - Heru, Inc.

Tom Perrault - Wake Forest University

Al Powers - Yale University

Ramnarayan Ramachandran - Vanderbilt University

Diana Sarko - Southern Illinois University

Ryan Stevenson - University of Western Ontario

Tiffany Woynaroski - Vanderbilt University

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