Meet the Team

Ridhi Bandaru

Lab Manager

Ridhi is a predoctoral researcher broadly interested in the abstraction of concepts, how representations are manipulated, and how they are recombined and repurposed in mental programs (both in natural and artificial minds). Ridhi also likes checking out galleries and restaurants, and enjoys karaoke, languages, and watching monkeys.

> email : ridhi@wustl.edu

> web : bendemonium.github.io

Cailey Tennyson

Cailey Tennyson

Cailey is a first year Graduate student in the lab. She received her Bachelor's degree in Computational Cognitive Science and a minor in English from UC Davis where she also worked as a research assistant in the Visual Cognition Lab under Dr. Joy Geng. She then spent two years as the Research Assistant in Dr. Jeremy Wolfe’s Visual Attention Lab at Harvard Medical School. Cailey is interested in memory mechanisms, specifically related to reactivation and reconsolidation, and errors that can arise. Outside of school, Cailey loves volunteering with animals, mentoring high school robotics, traveling, and continuing to develop her bowling skills.

@cetennyson.bsky.social

Graduate Student

Nicole Resnick

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Nicole is an undergraduate majoring in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology and American Culture Studies. She is interested in how mental processes such as memory and decision-making are developed throughout age and shaped by social contexts. Outside of the lab, Nicole loves going to the movies, concerts, hiking, writing, and reading!

Brayden Wang

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Brayden is an undergraduate student majoring in Cognitive Neuroscience. He is interested in learning and memory and how they change or develop throughout life. Particularly, he is interested in how individual differences or neurodevelopmental disorders influence learning. Outside of the lab, Brayden can be found experimenting in the kitchen, developing/coding games with friends, or going down a YouTube rabbit hole.