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NEUROSCIENCE

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Research

Interests: memory, learning, aesthetic experience, eye tracking, fMRI

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Kid Neuro Lab

Carnegie Mellon University Department of Psychology

PI: Jessica Cantlon, PhD

August 2024 - Present

  • Research Assistant

    • Duties: fMRI console operation via PsychoPy, EyeLink eye tracking, RStudio data analysis, IRB consent protocols, liaising with university imaging facilities and participants, administering and scoring behavioral tasks.

  • 2025 CMU Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Recipient

    • Project: "Assessing the Relationships Between Strategy Tendency & Mental Rotation Processing Using Eye Tracking"

  • 2025 CMU Speak Up!  Seminar 3MT Presenter

  • 2026 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (Richmond, VA) Poster Presentation

  • 2026 Meeting of the Minds (Pittsburgh, PA) Poster Presentation

  • CMU Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholar Development Presentation Award Grant Recipient ​

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Relevant Coursework

Intro to Music Cognition (F26)
Systems Neuroscience (S26)
Cognitive Psychology (S26)
Reasoning with Data (S26)
Cell Biology (F25)
Experimental Genetics & Molecular Biology Lab (F25)
Foundations of Brain and Behavior (F24)

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Connecting the cognitive with the creative,

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Madelyn Streisfeld © 2026 

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