Welcome!
Research in the Hwang Lab focuses on the cognitive and neural dynamics of cognitive control. Learn more on our research and publications pages. We are affiliated with the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Cognitive Control Collaborative, a super-lab initiative for researchers studying cognitive control.
We are located at 355W PBSB, 340 Iowa Ave, Iowa City, IA 52242.
Our research is supported by the National Institute of Mental Health.
News
- — Steph recently published our first paper on the topic of integration. Check it out here. She has more more coming out soon!
- — Continuing our strong tradition of placing postbaccalaureate trainees into top PhD programs, Shannon will be attending the University of Michigan this fall to begin a PhD in psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
- — For the coming year, we have openings for grad students and/or a postdoctoral fellow. If intrested please take a look at our positions page and reach out to Kai.
Lab Members
- Kai Hwang, Ph.D. — Lab Director — Email: kai-hwang@uiowa.edu
- Harry Yoon — Ph.D. Student, Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Meghan Garcelon — Ph.D. Student, Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Shannon Stokes — Research Assistant & Lab Manager
- Stephanie Leach — Ph.D. Student, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Alumni
- Xitong Chen, Ph.D. — Ph.D. Student, 2019 to 2025; Afterwards: postdoc at UC Berkeley
- Ray Gonzalez — Scientific Programmer, 2022–2024
- Mengxing Liu, Ph.D. — Postdoc collaborator from Tufts. We are actually still working togehter, he is just not physically in the lab now.
- Hannah Hollow — Lab Manager, 2022–2024; Afterwards: Ph.D. student at Montclair State University
- Neha Nagarkar — Undergraduate RA & ICRU Fellow, 2022–2024; Afterwards: Ph.D. student at Oregon
- Juniper Hollow — Lab Manager, 2020–2022; Afterwards: Research Associate, Radiology, UIHC
- Dillan Cellier — Lab Manager, 2018–2020; Afterwards: Ph.D. student at UCSD
- Evan Sorenson — Scientific Programmer, 2020–2022; Afterwards: Software Engineer