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People
Dr. Mark J. Huff
Principal Investigator
Research Team
Graduate Students
Monika Mazela
Monika is a fourth year Ph.D. student at the University of Southern Mississippi. Monika earned her BS in psychology with an emphasis in forensic psychology from Western Illinois University. Monika’s broad research interests include eyewitness memory, false memory, and misinformation effects.
Jacob Namias, MA
Jacob is a fifth year PhD student at the University of Southern Mississippi and is working under the mentorship of Dr. Mark Huff. Previously, Jacob earned his BS in psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi. Also, he has been working with the MACA lab since 2019. Jacob’s broad research interests include attentional control, elaborative encoding strategies, cognitive aging, and mindfulness.
Alexa Tringali
Alexa is a second year Ph.D. student under the guidance of Dr. Mark Huff at the University of Southern Mississippi. She earned her Bachelor's in biopsychology at Oglethorpe University. Alexa's broad research interests include false memory, working memory, and executive functioning.
Amelia Morehead
Amelia is a second year Ph.D. student at the University of Southern Mississippi, working under the mentorship of Dr. Huff. She earned her BS in psychology from Mississippi College in 2021, after which she worked as an admin in leadership development. Amelia's research interests include neuropsychology, the development of learning strategies, and studies on the memorable elements of narration.
Undergraduate Honors Students
Actively Recruiting!
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Undergraduate Research Assistants
Aidan Brown
Aidan is a senior Psychology major and a current honors student in the lab. Aidan is interested in the effects of social ostracism on attentional control and episodic memory.
Elize Jackson
Elize is currently a Junior Psychology major minoring in biology. They also are a Discovery Honors student with plans to graduate with a BS in Spring 2026 and holds an interest in memory, emotions, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Colin Bruff
Colin is a Senior research assistant and a SPUR grant winner!
Post Bac Research Assistants
Hallie Culpepper
Hallie is a Psychology graduate with a minor is Criminal Justice and is completing a gap year to build additional research experience. Her interests include research in memory encoding and second language acquisition. She has previously served as the president of Psychology Club. Hallie is planning on applying for graduate programs in Cognitive Psychology.
Lab Alumni
Undergraduate Researchers:
Anastasia Peach (BS; SPUR Grant, 2017)
Alyssa Di Mauro (BS; SPUR Grant, 2018)
Emily Stahley (Honors BS, 2018)
Ashley Wood (BS; SPUR Grant, 2019)
Laura Pazos (Honors BS; SPUR Grant, 2019)
Jessica Runnels (Honors BS, 2020)
Emily Cates (Honors BS, 2020)
Kyla Cosentino (BS, 2020)
Katie Hayford (BS, 2020)
Kayla Carr (BS, 2020)
Jacob Namias (BS, 2020)
Cortney Sanderson (BS, 2020)
Morgan Poulos (BS, 2020)
Holly Estopinal (BS; SPUR Grant, 2020)
Joseph (Landry) Smith (Honors BS; SPUR Grant, 2021)
Trevor Perry (Honors BS, 2021)
Mary Roth (BS, 2021)
Isabel Stoker (BS, 2022)
Anie Mitchell (Honors BS; SPUR Grant, 2022)
Wryleigh Shearin-Anderson (Honors BS; SPUR Grant, 2022)
Garima Puri (BS, 2022; SPUR Grant, 2022)
Cheyenne Matthews (BS, 2023)
Peyton Poe (Honors BS, 2023)
Ross Russell (BS, 2023)
Taylor Barnes (BS, 2023)
Hallie Culpepper (BS, 2024)
Vivian Chandler (BS, 2025)
Graduate Researchers:
Matthew Gretz (MA, 2019)
Kendal Smith (PhD, 2021)
Nicholas Maxwell (PhD, 2022)
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