Description: neuroscientist // full-stack developer
© Shawn Tyler Schwartz, 2021. All Rights Reserved.
I'm a PhD candidate in Psychology at Stanford University , where I'm advised by Anthony Wagner in the Stanford Memory Lab . My research leverages multimodal neuroimaging — fMRI , scalp EEG , and pupillometry — to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying attention and episodic memory.
Specifically, I'm actively designing and coding up novel software/hardware interfaces to implement closed-loop bioengineering to examine causal roles of attention lapsing on cognitive underperformance. I'm also working to shed light on how group and individual differences in molecular and structural biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology relate to variance in moment-to-moment fluctuations in sustained attention and goal-state representation during episodic retrieval.