The brain is truly wonderful and complex, seamlessly and apparently effortlessly able to attend to multiple tasks at the same time. However, the human brain, via religion or science, art or technology, has yet to figure itself out
John S. Allen (from The Lives of the Brain, 2009)

Research
Current Projects

Masters Thesis
Pending publishing of Master's Thesis

ManyNumbers
Pending PLSD Updates to ManyNumbers project. "The ManyNumbers network is a research consortium of over 100 sites worldwide, interested in the conceptual foundations of early numeracy.
ManyNumbers is funded by a grant from the NSF Division on Research in Learning (DRL) and aims to expand the investigation of early numeracy to a diverse global network, while promoting new and innovative exploratory projects."- From the ManyNumbers OSF
Conferences
and
Poster Presentations
2026 | McKnight Doctoral Annual Fellows Meeting and Research and Writing Conference​
2025 | FIU Undergraduate Research Conference (URFIU)
2024 | Florida Consortium on the Neurobiology of Cognition (FCNC)
2024 | FIU Undergraduate Research Conference (URFIU)​


Fellowships
and Grants
2025 | McKnight Doctoral Fellowship
"The McKnight Doctoral Fellowship program is designed to address the underrepresentation of African American and Hispanic faculty at colleges and universities in the state of Florida by increasing the pool of citizens qualified with Ph.D. degrees to teach at the college and university levels. As a by-product, it is expected that employment opportunities in industry will also be expanded"
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