Our Team

The Spatial Cognition Lab

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Sami Yousif

Dr. Yousif is the Principal Investigator of the Spatial Cognition Lab. This is one more sentence about Sami and his interests. You can learn more about him via his personal webpage.

Graduate Students

Now Accepting!

The Spatial Cognition Lab is currently accepting new graduate students!

Undergraduate Students

Anthony Herzog

Anothony is a fourth-year undergraduate student at OSU studying psychology.

Ellie Wintrich

Ellie is a second-year undergraduate student at OSU studying biology. She serves as our lab manager.

Mahwish Kittur

Mahwish is a second-year undergraduate student at UNC studying neuroscience. She is working to understand topological representation through drawing.

Chance McKinnie

Chance is a fourth-year undergraduate student at UNC studying Psychology, Spanish, and Anthropology.

Naomi Lytle

Naomi is a fourth-year undergraduate student at UNC studying Psychology, Linguistics, and Data Science. She is seeking to understand variability in cross-modal perception.

Rachel Olugbusi

Rachel is a third-year undergraduate student at UNC studying neuroscience and computer science. She is working on adaptation of visual ensembles.

Kyra Warmuth

Kyra is a second-year undergraduate student at OSU studying psychology and classical humanities. She is interested in how the structure of spatial environments influences memory.

Ashna Shah

Ashna is a third-year undergraduate student at UNC studying neuroscience and computer science. She is interested in topological structure and the perception of complexity.

Gabe Waterhouse

Gabe is a second-year undergraduate student at UNC studying psychology. He is interested in the perception of number and related dimensions.

Cynthia Wen

Cynthia is a second-year undergraduate student at Columbia studying biomedical engineering, neuroscience, and statistics. She is interested in people’s sense of time.

Primary Collaborators

Brynn Sherman

Brynn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Ohio State and the Principal Investigator of the Moments Lab.