University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. Student of Cognitive Psychology
Joined Lab: Summer 2012
Left Lab: Summer 2014
Graduated: Spring 2014
MIT2 Officer of Technology
siler3@illinois.edu
Jessica discovered MIT2 lab while working as a teacher’s aid for Dr. Stafford. In the summer of 2013 she completed her Honors thesis under the supervision of Dr. Peter Hancock. In tandem with her duties in the MIT2 Lab, she is also a research assistant in the ACAT lab. She is pursuing a doctoral degree in cognitive psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her academic interests include memory, physiological psychology, perception, and neuroscience.
Publications:
- Siler, J. (2013). Generation and the Google Effect: Transactive Memory System Preference Across Age. Poster presented at the Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence, Orlando, FL.
- Siler, J., Hinton, D., & Ortiz-Diaz, K. (2013). T9 in a Different Time. Poster presented at the Human Factors and Applied Psychology Student Conference, Daytona Beach, FL.
- Selkowitz, R. A., Sims, V.K., Scholcover, F., & Siler, J.B. (2013) Mental Rotation of Objects Presented in a Complex Background. Poster presented at the 2013 Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.
- MacArthur, K.R., Fund, I., Siler, J., Hancock, G., & Mouloua, M. (2014, March). Validating the Continuum Mysteriosum. Poster presented at the 60th annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Nashville, TN. (Click here for manuscript)