Education
Published Journal Articles
Publications
*Undergraduate mentee
Manuscripts Under Review or in Preparation
Awards and Funding
*Undergraduate mentee
Oral Presentations
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Santacroce L. A. & Spaniol J. (upcoming November 2024). Reward vs. emotional capture: What do we prioritize under rapid temporal constraints, and how does this change as we age? Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
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Tamber-Rosenau B. J., Santacroce L. A., & Carlos B. J. (2024). Further evidence that the speed of working memory consolidation is a structural limit. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL.
3.
Santacroce L. A. (2024). Emotional or “pop-out” blink. McCall MacBain 10-minute Research Talks competition and Appetizers for the Mind finalist competition (two presentations), McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. Watch🡽
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Carlos B. J., Santacroce L. A., & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2023). The locus of Retroactive interference with working memory consolidation is central in nature. Virtual Working Memory Symposium, online.
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Santacroce L. A., *Swami A. L., & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2022). The emotional attentional blink relies on “pop out,” but is weak compared to the goal-driven attentional blink. Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
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Santacroce L. S. & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2022). A tale of two phases: The emotional attentional blink reflects sequential effects of visual and emotional salience. Object Perception, Attention, and Memory Meeting, Boston, MA. Watch🡽
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Santacroce L. A., *Swami A. L., & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2020). Emotional stimuli exert surprisingly weak capture of temporal attention. University of Houston College of Optometry’s Summer Seminar, online.
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Carlos B. J., Santacroce L. A., & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2020). Retroactive interference on working memory consolidation is structural, not strategic. University of Houston College of Optometry’s Summer Seminar, online.
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Yörük H., Santacroce L. A., & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2020). Crowding anisotropy supports the sensory recruitment model for location-bound visual working memory representations. Virtual Working Memory Symposium, online.
10.
Carlos B. J., Santacroce L. A., & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2020). On the relationship between proactive and retroactive interference between working memory consolidation and response selection. Virtual Working Memory Symposium, online.
11.
Carlos B. J., Santacroce L. A., & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2019). Retroactive interference on working memory consolidation is structural, not strategic. Object Perception, Attention, and Memory Meeting, Montréal, QC, Canada.
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Santacroce L. A., Petro N., *Walker C., & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2019). Do Non-Target Emotional Stimuli Modulate the Attentional Blink? Vision Sciences Society Meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Presentations
Poster Presentations
1.
*Purohit S., *Carlse K. E. A., Santacroce L. A., & Spaniol J. (2024). How do social content and feedback valence affect feedback processing in younger and older adults? Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science Meeting, Edmonton, AB. View🡽
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Santacroce L. A., Spaniol J., & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2024). Categorical, not visual, distinctiveness yields a pop-out blink with neutral text stimuli. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science Meeting, Edmonton, AB. View🡽
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*Purohit S., *Carlse K. E. A., Santacroce L. A., & Spaniol J. (2024). How do social content and feedback valence affect feedback processing in younger and older adults? TMU Psychology Undergraduate Poster Session, Toronto, ON. View🡽
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Carlos B. J., Santacroce L. A., & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2023). Retroactive interference with working memory consolidation occurs at a central locus. Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
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Santacroce L. A. & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2023). Controlling for spatial envelope does not affect emotion-induced blindness with textual stimuli. Object Perception, Attention, and Memory Meeting, San Francisco, CA. View🡽
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Santacroce L. A. & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2023). Do fewer salient events modulate the emotional attentional blink? Vision Sciences Society Meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL. View🡽
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*Pias Mroczek M. E., Santacroce L. A., & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2022). Better under pressure: Higher levels of stress increase temporal visual search performance, but preserve the emotional attentional blink. Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. View🡽
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Carlos B. J., Santacroce L. A., & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2022). Retroactive dual-task interference effects on memory consolidation are due to memory strength, not decision bias. Object Perception, Attention, and Memory Meeting, Boston, MA.
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Santacroce L. A. & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2022). Stimuli associated with first-hand traumatic events do not increase the emotional attentional blink. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL. View🡽
10.
Santacroce L. A., *Swami A. L., & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2021). The emotional attentional blink’s weakness cannot be explained by mixing with the standard attentional blink. Object Perception, Attention, and Memory Meeting, online. View🡽
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Santacroce L. A., *Swami A. L., & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2021). Direct Comparison Reveals that the One-Target Emotional Attentional Blink is Far Weaker than the Two-Target Attentional Blink. Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, online. View🡽
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Carlos B. J., Santacroce L. A., & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2020). Retroactive interference on working memory consolidation with exclusively visual content. Object Perception, Attention, and Memory Meeting, online.
13.
Santacroce L. A., Gorniak S. L., & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2020). Relationship between cognitive-cognitive and cognitive-motor dual task costs. Object Perception, Attention, and Memory Meeting, online. View🡽
14.
Santacroce L. A., *Swami A. L., & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2020). Emotional stimuli exert surprisingly weak capture of temporal attention. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, online. View🡽
15.
Santacroce L. A., Carlos B. J., & Tamber-Rosenau B. J. (2019). Salient inter-target distraction can attenuate the attentional blink. Object Perception, Attention, and Memory Meeting, Montréal, Québec, Canada. View🡽
16.
Santacroce L. A., Petro N., *Walker C., Tamber-Rosenau B. J., & Keil A. (2018). Do Non-Target Emotional Stimuli Modulate the Attentional Blink? Association for Research on Memory, Attention, Decision making, Intelligence, Language, Learning, and Organization, Houston, TX. View🡽
17.
Johnson S. A., Turner S. M., Fertal K. E., Santacroce L. A., Bizon J. L., Maurer A. P., & Burke S. N. (2017). Role of CA3 and dentate gyrus in the discrimination of perceptually similar objects depends on novelty of stimuli. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
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Santacroce L. A., Petro N., Barrow D., & Keil A. (2017). The Temporal Limits of Human Selective Attention: The Role of Modality, Emotion, and Anxiety on the Attentional Blink. Association for Research on Memory, Attention, Decision making, Intelligence, Language, Learning, and Organization, College Station, TX. View🡽
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Santacroce L. A., Petro N., Barrow D., & Keil A. (2017). The Temporal Limits of Human Selective Attention: The Role of Modality, Emotion, and Anxiety on the Ability to Keep Up with a Fast-Paced World. Psychology Department Undergraduate Research Forum, Gainesville, FL. View🡽
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Turner S. M., Santacroce L. A., Johnson S. A., Maurer A. P., & Burke S. N. (2016). A rodent model of medial temporal lobe-dependent discrimination deficits in the elderly. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
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Hernandez A. R., Campos K., Truckenbrod L., Santacroce L. A., Hernandez C. M., Sakarya Y., McQuail J. A., Maurer A. P., Bizon J., Carter C., & Burke S. N. (2016). The ketogenic diet as a therapeutic strategy for improving motor and cognitive functioning in a rodent model of senescence. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
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Gaynor L. S., Mizell J., Campos K. T., Santacroce L. A., McEwen C., Chetram D. K., Maurer A. P., Bauer R. M., & Burke S. N. (2016). Stimulus modality affects recognition behavior during spontaneous object recognition and crossmodal object recognition tasks. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
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Turner S. M., Santacroce L. A., Johnson S. A., Maurer A. P., & Burke S. N. (2016). A rodent model of medial temporal lobe-dependent discrimination deficits in the elderly. Psychology Department Undergraduate Research Forum, Gainesville, FL.
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Turner S. M., Santacroce L. A., Johnson S. A., Maurer A. P., & Burke S. N. (2016). A rodent model of medial temporal lobe-dependent discrimination deficits in the elderly [Abstract #13]. Council on Undergraduate Research 20th Annual Posters on the Hill, Washington, DC. View🡽
25.
Turner S. M., Santacroce L. A., Johnson S. A., Maurer A. P., & Burke S. N. (2016). A rodent model of medial temporal lobe-dependent discrimination deficits in the elderly. UF Center for Undergraduate Research Symposium, Gainesville FL. View🡽
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Windham E., Gaynor L., Fantaccione D., Carty K., Santacroce L. A., Yoder W. M., Burke S. N., Johnson S. A., Bizon J., & Smith D. W. (2015). A psychophysical technique for characterizing age-associated alterations in olfactory function. UF Undergraduate Research Forum, Gainesville, FL.
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Windham E., Gaynor L., Fantaccione D., Carty K., Santacroce L. A., Yoder W. M., Burke S. N., Johnson S. A., Bizon J., & Smith D. W. (2014). A psychophysical technique for characterizing age-associated alterations in olfactory function. North Central Florida Society for Neuroscience Brain Awareness Week, Gainesville, FL.
Sole Instructor
Teaching Experience
Guest Lecturer
Spring
2023
Effective Science Communication, First-year Graduate Course
University of Houston
Gave a lecture on effective science communication for the first-year graduate student course
Graduate Teaching Assistant
2024-
2025*
Reyhana Wilson
Honors thesis, sole supervisor
*Research ongoing; expected to complete thesis in April 2025
2023-
2024
Santhiya Purohit
Honors thesis, co-supervised with Dr. Julia Spaniol
Thesis: “How do social content and feedback valence affect feedback processing in younger and older adults?”
2022-
2023
Maria Mroczek
Provost’s Undergraduate Research Scholarship, co-supervised with Dr. Benjamin Tamber-Rosenau
Project: “Better under pressure: Higher levels of stress increase temporal visual search performance, but preserve the emotional attentional blink”
Now a research assistant in the Children’s Learning Institute at University of Texas Health
2019-
2022
Anushka Oak
Provost’s Undergraduate Research Scholarship, co-supervised with Dr. Benjamin Tamber-Rosenau
Project: “Searching for Gait Markers of Cognitive-Motor Dual-task Interference using Machine Learning”
Received a Fulbright award to Spain (2022-2023) and is now a PhD candidate in neuroscience at Georgetown University
2018-
2019
Apurva Swami
Honors thesis, co-supervised with Dr. Benjamin Tamber-Rosenau
Thesis: “Comparing the time courses of top-down and bottom-up attention in the temporal domain”
Now in law school at Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Undergraduate Student Research Supervision
Mentorship Experience
Undergraduate Research Assistants
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Akshat Kumar (2017-2018, University of Houston) – medical student at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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Mickayla Rossing (2017-2018, University of Houston) – received a applied behavioral analysis master’s at Texas State University and is now a Board Certified Behavior Analyst
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Ryan Liu-Pham (2018-2019, University of Houston) – received a social psychology PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi and now an assistant professor at Jackson State University
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Christopher Walker (2018-2019, University of Houston) – received a clinical psychology master’s from University of Houston- Victoria
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Sumayyah Khan (2018-2019, University of Houston) – neuroscience PhD student at University of Texas Health
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Yazan Akkad (2017-2021, University of Houston) – Clinical Mental Health Counseling master’s student at University of Houston- Clear Lake
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Vinay Talwar (2019-2021, University of Houston) – clinical master’s student in Texas
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Brendan Traynor (2020-2021, University of Houston)
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Claire Bray (2020-2022, University of Houston)
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Clayton Hutchins (2020-2022, University of Houston) – Clinical Mental Health Counseling master’s student at University of Houston- Clear Lake
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Kieryn Carlse (2023-2024, Toronto Metropolitan University) – applied health sciences master’s student specializing in sports management at Brock University
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Sarah Shahrour (2023-present, Toronto Metropolitan University)
Service to Field
2024,
2021
Ad-hoc Reviewer
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
2024
Ad-hoc Reviewer
Journal of Vision
2024
Ad-hoc Reviewer
Frontiers
2023
Ad-hoc Reviewer
Consciousness and Cognition
2021
Ad-hoc Reviewer
Neuropsychologia
Service
Service to Community
2023
3 Minute Thesis High School Outreach Event
Top Three Presenter, as voted by the students
Presented at a mock 3 Minute Thesis event at St. Petersburg High School for teens interested in STEM, organized by the Vision Sciences Society at their annual meeting
2020-
2023
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Graduate Students (DEIGS) Committee
Founding member, committee head, and Representative to faculty Diversity Committee
A committee founded by University of Houston psychology graduate students to promote diversity and inclusion for students in the psychology department
2022,
2023
Life as a Grad Student presenter and panel lead
Stepping into Graduate School and Careers in Psychology event
Presented a talk about life as a grad student and led a grad student panel discussion for undergraduate students in the Houston area
2022,
2023
Careers in Psychology Symposium for Gifted/talented Elementary Students
Cognitive psychology research presenter
Presented cognitive psychology research to a 6th grade class interested in learning about careers in psychology
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The Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS)
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Women in Cognitive Science - Canada (WiCSC)
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Women in Cognitive Science+ (WiCS+)
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SPARK Society
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Females of Vision, et al. (FoVea)
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Psychonomic Society
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Vision Sciences Society (VSS)
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North Central Florida Society for Neuroscience (2015-2017)
Professional Affiliations
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Certifications
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Science Institute Intro to Machine Learning Badge (Fall 2023)
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Coding Languages
Matrix Laboratory (MATLAB)
JavaScript
HTML
CSS
Python
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Laboratory Equipment
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Vicon Nexus motion capture system
Bertec force plate treadmill
Eyelink 1000+ eye tracker
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Experiment Packages and Applications
PsychoPy/PsychoJS software package
EEGlab/ERPLAB/ERPstudio (MATLAB extension)
Pavlovia.org
Psychophysics Toolbox 3.0 (MATLAB extension)
Qualtrics
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Statistical Programs
JASP Statistical Program
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS)
Statistical Analysis System (SAS)