Brain, Mind and Consciousness Lab fan site Case Western Reserve University

BMC Lab Members

Meet the team behind the Brain, Mind and Consciousness Laboratory.

Anthony I. Jack

Anthony I. Jack, PhD

Principal Investigator

I have a PhD in Experimental Psychology and extensive training in Philosophy and Neuroscience. I started out doing largely theoretical work on consciousness, but then got interested by the emerging field of brain imaging. I use fMRI to study attention, consciousness and social processing in the brain.

Photo by Jerry Mann.

Current Lab Members

Brian Hysell

Brian Hysell

Research Assistant

May 2010 – present; Meta-analysis and functional annotation

I study Cognitive Science and Computer Science at CWRU as undergraduate majors and, time permitting, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence as minors. My research interests include computational neuroscience, linguistics, and mood disorders.

Joe Gabriel

Joe Gabriel

Research Assistant

April 2011 – present; Individual differences in social cognition and non-social reasoning, Implicit associations formed by dehumanized characterizations

I am a CWRU undergraduate student majoring in Sociology and Cognitive Science with a minor in Economics. I am interested in understanding wider social problems from a micro-based lens.

Jared Friedman

Jared Friedman

Research Assistant

January 2012 – present; Empathy, Dualism and Moral Reasoning

I am an undergraduate at CWRU pursuing a minor in Artificial Intelligence and majors in Cognitive Science and Philosophy. I am interested in the relationship between epistemology, behavior, and the brain.