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Social Sciences Division
Psychology Department
Graduate Student
PhD Candidate
Graduate
Social Sciences 2
SS2 380
By appointment
Psychology Faculty Services
As a cognitive psychology PhD student, I specialize in how people mentally represent and interact with music in their everyday lives. My research focuses on understanding attention, memory, and perception, blending qualitative and quantitative methods to explore how individuals experience sound. I am skilled in experimental design, behavioral data analysis, and understanding complex human interactions in the pursuit of discovering insights that can translate into many applied research contexts.
Music Cognition and Perception, especially:
- Involuntary Musical Imagery, aka "earworms"
- Musical memories
- Attentional processes
- Auditory elements of UX/UI
- Travel Award | International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition | August 2023
- Best Presentation: Social Sciences Divison | Graduate Symposium, UCSC | May 2023
- Travel Award | Society of Music Perception and Cognition 2022 Conference | August 2022
- Re-Entry STARS Scholarship | University of California, Santa Cruz | June 2021
- Bruce Bridgeman Fellowship | University of California, Santa Cruz | September 2020
Evans, M. G., Gaeta, P., & Davidenko, N. (2024). Absolute pitch in involuntary musical imagery. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-12. https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-024-02936-0
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