Address:
Megan Peters
UCLA Psychology Department
7531 Franz Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563

Contact:
meganakpeters [at] ucla [dot] edu
my google page

Research Interests:

Personal Interests:
Philip K. Dick, philosophy of mind, starting small businesses



Publications

• Peters, M.A.K., Thompson, B., Merabet, L.B., Wu, A.D., & Shams, L. (in press). Anodal tDCS to V1 blocks visual perceptual learning consolidation. Neuropsychologia
• Kim, R., Peters, M.A.K., & Shams, L. (2011) 0+1>1 : how adding non-informative sound improves performance on a visual task. Psychological Science, 23(1), 6-12. doi:10.1177/0956797611420662

• Peters, M.A.K., Thompson, B., Merabet, L.B., Wu, A.D., & Shams, L. [talk]. Anodal tDCS to V1 blocks visual perceptual learning consolidation. Vision Sciences Society 13th Annual Meeting, Naples, FL, May 2013.
• Peters, M.A.K. [talk]. 0+1>1: how adding non-informative sound improves performance on a visual task. CogFog meeting, UCLA, May 2011.
• Peters, M.A.K. [talk]. Not so irrelevant after all: Task-irrelevant stimuli and multisensory models. Presentation of research leading to the Masters degree. Cognitive Forum, UCLA, December 2010.
• Peters, M.A.K. [talk]. Fractionating the binding process: Neuropsychological evidence from reversed search efficacies. Behavioral Neuroscience Journal Club, UCLA, April 2010.
• Peters, M., Welday, A., & Mintz, T. [poster]. Novel word extensions reflect syntactic knowledge in 18-month-old infants. Southern California Symposium on Cognitive and Language Development, Los Angeles, CA, May 2009.

• 2010, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
• 2009, NIH Behavioral Neuroscience Training Fellowship
• 2009, UCLA Chancellor's Prize
• 2009, University of Southern California Provost's Fellowship (declined)
• 2001, Reed College Young Scholars Program Vollum Scholarship