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AVC Lab Team

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Collin Scarince, PhD

Principle Investigator

Dr. Scarince is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Sociology at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. His research is broadly concerned with how people use visual information to make decisions and complete tasks, primarily visual search tasks. He is currently working with the Autonomous Research Institute at TAMU-CC to study how cognitive load affects drone pilots and issues related to emergency response operations following hurricanes that involve unmanned aircraft systems. 

Graduate Research Assistants

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Graduate Thesis Student - ARI

Bailey Miller

Bailey is a second-year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology MA program at TAMUCC.

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Graduate Thesis Student

Michael Devotta

Michael is a graduate student in clinical psychology with research interests in suicide prevention, as well as AI. Along with ongoing research projects on cognitive mechanisms of AI, he is currently working as a teaching assistant for Experimental Psychology.

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Graduate Research Assistant

Leticia Villarreal

Leticia is a second-year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology MA program at TAMUCC.

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Graduate Research Assistant

Yezenia Zoll

Yezenia is a second-year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology MA program at TAMUCC.  She is interested in diverse research opportunities and has helped conduct research in social, developmental, cross-cultural, and clinical psychology.

Undergraduate Research Assistants

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Student Researcher -
McNair Scholar

Jolin Acosta

Jolin is a junior majoring in psychology, and a scholar in the McNair Scholars program at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi.

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Undergraduate Research Assistant

Izzy Papeman

Izzy is a Junior at TAMUCC. She is majoring in psychology and hoping to minor in biology. After getting her Bachelor’s, she plans to go to graduate school and earn a PhD in Clinical Neuropsychology. Outside of school, she enjoys paddle boarding and going to the beach with her friends.

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Other

Undergrad RAs

Alana Callahan

Keira Carson

Xenia Garcia

Gabriella Mastroianni

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Former Lab Members

Graduate Students

  • Anji Rodriguez-Rivera

  • Madison Clausen - ARI

McNair Scholars

  • Hilliary Herrera

  • Daniel San Miguel

  • Gabby Garcia

Student Investigators

  • Alora Shafer

  • Andrea Libby

  • Taylor Thurmond

Undergraduate Research Assistants​

  • Ethan Ramirez

  • Kip Godoy

  • Andrea Anderson

  • Sofia Vela

  • Lia Concha-Rondon

  • Bella Coats

  • Makayla Roberts

  • Tasnia Hasanat

  • Alexis Bridgford

  • Kaley Glaipp

  • Johnny Ramirez

  • Kate Soward

  • Christin Miller

  • Benjamin Miguel

  • Muskan Saleem

  • Jordan (Tess) Horan

  • Allison Alford 

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