PhD Student, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
PhD Student, CSL Lab
Research Interests: ADHD, bilingualism, neuroimaging
Advisors: Dr. Guinevere Eden
Rotations: Dr. Peter Turkeltaub, Dr. Guinevere Eden, Dr. Andrew DeMarco
Prior Education: B.S. – University of Houston, 2022, Biology; B.A. – University of Houston, 2022, Spanish
Anushka graduated from the University of Houston in 2022 with a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in Spanish. Her undergraduate research experiences began her freshman year, working as a research assistant at two cognitive neuroscience labs. She held a summer fellowship in 2020 and semester-long fellowship during Fall 2021 at the Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention lab under the mentorship of Dr. Tamber-Rosenau. There she worked to collect dual-task data and analyze it using support vector machine learning. Additionally, she worked as a research assistant at the Neural Basis of Bilingualism Lab under Dr. Arturo Hernandez organizing subject recruitment, behavioral screening and running fMRI sessions.
In 2022, Anushka earned a Fulbright research/study grant to Donosti-San Sebastian, Spain. There she worked as a predoctoral researcher at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language where her research focuses on structural and functional neuroimaging analysis on the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon with Dr. Kepa Paz-Alonso. Anushka joined Georgetown University’s Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience in 2023 and is pursuing her research interests studying bilingualism in children with ADHD.