Jefferson Ortega

Education:

B.A., Psychology, The City College of New York; Ph.D., Psychology (concentration in Cognitive Neuroscience), University of California, Berkeley 

Dissertation:

The Role of Visual Attention Towards Context During Emotional Inferences 

Thesis Advisor:

David Whitney, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley 

Research Topic:

Uncovering the Neural and Computational Mechanisms of Context Integration in Frontotemporal Dementia

Mentor:

Katherine Rankin, Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco

Current Position:

President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco 

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