Weijia Cao

Graduate Student

I’m a current Ph.D. student in the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University. I use a combination of behavioral experiments and neural data to disentangle the mysteries of semantic knowledge, episodic memory, and cognitive control. Previously, I earned my Master’s degree in psychology in 2023 from New York University, where I also worked as a research assistant in Dr. David Poeppel’s lab. Right before Duke, I worked as a lab manager in the Memory and Concepts Lab directed by Dr. Alexa Tompary at Drexel University, where I was trained to conduct experiments using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).