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Dr. Casey L. Roark
she/her Casey Roark is the director of the Computation, Learning, and Representation (CLEAR) Lab and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Roark received her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Carnegie Mellon University and then completed an NIH-NRSA postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. She joined the Department of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire in Fall 2023. She is interested in understanding the computational and neural mechanisms involved in perceptual category learning. She investigates these mechanisms through behavioral analysis, computational models, and pupillometry. Curriculum Vitae Email: [email protected] |
Graduate Students
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Hooman Amiri
he/him Hooman is a second year Ph.D. student in Psychology at the University of New Hampshire. Hooman previously received a PhD from Payame Noor University in Marketing Management with a focus on neuromarketing and consumer decision-making. His current research interests center on multisensory category learning, perceptual decision-making, and the cognitive mechanisms that underlie decisions in multisensory environments resembling real-world settings. Hooman is particularly interested in connecting concepts from cognitive psychology to real-world consumer psychology, and is motivated to contribute to the growing intersection of these fields. Email: [email protected] |
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Lyra Joson
she/her/hers Lyra is a first year PhD student in Psychology at the University of New Hampshire. She is a proud alumnus of the University of New Hampshire where she pursued a double major in Psychology and Linguistics. Her academic interests lie in psycholinguistics, exploring the fascinating intersection of language and cognitive processes. Passionate about research, she is dedicated to understanding how people acquire, process, and use language. Email: [email protected] |
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Hedieh Nejatmand Malari
she/her Hedieh is a second year PhD student in Psychology at the University of New Hampshire. Her research focuses on working memory, attention, category learning, and metacognition. Her current work examines how different types of working memory support category learning across visual and auditory domains. She is also interested in how people’s beliefs, expectations, and judgments about their cognitive abilities influence their learning and performance. More broadly, she hopes to apply cognitive research to better understand and improve learning and performance, as well as contribute to the development of evidence-based, human-centered tools. Website, Email: [email protected] |
Undergraduate and Post-Baccalaureate Student Researchers
Aiden Fortier
Aiden is currently a junior psychology major. In Aiden's own words: "When it comes to research my main interests are addiction studies and psychopathology but I'm excited to be apart of the lab given that there's focus on language here, and growing up in a family that speaks French a lot, it's nice to learn and explore about more on the psychology of language! " 
Emma Grniet
Emma is a junior Psychology major working on an independent Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship project since Summer 2026. 
Lauren Mott
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Sara Trudu
she/her Sara is a second-year undergraduate student double majoring in psychology and linguistics. She is also in the Hamel Honors College. She grew up hearing her parents speak Italian at home, and has taken twelve Spanish classes from primary school to college. She always felt she had a knack for language. She hopes to continue research in graduate school, where she plans on investigating second language education and acquisition. 
Althea Wilcox
she/her Althea is a freshman at UNH majoring in Neuroscience. She has been interested in linguistics and language since studying Spanish in school, and has also taught herself some Swedish and Korean in her spare time. Althea is also interested in psychology and how humans acquire and store knowledge. |
Lab Alumni
Graduate Students
2026 Ghazal Koohkansaadi, M.A. Psychology; currently: PhD student in Psychology at University of New Hampshire
2025 Nusrat Zaman, M.A. Linguistics; currently: PhD student in Experimental Psychology at University of Southern Mississippi
2025 Nusrat Zaman, M.A. Linguistics; currently: PhD student in Experimental Psychology at University of Southern Mississippi
Undergraduate and Post-Baccalaureate Researchers
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2025-2026 Crystal Acuna-Wyatt, B.A.
2026-2026 Hayden Anderson 2026-2026 Sara Amovic+ 2026-2026 Ellie Brisland 2026-2026 Aliya Hinedi 2026-2026 Alicja Perdrizet 2026-2026 Audrey Quevillon 2026-2026 Elice Sodders 2025-2026 Isabella Giampa 2025-2026 Gabriela Bueno 2025-2026 Ana Nikolenko+ 2024-2026 Caitlin Lalley 2023-2026 Meredith Meats+ |
2023-2026 Virginia Schwarz
2026-2026 Meggie Steeghs 2025-2025 Claire Lotspeich 2024-2025 Stephanie Dodson+ 2024-2025 Mauricio Fridlund 2024-2025 Kay McGeehan* 2024-2025 Megan Thibeault 2024-2025 Kaylie Ukstins 2024-2024 Kevin Baker 2024-2024 Michael Leger 2023-2024 Darrin Beasley 2023-2024 Marissa Montagna |
+ Independent Study/Honors students
* McNair Scholars
* McNair Scholars
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The CLEAR Lab is recruiting undergraduate research assistants! Prospective research assistants should fill out an application here.
Dr. Roark is not admitting PhD students for Fall 2026, but prospective graduate students should reach out to Dr. Roark directly for more information about future applications ([email protected]). |
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CLEAR Lab
University of New Hampshire McConnell Hall Room 164 15 Academic Way Durham, NH, 03824 [email protected] |
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