About Us

Principal Investigator

Erin J. Wamsley
Principal Investigator
Furman University Department of Psychology
Johns Hall 206K
Greenville, SC 29613
erin.wamsley@furman.edu

Dr. Erin Wamsley joined the Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience at Furman University in 2013. In the Furman Sleep Lab, Dr. Wamsley studies how the brain processes memories during sleep and rest, as well as the relationship of sleep-dependent memory processing to dream experiences. Her current work explores how spatial memories are transformed during sleep, how recent experiences are expressed in dreams. and how sleep and eyes-closed, waking rest affect declarative and procedural memory consolidation.

Laboratory Coordinator

Graelyn Humiston
Sleep Lab Coordinator
Neuroscience, '17
graelyn.humiston@furman.edu

Graelyn joined the Furman Sleep Lab in 2015 as a junior neuroscience major, and became the lab coordinator in the fall of 2017. She is running multiple studies exploring memory consolidation, sleep, and eyes-closed, waking rest, of which one has been published and the other submitted for publication. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in neuroscience or psychology, studying the neural underpinnings of biases, beliefs, and information literacy.

Post-Bac Researchers

Madeline Ray
Undergraduate Researcher
Psychology, '18

Student Researchers

Ashley Hall
Undergraduate Researcher
Neuroscience, '19

Chandler Rhea
Undergraduate Researcher
Neuroscience, '19

Piper Powell
Undergraduate Researcher
Psychology and German, '20

Megan Collins
Undergraduate Researcher
Neuroscience and Japanese Studies, '19

Lab Alumni

Hailey Napier
Undergraduate Researcher
Psychology, '18

Emme Lis
Undergraduate Researcher
Psychology, '19

Gina Cardenas
Research Assistant

Kaitlin Marakoff
Undergraduate Researcher
Psychology, '19

Qinhua Sun
Research Assistant
Psychology, '17
After Sleep Lab: Pursuing PhD at University of California Irvine

Haleigh Kunich
Undergraduate Researcher
Neuroscience, '18

Katherine Nimchuk
Undergraduate Researcher
Neuroscience, '19

Michael Tan
Research Assistant
Psychology, '17
After Sleep Lab: Pursuing MS at Johns Hopkins

Ted Summer
Lab Coordinator
Neuroscience, '16
After Sleep Lab: Pursuing Computer Science MS at University of Chicago

Nathan Moliterno
Undergraduate Researcher
Neuroscience, '17
After Sleep Lab: Pursuing Medical Sciences MS

Yvette Graveline
Lab Coordinator
After Sleep Lab: Pursuing Neuroscience PhD at University of British Columbia

Jasmine McMillan
Undergraduate Researcher
Psychology, '17

Ward Tishler
Undergraduate Researcher
Neuroscience, '15

Sarah Wood
Undergraduate Researcher
Philosophy, '17

Kate Brokaw
Undergraduate Researcher
Neuroscience, '16

Jing Zhang
Undergraduate Researcher
Psychology, '16
After Sleep Lab: Research at Seminowicz Pain Imaging Lab

Paige Hickey
Undergraduate Researcher
Neuroscience, '15

Kelly Hamilton
Undergraduate Researcher

Andrew Gaulden
Undergraduate Researcher
Neuroscience, '15
After Sleep Lab: Pursuing Neuroscience PhD at Vanderbilt

Stephanie Manceor
Undergraduate Researcher
Neuroscience, '16

Alli Peipert
Undergraduate Researcher
Psychology, '17

Elaine Parr
Undergraduate Researcher
After Sleep Lab: Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Collaborators

Matthew Tucker, University of South Carolina School of Medicine

Robert Stickgold, Harvard Medical School

Jessica Payne, University of Notre Dame

Gilles Einstein, Furman University