Biography
Neranjana Iyer is a first-year master’s student working with Dr. Benedek Kurdi in the Social Cognition Lab. She received her B.S. in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience at UC San Diego where she provided instruction in university-level cognitive science and academic writing courses. Her undergraduate research concerned the assessment of different teaching and learning strategies based on cognitive science principles of learning and memory.
Research Interests
I am interested in understanding how social identities affect learning outcomes. My previous work concerned the ways in which basic processes of learning and memory can be exploited to produce engaging and affirming teaching strategies for learners in historically under-served communities. Currently, I am interested in attributions of moral responsibility for implicit bias and how such attributions affect learning outcomes in implicit bias education.