Larrisa Miller '20

(profiled in 2018) Larrisa Miller ’20 is a rising Junior with majors in Cognitive Science and Psychology. This summer, Larrisa is working on the same project as fellow Cognitive Science major Kim Mejia. The study, “Negotiating Privacy Boundaries: The Collective and Social Aspect of Privacy Management,” is based on understanding the permeability of group barriers and how groups manage collective information. According to Larrisa, “having a background in Cognitive Science has been incredibly helpful for this project, as it requires some level of knowledge in both computer science and psychology. My background of research in Cognitive Science labs on campus enabled me to greatly assist in creating the study design. Overall, the interdisciplinary aspect of Cognitive Science is what attracted me to the major.” She currently works in Dr. Carlisle’s Attention & Memory lab and Dr. O’Seaghdha’s Language Production Lab. In the future, Larrisa wants to go to graduate school to get a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology: “the human mind fascinates me, and I want to spend my life researching it.”