University of Pennsylvania, PhD in neuroscience
Present
University of Southern California, Neuroscience B.S. with honors, Summa cum laude
University of Southern California, Neuroscience B.S. with honors, Summa cum laude
Hacker, C.M., Biederman, I., Zhu, T., Nelken, M. & Meschke, E.X. (2022). The sizable difficulty in matching unfamiliar faces differing only moderately in orientation in depth is a function of image dissimilarity. Vision Research. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2021.09.005. [link] [PDF]
Hacker, C.M., Meschke, E.X. & Biederman, I. (2019). A Face in a (Temporal) Crowd. Vision Research, doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2018.02.007. [link] [PDF]
Biederman, I., Shilowich, B.E., Herald, S.B., Margalit, E., Maarek, R., Meschke, E.X. & Hacker, C.M. (2018). The Cognitive Neuroscience of Person Identification. Neuropsychologia, 116, 205-214. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.01.036. [link] [PDF]
Hacker, C.M. & Biederman, I. (2019). The proficiency for distinguishing faces is independent of the proficiency for remembering them. PsyArXiv, doi: 10.31234/osf.io/9bwct. [link] [PDF]
Hacker, C.M. & Biederman, I. (2019). The invariance of recognition to the stretching of faces is not explained by familiarity or warping to an average face. PsyArXiv, doi: 10.31234/osf.io/e5hgx. [link] [PDF]
Hacker, C.M. & Rust, N.C. (2022). Ritalin as a causal perturbation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Research Spotlight. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2022.04.002. [link]
Hacker, C.M., Jannuzi, B.G.L., Meyer, T., Hay, M.L. & Rust, N.C. (2022) Worse remembering of a dog when viewed in a sequence of dogs is dominated by changes in memory mechanisms as opposed to sensory adaptation. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. May.
Hacker, C.M., Jannuzi, B.G.L., Meyer, T., Hay, M.L. & Rust, N.C. (2023) Identifying the neural correlates of contextual influences on image memorability. Talk presented at the annual Neuroscience/Vision/Auditory Training Grant Retreat, Philadelphia, PA. May.
Hacker, C.M., Jannuzi, B.G.L., Meyer, T., Hay, M.L. & Rust, N.C. (2023) A role for cortical pattern separation in enhancing visual memory. Poster presented at 150th Scheie Eye Anniversary Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. May.
Hacker, C.M., Jannuzi, B.G.L., Meyer, T., Hay, M.L. & Rust, N.C. (2023) A role for cortical pattern separation in enhancing visual memory. Poster presented at COSYNE, Montreal, Québec, Canada. March.
Hacker, C.M., Jannuzi, B.G.L., Meyer, T., Hay, M.L. & Rust, N.C. (2022) Evidence that the extrinsic effects on memorability are computed in inferotemporal cortex and inherited by the hippocampus. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. November.
Hacker, C.M. & Biederman, I. (2019). The capacity for face perception is independent of the capacity for face memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. May
Hacker, C.M., Meschke, E.X., Biederman, I. (2018). Recognition of Stretched Faces. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. May.
Meschke, E.X.*, Hacker, C.M.*, Juarez, J.J., Maarek, R.S., & Biederman, I. (2017). Detecting Unspecified Familiar Faces. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. May.
Bohn, S., Hacker, C.M., Jannuzi, B.G.L., Meyer, T., Hay, M.L. & Rust, N.C. (2022) Disambiguating familiarity from visual modulation: A role for the hippocampus in recognition memory. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. November.
Jannuzi, B.G.L., Hacker, C.M., Meyer, T., Hay, M.L. & Rust, N.C. (2022) Neural analogs of memory sharpening behavior emerge earlier in inferotemporal cortex than the hippocampus. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. May.
Jannuzi, B.G.L., Meyer, T., Hay, M.L., Hacker, C.M. & Rust, N.C. (2021) The remarkable visual specificity of visual recognition memory behavior is shaped by representational sharpening, reflected in inferotemporal cortex. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. November.
Biederman, I., Zhu, T., Nelken, M., Meschke, E.X. & Hacker, C.M. (2019). The cost of matching depth-rotated faces: A simple, additive function of image similarity. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. May.
Meschke, E.X., Hacker, C.M., Biederman, I. (2018). How Many Faces Can We Recognize? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. May.
Zhu, T., Nelken, M., Hacker, C.M., Meschke, E.X., Biederman, I. (2018). Matching Depth-Rotated Faces at Varying Degrees of Physical Similarity. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. May.
Biederman, I., Margalit, E., Maarek, R.S., Meschke, E.X., Shilowich, B.S., Hacker, C. M., Juarez, J.J., Seamans, T. J., & Herald, S.B. (2017). What is the Nature of the Perceptual Deficit in Congenital Prosopagnosia? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. May.
HHMI CSHL Summer Course Funding, Recipient
Partial funding provided by HHMI to attend the Computational Neuroscience: Vision summer course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Jameson-Hurvich Travel Award, Recipient
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention
USC Discovery Scholar, Distinction recipient, Prize finalist
Graduation distinction awarded to students who excel in the classroom while demonstrating the ability to create exceptional new scholarship.
USC Neuroscience Outstanding Student of the Year Award, Recipient
Award given to USC’s best neuroscience student with senior standing.
Brian Phillip Rakusin Neuroscience Scholarship Award, Recipient
$10,000 Scholarship awarded each year to the most outstanding sophomore or junior demonstrating exceptional achievements and aspirations in the field of Neuroscience.
USC Provost's Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Six-time Recipient
Fellowship awarded to select undergraduates demonstrating excellent academic standing and engaged in research, total value of $7,000 over five semesters.
USC Dean's Scholar
Quarter tuition scholarship to the University of Southern California
Penn Neuro Know, Writer (2021-Present), Co-Editor (2022-Present)
Student-curated blog with posts about neuroscientific research written for the public.
GLIA, Member (2019-Present), Co-Director (2022-2023)
Coalition of neuroscience graduate students organizing outreach and professional development events. As co-director I oversaw the eight-member executive board and allocation of $36,500 budget.
Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience, Recitation Leader
Taught a weekly computational tutorial reviewing mathematical concepts from the course for students with a neuroscience background.
CNI +/-, Organizer
Seminar for students and post docs of the Computational Neuroscience Initiative to informally present and get feedback about ongoing research.
CORE II: The Electrical Language of Cells, Recitation Leader
Taught weekly recitations for first year graduate students to supplement lectures.
Visual Memory Lab, Graduate Student, Advisor: Nicole C. Rust
Perform electrophysiological recordings and execute computational analyses to study neural mechanisms of visual recognition memory.
Bottjer Songbird Lab, Research Assistant, Advisor: Sarah W. Bottjer
Assist in electrophysiological and optogenetic experiments in cortico-basal ganglia circuits of male zebra finches to explicate the neural circuitry involved in song learning and production.
USC Image Understanding Lab, Research Assistant, Advisor: Irving Biederman
Design, execute and analyze psychophysical studies investigating nature and limits of human face recognition to develop neurocomputational accounts of face processing.
Programming Languages: Matlab (advanced), Python (intermediate), HTML/CSS (intermediate), C++ (basic), R (basic)
Languages: French (advanced), Spanish (intermediate)