High School Science
Resume:
Samuel Brudner
Brooklyn, NY 11201 ******.*******@****.***
E D U C AT I O N
Yale University (New Haven, CT) Bachelor s Degree in Cognitive Science May 2012
Cumulative GPA: 3.66. Honors include: Perspectives on Science and Engineering Fellowship for research conducted in Summer
2009; admission to Cognitive Science Major (one of only a few majors at Yale with a competitive application process).
Relevant coursework includes: Senior Colloquium in Cognitive Science (advanced seminar for seniors majoring in cognitive
science); Cognitive Science of Ignorance; Cognitive Architecture; Cognitive Science of Causality; Learnability and Development; The
Modern Unconscious; Language and Computation; Basics of Learning and Memory; Introduction to Statistics.
Saint Ann s School (Brooklyn, New York) High School Diploma June 2008
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Yale University (New Haven, CT) PI: Brian Scholl Fall 2011-Spring 2012
Designed, executed, and reported an experiment nding that the location of visual attention can affect memory, even when no
helpful visual information is present.
University College London (London, UK) PI: Daniel Richardson Summer 2011
Helped run eye-tracking experiments investigating unconscious object-based and social attentional mechanisms that may partly
mediate external and transactive memory. Helped run body-motion-capture experiment investigating body movements during lying.
Attended Joint Action Meeting IV (psychology conference on coordinated behavior) as a member of the Richardson Lab.
Yale University (New Haven, CT) PI: Marcia Johnson Summer 2009
Helped run EEG experiment on the neural relationship between short-term visual memory and visual perception.
ACTIVITIES
Associate Editor, Yale Review of Undergraduate Research in Psychology Spring 2011-Spring 2012
Read and reviewed submissions to journal; met with editorial board to select cognitive science articles for publication; suggested
revisions to selected articles.
Executive and Artistic Director, Konjo! African Dance Troupe Fall 2009-Spring 2011
Organized and oversaw meetings for board members; created and submitted applications for group funding to undergraduate
funding of ce; maintained invoices for performance and rehearsal expenses; selected, choreographed, and taught West African
dances.
SKILLS
Facility with Experimental Methods in Cognitive Science Writing
Collected eye-tracking, motion-capture, and Can write clearly and concisely in academic and journalistic
electroencephalography measures. styles; wrote mock grant proposals for classes.
Facility with Primary Literature Oral Presentation
Can evaluate empirical arguments and develop novel Gave academic presentations in class; presented thesis
experimental and theoretical extensions of existing research. research to graduate and undergraduate students in Branford
College Mellon Forum.
Computer Abilities
Basic facility with Python, Excel analysis, Microsoft Word and
PowerPoint, and Vicon Nexus motion-capture programs.
P U B L I C AT I O N S
Yale Herald: Police Brutality Old News in New Haven October 2010
Featured article investigating relations between New Haven residents and police force.
Recklessly Curious: There s a Worm in this Apple October 2010
Essay on Western ideology in technology design appearing in academic student blog.
The Concord Review: Charles Darwin Winter 2006
Article on Darwin s development of the theory of evolution and its historical reception; received Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize.
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