Majed Samad, M.Eng. Graduate Student

Address: Majed Samad UCLA Psychology Department 7531 Franz Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563

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Phone: (310) 866-6036 

Research Interests: Attention and awareness, multisensory binding, causal inference in perception, body and self representation, use of TMS and tDCS to establish causal roles, Bayesian statistical modeling of cognition, ‘working memory’-based theories of consciousness.  

Personal Interests: Philosophy of mind, the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness, German transcendental idealism, all forms of music, fingerstyle guitar, Buddhism and non-theistic spirituality and meditation, the intersection between scientific, philosophic, religious, and artistic knowledge.

Awards and Fellowships

• 2011, UCLA Distinguished University Fellowship 
• 2011, UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship 
• 2010, UCLA First Class Honors Graduate