Xavier CelayaUniversity of California, Riverside | UCR · Department of Psychology
Xavier Celaya
Master of Arts
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Hi, I'm Xavier, a cognitive neuroscientist. My work assesses cognitive abilities such as prospective memory, working memory capacity, and attention control in various contexts and populations. My projects include exploring ayahuasca's therapeutic effects on veterans with treatment-resistant PTSD, large-sample individual differences studies, using pupillometry for acute cannabis use, and applying machine learning-enhanced voltammetry to measure neuromodulators like dopamine and serotonin.
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Education
August 2021 - May 2023
August 2016 - May 2020
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The noradrenaline (NA) system is one of the brain’s major neuromodulatory systems; it originates in a small midbrain nucleus, the locus coeruleus (LC), and projects widely throughout the brain.¹,² The LC-NA system is believed to regulate arousal and attention³,⁴ and is a pharmacological target in multiple clinical conditions.⁵,⁶,⁷ Yet our understan...
Latent variable analyses of cognitive abilities are among the major means by which cognitive psychologists test theories regarding the structure of human cognition. Models are fit to observed variance-covariance structures, and the fit of those models are compared to assess the merits of competing theories. However, an often unconsidered and potent...
