Teresa K. Pegors
Department of Psychology
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania
tpegors@sas.upenn.edu
www.pegors.net
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2009 – present Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology
University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, PA
Advisor: Russell Epstein
2006 – 2009
Master of Theological Studies
Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary: Pittsburgh, PA
2001 – 2005
Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science, Departmental Honors
Indiana University: Bloomington, IN
Honors Thesis: Information-Theoretical Aspects of Embodied Artificial Intelligence
Advisor: Olaf Sporns
Awards/Scholarships
2011 – 2014
2011
2009 – 2010
2005
2004-2005
2003
2003
2002 – 2005
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Joseph and Helen Miller Fellowship
Benjamin Franklin Fellowship
Indiana University Cognitive Science Program Award for Outstanding Contribution
Undergraduate Internship Award (Cognitive Science Program)
Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Partnership Grant
Honors College Research Grant
Indiana University Science, Technology, and Research Scholars Undergraduate Program
Teaching Experience
Teaching Certificate, Center for Teaching and Learning (2014)
Course on Teaching a College Course, Center for Teaching and Learning (6 weeks, Spring 2013)
Journal club session leader, Center for Neuroscience and Society’s “Neuroscience Boot Camp” (Summers
of 2010 - 2013)
Teaching Assistant:
Cognitive Psychology (Trueswell), Spring 2011
Cognitive Neuroscience (Epstein), Fall 2010
Guest Lectures:
Theories of Pleasure in the Viewing of Beautiful Landscapes, Arcadia University (Fall 2013)
Attention and Spatial Cognition: Insights from neuropsychology, University of Pennsylvania (Fall 2013)
Undergraduate Research Mentorships
Peter Bryan, (Fall 2012 – Spring 2014)
Lois Dankwa, Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC) Summer Minority Fellowship (Summer 2012)
Yael Gottlieb, (Spring 2012)
Ben van Buren, Undergraduate Summer Program in Computational Neuroscience (Summer 2011)
Publications
(in prep) Pegors, T., Mattar, M., Bryan, P., Epstein, R. Decoupling perceptual and response biases in a
sequential face judgment task.
(in prep) Troiani, V., Pegors, T., Olson, I. Face information in orbitofrontal cortex: theory and method.
(in prep) Pegors, T., Epstein, R. Face-related activity in orbitofrontal cortex.
(under review) Pegors, T., Kable, J., Chatterjee, A., Epstein, R. Common and unique representations in
frontal cortex for face and place attractiveness.
Perlman, S., Hudac, C., Pegors, T., Minshew, N., Pelphrey K. (2009) Experimental manipulation of faceevoked activity in the fusiform gyrus of individuals with autism. Social Neuroscience, 6, 22-30.
Lungarella, M., Pegors, T., Bulwinkle, D., Sporns, O. (2005) Methods for quantifying the informational
structure of sensory and motor data. Neuroinformatics, 3, 243-262.
Sporns, O., and Pegors, T.K. (2004) Information-theoretical aspects of embodied artificial
intelligence. Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag.
Sporns, O., and Pegors, T. (2003) Generating structure in sensory data through coordinated motor
activity. Proceedings of IJCNN 2003, 2796.
Conference Presentations
Pegors, T., Bryan, P., Mattar, M., Epstein, R. (2014) Decoupling perceptual and response biases in a
sequential face judgment task. Poster submitted to Vision Science Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Pegors, T., Chatterjee, A., Kable, J., Epstein, R. (2012). Neural activity during the subjective evaluation of
face and place attractiveness. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA.
Pegors, T., Epstein, R. (2011). Sensitivity to the aesthetic value of scenes in the parahippocampal place
area. Poster presented at the 11th annual Vision Science Society, Naples, FL.
Pegors, T., Epstein, R. (2010). Neural Coding of Scene Affordances. Poster presented at the 10th annual
Vision Science Society, Naples, FL.
Pegors, T., Matula, R., Farah, M. (2011). A Neuroethics learning collaborative. Poster presented at the
Ethics Education in Science and Engineering PI Meeting at the National Science Foundation,
Arlington, VA.
Professional Affiliations
Vision Science Society
International Association of Empirical Aesthetics
Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (Pre-Faculty member)