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NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH LABORATORY
WITS NeuRL


Master Students

LAUREN
COPPIN
Current Masters
Supervisor: Dr Nicky Israel
Dispositional mindfulness, executive functioning, and everyday creative behaviour

MAKHAUTA
HLAODI
Current Masters
Supervisor: Prof Kate Cockcroft
Comparing self-report and standradised measures of language proficiency in multilinguals.

SALEHA
MAHOMED-KOLA
Current Masters
Supervisor: Dr Aline Ferreira-Correia
Normative Data for the Hooper Visual Organization Test (HVOT) in South Africa

ABONGILE
KIBIDO
Current Masters
Supervisor: Prof Kate Cockcroft
A systematic review investigating the relationship between executive functions and divergent reasoning

ADEREMI
OYEJIDE
Current Masters
Supervisors: Dr. Sahba Besharati and Professor Samantha Brooks
Comparing self-report and Exploring COVID-19 lockdown responses as a predictor of working memory performance and associated anxiety and depression.

CLAUDIA
OSATO
Current Masters
Supervisor: Dr Aline Ferreira-Correia.
Use of instant messaging to improve participation in rehabilitative prescribed exercises for sufferers of Acquired Brain Injury (ABI).
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AMONETTE
VAN DEN HEEVER
Current Masters
Supervisors: Dr. Sahba Besharati and Professor Samantha Brooks
Pandemic dreaming: An investigation of affective processing through dream transcripts and self-regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

SABRINA
BENVENUTI
Current Masters
Supervisors: Prof Cockcroft
Predictors of COVID-related risk and resilience in South African young adults

JOSHUA
IRWIN
Current Masters
Supervisors: Dr Jacqueline Moodley
The Relationship Between Traumatic Stress, Mental-Wellbeing and Work Engagement in the South African Police Service

NELIA
CUNNINGHAM
Current Masters
Supervisors: Mr Sizwe Zondo and Dr Victoria Williams
To Yoga or not to Yoga? The Effect of Yoga on Sustained Attention: an fNIRS Study

TIMONY
MILLER
Current Masters
Supervisors: Prof Cockcroft and Dr Victoria Williams.
What do Working Memory Tests Measure? The Relationship Between the n-Back, Digit Span and Symbol Span Test.

JEREMIE
MUTUTU
Current Masters
Supervisors: Dr Michael Pitman
The associations between sensory processing sensitivity, coping, stress and university adjustment during Covid-19.

BYRON
PERSELLO
Current Masters
Supervisors: Dr Michael Pitman
Online Learning Experiences of University Students during the COVID-19 Lockdowns

KATYA
MENSCHY
Current Masters
Supervisors: Dr Aline Ferreira Correia
Metacognition and Daily Failures in Working Memory: A Deeper Understanding of University Students’ Academic Achievement.

HILLARY
BANJO
Current Masters
Supervisors: Dr Aline Ferreira Correia
Understanding the Measurement of Verbal Fluency in Multilingual Speakers.

INNOCENTIA
TSHIKOMBA
Current Masters
Supervisors: Kate Cockcroft and Nabeelah Bemath
Executive functioning in pre-schoolers in South Africa – its structure and measurement using a touchscreen performance-based assessment.
PhD Students

MANDY WIGDOROWITZ
PhD Candidate
Prof Ianthi M. Tsimpli and Dr Ana I. Pérez
Linguistic and Cognitive Effects of Contextual and Individual Linguistic Diversity: Multilingualism in South Africa and the United Kingdom
Interns

GABRIELLA
NUTTER
Research Intern
2018/2019

ILANA
EIDELMAN
Research Intern
2021

LAYLAH
SALLIE
Research Intern
2022

SARAH
HIGGINS
Research Intern
2022

REARABETSWE
NHLAPO
Research Intern
2022
Alumni
Sasha Jugdav
Previous Masters Student
Candice Ramsammy
Previous Masters Student
Shamsunisaa Miles
Previous Honours Intern
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