Amber R. Hopkins, MA
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Amber R. Hopkins, MA
Research Consultant
I am currently a doctoral candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the lab of Dr. Martin Monti, where my research is focused on examining the contributions of subcortical structures to consciousness by combining neuroimaging tools like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) with non-invasive neuromodulation techniques like transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), TMS-EEG, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS)
Graduate
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Undergraduate
Chapman University
Publications
Hopkins, A. R., Cain, J. A., White, E. A., Abakians, S., & Monti, M. M. (2025). Transcranial ultrasonic stimulation of central thalamus reduces arousal in healthy volunteers. BioRxiv, 2025.2002.2027.640692. doi:10.1101/2025.02.27.640692
Hopkins, A. R., & McQueen, K. J. (2022). Filled/non-filled pairs: An empirical challenge to the integrated information theory of consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition, 97, 103245. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2021.103245
Your ideal research study
Exploring how a sense of connectedness with another affects our electrocortical dynamics and markers of consciousness
Hobbies
Surfing, yoga, travel
What drew you to consciousness
It was love at first lecture! When I started my undergraduate, I wanted to go to law school. I decided to add a philosophy major because I thought the logic and ethics classes would help me in that goal. The first philosophy class I took happened to be a philosophy of mind class, and when the first lecture introduced the neuroscience of consciousness, I was left in awe about the brain and its relation to consciousness. My fate was sealed!
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