Caite joined IACS in 2021 as a Research Assistant on the lab’s first study, Assessing the impact of an audio-visual experience on mood states. She contributed to study preparation, data collection, and manual preparation for Identifying Gradations of the Meditative State. She served as a Lab Manager, operationalizing IACS lab-wide systems, overseeing research assistants and interns, and executing project management, before transitioning to her current role as a Junior Research Scientist and grant writer. Caite currently assists in study design, preparation, and fundraising for multiple studies within the project area, Emulating Entheogens for Enhancing Empathy. She has been published in Cognitive Society.
Undergraduate
Columbia University, B.A. Anthropology, 2010
Your ideal research study
I would like to train the nervous system to generate the somatic feeling of secure connection and social safety. What are the implications for functional brain connectivity when an internal locus of attachment is established within subjective experience? What are the psychoneuroimmunological implications of such a shift?
What drew you to consciousness
I began my studies in anthropology and have explored consciousness from an array of perspectives. I am driven by the idea that our minds and bodies are capable of vastly more than we are currently able to comprehend. I firmly believe that by better understanding consciousness, we can create new paradigms for conceptualizing the human experience and more aligned approaches to its challenges
Hobbies
communing with the infinite: art / design / music / dance
