Maria received her B.S. in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Emory University in 2004 and completed a postbaccalaureate research program at Virginia Tech in 2006. In 2012, she received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, where she studied audiovisual integration of faces and vocalizations in the primate prefrontal cortex in the laboratory of Dr. Lizabeth M. Romanski. Maria completed her postdoctoral training in Dr. Gregory Quirk's lab at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, where she studied the neural circuits of active avoidance in rats. The Diehl Lab opened its doors in August 2019 in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Kansas State University.

Email: mmdiehl at ksu dot edu / CV

Courses:

• Neural Mechanisms of Learning and Memory (PSYCH 670) - starting in Fall 2024!

• Principles of Learning (PSYCH 475)

• Psychobiology  (PSYCH 470)

• Graduate Seminar in Physiological Psychology (PSYCH 951)

Twitter: @DrDiehl_Neuro

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Constanza joined the lab in March 2024

Lizzie joined the lab in January 2024

Halle joined the lab in September 2023

Capri joined the lab in September 2023

Maya joined the lab in September 2023

Ivy joined the lab in January 2023

Cassie joined the lab in October 2022

Shannon joined the lab in July 2022