Christopher Karp has been working as an Associate in Research in the Woldorff Lab since May of 2003. He received his BSE in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science from Duke University shortly after coming to the CCN. He minored in Cognitive Psychology which provided some background for his current position but says he has learned a lot about Cognitive Neuroscience since starting the job. He is the EEG "expert" in the lab and as such it is his responsibility to maintain both the EEG experiment rooms, develop EEG experiments, and provide technical support for analysis software. As of August 2004 he is involved in experiments that are investigating effects of attention on: multisensory integration, the N170 ERP component that is thought to be related to face processing, and phonetic and tonal processing of non-words.