{"id":19,"date":"2026-08-04T09:41:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madelynksandone.com\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2026-09-22T10:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T14:31:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/madelynksandone.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My name is <strong>Madelyn Sandone<\/strong>, and I am a <strong>Senior Research Coordinator<\/strong> at Tufts University&#8217;s Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Science, or <strong>CABCS<\/strong>. As a member of a highly interdisciplinary lab, I support research projects across a variety of domains, including cognitive psychology, neuromodulation, augmented and virtual reality, and exercise science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I manage all aspects of experimental development and execution for a variety of projects, but I spend most of my time utilizing immersive VR systems to improve stress reactivity across emotional, cognitive, and physical domains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Here\u2019s a photo of me in the Virtual Reality Cave Automated Virtual Environment, where I spend all of my time, but we call it the CAVE, for short.<\/summary>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/madelynksandone.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MSandon_CAVE-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7500159225527037;width:321px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madelynksandone.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MSandon_CAVE-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/madelynksandone.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MSandon_CAVE-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/madelynksandone.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MSandon_CAVE-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/madelynksandone.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MSandon_CAVE-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/madelynksandone.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MSandon_CAVE-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hi! The screen behind me is currently set to calibration mode. This is where we test out the  accuracy of our lasers and controllers for our studies. I get to play video games at work which is a lot of fun. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the projects I manage and support revolve around stressing folks out and then seeing what happens. If you want to learn more about that work (and everything else I do at CABCS), click here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut what about when you\u2019re not in the lab, Madelyn?\u201d I hear you say. Click here to get to know me without the lab coat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for exploring my website!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Madelyn Sandone, and I am a Senior Research Coordinator at Tufts University&#8217;s Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Science, or CABCS. As a member of a highly interdisciplinary lab, I support research projects across a variety of domains, including cognitive psychology, neuromodulation, augmented and virtual reality, and exercise science. I manage all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madelynksandone.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madelynksandone.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madelynksandone.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madelynksandone.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madelynksandone.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/madelynksandone.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/madelynksandone.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madelynksandone.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}