Research Interests
Cognitive Aging, Language Processing, Eye-Movement Control during Reading, Cognitive Electrophysiology, Event-Related Brain Potentials, Working Memory, Cognitive Training Interventions, Learning and Memory, Differential Psychology, Prosody, Statistical Modeling of Longitudinal and Repeated Measures Data
About me
I am an Assistant Professor in the Cognition and Neural Science Program in the Department of Psychology at the University of Utah, where I also hold faculty appointments in the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program and the Center on Aging.
My research program is a marriage of both basic and applied perspectives guided towards understanding the nature of individual variation in language and memory systems across the adult lifespan. Because the aging process brings about multidimensional and multidirectional changes in cognitive and brain functioning, my research uses normative and non-normative adult development as models to (a) understand the basic processes that subserve language and memory functioning and (b) develop theory-driven approaches to support adult cognitive and brain health. Importantly, I adopt an interdisciplinary and multi-method approach to this work, merging theoretical models from the cognitive sciences, gerontology, neuroscience, linguistics, and quantitative and experimental psychology, as well as a range of methods (experimental, correlational, and longitudinal) and measures of brain activity (e.g., event-related brain potentials [ERPs]), performance (eye-tracking, reaction time, memory performance), and physiology (e.g., pupillary response).
I completed my postdoctoral training in the Cognition and Brain Laboratory in the Department of Psychology (Cognitive Division) and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology (Cognitive Neuroscience Group) at the University of Illinois. I received my Ph.D in the Cognitive Science of Teaching and Learning at the University of Illinois (2014). As a graduate student, I worked primarily in the Adult Learning Lab at the Beckman Institute under the advisement of Dr. Elizabeth A.L. Stine-Morrow, where I also collaborated with Kara Federmeier (Cognition and Brain Lab), Duane Watson (Communication and Language Lab), and Kiel Christianson (Educational Psycholinguistics Lab). Prior to my arrival at UIllinois, I completed my Bachelors degree in Psychology and Cognitive Science at the State University of New York at Oswego.
Cognitive Aging, Language Processing, Eye-Movement Control during Reading, Cognitive Electrophysiology, Event-Related Brain Potentials, Working Memory, Cognitive Training Interventions, Learning and Memory, Differential Psychology, Prosody, Statistical Modeling of Longitudinal and Repeated Measures Data
About me
I am an Assistant Professor in the Cognition and Neural Science Program in the Department of Psychology at the University of Utah, where I also hold faculty appointments in the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program and the Center on Aging.
My research program is a marriage of both basic and applied perspectives guided towards understanding the nature of individual variation in language and memory systems across the adult lifespan. Because the aging process brings about multidimensional and multidirectional changes in cognitive and brain functioning, my research uses normative and non-normative adult development as models to (a) understand the basic processes that subserve language and memory functioning and (b) develop theory-driven approaches to support adult cognitive and brain health. Importantly, I adopt an interdisciplinary and multi-method approach to this work, merging theoretical models from the cognitive sciences, gerontology, neuroscience, linguistics, and quantitative and experimental psychology, as well as a range of methods (experimental, correlational, and longitudinal) and measures of brain activity (e.g., event-related brain potentials [ERPs]), performance (eye-tracking, reaction time, memory performance), and physiology (e.g., pupillary response).
I completed my postdoctoral training in the Cognition and Brain Laboratory in the Department of Psychology (Cognitive Division) and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology (Cognitive Neuroscience Group) at the University of Illinois. I received my Ph.D in the Cognitive Science of Teaching and Learning at the University of Illinois (2014). As a graduate student, I worked primarily in the Adult Learning Lab at the Beckman Institute under the advisement of Dr. Elizabeth A.L. Stine-Morrow, where I also collaborated with Kara Federmeier (Cognition and Brain Lab), Duane Watson (Communication and Language Lab), and Kiel Christianson (Educational Psycholinguistics Lab). Prior to my arrival at UIllinois, I completed my Bachelors degree in Psychology and Cognitive Science at the State University of New York at Oswego.