I am a senior graduate student in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University, where I work with Drs. Roberto Cabeza and David Rubin. My research focuses on understanding the cognitive and neural basis of age-related differences during memory formation and retrieval of emotionally meaningful stimuli. In particular, I am interested in the effects of emotion and aging on autobiographical memory, which refers to memory for events from our own life.
June 2009
Premier of The Fantastic Plastic Brain: Total Recall and the Spotless Mind airs on the Discovery Healthy Channel, featuring current research on superior autobiographical memory.
March 2009
Awarded a Fellowship to attend the 2009 Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience at UCSB.
December 2008
Selected media coverage and Utube news video on article published in Psychological Science (St. Jacques, Dolcos, & Cabeza, 2009):
July 2008
Article (St. Jacques, Rubin, LaBar, & Cabeza, 2008) inspires artwork on cover of journal:
