Ph.D., M.A. Student
Sara’s research in the CAL sought to understand how older adults’ goal-oriented bias for positive information influences memory performance. For her dissertation, she investigated age differences in selective memory for emotional information and the metacognitive and neural correlates underlying these processes. On the side, Sara also examined implicit binding of emotional information in young and older adults.
Sara is now a postdoctoral research fellow in Mara Mather’s lab at the University of Southern California (USC). Her research at USC examines the impact of emotional arousal on memory selectivity in young and older adults as well as how these processes are mediated by activity in the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system.
Degrees
PhD, Psychology, Ryerson University, 2017
MA, Psychology, Ryerson University, 2013
Honours B.A., Psychology with Thesis, University of Windsor, 2011