Ph.D., M.A. Student
Linda worked at the CAL first as a volunteer RA. As a graduate student, she examined how older adults could use their preserved abilities to compensate for those that decline with age. For example, her MA thesis demonstrated that older adults’ intact emotional processing helps reduce some age-related declines in working memory. Her dissertation project followed this line of research by examining how cognitive control in older adults can be supported through manipulations of emotion. Some of her other work in the lab involves investigations of preserved self-referential and survival processing abilities in older age. Linda will use this foundation of basic psychological science to inform future applied and translational research aimed at increasing quality of life for older adults. To support this goal, Linda also completed a practicum placement at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, where she used virtual reality to examine the relationship between divided attention and mobility in younger and older adults. Linda also has interests in knowledge translation and exchange between the research community and older adults.
Degrees
Ph.D., Psychology, Ryerson University, 2016
M.A., Psychology, Ryerson University, 2011
Honours B. Sc., Specialist in Psychology (Cognition and Behaviour), University of Toronto, 2008