I am a PhD student in the Psychology Department at the University of Michigan. I work in the Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience area with Cindy Lustig and Patricia Reuter-Lorenz. My research interests include age-related differences in attention, learning, and motivation. I specifically study how different aspects of controlled attention are influenced by age and motivation. In addition, my work explores adults’ ability to learn the value of different stimuli and how learned value affects attention and subsequent memory for the information. I received my B.A. in Psychology and Music from Mills College. When I am not busy thinking about attention and memory, I enjoy reading, traveling around the world, and playing my flute.
