Home Department: Biology
Mentor: Anthony Wagner (Psychology)

“Developing a Behavioral Paradigm: The Relationship Between Attentional Mechanisms and Memory Performance”

As a critical component of higher cognition, memory is usually studied in isolation. The Wagner lab is interested in how another critical component of higher cognition, namely goal-directed attention, affects memory. Specifically, they want to investigate how fluctuation of moment-to-moment attention interacts with how well people can hold a task goal in mind to affect later memory. Evie will be involved in developing and validating experimental paradigms to answer these questions.