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The University of Western Australia (M304), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia
Our attention and memory are limited resources even though it often feels that we are aware of everything and that we remember events exactly as they happened. I am fascinated with the way our attention and memory operate, and the way that some things - especially emotional information - tend to be attended and remembered with greater priority than other things.
In my research, I explore interactions between emotion and cognition. I'm also interested in way that individual differences - including age - can change the way people attend and remember. I often use behavioral, eyetracking, or neuroimaging techniques in my research to study these topics.
I completed my PhD in Psychology at UNSW Sydney with Steve Most and studied emotion-attention interactions, especially emotion-induced blindness. I then went to complete a postdoctoral position at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California with Mara Mather. I was awarded an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellowship to study how age impacts emotion and attention and particularly studied the positivity effect - a fascinating pattern whereby older adults prioritise positive information more than younger adults.
At UWA, I am a lecturer in the School of Psychological Science and director of the PECAN (Perception, Emotion, Cognition, Ageing, and Neuroscience) Lab. In my lab, we study a range of topics including emotion-cognition interactions, the positivity effect and age-related changes in cognition, ways arousal impacts cognition more generally, and potential neural mechanisms involved.
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Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review