Congratulations to Joshua Senior, who received an award for his presentation at the 2024 ABRCMS conference!  Joshua’s presentation, “How Aging Changes Attention: Investigating Mechanisms of Inhibition and Distractibility Using Eye-Tracking,” investigated age-related changes in attention by examining how older and younger adults process distractions and

Earlier this year, Mara was one of the recipients of the 2024 USC Mentoring Awards. This award “honor[s] faculty who contribute to an engaging, supportive, inclusive academic environment through their mentorship of students and faculty.” While many know Mara as a world-renowned scientist, those who

Congratulations to Martin Dahl for receiving a BrightFocus fellowship for his project entitled “Fingerprinting the impact of declining neuromodulation on late-life memory.” Emerging postmortem research indicates that neuromodulatory centers in the brainstem show Alzheimer’s disease (AD)-associated neuropathological changes long before cortical regions. Uncovering these early

Congratulations to Martina on receiving the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Global Postdoctoral Fellowship!  For her MSCA project, Martina will work with Mara Mather and Ilse Van Diest to investigate the effects of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) on LC activity in young and older adults.

Shelby Bachman and Nichole Lighthall, both PhD alumni of the lab, were featured in Gerontology’s Vitality magazine regarding their current work and how their time at USC prepared them.  Read the full story here:  https://gero.usc.edu/2024/01/10/passion-hard-work-determination/.

Congratulations to Josh Senior!  He received the GLAM flash talk award for his talk “How Aging Changes Attention: Investigating Mechanisms of Inhibition and Distractibility Using Eye-Tracking.” Geroscience Los Angeles Meeting (GLAM), supported by the USC Leonard School of Gerontology, is a trainee-focused meeting to help

Kaoru Nashiro received her Ph.D. from the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, where she was awarded the Heinz Osterburg Prize for Best Dissertation. She completed postdoctoral training at the Center for Vital Longevity at the University of Texas at Dallas and then returned to

Congratulations to Jungwon Min, who has received the USC Psychology Department Excellence in Scientific Writing Award! Among her recent publications are a first-author paper on the differences in brain regions involved in up-regulating vs. down-regulating emotions and one documenting the effects of heart rate variability

Hyun Joo Yoo first joined the lab as a research volunteer in 2013. She previously had received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. Since joining the lab, she has coauthored around 15 research papers, with a focus on the relationship between

Former Emotion & Cognition lab member Nichole Lighthall was recently promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida. She joins other former lab members Briana Kennedy, Sarah Barber and Steven Greening who have all recently received tenure at their respective universities. Congratulations to