Sara Gallant received a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the BrightFocus Foundation to examine the effects of emotional arousal on attention and memory selectivity during aging and late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. The project will focus on the locus coeruleus (LC), which helps the brain to selectively focus

Alexandra Ycaza Herrera, PhD, a post-doctoral scholar in the Emotion & Cognition Lab, recently published a study on the effects of post-menopausal hormone replacement on cortisol response to stress and the subsequent effects of stress on memory. The study was published Nov. 2 in The Journal of