Briana Kennedy is a postdoctoral scholar in the Emotion & Cognition Lab at USC. She, Ringo Huang, and Mara Mather recently published a manuscript outlining their recent findings; they found that compared to younger adults, older adults are less distracted by negative information, despite both

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