Hello! My name is Stephanie Norris and I am a 2nd year Ph.D. student in Psychology at the University of California, Davis. I work under the guidance of Dr. Andrew Yonelinas in his Human Memory Lab, in the sub-area of Perception, Cognition, and Cognitive Neuroscience. My research interests focus on how aging and injury affect memory, with particular interest in how Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementia cause a decline in memory, thinking and learning.

In 2022, I graduated from California State University, Fullerton with a B.A. in Psychology and minor in Human Services, receiving Summa Cum Laude honors for both. During my time as an undergraduate, I became heavily involved in various research labs where I discovered a passion for scientific research. 

Before starting my graduate program, I was a research intern at the Amen Clinic where I was exposed to a clinical cohort and analyzed the differences in brain symptoms, general symptoms, and learning disabilities symptoms between various diagnoses, as well as the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), brain function and psychiatric diagnoses. Most recently at the Amen Clinic, I was involved in a study where we analyzed symptomatology and brain network dysfunction in mild traumatic brain injury. Additionally, I am 1st author on a paper examining the role of conscious negativity bias in emotional and cognitive dysregulation through SPECT imaging.

Currently at UC Davis, I am looking to see if I can functionally and neurally dissociate two types of working memory processes (change & repetition detection) in an undergraduate population, with hopes of expanding to the aging population and amnesic patients.