I’m currently a PhD student at CUNY in the Cognitive and Comparative Psychology program at the Memory & Attention Lab under Dr. Timothy Ricker. My interests include working memory, consolidation into long-term memory, and how these functions differ in various populations. I’m particularly interested in using neuroimaging and eye-tracking to answer questions about human cognition.
I graduated from the University of Rochester in 2015, with a dual B.S./B.A. in Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics. Previously, I’ve worked in a lab at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine investigating computer-based cognitive remediation programs to improve cognition and mobility.
You can reach me at kcotton@gradcenter.cuny.edu.
PhD in Cognitive and Comparative Psychology
Graduate Center, City University of New York
MA in Psychology, 2020
Graduate Center, City University of New York
BS in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 2015
University of Rochester
BA in Linguistics, 2015
University of Rochester
My research focuses on the relationship between working memory and long-term memory, particularly how working memory processing can affect our long-term memory performance.
This project looked at how manipulating working memory consolidation influences subsequent delayed recognition performance. Article
Additional pedagogy training:
Our memories of shared experiences have unique neural signatures
Massive Science, January 2021
Plants can grow quickly or accurately, but not both
Massive Science, November 2020
A short selection of data visualizations I have created, many as part of the #TidyTuesday challenge on Twitter led by the R4DS Online Learning Community.
See all of my code for this challenge here.
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