Research

My research focuses on understanding cognition across the lifespan, with a particular focus on executive function and memory in older adults.

What factors affect cognition in older adults?

This review highlights the key findings of research using the Walking While Talking test, an assessment of dual-task cognitive-motor performance.

This project examined the demographic, health, and lifestyle correlates and underlying neural substrates of subjective well-being in older adults.

This project looked at the neural substrates related to perceived social support in older adults and the links to cognitive function.

What is the relationship between working memory and long-term memory and what factors influence this relationship?

This project looked at how manipulating working memory consolidation influences subsequent delayed recognition performance. Read more here.

This review explores how working memory consolidation and long-term consolidation may be related.

These projects explored how task engagement and mind-wandering impact working memory and long-term memory performance, particularly across different experimental contexts. Read more here or here.

This project explored how cognitive mechanisms supporting working memory consolidation are related to creativity and subsequent long-term retention. Read more here.

The first part of this project explores how acute stress may impact working memory processing.

Other projects

These projects psychometrically validated Malayalam translations of the Apathy Evaluation Scale and the Subjective Happiness Scale.

This project investigated the association between elevated homocysteine levels and risk of Motoric Cognitive Risk syndrome, a predementia syndrome characterized by cognitive complaints and slow gait.