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 analyzed differences in brain symptoms, general symptoms, and learning disabilities across various diagnoses. I also examined the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), brain function, and psychiatric conditions. Most recently, I contributed to studies investigating brain network dysfunction and symptomatology in mild traumatic brain injury, as well as the role of conscious negativity bias in emotional and cognitive dysregulation using SPECT imaging. 

Currently at UC Davis, I am looking to see if I can behaviorally 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.