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- Nichole Bouffard completed her PhD in 2024 at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Morris Moscovitch and Morgan Barense. She is now completing her postdoc with Jeff Zacks and Zach Reagh and is supported by the NIH T32. Her work is aimed at uncovering how the precise neural timescales of activity in the hippocampus are related to aspects of event cognition and memory and how the neural timescales of activity change with age. Nichole is using the novel fMRI autocorrelation method she developed in her PhD to determine the direct links between intrinisc neural timescales of individual voxels and the coarse vs fine components of memory as well as the the organization of intrinsic signals in the hippocampus and how they are impacted in aging.
(mentored by Zach Reagh & Jeffrey Zacks)
- Maverick Smith, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral researcher in the Dynamic Cognition Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis with Dr. Jeff Zacks. His research focuses on memory interventions for older adults and individuals in the early stages of Alzheimer Disease, employing methods such as behavioral studies, ecological momentary assessment, and fMRI. Maverick’s work explores the role of event segmentation—how people break down their experiences into meaningful events—and its impact on memory. His studies investigate whether improving event segmentation can improve memory retention in young adults, cognitively healthy older adults, and older adults with elevated biomarkers of AD. Using innovative experiments, Maverick aims to develop theoretically informed strategies for improving event memory.
(mentored by Jeffrey Zacks)