Investigating the Effects of Processing Domain in the Production of False Memories in Younger Adults: An fMRI Prospective
This project is based out of the Cognitive Aging and Neuroimaging Lab at Penn State. I am conducting univariate and multivariate MRI analysis approaches to investigate both distinct and common neural activity underlying memory errors across different processing domains in younger adults.
My role in the project included task development, team training, data collection (MRI, human response), data management, data wrangling, feature engineering, t-test, regression, and MRI pattern similarity analyses, data visualization, and project dissemination.
E-Prime 3.0 Experiment Builder - Qualtrics Surveys - MRI protocol
Excel - R - MATLab - SPM12 - MRIcroGL visualization - ggplot2
Adult Strategy Use Across Stimuli and List Length
This was a completely remote project out of the Working Memory and Language Lab at the Boys Town National Research Hospital. Participants were asked to complete a series of 5 short-term and working memory tasks and answer a short memory strategy survey throughout the tasks. The goal of this project was to explore how adults' strategic memory approaches may change as task difficulty changes. A secondary goal was to use ML clustering algorithms to identify the co-occurrence of strategy reports to predict memory accuracy, setting a new standard of strategy classification historically overlooked in the literature.
This project expanded upon the analysis techniques piloted in the AuBuchon & Wagner (2022) publication.
My roles included project development, team training, data collection (human response), data management, data wrangling, feature engineering, t-test, regression, and ML clustering analyses, data visualization, and project dissemination.
Gorilla Online Experiment Builder - REDCap Surveys
Excel - R - ggplot2
Individual Differences in False Memory
This study is a large behavioral and neuroimaging project based out of the Cognitive Aging and Neuroimaging Lab at the Pennsylvania State University. Younger and older adults are asked to complete a variety of cognitive tasks, including memory, language, and processing speed tasks. This project aims to understand how individual differences within these areas can lead to the emergence of false memories.
My involvement in this project included data collection, data management, data wrangling, feature engineering, t-test and ANOVA analyses, and project dissemination.
Excel - Qualtrics Surveys - R - ggplot2
Spotlight Projects
Involvement in UX
While tenured at the Boys Town National Research Hospital, I collaborated with some of the top cochlear implant researchers in the country to develop a hospital-wide initiative aimed at increasing research involvement and collecting data from children across the nation.
I employed a variety of UX and data science techniques to push this initiative into production, creating the first collaborative effort of its kind and expediting the timeline of cochlear implant research at Boys Town.
