Office: McGuinn 504B
Phone: 617-552-3108
Email: katherine.mickley.1@bc.edu
Primary Advisor: Elizabeth Kensinger
Academic Interests: Katherine's primary area of research focuses on the understanding the role of emotional processing in memory, and how emotional processing changes as adults age. By combining behavioral testing and functional neuroimaging, Katherine's research examines both the cognitive (thought-level) and neural (brain-level) processes that guide young and older adult’s attention toward, and memory for, emotional information.
Undergraduate Institution/Degree: B.S., Allegheny College.
Posters
Neural activity at encoding associated with vivid memory for negative information and familiarity for positive information. Poster presented at 2007 Society for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Using the Memory Characteristics Questionnaire to Examine How we Remember Emotional Stimuli. Poster Presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY
Using the RSVP Paradigm to Investigate the Processes Contributing to Emotional Memory. Poster presented at 2007 Rotman Research Institute Conference, Toronto, Canada
Characteristics of Memories of Emotional Pictures. Poster Presentation at 2007 New England Science Symposium, Harvard Medical School, Caimbridge, MA
Retrieval of words in emotional and non-emotional context: An ERP Analysis. Poster Presentation at 2006 Society For Neuroscience Meeting, Atlanta, GA; Slide Presentation Allegheny College Senior Project Presentations, 2006
Publications
Mickley, K.R. & Kensinger, E.A. (in press). Emotional Valence Influences the Neural Correlates Associated with Remembering and Knowing. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience.
Mickley, K. R. , Muscatell, K. A. , & Kensinger, E. A. (in press) Using the RSVP Paradigm to Investigate the Processes Contributing to Emotional Memory. Brain and Cognition.