Office: McGuinn 504
Phone: 617-552-3108
Email: katherine.mickley.1@bc.edu
Website: http://www2.bc.edu/~mickley/Home.html
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
Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. & Kensinger, E.A. (2008, April). Neural activity at encoding associated with vivid memory for negative information and familiarity for positive information. The Amygdala, Stress, and PTSD Conference, Bethesda, MD.
Mickley Steinmetz, K.R., Choi, E.S. & Kensinger, E.A. (2008, April). Aging and Phenomenological Memory for Emotional Details. Poster Presented at Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. & Kensinger, E.A. (2007, November). 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.
Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. & Kensinger, E.A. (2007, March). Using the Memory Characteristics Questionnaire to Examine How we Remember Emotional Stimuli. Poster Presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.
Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. & Kensinger, E.A. (2007, March). Using the RSVP Paradigm to Investigate the Processes Contributing to Emotional Memory. Poster presented at 2007 Rotman Research Institute Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. & Kensinger, E.A. (2007, March). Characteristics of Memories of Emotional Pictures. Poster Presentation at 2007 New England Science Symposium, Harvard Medical School, Caimbridge, MA.
Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. & Kensinger, E.A. (2006, November). Retrieval of words in emotional and non-emotional context: An ERP Analysis. Poster Presentation at 2006 Society For Neuroscience Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Publications
Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. & Kensinger, E.A. (in press). Phenomenological characteristics of emotional memories in younger and older adults. Memory.
Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. & Kensinger, E.A. (in press). The effects of valence and arousal on the neural activity leading to subsequent memory. Psychophysiology.
Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. & Kensinger, E.A. (2008). Emotional Valence Influences the Neural Correlates Associated with Remembering and Knowing. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 8(2): 143-152.
D'Astous, M., Mickley Steinmetz, K.R., Dluzen, D.E. (2006) Differential protective properties of estradiol and tamoxifen against methamphetamine-induced nigrostriatal dopaminergic toxicity in mice. Neuroendocrinology, 82(2):111-20.
Dluzen, D.E., & Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. (2005). Gender differences in modulatory effects of tamoxifen upon the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 80(1): 27-33.
Mickley Steinmetz, K.R., & Dluzen, D.E. (2004). Dose-response effects of estrogen and tamoxifen upon methamphetamine-induced behavioral responses and neurotoxicity of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system in female mice. Neuroendocrinology, 79(6), 305-316.