The University of Chicago
Department of Psychology
5848 South University Avenue
Chicago, IL, 60637
Office Phone: (773) 702-4376
Office: Beecher 308
Labs: http://memorylab.uchicago.edu
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Sasha Cervantes
Background
Ph.D. (expected 2013) – University of Chicago
Area: Cognitive; Minor: Neurobiology
Advisor: Dr. David Gallo
M.A. – University of Chicago
Thesis: Mental Imagery and Illusory Recollection in Younger and Older Adults
M.A. – New York University
Thesis: Social Information Processing: A Divergence in Episodic and Semantic Memory
B.A. – University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests
Sasha uses converging evidence such as behavioral measures and neuro-imaging to study episodic memory and the cognitive processes which support it. She investigates normal aging interactions; as well as what leads to memory errors in younger and older adults. Sasha is especially interested in how one distinguishes between sources of our recollections; particularly between creations of the mind and events from the world outside. She utilizes fMRI as a tool to identify the neural correlates of memory and processes like imagination and decision making/monitoring.
Teaching Experience
University of Chicago, Intern – MIND (3 quarters)
New York University, Graduate Instructor - Lab in Psychopathology (3 Semesters)
New York University, Graduate Instructor - Cognitive Psychology (3 Semesters)
Brown University, Graduate Instructor - Physiological Psychology
Presentations
Poster Presentation: Getting to know you: retrieving social knowledge NYU Research Conference Poster Presentation Placed 3rd, as well as awarded Certificate of Merit
Conference Talk:
Cervantes, S.N. (April, 2010). Mental Imagery and Illusory Recollection. Talk delivered at the Chicago Graduate Student Research Symposium.
Invited Talk: McDonough, I.M., Cervantes, S. N., & Gallo, D.A. (November, 2009). Neural Correlates of Subjective Remembering in Aging. Talk delivered at the Brain Imaging Roundtable at the University of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois
