Background:

Madeline is a doctoral student in the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience program working with Dave Gallo. She earned a B.S. and an M.A. in Neuroscience from Boston College in 2023 and 2024, respectively. For her Master's thesis, she conducted an fMRI activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis to investigate spatial memory encoding and retrieval activity in the hippocampus under the supervision of Dr. Scott Slotnick. Madeline also worked as a research associate under the guidance of Dr. Lauren Moo and Dr. Maureen O'Connor at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Bedford, MA, where she focused on intervention programs for caregivers of dementia patients.

Research Interests:

Madeline’s research interests center on memory in the context of cognitive aging, with a particular focus on the differences in memory decline between healthy and pathological aging. She aims to identify subtle yet detectable memory impairments that may serve as early indicators of Alzheimer’s disease.