Welcome to the MT Cognitive Aging Laboratory page! In our lab, we explore the way that we process information during the normal aging process. We have many avenues of research in our laboratory, with research projects commonly conducted in the areas of attention, perception, visual word recognition, and working memory. As an experimental psychology laboratory, the majority of our work comprises the assessment of performance in manual and computerized tasks. Along with behavioral measures of performance, we also commonly incorporate measures of neurophysiological activity through our electroencephalogram (EEG) suite. EEG allows for precise measures of underlying functional activity of the brain during engagement in cognitive tasks.
Please see the news section of the lab page for more information on recent presentations, publications, and media events. If you are interested in participating in the lab as a participant or research assistant, please see “Getting Involved”!
Graduate students
Denise Ealy
Student Researcher, Thesis student
Elizabeth Key
Student Researcher, Thesis student
Anna Robison
Student Researcher, Thesis student
Undergraduate students
Shaun Burgess
Research Assistant
Wedge Lazenby
Research Assistant
Mairiam Ibrahim
Research Assistant
Allison Throm
Research Assistant
Tara Kirkpatrick
Research Assistant
Megan Vairetta
Research Assistant