Martina Hollearn

I am a staff member and an aspiring Ph.D. student interested in the cognitive and neurological aspects of resilience from young adulthood to centenarians. My current position allows me to explore the life and cognitive capacity of older adults from multiple perspectives such as memory function, sleep, exercise and diet, and the clinically sensitive period before memory declination from several biological markers assessed with the state-of-the-art imaging modalities. Now my goal is to obtain a full-time graduate level researcher position in the field of psychology with the emphasis on cognitive neuroscience to examine how sensory experiences guide our perception of the world, how they influence decision making, and how perceptual changes occur with sensory deprivations as we age. Ultimately, I am interested in how perception changes our cognition and the various ways this relationship between perception and cognition may change our biology over time (from seconds to a lifetime).