Veronica (she/her/ella) received my B.A. in Psychology from the University of San Diego. As an NIH-UGSP Scholar and Research Fellow, she worked at Dr. Nora Volkow’s Laboratory of Neuroimaging. She explored the association between physical activity and psychological traits using actigraphy methods. She also studied the role of negative emotions and dopaminergic brain systems in addiction and obesity.
For my future works, Veronica aims to study the effect of emotions on impulsivity at the physiological, brain, and behavioral level. She would like to further understand these processes and assess their ecological validity (inside/outside lab settings) through the use of wearable devices and ecological momentary assessment (EMA) methods.