Dr. Lustig grew up in rural Ohio, and obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees through the Integrated Graduate Studies program at Case Western Reserve University. She then went on to complete her PhD at Duke University. Her primary advisor at Duke was Lynn Hasher, with whom she studied the effects of inhibition and aging on cognition. She also took advantage of the opportunity to become involved in time perception research with Warren Meck, and to receive initial training in fMRI research in Greg McCarthy's lab. She continued this training, focusing on aging and Alzheimer's disease, with Randy Buckner at Washington University in St. Louis, where she also collaborated with Larry Jacoby and Dave Balota. She moved to Michigan in 2004, where she has greatly enjoyed the opportunity to work together with many of the terrific faculty (most frequently including Martin Sarter and Patti Reuter-Lorenz, but also many others) and students in investigating attention, memory, and how they are affected by aging and cholinergic function.

I am a PhD student in the Psychology Department at the University of Michigan. I work in the Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience area with Cindy Lustig and Patricia Reuter-Lorenz. My research interests include age-related differences in attention, learning, and motivation. I specifically study how different aspects of controlled attention are influenced by age and motivation. In addition, my work explores adults' ability to learn the value of different stimuli and how learned value affects attention and subsequent memory for the information. I received my B.A. in Psychology and Music from Mills College. When I am not busy thinking about attention and memory, I enjoy reading, traveling around the world, and playing my flute.

I am a doctoral candidate in the Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience area of the Psychology Department at the University of Michigan. Broadly, I am interested in the effects of aging on cognitive processes. More specifically, under the tutelage of Dr. Patricia Reuter-Lorenz and Dr. Cindy Lustig, I am currently exploring the effects of healthy aging on top-down control of attention and working memory processes. Further, I am currently conducting research that employs non-invasive brain stimulation techniques to examine the role of specific brain regions in these cognitive processes. My hope is that this research will shed light on some of the neural underpinnings that contribute to age-related compensatory mechanisms and potentially contribute to effective and efficient cognitive interventions for older adults. I received my B.A. in Psychology and M.A. in Psychological research from San Francisco State University.

I received my B.A. in Psychology at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. From there I then went on to earn my M.A. in Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Currently, I am a Ph.D student in the Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience area of the Psychology Department at the University of Michigan. My research interests include attention, individual susceptibility to distraction, and the induction and recovery of mental fatigue. Primarily, my work investigates the role of cholinergic functioning in situations requiring high attentional demand through the examination of human genetic variants in the high-affinity choline transporter gene, as well as through the study of Parkinson's Disease. In my spare time I enjoy painting, reading, and spending time with my dog Fiona.