Lab Members – Memory and Development Lab

Who we are

Simona Ghetti

Lab Director and Principal Investigator

Professor Ghetti's research focuses on the development of memory and metamemory in childhood. Using behavioral and neuroimaging methods in her Memory and Development Lab, she studies both typical and atypical development of memory in children.

sghetti@ucdavis.edu

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Nathalie Moriarty

Doctoral Student

ndmoriarty@ucdavis.edu

Nicholas Christopher-Hayes

Doctoral Student

nchristopherhayes@ucdavis.edu

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Anee Guilhot

Junior Specialist

amguilhot@ucdavis.edu

Tanvi Palsamudram

Junior Specialist

tpalsamudram@ucdavis.edu

Abigail Greenberg

Undergraduate Research Assistant and Student Employee

Caroline Elmer

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Eliza Lindquist

Undergraduate Research Assistant and Student Employee

Alumni

Graduate Student Alumni

Alireza Kazemi

Postdoc at the University of Utah

Alireza completed his PhD in the lab. Alireza likes to devote his entire professional life to understand and explain the mysteries behind this squishy piece of gray matter in our skulls.

kazemi@ucdavis.edu

Christine Coughlin

Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Chicago

Dana DeMaster

Assistant Professor at University of Texas at Houston

Elliott Johnson

Student Advisor at UC Davis Internship and Career Center

Emily Hembacher

Senior Data Scientist at BetterUp

Joshua K Lee

Assistant Professional Researcher at UC Davis

Kristen Lyons

Associate Professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver

Lindsey Mooney

Postdoc at University of Massachusetts Amherst

lnmooney@ucdavis.edu

Paola Castelli

Associate Professor at John Cabot University in Rome

Sabrina Karjack

Doctoral Student

Sabrina completed her M.A. in the lab. Sabrina is broadly interested in how memory develops in young children and the development of the hippocampus.

skarjack@ucdavis.edu

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Post Doctoral Alumni

Christopher R Gonzales

Staff at World Bank

Diana Selmeczy

Assistant Professor at University of Colorado

Janani Prabhakar

Project Manager at National Institute of Mental Health

Thanujeni (Jeni) Pathman

Assistant Professor at York University

Yana Fandakova

Research Scientist at Max Planck Institute

Junior Specialist Alumni

Aidan Sandhoefner

Psychometrist Technician at Geisinger

Alix Mahon

Master of Public Health in Maternal, Child, and Family Health

Ananya Yogi

Junior Specialist

Ananya is a full-time Junior Specialist. Ananya is broadly interested in how findings in developmental memory research can be applied to education systems worldwide.

ayogi@ucdavis.edu

Aya Clear

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Aya is a 4th year undergraduate student studying psychology. Favorite psychology classes are Developmental Psychology and Cognitive Psychology.

afclear@ucdavis.edu

Clint Perry

Erica Dupree

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Erica is a 4th year undergraduate student studying psychology, minoring in education. Her favorite psychology classes are Developmental Psychology and Educational Psychology. Her interests are mainly focused on clinical child psychology.

ejdupree@ucdavis.edu