Carolyn Davison

Ph.D. Candidate in Cognitive Neuropsychology

About


I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto and the Baycrest Center for Research and Education. My research considers how the brain changes with age and how these changes affect the way items are represented in working memory. I'm particularly interested in how changes in cognitive control over item representations can lead to the memory deficits and benefits observed in healthy aging.
Outside of the lab, I am dedicated to science teaching and communication. I am currently a course instructor (PSY372: Human Memory) and have served as both a Lead Writing TA for the Department of Psychology and a Grant Writing Consultant for the Graduate Center of Academic Communication at the University of Toronto. 

Publications


Influence of target-distractor neural similarity on working memory performance in older and younger adults


Carolyn Davison, Jennifer Weeks, Cheryl Grady, Lynn Hasher, Bradley Buchsbaum

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, vol. 29(3), 2022, pp. 463-482


Updating impairments and the failure to explore new hypotheses following right brain damage


Elisabeth Stöttinger, Carolyn Louise Guay, James Danckert, Britt Anderson

Experimental Brain Research, vol. 236(6), 2018 Apr 31, pp. 1749-1765