Anastasia Kiyonaga
University of California, San Diego
Assistant Professor/Lecturer
Competition and attentional control in visual working memory; Causal fronto-parietal substrates of working memory capacity; Visual memory representations and processes evolve over learning
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After graduating from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Psychology, I worked in mental health and social services before getting an M.S.Ed in Human Development at the University of Pennsylvania. I then went on to a Ph.D. in Psychology & Neuroscience at the Duke Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley. As of January 2020 I am an Assistant Professor in the Cognitive Science department at UC San Diego. There, I use human neuroimaging and non-invasive brain stimulation to study how we maintain and use short-term goal information (i.e., “working memory”) in the face of distraction and other demands in our environment.