Sarah Purnell

Graduate Student

Advisor

Research Area

Cognition, Perception, and Cognitive Neuroscience

Biography

Sarah earned her B.A. in Psychology and M.A. in Psychology (Mind, Brain, and Behavior) from San Francisco State University, where she worked with Dr. Avi Ben-Zeev and Dr. Mark W. Geisler. Sarah then worked as a Lecturer Faculty in the Psychology Department at SFSU before entering the PBS program at UCSB.

Research

Sarah is interested in how stimuli and context affect attention and how these are processed and represented in the brain.