Alyssa Lawson

Graduate Student

Advisor

Research Area

Cognition, Perception, and Cognitive Neuroscience

Biography

Alyssa Lawson completed her BA in Psychology at Chapman University (next to Disneyland). After earning a BA, she attended California State University, Los Angeles and received her MA in Psychology. She started at UCSB in 2018 working with Dr. Richard Mayer. She first became interested in Psychology because she watched Criminal Minds and wanted to be a profiler.

Research

Alyssa's focus is on understanding the cognitive aspects of learning as well as how different types of technology can help or harm learning. She am trying to understand how certain individual differences may influence someone's ability to learn new material and how this impacts learning from different types of technology (e.g., online learning, virtual reality, multimedia lessons).

[Cognitive aspects of learning, technology in education, impact of working memory on learning, multimedia learning]