Emma Cimino

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Jr. Specialist

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Research Area

Neuroscience and Behavior

Biography

Emma worked as an undergraduate research assistant and completed her senior thesis under the Keiflin Lab, and graduated from UCSB in 2023. She is currently working as a junior specialist in the Alexander Lab. Her general research interests include hippocampal interactions with cortical and subcortical regions in systems consolidation, spatial and episodic memory, and the relationship between aberrant neural oscillations and cognitive dysfunction observed in psychopathologies like schizophrenia, addiction, and Alzheimer's dementia.