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I am currently a Research Track Instructor in the Department of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine. I completed my post doctoral training at Washington University in St. Louis in the historic T32 Aging and Development program under the supervision of Dr.'s Julie Bugg and Jason Hassenstab.

I completed my PhD under the supervision of Dr. Michael J. Kane in the I.D.E.A. Lab at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 

Before coming to UNCG, I completed my B.S. and  M. A. at Nova Southeastern University with Dr. Jonathan B. Banks where we looked at how the experience of mind wandering varies in emotional valence and how that impacts task performance. 

My research interests revolve around individual differences in attention control and mind wandering. Specifically,  how our moment-to-moment ability to sustain attention fits with models of executive functioning.  I am also interested in the content of people's off-task thoughts and how state characteristics (like motivation and mood) alter the relationship between attentional control and mind wandering. My recent research has pushed these questions into the context of healthy and pathological aging (such as Alzheimer's Disease).