Hi, I'm Nora! I'm a 5th year grad student at UC Irvine, where I work with Aaron Bornstein. For part of the year, you can find me at NYU as a visiting grad student in Cate Hartley's lab.

I’m broadly interested in how learning, memory, and decision making change across development. More specifically, I study how individual variability in decision-making can be explained by variability in memory organization. I'm interested in applying this to understanding how early life adversity produces susceptibility to mental illness.

Prior to grad school, I earned a BA in Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley where I completed a thesis under the guidance of Anne Collins. I was then a lab manager at Johns Hopkins with Marina Bedny.