Merika (Wilson) Sanders
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Wilson, D.M., Potter, K. and Cowell, R.A. (2018). Recognition Memory Shielded from Semantic but not Perceptual Interference in Normal Aging. Neuropsychologia, 119: 448-463. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.07.031.
Ross, D.A., Sadil, P.S., Wilson, D.M. and Cowell, R.A. (2018). Hippocampal Engagement During Recall Depends on Memory Content. Cerebral Cortex, 28(8): 2685-2698.
Biography
Merika received her BS from St. Lawrence University, and her Masters and PhD from UMass Amherst. She is interested in understanding the neural basis of memory and high-level vision, and impairments in these functions. Her Masters investigated false memories in older adults and her PhD examined visual object processing and recognition memory in healthy subjects using fMRI to test a theory of how memory is organized in the brain.