Ph.D. Psychology, University of Toronto (2024)
M.A., Psychology, University of Toronto (2019)
B.S. Psychology, University of California, Davis (2015)
Nichole received her B.S. in Psychology at the University of California, Davis where she worked with Dr. Arne Ekstrom studying spatial cognition. After graduating, she spent three years working as the lab manager/junior speciailist in Dr. Charan Ranganath’s Dynamic Memory Lab where she studied various aspects of episodic memory and collaborated on projects investigating temporal memory and schemas as well as cognitive maps and decision-making. She began graduate school in 2018 at the University of Toronto under co-supervision from Dr. Morgan Barense and Dr. Morris Moscovitch. She received her M.A. in 2019 and her Ph.D. in 2024. Her graduate work investigated hippocampal gradients of autocorrelation and how they are related to behavior and memory dysfunction. Now as a postdoctoral scholar, she aims to continue using her autocorrelation method to investigate how the brain processes complex, naturalistic events and to investigate how event boundaries structure our memory at retrieval. Outside of work Nichole spends her time doing yoga, playing volleyball, cooking elaborate meals, and exploring new bars and restaurants in St. Louis. She also occasionally convinces Adi to accompany her on random adventures to the car wash and to meet with strangers from Facebook marketplace.