Jacinda Taggett
Prospective Ph.D. Applicant
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Jacinda Taggett
Prospective Ph.D. Applicant
Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley
My name is Jacinda Taggett and I am a recent graduate at UC Davis with a B.Sc. in Psychology, with a quantitative emphasis & a neuroscience minor.
I currently work with the Jagust Lab at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley as a Research Associate.
As an undergraduate, I worked with the Dynamic Memory Lab (Ranganath Lab) at UCD's Center for Neuroscience and with the Laboratory for Basic and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience (Luck Lab) at the UCD Center for Mind & Brain as a Research Assistant. I briefly worked as a data input intern at the UC Davis Sleep Lab.
I hope to gain more experience in the field of cognitive neuroscience so I can pursue a Ph.D. in a few years. My main interest is learning & memory, and how factors such as sleep, perception, neurological disorder or neurotransmitter affect this form of cognition.
As for personal goals, I want to give current and future undergraduates the same opportunities that I had over the past few years. In light of this, I created a website, Academic Memories, that holds guides, stories, and opportunities for aspiring researchers by academics.
I currently work with the Jagust Lab at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley as a Research Associate.
As an undergraduate, I worked with the Dynamic Memory Lab (Ranganath Lab) at UCD's Center for Neuroscience and with the Laboratory for Basic and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience (Luck Lab) at the UCD Center for Mind & Brain as a Research Assistant. I briefly worked as a data input intern at the UC Davis Sleep Lab.
I hope to gain more experience in the field of cognitive neuroscience so I can pursue a Ph.D. in a few years. My main interest is learning & memory, and how factors such as sleep, perception, neurological disorder or neurotransmitter affect this form of cognition.
As for personal goals, I want to give current and future undergraduates the same opportunities that I had over the past few years. In light of this, I created a website, Academic Memories, that holds guides, stories, and opportunities for aspiring researchers by academics.
Projects
U.S.POINTER Imaging Ancillary Study
Assessing whether lifestyle interventions can protect cognitive function in older adults who are at increased risk of cognitive decline
Dopaminergic Circuits and Human Social Decision Making
Running computational models relating to the behavioral and neuroimaging data in order to assess the role of dopamine in social decision making.
Pre-Testing Effect and Quantifying Word-Pair Similarity
Quantifying word-pair similarities in order to highlight certain theories on the pre-testing effect
ADNI4 Amyloid Positivity Status Quantification
Quantifying amyloid-β positivity status to participants in ADNI4
Quantifying Image Similarities in Visual Search Tasks
Analyze participants' reactions to images of different levels and types of similarity
