In 1999, I received my bachelor of science degree in neuroscience from Allegheny College, where I graduated summa cum laude. I received my masters degree in psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in 2002. My research has focused on differences in source memory between young adults and older adults. Using ERP, I am attempting to determine whether increased frontal activity in older adults during source memory judgments is due to recruitment of extra areas to assist in the task or is irrelevant activity caused by a breakdown of frontal inhibitory processes. In previous work, I have used positron emission tomography (PET) to examine differences in brain activity between normal older adults and Alzheimer's patients during semantic processing.