Sara’s interest in psychology
began in her undergraduate years at UF, where she became actively
involved in research projects. She graduated with honors, after 3 years
of study, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology with a
minor in mathematics.
Sara is currently working, with
her mentor, on a project funded by the NIA, exploring misspellings’
effects on reading and memory for older adults. It also explores how
their efforts to remember text affect their ability to detect
misspellings within that text. She is also beginning work on her
Master’s thesis, also involving spelling. This research will
investigate how older adults perform when retrieving spelling words by
both implicit and explicit modes of retrieval, and whether spelling and
memory decline in a similar manner across the lifespan.
