Kali Sarver

LIFE Fellow since 2024, University of Michingan

I am a doctoral candidate working with Patricia Reuter-Lorenz in the Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience area of the Psychology Department at the University of Michigan. My research focuses on cognitive working memory and affective working memory (i.e., working memory for emotion) performance across the adult lifespan. Although some cognitive abilities (e.g., cognitive working memory) tend to decline with age, working memory for emotion may be resilient to age-related declines, and a goal of mine is to understand these diverging trajectories in ability. My research interests also include healthy age-related changes in the brain, memory decline with age, and emotion. Prior to joining the Cognitive and Affective Neuropsychology lab at the University of Michigan, I studied psychology and gerontology at Miami University in Oxford, OH. As an undergraduate student, I worked in two research labs and graduated in 2021 with distinction and departmental honors in psychology.