Concentration: Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience
Mentor: Casey Brown
308 White-Gravenor Hall
Carina joined the graduate program in the fall of 2026 on the Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience track under the mentorship of Casey Brown. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2024 with dual degrees in Psychology and Data Science. As an undergraduate, she worked in the Computational Psychiatry and Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Lab and conducted her honors thesis in the Emotion and Emotion Regulation Lab, where she examined ethnic variation in emotion judgments and how they relate to psychological health. After graduating, she worked as a Research Study Coordinator/Lab Manager in the Memory Research Lab at the University of Chicago, where she investigated how mental health and socioemotional factors relate to metacognitive self-assessment, beyond objective cognitive performance in older adults. Carina is excited to continue exploring how social and emotional processes influence cognitive aging in the CARES Lab.