Ruth Shaffer

Ruth is a third-year graduate student in the Memory & Cognition Lab.  She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2016 with a B.A. in Psychology (concentration in Cognitive Neuroscience) and a minor in Computer Science.  During her time there, she worked with Kathleen McDermott and Roddy Roediger.  She is continuing her stay at Wash U, with a primary interest in using both behavioral and neuroimaging techniques to better understand the mechanisms that underlie successful learning and retrieval of information from long-term memory. She is also interested in how these mechanisms change across age. She is a National Science Foundation GRFP recipient and a member of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy. 

Office:

Psychology Building, Room 349

Email:

ruthie.shaffer@wustl.edu

Phone:

314-935-8892 (Lab)

Mailing Address:

Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Campus Box 1125
One Brookings Drive
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO 63130