Elizabeth A. Kensinger, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Boston College. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Biology from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At Boston College, she directs the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience laboratory, using multiple methods to understand the bidirectional links between emotion and memory and the effects of sleep, stress, and aging on memory. She collaborates with the Innocence Program clinic at the Boston College Law School, conducting seminars on the science of memory. She is a faculty lead of the Boston College Consortium for Translational Research on Learning and Memory, and on the steering committee for the Boston College Healthy Aging Initiative. She was an inaugural recipient of the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions from the Association for Psychological Science and the 2023 recipient of Midcareer Award from the Psychonomic Society.  She has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, and she has authored the book Emotional Memory Across the Adult Lifespan (2009, Psychology Press) and is co-author, with Dr. Andrew Budson, of Why We Forget and How to Remember Better: The Science Behind Memory (2023, Oxford University Press).
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