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Jacinda Taggett

Cognitive Neuroscience PhD Student
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Throughout many years, I have been interning and working under the guidance of many stellar professors in cognitive neuroscience. 

Working with Dr. Charan Ranganath initially encouraged me to pursue neuroimaging of human memory, and prioritize science communication outside of work. Interning with Dr. Steven Luck allowed me to gain more skills in cognitive neuroscience, such as EEG and eye tracking, while simultaneously becoming aware of how important accessibility is in academia. Finally, my time working with Dr. William Jagust helped me to build my data science skills every day and advance my mentorship skills in my free time.

Starting August 2025, I will be a cognitive neuroscience PhD Student at UCLA, where I will look deeper into the cognitive neuroscience of memory under guidance of Dr. David Clewett.
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Publications

U.S.POINTER Imaging Ancillary Study Publications

The POINTER Imaging baseline cohort: Associations between multimodal neuroimaging biomarkers, cardiovascular health, and cognition

Tessa Harrison, Tyler J. Ward, Jacinda Taggett, ..., Susan Landau

Alzheimer's & Dementia

Pre-Testing Effect and Quantifying Word-Pair Similarity Publications

Guess quality moderates how semantic relatedness influences the pretesting effect

Jacinda Taggett, Charan Ranganath, James W. Antony, Xiaonan Liu

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Projects

U.S.POINTER Imaging Ancillary Study

Assessing whether lifestyle interventions can protect cognitive function in older adults who are at increased risk of cognitive decline

Dopaminergic Circuits and Human Social Decision Making

Running computational models relating to the behavioral and neuroimaging data in order to assess the role of dopamine in social decision making.

Pre-Testing Effect and Quantifying Word-Pair Similarity

Quantifying word-pair similarities in order to highlight certain theories on the pre-testing effect

ADNI4 Amyloid Positivity Status Quantification

Quantifying amyloid-β positivity status to participants in ADNI4

Quantifying Image Similarities in Visual Search Tasks

Analyze participants' reactions to images of different levels and types of similarity

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