Claudia Morales Valiente

Claudia Morales Valiente is a Researcher at the University of Alberta working in the Memory for Events Lab, where she applies computational methodologies to investigate autobiographical memory systems through linguistic analysis of personal narratives.

Her academic foundation includes:

• Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Havana, Cuba
• Master of Science in Psychology from the University of Western Ontario, Canada
• Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology from the University of Western Ontario, Canada under Dr. Ken McRae

Dr. Morales Valiente's research integrates natural language processing with cognitive psychology to decode narrative structures in autobiographical accounts. She specializes in supervised machine learning algorithms, mixed-effects modeling, and hierarchical statistical frameworks to quantify memory representation patterns. Her methodological innovations bridge computational linguistics and experimental psychology, particularly in extracting semantic features from life-story narratives to understand memory organization and retrieval mechanisms.

Active in the Memory for Events Lab, she develops open-source analytical tools including lexical property extractors and NLP pipelines for narrative scoring, as evidenced by her GitHub repositories which implement R and Python frameworks for text analysis. Her technical contributions focus on adapting sentiment analysis and word norm databases to psychological research contexts.