Emily Weichart

Emily Weichart is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Utah State University, specializing in Brain & Cognition. She leads the Quantified Cognition Lab, which focuses on understanding how cognitive processes like memory, attention, and decision-making are quantified through eye-tracking, behavioral, and electrophysiological data. Her work examines how cognitive representations evolve under changing environmental conditions, particularly in aging and clinical contexts.

Research interests include cognitive control, selective attention, memory mechanisms, and human aging. Her lab integrates multiple data streams to study attention allocation during learning, decision-making processes, and neural adaptations during cognitive tasks.

Recent articles highlight her focus on aging-related cognitive changes, attention dynamics, and modeling approaches. Her work bridges basic science and clinical applications, such as investigating deep brain stimulation efficacy in neurological disorders.

As a lab director, she emphasizes interdisciplinary methods to quantify cognition precisely. Her research addresses mechanisms underlying cognitive decline and offers new tools for assessing age-related and disease-related cognitive impairments.