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Sage Boettcher is a Career Development Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and a Stipendiary Lecturer at St Anne's College. She holds affiliations with multiple colleges: St Anne's, Kellogg, and Somerville. Her research focuses on the interplay between memory, attention, and behavior in dynamic environments, leveraging psychophysical methods and non-invasive brain imaging. She investigates how short- and long-term memories guide spatial, temporal, and identity-based behavior through proactive memory use.
Boettcher earned her PhD in 2020 from the University of Oxford (supervised by Kia Nobre, Mark Stokes, and Freek van Ede), following a Master’s in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience from Goethe University Frankfurt and a BSc from the University of Delaware. She has held postdoctoral roles, including an EPS Fellowship in Kia Nobre’s Brain and Cognition Lab and a Junior Research Fellowship at Kellogg College.
Her research interests span cognitive neuroscience, memory dynamics, and attentional processes. Key themes include how spatiotemporal predictions bias perception and action, and how working memory interacts with sensory input. Recent work emphasizes neural mechanisms underlying attentional template formation and interference shielding.
- Key Awards: EPS Postdoctoral Fellowship, Junior Research Fellowship at Kellogg College, Career Development Fellowship
- Labs: Dynamic Cognition Lab (lead), Brain and Cognition Lab (former affiliation)
- Advocacy: Chair of ECR Committee, member of WIN Ethnic Diversity Working Group
Her publications emphasize neural dynamics of memory maintenance, attentional shifting, and prediction-driven behavior. Work bridges theory and application, with implications for understanding robust human behavior in complex environments.
