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Serra Favila is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at Brown University, affiliated with the Carney Institute for Brain Science. She holds a BA in Human Biology from Stanford University and a PhD in Psychology from New York University, followed by postdoctoral training at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying episodic memory, employing methods such as functional neuroimaging, intracranial recordings, behavioral measurements, eye-tracking, and computational modeling. She teaches CLPS 1480I: Memory, Space, and the Hippocampus.
Dr. Favila's work investigates how humans form flexible yet durable memories, emphasizing the interaction between environmental cues, cognitive goals, and neural processes. Her lab explores memory’s selectivity and susceptibility to interference, with implications for understanding how memory shapes future behavior. Key topics include hippocampal contributions to spatial and temporal memory, neural remapping, and memory-guided navigation.
Her articles span themes like hippocampal mechanisms for resolving memory competition, visual cortex contributions to recall success, and neural underpinnings of spatial perception. She maintains an active lab website detailing ongoing projects and collaborates across disciplines to advance cognitive neuroscience. Office hours are held Mondays from 4-5pm in Metcalf Research 245.
