Overview
Christina Yu is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in the Psychology & Neuroscience Department working with Dr. Roberto Cabeza, Dr. Simon Davis, and Dr. Gregory Samanez-Larkin. Broadly, she is interested in the cognitive neuroscience behind memory, aging, and decision making, and how older adults use neural compensatory techniques to overcome memory decline that accompanies normal aging. She is also interested in memory representations of semantic categories, and the accompanying brain representations behind successful memory. Prior to coming to Duke, she earned her B.A. in Psychology from New York University and a M.A. in Social Sciences with a concentration in Psychology from the University of Chicago.