Elizabeth Kensinger is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Boston College. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Biology from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At Boston College, she directs the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience laboratory, using multiple methods (behavioral, eye-tracking, electrophysiological, functional neuroimaging) to understand the bidirectional links between emotion and memory and how those links change across the adult lifespan. She enjoys cross-disciplinary conversations, and as a result she collaborates with the Innocence Program clinic at the Boston College Law School, conducting seminars on the science of memory, and she is a faculty lead of the Boston College Consortium for Translational Research on Learning and Memory, which aims to lever advances in the basic science of learning and memory toward helping people to learn better. She was an inaugural recipient of the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions from the Association for Psychological Science and a 2011 recipient of a Young Investigator Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. She has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles. She authored the book Emotional Memory Across the Adult Lifespan (2009, Psychology Press) and is co-author, with Dr. Andrew Budson, of the forthcoming book Why We Forget and How to Remember Better: The Science Behind Memory (Oxford University Press).

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Elizabeth A. Kensinger
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Boston College
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Phone: +1 617-552-6949
Email: elizabeth.kensinger.1@bc.edu