Expertise
Memory, Neuroanatomy, Neuroimaging
Biography
Dr. Ingrid Olson received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After a brief hiatus working at Northwestern Medical School in Chicago, Dr. Olson moved to New Haven, Connecticut to pursue a PhD at Yale University. She worked with Tom Carew, Marvin Chun and Truett Allison in the Department of Psychology. Professor Olson’s dissertation was on visual statistical learning. While at Yale, she also began working with Yuhong Jiang to study visual working memory.
For her postdoc, she stayed in New Haven, but moved to the medical school to work with John Gore on biomedical imaging. Dr. Olson is currently the Thaddeus Bolton Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Temple University. Her research is on memory across the lifespan. She is also keenly interested in neuroimaging, white matter disease, dementia, and circuit level understanding of emotion and motivation.
Selected Publications
- For a list of publications, please visit her website.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Capstone on Brainhacking and the Wellness Industry
Graduate
- Core in Cognitive Psychology