Karen Sasmita
Cognitive Neuroscientist | Cornell Psychology
Hi! I’m a 5th year Ph.D. candidate working with Prof. Khena Swallow in the Attention, Memory, & Perception lab.
My research examines whether structures embedded within everyday experience (e.g., event boundaries) influence how we dynamically source information and allocate attention over time, and consequently why we remember certain parts of experience better than others.
Prior to grad school, I was a research assistant in the Sleep and Cognition lab at NUS, working closely with Dr. Stijn Massar on projects investigating the monetary influence on cognitive effort allocation.
I earned my B.S. from Melbourne University where I worked with Drs. Stefan Bode, Carsten Murawski and Daniel Bennett on how monetary feedback modulates belief updating correlates.