Sarah completed her bachelor’s degree in neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. Her final year research project, supervised by Prof. Redmond O’Connell, used EEG to investigate the effect of motor preparation on the centroparietal positive potential (CPP), a neural signature of decision making, during a random dot motion task by comparing CPP dynamics when smaller versus larger movements are required to indicate the direction of dot motion.
Sarah then obtained her master’s degree in behavioural neuroscience from University College Dublin. Her master’s thesis, supervised by Prof. Klaus Kessler, examined the role of theta band brain oscillations in visuospatial perspective taking (VPT) versus mental object rotation (OR) to investigate whether theta band activity represents the embodiment aspects of VPT, as was previously suggested, or if it may represent some other visual strategy common to both VPT and OR.
Sarah’s research interests include perceptual decision-making, social cognition, attention, and mental health, as well as cognitive decline and impairment as a result of healthy ageing, neurodegenerative disease, or brain injury, and how brain stimulation and neuromodulation techniques can be used to inform new recovery strategies.
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