Dr. Sage Boettcher

Biography

Sage Boettcher is currently a Career Development Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and a Stipendiary Lecturer at St Anne's College. Her research focuses on understanding how past experiences and memories guide attention and behavior in a dynamic world. Specifically, she is interested in how memories are proactively used on both short- and long-term time scales across dimensions such as spatial, temporal, and identity to inform ongoing behavior. By employing a combination of psychophysical methods and non-invasive brain imaging techniques, her work aims to complement existing theories of perception, attention, and memory, ultimately contributing to our understanding of human behavior in complex environments. Boettcher completed her PhD in 2020 at the University of Oxford, where she was supervised by renowned experts in the field. She also holds a Master's in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience from Goethe University of Frankfurt and a BSc from the University of Delaware, where she received training in visual cognition and attention.

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