Sara Assecondi

Background

About Sara Assecondi

I am interested in memory and how memory performance as we study it in the lab, transfers to everyday life. In the labs, I use a range of state-of-the-art techniques to assess cognitive decline and its impact on everyday life by incorporating naturalistic scenarios in more traditional lab testing procedures. I use electroencephalography to quantify brain activity during memory tests and to understand how behavioural interventions can manipulate brain networks, and I use virtual reality to recreate real-life situations that are affected by memory decline. At the same time, I am working on interventions that can improve or slow down memory decline, and I do so by combining brain stimulation and brain training exercises. I am an expert in multimodal approaches for understanding cognition in health and disease. I have a special interest in EEG and ERP signal processing and recordings, connectivity in EEG, ERP and fMRI, and the integration of different modalities for human brain mapping (EEG, TMS, fMRI, NIRS).