**Research Areas: Memory, Cognitive Aging, Human Factors, and Development of Expertise ** My research interests focus on 1) the study of aging and 2) the development of expertise. The ultimate goal of my research is to build a bridge between the two different, but closely related, lines of research. One of my research topic is the development of training activities and/or technology-based interventions that can help older adults remain independent in spite of age-related perceptual and cognitive declines. I have also investigated older adults' attitude towards and uptake of new technology and how it is related to other cognitive factors. My research interest is also grounded in the study of expert performance. I am specifically interested in what the essence of deliberate practice is and how to apply the idea of deliberate practice and the expert-performance approach to the study of human performance in various fields. I recently conducted studies that illustrated how the expert-performance approach can be successfully applied to medical education and be combined with brain-imaging techniques. I am planning to expand my research on exceptional performance (e.g., exceptional memory) into the study of neural evidence of deliberate practice and medical education as well as the development of intervention that can offset age-related cognitive decline. I plan to recruit 1-2 graduate students to start in fall 2020. Please feel free to email me if you are considering applying to our psychology doctoral program and have questions.
