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  1. Curiosity and children’s memory for a dinosaur exhibit

    Article • Cognitive Development, January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  2. Impact of individual differences in cognitive reserve, stress, and busyness on episodic memory: an fMRI analysis of the Alabama Brain Study On Risk for Dementia

    Article • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  3. Face masks degrade our ability to remember face-name associations more than predicted by judgments of learning

    Article • Memory, January 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  4. Busyness, mental engagement, and stress: Relationships to neurocognitive aging and behavior

    Article • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, August 2022, Frontiers

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  5. Verbal Memory Interference in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Meta-Analytic Review

    Article • Journal of Attention Disorders, April 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  6. A Frontal Account of False Alarms

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, August 2021, The MIT Press

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  7. Failing to forget? Evidence for both impaired and preserved working memory control in older adults

    Article • Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition, November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  8. Directed forgetting instructions decrease proactive interference within working memory below that of a baseline encode-only condition

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Psychology, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  9. Risk for Alzheimer’s disease: A review of long-term episodic memory encoding and retrieval fMRI studies

    Article • Ageing Research Reviews, September 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  10. What makes us busy? Predictors of perceived busyness across the adult lifespan

    Article • The Journal of General Psychology, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Ian M McDonough, Dr. Sara B. Festini

  11. Theoretical Perspectives on Age Differences in Brain Activation: HAROLD, PASA, CRUNCH—How Do They STAC Up?

    Article • November 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  12. Association of Longitudinal Cognitive Decline With Amyloid Burden in Middle-aged and Older Adults

    Article • JAMA Neurology, July 2017, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  13. Rehearsal of to-be-remembered items is unnecessary to perform directed forgetting within working memory: Support for an active control mechanism.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, January 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  14. The Middle-Aged Brain

    Article • December 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  15. Theories of Memory and Aging: A Look at the Past and a Glimpse of the Future

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, June 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  16. The Busier the Better: Greater Busyness Is Associated with Better Cognition

    Article • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, May 2016, Frontiers

    Dr Ian M McDonough, Dr. Sara B. Festini

  17. Backward compatibility effects in younger and older adults

    Article • Attention Perception & Psychophysics, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  18. Emotion and reward are dissociable from error during motor learning

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  19. Executive Functions and Neurocognitive Aging

    Article • January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  20. Altered cerebellar connectivity in Parkinson's patients ON and OFF L-DOPA medication

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, April 2015, Frontiers

    Dr Jessica A Bernard, Dr. Sara B. Festini

  21. Dysexecutive Amnesia

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  22. On the Role of Rehearsal in Directed Forgetting Within Working Memory

    Article • January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  23. Cognitive control of familiarity: Directed forgetting reduces proactive interference in working memory

    Article • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  24. The short- and long-term consequences of directed forgetting in a working memory task

    Article • Memory, October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  25. Assigned value improves memory of proper names

    Article • Memory, August 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  26. Electrodermal responses to sources of dual-task interference

    Article • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Sara B. Festini

  27. Cognitive Health

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr. Sara B. Festini