DeLTA Center Roundtable - Tracy Riggins (University of Maryland)

Tracy Riggins, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland, will be discussing her research with the DeLTA Center.

Dr. Riggins "received her Ph.D. in Child Psychology from the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota in 2005. She completed postdoctoral fellowships in pediatric neuroimaging at the University of California, Davis and the University of Maryland, School of Medicine in Baltimore. The goal of her research program is to provide better understanding of memory development by examining changes in neural substrates supporting this ability. The empirical research conducted in her laboratory involves both typically developing children and children at-risk for cognitive impairments and uses a combination of behavioral, electrophysiological, and neuroimaging methodologies. Findings from her research have revealed that early childhood is a time of rapid change in children’s ability to remember life events. Dr. Riggins was recently awarded a 5-year grant from NIH to examine the neural mechanisms underlying these changes in memory in children aged 4 to 8 years."

From the Department of Psychology, U of Maryland, 2 December 2016, https://psyc.umd.edu/facultyprofile/Riggins/Tracy.