Sarah Purnell

Sarah is a Ph.D. student in the CPCN graduate program. She earned her B.A. in Psychology and M.A. in Psychology (Mind, Brain, and Behavior) from San Francisco State University, where she worked with Dr. Avi Ben-Zeev and Dr. Mark W. Geisler. At UCSB, she is interested in how stimuli and context affect attention and how these are processed and represented in the brain. Outside of the lab, she enjoys gardening, hiking, traveling, and training her dog, Max.