Pernilla Andersson defended her thesis
Pernilla Andersson successfully defended her thesis entitled “Age-differential effects on indices of brain structure and function associated with proactive interference control in working memory."
The theme for Pernillas thesis centers around proactive interference in working memory, and its relationship to aging and brain structure and function. Proactive interference refers to when old information makes it harder to learn or remember new things. Her studies provide new knowledge about how PI in aging is related to underlying characteristics of the brain. She was able to show that changes in the size of the HC and how well different brain regions can communicate are important factors associated with how much PI we experience in aging. These studies also provide motivation for studying more complex relationships between structure and function to better understand how these levels interact and how that contributes to age-related cognitive decline.
Here below, a photo of Dr. Pernilla Andersson with the faculty examiner Carl Johan Boraxbekk.
