Sarah Reaves is the research operations coordinator for the Center for Educational Informatics. She joined the NC State wolfpack in May 2019.

Sarah has been involved in scientific research in several capacities: as an undergraduate researcher in a metamemory lab and an attention lab, a graduate researcher in a memory and aging lab, as a research assistant in an alcohol research lab, and as a coordinator for a nation-wide study investigating adolescent brain development. Sarah’s scientific interests are broad and ever-growing. She is always excited to start a new project.

Sarah’s goals include helping the center run smoothly, continuing to contribute to scientific research where possible, and becoming the coordinator equivalent of organizational celebrity, Marie Kondo.

Education
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Master of Science, Psychology                             2011-2015
Emphasis: Cognition and Brain Science
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
Bachelor of Science, Psychology                             2007-2011
Emphasis: Cognitive Science
Publications
Journal Articles
Strunk, J., Morgan, L., Reaves, S., Verhaeghen, P., & Duarte, A. (2018). Retrospective attention in short-term memory has a lasting effect on long-term memory across age. Journal of Gerontology. Doi: 10.1093/geronb/gby045

Reaves, S., Strunk, J., Phillips, S., Verhaeghen, P., & Duarte, A. (2016). Retrospective attention modulates both short term and long-term visual memory. Brain Research. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2016.03.048

Reaves, S., Graham, B., Grahn, J., Rabannifard, P., & Duarte, A. (2015). Turn off the music!
Music impairs visual associative memory performance in older adults. The Gerontologist.
doi:10.1093/geront/gnu113
Poster Presentations
Price, J.L., Reaves, S.A., Frazier, I.R., Boissoneault, J., Nixon, S.J. (2016). Alcohol and age effects on the ability to attend to and ignore relevant and irrelevant stimuli in a driving simulator. Poster presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA), New Orleans, LA (June 2016).

Reaves, S., Phillips, S., Duarte, A. (March 2015). Visual Representations Across Memory Systems And Aging. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Reaves, S., Strunk, J., Verhaeghen, P., Duarte, A. (September 2014). Visual representations across memory systems. Poster presented at Society for Psychophysiological Research, Atlanta, GA.

Reaves, S., Strunk, J., Verhaeghen, P., Duarte, A. (April 2014). Evidence for a unified memory system. Poster presented at the Southeast Neuroscience Meeting, Augusta, GA.

Reaves, S., Graham, B., Grahn, J., Rabannifard, P., Duarte, A. (April 2014). Turn off the music! Music impairs visual associative memory performance in older adults. Poster presented at Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Reaves, S., Strunk, J., Verhaeghen, P., Duarte, A. (November 2013). Retrospective attention facilitates both short and long-term memory: support for a single memory system. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.

Reaves, S., Brown, W., Eakin, D., (March 2011). Refining cue-set-size effects on metamemory and memory: Shared associate strength. Poster presented at Southeastern Psychological Association, Jacksonville, FL.

Eakin, D., Smith, R., Anderson, S. (November 2010). Implicit memory and metamemory under retroactive interference: Neither is immune from retroactive interference effects. Poster presented at Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.