Professor of Gerontology, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, United States
Mara Mather is Professor of Gerontology, Psychology and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Together with her lab members and research collaborators, she has conducted innovative work on the critical role of the noradrenergic system in cognition and aging, how emotion and emotional arousal affect cognition, and how inducing heart rate oscillatory activity benefits emotional brain networks and the aging brain. Based on her highly cited work, she was identified as one of the top 1% of scientists worldwide (Baas, Boyack, Ioannidis, 2021). Her current research mission is to use physiological interventions to slow brain aging. She has received the Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology from the American Psychological Association, a National Institutes of Health K02 Career Development award, an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship and a Max Planck Sabbatical Award. She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Princeton University and completed her undergraduate degree and postdoctoral training at Stanford University.
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Autonomic Activity and the Aging Brain
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM ET
5 - The Emotion Paradox in the Aging Body and Brain
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM ET