Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Dallas
Dallas, Texas, United States
Dr. Seaman is an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Dallas. Her research is dedicated to using basic and translational scientific research studies to promote health and wellbeing across adulthood. Her lab uses a variety of behavioral, modeling and neuroimaging techniques to better understand how the mind and the brain change as people get older. In particular, her research focuses on learning and decision making across adulthood. Her work has been published in a wide variety of journals, including Psychology and Aging, Human Brain Mapping, and The Gerontologist, and it has been featured in talks at several international scientific conferences, including The Society for Neuroeconomics, The Society for Neuroscience, The Cognitive Aging Conference, and The Gerontological Society of America.
Dr. Seaman completed her BA in psychology and biology at the University of Kansas before joining Teach For America. After teaching secondary science in Oakland, CA and Washington, DC, she completed a Master’s and PhD at The Catholic University of America. She completed a postdoc in the Motivated Cognition and Aging Brain Lab with Gregory Samanez-Larkin (at Yale and Duke Universities) before joining the faculty at UT Dallas in the Fall of 2019. In addition to her position at UT Dallas, she currently serves as Co-Director of the Scientific Research Network on Decision Neuroscience and Aging.
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Aging and Decision Making: The Roles of Affective and Social Context
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM ET