Current Lab Team

Ariana Elsden

I earned my Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Creighton University, where I worked in Dr. Amber Witherby’s Cognitive Psychology Lab as both a research assistant and lab manager. In this role, I contributed to projects investigating factors that influence student memory performance. At TCU, I work with Dr. Uma Tauber focusing on how cognitive psychology principles can support the learning of health-related information. Specifically, my research examines whether these principles can improve how caregivers of individuals living with dementia learn about behavioral symptoms associated with Alzheimer’s and related dementias. I am also broadly interested in how older adults learn other types of health information, including medications and their side effects.