Sarah Henderson, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher in the Memory and Aging Lab at the University of Texas at Austin

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Age-related episodic memory decline can substantially impact everyday functioning and quality of life. My research seeks to understand how age-related differences in attention and executive control influence the encoding and retrieval of real-world experiences, and how these mechanisms can be leveraged to support memory in later life. Using behavioural and neuroimaging methods (EEG and fMRI), I investigate the cognitive and neural processes that contribute to age-related memory differences, examine the health and social factors that shape these processes, and develop strategies and memory aids to promote successful cognitive aging in real-world contexts.

Publications

Henderson, S. E., Campbell, K. L. (in press). Event tagging: A novel technique to remediate age differences in event memory. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7znhxv1

Demetriou, I., Attaheri, A., Bingham, T., Duckett, W., Bridge, L., Raykov, P., Tsvetanov, K. A., Correia, M., Apšvalka, D., Crespo-Garcia, M., Campbell, K., Morcom, A., Mitchell, D. J., Rowe, J., Wolpe, N., Henderson, S. E., Cam-CAN, Henson, R. (under review). The Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) longitudinal study protocol: Phase 4 ('Enrichment') and Phase 5 ('Rescan'). https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.06.25327023

Oetringer, D., Henderson, S. E., Gözükara, D., Güçlü, U., Geerligs, L. (2025). Temporal propagation of neural state boundaries in naturalistic context. Cerebral Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf284Henderson, S. E., Oetringer, D., Geerligs, L., Campbell, K. L. (2025). Neural state changes during movie watching relate to episodic memory in younger and older adults. Cerebral Cortex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf114Henderson, S. E., Ryan, A. D., Atack, L. W., Campbell, K. L. (2024). Model-based mind wandering in older adults: Age differences in the behavioural and electrophysiological correlates of subjective and objective measures of mind wandering. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a02195Fenerci, C., Davis, E. E., Henderson, S. E., Campbell, K. L., Sheldon, S. (2024). Shift happens: aging alters the content and organization of memory for complex memories. Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2024.2360216Henderson, S. E., Campbell, K. L. (2023). Reduced distinctiveness of event boundaries in older adults with poor memory performance. Psychology and Aging. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000765Henderson, S. E., Hall, S. A., Callegari, J. M., Desjardins, J. A., Segalowitz, S. J., Campbell, K. L. (2021). Increased alpha suppression with age during involuntary memory retrieval. Psychophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13947Henderson, S. E., Lockhart, H. A., Davis, E. E., Emrich, S. M., & Campbell, K. L. (2020). Reduced attentional control in older adults leads to deficits in flexible prioritization of visual working memory. Brain Sciences, 10, 542. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10080542