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1 Sara E. Alger, Ph.D. University of Notre Dame Department of Psychology 208 Haggar Hall Notre Dame, IN (574) EDUCATION Postdoctoral Research Associate The University of Notre Dame Department of Psychology Sleep, Stress, and Memory Lab Advisor: Dr. Jessica Payne 09/12 - present Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscience 08/05-09/11 The Graduate Center, The City University of New York Department of Psychology: Cognitive Neuroscience Subprogram Dissertation: The Temporal Relationship Between Daytime Napping and Memory Consolidation Advisor: Dr. William Fishbein M.A., General Psychology 08/03-08/05 The City College of New York, The City University of New York B.F.A., Dance Performance; Minor, Psychology 08/96-05/00 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX RESEARCH INTERESTS Cognitive Psychology/Neuropsychology/Neuroscience of sleep and memory Episodic, prospective, and relational memory throughout the lifespan Transformation of memory, how salience of information impacts memory Sleep physiology: PSG, EEG, sleep spindles, spectral frequency, changes with age Information processing during dreaming RESEARCH GRANTS AND TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS National Institutes of Health (National Institute on Aging) 01/15 12/17 National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32AG047807) Primary Investigator: Sara Alger (Sponsor: Jessica Payne, Co-Sponsors: Michael Perlis, Cindy Bergeman, Elizabeth Kensinger) The Impact of Emotional Salience and Aging on Selective Sleep-Based Memory Consolidation Total Funding: $184,518 Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA) 04/15 ISLA Small Research and Creative Work Grant, Notre Dame Co-Investigator Alger Page 1

2 The Effects of Emotional Salience and Aging on Selective Sleep-Based Memory Consolidation Total Funding: $2,500 Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA) 04/16 ISLA Large Social Sciences Research Grant, Notre Dame Co-Investigator The Influence of Age on the Competition of Salient Information During Sleep- Based Memory Consolidation Total Funding: $4,000 PUBLICATIONS Journal Articles Under Review Cunningham, T.J., Mattingly, S.M., Wirth, M.M., Alger, S.E., & Payne, J.D. (2017). Cortisol Reactivity is Necessary for the Selective Consolidation of Emotional Aspects of Memory. Submitted to Nature Human Behavior Published Alger, S.E., & Payne, J.D. (2016). The differential effects of emotional salience on direct associative and relational memory during a nap. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. doi: /s Pardilla-Delgado, E., Alger, S.E., Cunningham, T.J., Kinealy, B., & Payne, J.D. (2016). Effects of post-encoding stress on performance in the DRM false memory paradigm. Learning & Memory, 23(1), Payne, J.D., Kensinger, E.A., Wamsley, E.J., Spreng, R.N., Alger, S.E., Gibler, K., Schacter, D.L., & Stickgold, R. (2015). Napping and the selective consolidation of negative aspects of scenes. Emotion, 15(2), Cunningham, T. J., Crowell, C. R., Alger, S. E., Kensinger, E. A., Villano, M. A., Mattingly, S. M., & Payne, J. D. (2014). Psychophysiological arousal at encoding leads to reduced reactivity but enhanced emotional memory following sleep. Neurobiology of learning and memory, 114, Alger, S.E., Lau, H., & Fishbein, W. (2012). Slow wave sleep during a daytime nap is necessary for protection from subsequent interference and long-term retention. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 98, *Reissued as a Virtual Special Issue on Neural Plasticity from Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Alger Page 2

3 Lau, H., Alger, S.E., & Fishbein, W. (2011). Relational memory: A daytime nap facilitates the abstraction of general concepts. PLoS ONE 6(11): e doi: /journal.pone Alger, S.E., Lau, H., & Fishbein, W. (2010). Delayed onset of a daytime nap facilitates retention of declarative memory. PLoS ONE 5(8): e doi: /journal.pone Fishbein, W., Lau, H., DeJesús, R., & Alger, S.E. (2010). Sleep, neural reuse, and memory consolidation processes. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, doi: /s x In Preparation Alger, S.E., & Payne, J.D. Selective consolidation of emotionally salient information during a nap is preserved with age. Payne, J.D., Cunningham, T., Mattingly, S., Wirth, M.M., & Alger, S.E. Stress exposure magnifies tradeoffs in emotional memory: Implications for memory consolidation. Mattingly, S., Alger, S.E., Chambers, A., Wirth, M., Cunningham, T. & Payne, J.D. Cortisol and preferential memory for objects in long-term memory. Book Chapters Alger, S.E., Pardilla-Delgado, E., Mattingly, S.M., Cunningham, T.J., & Payne, J.D. The Cognitive psychology of sleep and memory. Learning & Memory: A Comprehensive Reference (2 nd Ed., Vol. 4). (accepted for publication) Alger, S.E., & Payne, J.D. Sleep and Memory. The Stevens Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (4 th Ed., Vol. 1). (accepted for publication) Pardilla-Delgado, E., Mattingly, S.M., Alger, S.E., Chambers, A., Cunningham, T.C. (2015). Sleep s role in the consolidation and integration of declarative memories. In M. Sakakibara & E. Ito (Eds.), Memory Consolidation ( ). New York: Nova Science Publishers. Alger, S. E., Chambers, A. M., Cunningham, T., & Payne, J. D. (2014). The role of sleep in human declarative memory consolidation. In P. Meerlo, R. M. Benca, & T. Abel (Eds.), Sleep, Neuronal Plasticity and Brain Function ( ). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Alger Page 3

4 Cunningham, T., Pardilla-Delgado, E., Alger, S., and Payne, J. (2014). The Role of REM Sleep in Emotional Memory and Affective Reactivity in Humans. In C. Saylor (Ed.), REM Sleep: Characteristics, Disorders and Physiological Effects (1-28). Nova Science Publishers: New York. Alger, S.E., Lau, H., & Fishbein, W. (2009). Sleep Deprivation and Declarative Memory: A Brief Review. Sleep Deprivation: Causes, Effects and Treatment. ( ). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers. PROFESSIONAL/CONFERENCE TALKS Alger, S.E., & Payne, J.D. (Nov., 2016). Preferential consolidation of emotional components of memory during a nap is preserved with age. Selected as an Oral Presentation in the 2016 annual Psychonomic Society meeting. Alger, S.E., & Payne, J.D. (June, 2016). Selective consolidation of emotionally salient information during a nap is preserved with age. Selected as an Oral Presentation in the 2016 APSS annual Sleep meeting. Alger, S.E., & Payne. J.D. (Oct., 2015). The differential effects of emotional salience on direct associative and relational memory during a nap. Selected as an Oral Presentation in the 2015 Society for Neuroscience Meeting. Alger, S.E. (2014). The impact of emotional salience and aging on selective sleep-based memory consolidation. Presented at the Sleep, Stress, and Memory Laboratory s weekly meeting. Alger, S.E. (2014). Take a nap!: A nap rich in slow wave sleep selectively preserves emotional scene components. Presented at the Cognition, Brain, and Behavior Study Group Colloquium, University of Notre Dame. Alger, S.E., Lau, H., & Fishbein, W. (June, 2010). Memory consolidation: The temporal relationship between learning and sleep. Accepted as an oral presentation in the 2010 APSS annual Sleep meeting. DeJesús, R., Lau, H., Alger, S., & Fishbein, W. (June, 2010). Post-learning sleep selectively enhances retention of emotional memories: Both full and half-night (REM) sleep deprivation inhibits the enhancement. Accepted as an oral presentation in the 2010 APSS annual Sleep meeting. Lau, H., Alger, S.E., & Fishbein, W. (June, 2010). Effects of a daytime nap on temporal and spatial relations. Accepted as an oral presentation in the 2010 APSS annual Sleep meeting. Alger, S.E., Lau, H., & Fishbein, W. (April, 2010). Memory consolidation: The temporal relationship between learning and sleep. Accepted as an oral presentation at the Alger Page 4

5 first annual CUNY Psychology s Building Bridges: All-Psychology Research Day. Alger, S., Lau, H., & Fishbein, W. (Oct., 2009). Memory consolidation: Time dependent effects of a brief nap. Selected as an Oral Presentation in the 2009 Society for Neuroscience Meeting. Lau, H., Alger, S., & Fishbein, W. (Oct., 2009). Daytime napping: Effect on temporal and spatial relations. Selected as an Oral Presentation in the 2009 Society for Neuroscience Meeting. Wamsley, E.J., Alger, S., Nelson, J., Tucker, M., Hirota, Y. & Antrobus, J.S. (June, 2006). Circadian and homeostatic influences on dreaming: NREM mentation during a short daytime nap. Sleep, 29(supplement), A49. Abstract for oral presentation at the 2006 APSS meeting. [Recipient of Sleep Research Society Trainee Abstract Award] CONFERENCE POSTERS Alger, S.E., & Payne, J.D. (Nov., 2016). Selective Consolidation of emotionally salient information during a nap is preserved across age. Selected as a Poster Presentation in the 2016 annual Psychonomic Society meeting. Alger, S.E., & Payne, J.D. (June, 2016). Selective consolidation of emotionally salient information during a nap is preserved with age. Selected as a Poster Presentation in the 2016 APSS annual Sleep meeting. Alger, S.E., & Payne, J.D. (May, 2016). Preservation of the preferential consolidation of emotionally salient information during a nap with age. Accepted as a Poster Presentation in the 2016 Association for Psychological Science annual conference. Alger, S.E., & Payne, J.D. (June, 2015). The differential effects of emotional salience on direct associative and relational memory during a nap. Accepted as a Poster Presentation in the 2015 APSS annual Sleep meeting. Alger, S.E., & Payne, J.D. (Jan., 2015). The differential effects of emotional salience on direct associative and relational memory during a nap. Presented at the annual Graduate Student Union and Office of Postdoctoral Scholars research symposium, University of Notre Dame. Alger, S.E., Chambers, A., & Payne, J.D. (June, 2014). A nap rich in slow wave sleep selectively preserves emotional scene components. Accepted as a Poster Presentation in the 2014 APSS annual Sleep meeting. Alger Page 5

6 Alger, S.E., Chambers, A., & Payne, J.D. (April, 2014). A nap rich in slow wave sleep selectively preserves emotional scene components. Accepted as a Poster Presentation in the 2014 Cognitive Neuroscience Society s annual meeting. Cunningham, T., Crowell, C., Villano, M., Alger, S., Mattingly, S., Kensinger, E., & Payne, J.D. (2013). Sleep s depotentiating effect on heart rate deceleration and skin conductance response. Accepted as a Poster Presentation in the 2013 Society for Psychophysiological Research annual meeting. Cunningham, T., Crowell, C., Villano, M., Alger, S., Mattingly, S., Kensinger, E., & Payne, J.D. (2013). Increased visceral reactivity at encoding predicts memory for negative items but only after a night of sleep. Accepted as a Poster Presentation in the 2013 Society for Psychophysiological Research annual meeting. Lau H., Alger S., & Fishbein W. (Nov., 2008). A daytime nap facilitates extraction of general concepts. Accepted as an abstract in the 2008 Society for Neuroscience Meeting. Selected for SfN lay-language press conference. INVITED TALKS Examining the Role of Napping and Sleep Physiology on Memory Performance 02/17 Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Department of Behavioral Biology Examining Sleep s Role in Memory Consolidation and Transformation. 11/16 Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory. Department of Psychology, Boston College. Sleep on It! It s More Than Just a Saying. Wellness Wednesdays 01/14 McDonald Center for Student Well-Being, University of Notre Dame TEACHING EXPERIENCE Co-Instructor, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 08/16 12/16 Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: The Sleeping Brain (PSY-43526) Undergraduate and graduate seminar course Facilitated discussions on assigned empirical articles, evaluated thought papers, graded final research papers, administered grades Emphasis on critical thinking, interactive discussions, evaluation of empirical research Instructor, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 08/14 12/14 Cognitive Psychology (PSY-30400/PSY-60400) Undergraduate and graduate lecture-based course Devised syllabus, lectured, created PowerPoint presentations, designed exams, administered grades Alger Page 6

7 Emphasis on critical thinking and interactive demonstrations using video clips and CogLab online experimental platform, discussions, and assignments relating to cognitive psychology Guest Lecturer, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN Neuroscience and Behavior Lab, Dr. Nancy Michael 12/03/15 Lecture: - EEG Lab created and presented lecture on cognitive neuroscience and application of EEG Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience, Dr. Jessica Payne Lectures: - Attention and Consciousness 11/10/15 - The Cognitive Neuroscience of Language 03/26/15 - Attention and Consciousness 02/24/15 - Attention and Consciousness 04/08/14 Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: The Sleeping Brain, Dr. Jessica Payne Lectures: - Sleep and Procedural Memory 11/10/15 - Sleep and Plasticity 09/29/15 - Sleep and Dreaming I 04/21/15 - Sleep and Meditation 04/16/15 - Sleep and Psychopathology 02/24/15 - ADHD and Apnea 02/11/15 - Emotion 04/08/14 - Information Processing 03/06/14 - Plasticity 02/18/14 - ADHD and Apnea 02/13/14 - Sleep and Procedural Memory 11/05/12 - Sleep and Declarative Memory 10/31/12 - Benefits of Napping 10/08/12 RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Postdoctoral Research Associate 09/12 - present Sleep, Stress, and Memory Lab, The University of Notre Dame, Dept. of Psychology Supervisor: Jessica Payne, Ph.D. Design experiments; recruit and prepare subjects for sleep recording; collect data using PSG/EEG recordings; score sleep data; mentor undergraduate and graduate students in the lab; develop training program for sleep staging and train graduate and undergraduate students; design computer-based memory tasks; cortisol collection and assay; analyze data using SPSS; prepare, submit, and publish own research as well as collaborations in scientific peer-reviewed journals; present research at conferences Alger Page 7

8 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Mentor Sleep, Stress, and Memory Lab, The University of Notre Dame Mentored students one-on-one on theoretical research question development, literature review, study design, data collection, conference-style presentation of findings, and manuscript preparation Rosemary Pfaff 01/17 05/18 Michael Broderick 08/16 05/17 Relational Memory Formation during a Nap Versus Quiet Wakefulness Shirley Chen 05/15 05/16 Directed Forgetting: Emotional Salience in Selective Sleep-Based Memory Consolidation Michael Dai 04/13 05/14 The Effects of Emotion and Midday Napping on Direct Associative and Relational Memory Processing Doctoral Student/Researcher 09/05 09/11 Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience and Sleep, City College of New York, NY Supervisor: William Fishbein, Ph.D. Designed experiments; recruited and prepared subjects for sleep recording; collected data using PSG/EEG recordings; scored sleep stages; administered MAB-II; designed and programmed computer-based declarative memory tasks; analyzed data using SPSS; prepared, submitted, and published own research in scientific journals; participated as a reviewer for various scientific journals under the supervision of Dr. Fishbein. Master Student/Research Assistant 09/03 09/05 Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience and Sleep, City College of New York, NY Supervisors: John Antrobus, Ph.D., William Fishbein, Ph.D. Learned to apply and remove electrodes; recruited and prepared subjects for sleep recordings; collected data using PSG/EEG recordings; scored sleep stages; transcribed dream reports TECHNICAL SKILLS Polysomnography (PSG; EEG, EOG, EMG) Sleep stage scoring Qualtrics survey system SPSS E-Prime EEGLAB for MatLab Microsoft Office Adobe Photoshop Sakai course management system MENTORING EXPERIENCE Undergraduate Student Advisor - Michael Broderick, Shirley Chen, Jessica Gibson, 08/14 05/17 Cecily Swanson, Rosemary Pfaff, Brianna Casey, McKenzie Huguet, Khanh Mai, Kimberly Trochuck, Jimmy Moley, Alyssa McBride, Charles Warner, Jacob Ricci Alger Page 8

9 Honors/Thesis Advisor - Rosemary Pfaff Honors Thesis Student 01/17 05/18 - Michael Broderick Glynn Family Honors Program 08/16 05/17 - Shirley Chen - Honors Thesis Student 05/15 05/16 - Michael Dai - Glynn Family Honors Program 04/13 05/14 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Ad Hoc Reviewer Emotion Learning and Memory Neurobiology of Aging Neurobiology of Learning and Memory NeuroLeadership Journal Neuropsychologia Perspectives on Psychological Science Psychonomic Bulletin and Review Grant Reviewer (Ad Hoc) 2013 Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, The dynamic nature of emotional memory: toward a network understanding of emotional memory consolidation Notre Dame Postdoctoral Focus Group 2015 Served as the postdoctoral representative from Social Sciences on a panel of postdocs intended to make the university aware of the needs and professional/scientific developmental interests of university postdocs. HONORS/AWARDS National Research Service Award (NIH) 01/15 12/17 Proposal: The Impact of Emotional Salience and Aging on Selective Sleep- Based Memory Consolidation Joseph C. Barmack Award 05/12 Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Rosenberg Zalk Student Travel and Research Fund 04/10 CUNY University Fellowship 08/06-06/10 CUNY Doctoral Student Research Grant 08/08 06/09 Competitive community-wide grant Proposal: Memory Consolidation: Time Dependent Effects of a Brief Nap CUNY Doctoral Student Research Grant 08/06 06/07 Competitive community-wide grant Proposal: The Relationship Between Sleep Spindles and Cognitive Ability MEMBERSHIP Sleep Research Society Cognitive Neuroscience Society Society for Neuroscience Psychonomic Society Association for Psychological Science Alger Page 9

10 MEDIA COVERAGE 10 Healthy Hacks for Busy Bodies 06/15 SUCCESS Magazine Take a nap: You just might learn something 10/14 Brainscape The Perfect Nap: Sleeping Is a Mix of Art and Science 09/13 Wall Street Journal Alger Page 10