Cognitive and Psychological Sciences

Serra Favila received a BA in Human Biology from Stanford University and a PhD in Psychology from NYU. She completed postdoctoral training at Columbia University before joining the Cognitive and Psychological Sciences department at Brown in 2024. Dr. Favila's research focuses on the neural basis of episodic memory. Her research group employs a variety of methods to investigate how humans form flexible but durable memories from their experiences, including functional neuroimaging, intracranial recordings, behavioral measurements, eye-tracking, and computational modeling.