Elisa Buchberger
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Lifespan Psychology
Since 2019, Elisa Buchberger has been a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for Lifespan Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin under the supervision of Markus Werkle-Bergner and Ulman Lindenberger. Her research mainly focuses on developmental changes in episodic memory from early to middle childhood. More specifically, in her dissertation project she aims to investigate how the component structure of an adaptive memory assembles from age four to eight. To this end, she is particularly interested in understanding the relative emergence of generalisation and memory specificity abilities and in determining whether these memory functions are inter-dependent across childhood. By employing neuroimaging methods, she further plans to shed light on the link between behavioural indicators of generalisation and memory specificity and maturational changes in the underlying neural correlates over time.