Sarah Berger

Sarah Berger

Psychology Graduate Student

Western University

Biography

Sarah Berger (she/her) is a graduate student in Cognitive Developmental Brain Sciences at Western University. She is conducting research in Dr. Laura Batterink’s Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning and Language Lab. Her research intrests include the role of sleep in learning and memory consolidation over the course of development. When not in the lab, she enjoys hiking, baking and binging Netflix. Download her CV

Interests

  • Sleep Dependent Memory Consolidation
  • Cognitive Development
  • Language Learning

Education

  • MSc in Psychology, in progress

    Western University

  • BSc in Psychology, Biology Minor, 2019

    Queen's University

Skills

R

Statistics

Python

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Student

Batterink Lab

Sep 2020 – Present Western University, London, ON
  • Conducting Masters Thesis on the role of sleep in implict and explicit language learning over the course of development
 
 
 
 
 

Lab Manager

Duncan Lab & Budding Minds Memory and Development Lab

Jun 2019 – Aug 2020 University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
  • Conducted research and data analysis on developmental differences in the nature of memory representations after retreival
  • Performed administrative duties such as facilitating REB ethics for all study protocols, organizing lab meetings, hiring and supervising research assistants, maintaining organized databases and recruiting participants
  • Created an MTurk study for obtaining normalized data for object stimuli and analysed data using R for an open source software project soon available here
 
 
 
 
 

Honours Thesis Student

Action and Cognition Lab

Sep 2018 – May 2019 Queen's University, Kingston, ON
  • Developed a thesis research project investigating how visual search is influenced by motor costs
  • Tested participants using eye tracking and robotic manipulandum technology

Awards

Ontario Graduate Scholarship

Sep 2020 – Aug 2021

Dean’s Honour List

May 2016 – May 2019

Queen’s University Excellence Scholarship

Sep 2015

Recent Posts

Introduction to data.table in R

One of the most exciting packages in the R universe is data.table. This package allows you to create data.table objects as an alternative to data.frame. The benefit of using data.table is the speed and efficiency when working with large datasets, and a concise syntax that can be really easy to use once you get used to it.
Last updated on Dec 8, 2020 4 min read
Introduction to data.table in R

The Importance of Reproducible Code

After I started conducting data analysis in R, I quickly realized that making your code easily reproducible is one of the most important steps to improving your research workflow. Trust me, I learned some of these lessons the hard way.
Last updated on Dec 8, 2020 3 min read

Poster Presentations

Berger, S., Moskowitz, J. & Flanagan R. (2019, April). The influence of motor costs on visual search when reaching for target objects. Undergraduate Thesis Poster Presentations, Kingston. see PDF

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