The brain weaves experiences into spatial and temporal frameworks, but memory for these contexts is often unstable. Highly emotional events are known to disrupt this process, fragmenting how experiences are bound together. My pre-doctoral and PhD research focuses on how emotional learning and dynamic shifts in emotional states shape the contextual tethering of memory. I aim to extend this work toward models of PTSD and depression, collaborating with clinicians to inform new therapeutic approaches.

Beyond memory and emotion, I collaborate on projects exploring dreaming, creativity, beliefs/conspiracies, and labor/critical approaches to scientific structures. Across these efforts, I use tools from natural language processing, MRI, extended reality (XR), and media poetics to bridge disciplines.

If you’re interested in connecting or collaborating, feel free to reach out: [email protected] or @invert.edqualia (Twitter/Instagram).

2025

**Negative emotional events retroactively disrupt semantic scaffolding of temporal memory Emotion**

**Investigating low intensity focused ultrasound pulsation in anhedonic depression - a randomized controlled trial. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience**

2024

The content and structure of dreams are coupled to affect (Under Review) Preprint available on ArXiv

**Retrieving neutral semantic memories induces forgetting of related negative memories Cognition**

**Targeted dream incubation at a distance: remote and sensor-free incubation of hypnagogic dreams and mind-wandering Frontiers in Sleep, Behavior, and Mental Health**

**Emotional arousal ripples across time to bind subsequent episodes in memory Cognition and Emotion**