Trish Calvert Ring Endowed Professor of Psychology Natalie Ebner is leading the way in brain aging research, trying to understand how our brain develops and changes as we get older. As the head of the Social Cognitive and Affective Development Lab, she has been involved in dozens of research projects with the goal of understanding healthy aging, a pursuit that has led her to work with researchers from many different professional backgrounds across campus, as well as outside of the university and around the world.
Dr. Ebner has contributed significantly to the UF research community, as shown by the number of publications she and her trainees have authored and the media attention her lab has received in just the past few years. In February 2024, for example, she and her team from UF, along with collaborators from the University of Central Florida and the University of Arizona, published their latest report in a long line of studies looking into decision making in the context of online scam vulnerability among elderly people.
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