Sage Boettcher

My work focuses on understanding how our past experiences and memories guide attention and behavior in a dynamic world. I am specifically interested in how we may proactively use memories from different time scales (short & long-term) and from different dimensions (spatial, temporal, & identity) to guide ongoing behavior. To understand these processes I use a combination of psychophysical methods with non-invasive brain imaging techniques. This research is important as it will complement existing theories of perception, attention, and memory. This work will contribute to the understanding of how humans we behave in a robust and complex world.

I am currently a Career Development Fellow in the Department of experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. I am also a Stipendiary Lecturer at St Anne's College, University of Oxford

Formerly, I was a post-doc in Kia Nobre's Brain and Cognition Lab at the University of Oxford, with whom I held the EPS Postdoctoral fellowship. I was also a Junior Research Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford. I completed my PhD in 2020 in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford where I was supervised by Kia Nobre, Mark Stokes, and Freek van Ede. Before coming to Oxford, I received my Masters in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience from Goethe University of Frankfurt where I worked in Melissa Võ's Scene Grammar Lab. I completed my BSc at the University of Delaware where I worked in James Hoffman's Visual Cognition Lab. Following my BSc, I worked for two years as a research assistant in Jeremy Wolfe's Visual Attention Lab. 

I am formerly the chair of the ECR Committee, and a member of the WIN Ethnic Diversity Working Group. I am also involved in several public engagements efforts within and outside of the department.