Complex sentence: Upon graduating from Rice University in 1996, she completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine where she applied functional neuroimaging techniques to the study of human cognitive processes.
Split into simpler sentences: Upon graduating from Rice University in 1996, she completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. During McDermott's fellowship, she applied functional neuroimaging techniques to the study of human cognitive processes.