Professor Davachi received her B.A. in psychology from Barnard College and then her Ph.D. from Yale University in neurobiology working with Dr. Patricia Goldman-Rakic. She then went on to receive postdoctoral training with Dr. Anthony Wagner at MIT. Dr. Davachi’s research uses high-resolution fMRI to study memory consolidation and relational memory. In particular, she looks at how cortical regions of the medial temporal lobe that input to the hippocampus may support the representation and/or maintenance of domain-specific information while the hippocampus proper supports domain-general relational encoding. In 2009, Dr. Davachi was awarded the Young Investigator Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.