She completed her doctorate in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience at Vanderbilt University in 2014, where she was awarded a pre-doctoral fellowship from the Institute of Education Sciences. Before coming to Goucher, Dr. Starkey completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in educational neuroscience at Stanford University, and taught courses in cognitive development, neuroscience, and statistics at Stanford and San José State University. At Goucher, she teaches courses in human neuroscience and conducts electrophysiology research on the neural basis of children’s developing math skills.