She studied both Psychology and Economics as an undergraduate at Rutgers University, followed by doctoral work in Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. After postdoctoral training at the University of California, Davis Center for Mind and Brain, she arrived at CU Denver in 2016 and setup the Laboratory for Integrative Vision. Her research is focused on the question of how visual perception and cognitive mechanisms interact to influence behavior and subjective experience. She is particularly interested in how this might vary across mental health disorders, as well as within the typical population. Multiple methodologies including psychophysics, EEG recording, and eye-tracking are used to investigate these questions.