Dr. Persaud was formerly a postdoctoral researcher at our lab, and currently a professor in the psychology department of Rutgers university. Her research interests center on understanding visual working and long-term memory. Specifically, she employs naturalistic and arbitrary stimuli to evaluate the contribution of knowledge and expectations for the statistical regularities of the environment to episodic memory. Dr. Persaud also uses Bayesian and computational methods to investigate whether differences in expectations, as a function of development, culture, and expertise, differentially influence the reconstruction of events from memory.