Natalie Biderman, Ph.D.

Natalie (PhD ’24, Columbia University) is a Postdoctoral fellow in the Wagner Lab and a 2024 New Map of Life Fellow at the Stanford Center on Longevity. Natalie is interested in the different ways in which memory affects, and is affected by, decisions. In her Ph.D, Natalie studied how people evaluate options in the lack of direct experience; for example, how they remember and track the value of their unchosen options.
Her postdoc research focuses on how older adults, who often present impairments in associative memory, make decisions and evaluate them. More specifically, Natalie’s research aims to shed light on the neural correlates of regret and counterfactual valuation by combining behavioral experiments, neuroimaging, computational modeling, and biomarker analysis.