Kimberly S. Chiew, Ph.D.

Kimberly S. Chiew, Ph.D.
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2019 Young Investigator Grant

Kimberly S. Chiew, Ph.D.

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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

University of Denver

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Kimberly Chiew, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Denver and director of the Motivation, Affect, & Cognition Lab. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University. Dr. Chiew’s research combines behavioral, psychophysiological, and neural approaches to characterize how emotional and motivational influences modulate cognitive performance, with a particular focus on cognitive control and memory encoding outcomes, and how these relationships can change with development and psychopathology. Dr. Chiew has been recognized as a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science and has received research and fellowship support from the National Institute of Mental Health, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, National Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

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