Education

2010 University of Florida, B.S. in Psychology 
2014 University of Florida, M.S. in Psychology 
2017 University of Florida, Ph.D. in Psychology

Courses Taught

Fundamentals of Biopsychology and Learning
Statistics and Experimental Methods I
Sensation and PerceptionBehavioral Neuroscience

Professional and Community Activities

Forest Rosenfeld is a psychophysiologist utilizing EEG in theCognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory (CPL) to record brain waves of participants to study how they relate to emotion andcognition. Specifically, her two main research directions askabout the brain mechanisms of (1) how individuals learn inuncertain situations and (2) mindfulness meditation. The goal of her research is to understand the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of adaptive and maladaptive emotional learning and how one might be able to modify these mechanisms through techniques such as mindfulness meditation.
She is currently focused on (1) how slow-paced breathing affects cognitive processing, (2) how learning to both threatening and rewarding stimuli can modify brain and behavioral patterns when circumstances become uncertain, (3)how face expertise might be modified by emotional content and(4) how fear of cancer recurrence in breast cancer survivors might be a maladaptive learning pattern.