Alexandra Decker, PhD

Alexandra (Lexi) Decker is an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis (Danforth Campus). Her expertise spans attention, learning, and memory, cognitive development and clinical and neurodevelopmental disorders.

She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation focused on the attentional processes that influence learning and memory formation across development. She completed her Postdoctoral Fellowship at MIT, focusing on environmental influences on the brain and cognitive systems that support learning and decision making.