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Jacinda Taggett
Jacinda Taggett (They/Them/She/Hers) has been a STEM Content Contributor at Research Girl, Inc. since June of 2024, and Video Content Creator since March of 2025.
About
Pronouns: They/Them/Theirs/She/Her/Hers
Languages: English
Biographical Sketch:
Jacinda Taggett is a Science Content Creator for TikTok at Research Girl, Inc.. They graduated from University of California, Davis with a B.Sc. in Psychology (quantitative emphasis) and a minor in Neuroscience in 2023, after spending their undergrad years researching long-term and visual working memory. They currently work at the University of California, Berkeley studying memory in a clinical sense in a lab dedicated to Alzheimer’s Disease research. In fall 2025, Jacinda will begin a cognitive neuroscience PhD program at University of California, Los Angeles, where they will research how emotions and neuromodulators influence long-term memory in humans.
One of Jacinda’s goals outside of pursuing cognitive neuroscience of memory is making academia more accessible to people with minimal resources or representation. With nearly 2 years of experience making educational scientific content, she aims to provide students advice and support while they begin their academic journeys.
Personal hobbies include film watching, going on Letterboxd, and writing popular science articles.
Awards, Honors, and Societies:
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Member, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2024 – Current
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Award Recipient, Departmental Citation in Psychology, University of California, Davis, 2023
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Member, Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, 2022 – Current
Selected Works:
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Publications
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Taggett J., Ranganath C., Antony J.W., & Liu X.L. Guess quality moderates how semantic relatedness influences the pretesting effect. Submitted to Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition in November 2024. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wfnj2
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Poster Presentations
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Taggett J., Su, N., Bertolero, J., Warren, J., Jagust, W.J., Kayser, A., & Hsu, M. (2025, March). Dopamine tone influences strategic learning in humans: a pharmacological PET study. Presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
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Taggett J., Ranganath C., Antony J.W., & Liu X.L. (2023, April). Semantic relatedness in word pairs influences learning enhanced by error generation. Presented at International Conference of Learning & Memory, Huntington Beach, CA.