Olivia Maurice

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Cognitive Neuroscientist 🧠 | Memory, Brain Ageing & Multilingualism 🌱 | STEM Diversity Advocate 🇲🇺 |

Olivia completed her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University, researching how lifelong multilingual experience influences brain ageing and cognitive resilience.

With dementia projected to impact more people than ever before, she believes there’s untapped neuroprotective potential in social-cognitive activities such as multilingual experience.

More broadly, Olivia researches social cognition across the lifespan and in different populations such as brain injury and dementia.

Passionate about culturally inclusive and interdisciplinary science, Olivia aims to translate cutting-edge research into actionable insights and meaningful outcomes for health and wellbeing.

Experience

  • 2025–present
    Project Officer, University of Sydney
  • 2023–2026
    PhD Candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience, Western Sydney University

Education

  • 2026 
    MARCS Institute for Brain Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Doctor of Philosophy
  • 2021 
    Macquarie University, Bachelor of Psychology

Publications

  • 2026
    The costs and benefits of multilingual experience across sensory, cognitive, and affective domains in ageing, Western Sydney University
  • 2026
    Power, class, and gender in dementia care: Stories of carer precariousness from culturally and linguistically diverse female family carers in Australia, Dementia
  • 2026
    Measures used to evaluate psychosocial interventions in dementia care: A narrative review and synthesis, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
  • 2025
    Selective cognitive effects of multilingualism emerge in visuospatial working memory in later life, Scientific Reports
  • 2025
    Caring for people with dementia: Mapping the experience and journey from diagnosis, The Gerontologist

Grants and Contracts

  • 2026
    MARCS Writing Fellowship
    Role:
    Funding Source:
    Western Sydney University
  • 2025
    SARMAC Student Caucus Grant
    Role:
    Funding Source:
    Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Professional Memberships

  • iSTAART Alzheimer's Association
  • Australian Association of Gerontology
  • Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society
  • Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Research Areas

  • Cognitive Sciences (1702)
  • Neurosciences (1109)
  • Developmental Psychology And Ageing (170102)

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