Chandramallika Basak received a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology at Syracuse University. Her dissertation research was "Capacity limits of focus of attention and dynamics of focus switching in the N-Count task of working memory." Her research included work on the perception of accelerated motion, age deficits in counting, and time-series modeling on continuous recognition memory. Chandramallika is in the Biological Intelligence Research Theme where her research concentrates on two aspects of cognition, focus-switching and using cognitive training to lessen the effects of aging.