Ph.D. in Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, 2024
Advisors: Steven J. Luck, Erie D. Boorman
B.S. in Neuroscience, University of Nevada, Reno, 2017
Advisor: Marian Berryhill
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, San Francisco
May 2025 – Present
Research Data Specialist I, Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety
October 2024 – May 2025
Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Davis
September 2020 – June 2024
Learning and Memory Plasticity (LAMP) Program NIH Fellow, University of California, Davis
September 2019 – September 2020
Inititiative for Maximizing Student Diversity NIH Fellow, University of California, Davis
August 2018 – September 2019
Lab Manager / Junior Research Specialist, University of Nevada, Reno
January 2018 – July 2018
Student Research Assistant, University of Nevada, Reno
August 2015 – December 2017
Carrasco, C. D., Jones, K. T. & Berryhill, M. (2025). "Older Adults are Impaired by Distractors Presented During Working Memory Encoding." PsyArXiv Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yjxen
Gowda, H. T., Kaul, N., Carrasco, C., et al. (2025). "A database of upper limb surface electromyogram signals from demographically diverse individuals." Scientific Data, 12, 517. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04825-z
Carrasco, C. D., Simmons, A. M., Kiat, J. E., & Luck, S. J. (2025). "Enhanced Working Memory Representations for Rare Events." Psychophysiology, 62:e70038. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70038
Carrasco, C. D., Bahle, B., Simmons, A. M., & Luck, S. J. (2024). "Using multivariate pattern analysis to increase effect sizes for event-related potential analyses." Psychophysiology, 61(7), e14570. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14570
Zhang, G., Carrasco, C. D., Winsler, K., Bahle, B., Cong, F., & Luck, S. J. (2024). "Assessing the effectiveness of spatial PCA on SVM-based decoding of EEG data." NeuroImage, 293, 120625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120625
Shires, J., Carrasco, C., & Berryhill, M. E. (2020). "No tDCS Augmented Working Memory Training Benefit in Undergraduates Rewarded with Course Credit." Brain Stimulation, 13(6), 1524–1526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2020.08.015
Vercillo, T., Carrasco, C., & Jiang, F. (2017). "Age-Related Changes in Sensorimotor Temporal Binding." Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11, Article 500. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00500
Talk at PhD Exit Seminar, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Poster at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA
Talk at Knight Lab Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Talk at Cognitive Brain Sciences Early Career Seminar Series, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, USA
Poster at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA
Talk at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA
Poster at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting (Virtual), Virtual
Talk at UC Davis EEG Consortium Meeting, Davis, CA, USA
Talk at Berryhill Lab Seminar, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, USA
Talk at Ronald E. McNair Scholars Symposium, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Poster at Nevada Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, USA
Poster at Psi Chi Annual Research Symposium, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, USA
Graduate Student Association Travel Award
University of California, Davis, 2023
Graduate Student Association Travel Award
University of California, Davis, 2021
Learning Memory and Plasticity Training Program NIH Fellow
University of California, Davis, 2019–2020
Initiative for Maximizing Student Development NIH Fellow
University of California, Davis, 2018–2019
NSF EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Award
University of Nevada, Reno, 2017
Ronald E. McNair Scholar
University of Nevada, Reno, 2016–2017
Nevada Undergraduate Research Award
University of Nevada, Reno, 2016
Undergraduate Speaker, Advancing Diversity in Neuroscience Research
University of California, Davis, 2024
Undergraduate Mentor, Advancing Diversity in Neuroscience Research
University of California, Davis, 2023
McNair Scholars Connection Mentor
University of California, Davis, 2021
Peer Mentor, Neuroscience Graduate Group
University of California, Davis, 2020
NeuroFest Organizer
University of California, Davis, 2020 (cancelled due to Covid)
Brain Awareness Outreach Lead, Elementary School
University of California, Davis, 2019
Brain Awareness Outreach Volunteer, Elementary School
University of California, Davis, 2018
Brain Awareness Week Outreach Volunteer
University of Nevada, Reno, 2017