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Ayanna Kim Thomas

1974–

United States

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Ayanna Kim Thomas is an American scientist, author, and cognitive researcher and the Dean of the Graduate School of Tufts School of Arts and Sciences. She also served as Dean Research for the School from 2021 to 2025. Her research focuses on the intersection of memory and aging, particularly as those fields relate to brain and cognitive science. She is a founding member of SPARK Society, editor-in-chief of the journal Memory & Cognition, and a fellow of the Psychonomic Society and the American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program.

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