She obtained her doctorate from the Psychology department at Concordia University in Montreal for her thesis on the role of executive functions in aging and fine motor control. Dr. Fraser was successful at securing funding from "les Fonds de recherche nature et technologies" for her Postdoctoral position at the Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montré al, l'UQAM, and the Montreal Heart Institute. During this fellowship she explored the cerebral activity of older adults while walking and thinking (dual-tasking) and physical and cognitive interventions that could improve the ability to manage two tasks simultaneously. She has since obtained a CIHR grant (with Bherer, Lesage, & Nigam) to explore longitudinal changes in cerebral activity in older adults when they are dual tasking.