She obtained her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Chicago. Dr. Fenn’s research program focuses broadly on the acquisition and consolidation of long-term memory and procedural skills. Her primary area of expertise lies in sleep-dependent memory consolidation, or offline processing of memory. Specifically, her work investigates how a period of sleep affects a memory representation. Within this framework, Dr. Fenn investigates how sleep affects declarative memory, procedural learning, and false memory. More recently, she has pursued a line of research investigating the extent to which lack of sleep, or sleep deprivation, affects learning and memory.