Ninoo De Silva
Concentration:
Cognition
Research Interests:
Social contagion, collaborative inhibition, emotional memory, childhood trauma, stress, working memory capacity, sleep.
Advisor:
Dr. Michelle Meade
Email:
ninoo.desilva@student.montana.edu
Master of Science in Psychological Science May 2024
Montana State University Bozeman, MT
Bachelor of Science in Applied Psychology Dec 2020
Montana State University Bozeman, MT
Meade, M.L., Wei, Y., Giannakopoulos, K.L., De Silva, N.N. (2023). Social Contagion.
In: Bietti, L.M.,
Pogacar, M. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan,
Cham.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93789-8_41-1
Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Conference, Boise, ID Spring 2026
● Giannakopoulos, K.L., De Silva, N.N., Meade, M.L., Palmer, C., Effects of Sleep
Restriction on Social
Contagion of Emotional Memory. Accepted for poster presentation.
Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Denver, CO Fall 2025
● De Silva, N.N., Meade, M.L., Hutchison, K.A., Koerper, B., The Effects of Working
Memory Capacity
on Collaborative Inhibition Across Categorized and Unrelated Lists. Participated in
the poster
presentation session.
Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Conference, Denver, CO Spring 2025
● De Silva, N.N., Meade, M.L., Hutchison, K.A., Koerper, B., The Effects of Working
Memory Capacity
on Collaborative Inhibition Across Categorized and Unrelated Lists. Participated in
the poster
presentation session.
Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM Spring 2023
● De Silva, N.N., Meade, M.L., Hutchison, K.A., Role of Working Memory Capacity in
Collaborative
Inhibition. Participated in the poster presentation session
Professional Advancement Grant Fall 2025
Professional Advancement Grant Spring 2025
College of Letters and Science Dean’s Student Travel Grant - $1000 Spring 2023
Graduate Student Award - Outstanding Performance in Service Spring 2023
