• Since 2024 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Psychology
• 2024 PhD Kyoto University, Japan 
• 2020 – 2024 PhD candidate at the Division of Cognitive Psychology, Kyoto University, Japan
• 2020 M.Sc. in Cognitive Psychology, Kyoto University, Japan
• 2018 Lic. in Psychology, University of Costa Rica 
• 2016 B.Sc. in Psychology, University of Costa Rica

Cognitive conflicts and cognitive flexibility

• I am currently working on a project studying the cognitive processes underlying the relationship between cognitive conflicts and cognitive flexibility. 
• DFG-Project: "Psychological implications of co-opetition"

Working Memory and Long-term memory 

• Araya, C., Oberauer, K. & Saito, S. (2023). Hebb Repetition Effects in Complex and Simple Span Tasks Are Based on the Same Learning Mechanism. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001290
• Araya, C., Oberauer, K. & Saito, S. (2022). The Hebb repetition effect in complex span tasks: Evidence for a shared learning mechanism with simple span tasks. Memory & Cognition, 50 (5), 925-940. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01261-3

2023

• Araya, C., Oberauer, K. & Saito, S. (2023). Hebb Repetition Effects in Complex and Simple Span Tasks Are Based on the Same Learning Mechanism. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001290 

2022

• Araya, C., Oberauer, K. & Saito, S. (2022). The Hebb repetition effect in complex span tasks: Evidence for a shared learning mechanism with simple span tasks. Memory & Cognition, 50 (5), 925-940. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01261-3