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COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE LAB
512-515 Elliott Hall, Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota
75 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Lab Telephone: 612-626-2174
STUDENTS AND PARTICIPANTS
Students interested in conducting research in our lab, including Directed Research Projects, should contact me via e-mail.
Directions to the Imaging Center
LAB RESEARCH
In our lab, we explore how we gain
access to, and awareness of, what we know and remember, and the
accuracy and confidence of our judgments associated with such
access. We also examine processes and factors that may either
enhance, or impede, our ability to think in flexibly adaptive ways.
Experimental cognitive psychology
research is conducted with various participant populations. Our
lab also uses neuroimaging techniques (fMRI) to examine the
neuroanatomical correlates of memory encoding and retrieval in healthy
young adults.
For a sampling of our lab's research
see: Recent Findings
For a list of published articles (each
with
abstracts) see: Publications
PEOPLE AND PROJECTS
Post-doctoral
Fellow
Alaitz Aizpurua Sanz
Project: Thinking,
perception, and memory in younger and older adults
Graduate
Students
Rebecca Deason and Vaughn Steele
Project: Abstract and specific object priming
Benjamin Denkinger
Project: Object priming
across tasks and object exemplars
Sara Kvidera
Project: Thinking and perception: Evaluating cognitive tasks
Xiaoyan (Angela) Qin
Project (with
Stephen Engel):
Are brands perceptually special?
Lily Sun
Project: Thoughts about words and objects
Project: Thinking,
perception, and memory in younger and older adults (Alaitz Aizpurua)
Student Team: Dan Clark; Rayna Levine (Junior Scientist); Sheena
Potretzke; Matt Schwer (B.A.)
Project: Thinking and perception:
Evaluating cognitive tasks (Sara Kvidera)
Student Team:
Nathan Bjornberg; Jason Neff
Project: Thoughts about words and objects (Lily
Sun)
Student Team: Amiri Brotherson; Alana Feijo; Jason Neff; Corey
Nenno; Andrea Stier
UNIVERSITY OF READING, UK
We have several ongoing research
projects and collaborations in my previous lab at the University of
Reading in England, and these ongoing projects are listed here.
Project: Understanding the neural bases of repetition priming and mere exposure.
(Research supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, UK.)
Tiffany Fu (Ph.D. 2008)
Project: Depression and realism of confidence judgments.
(In collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College,
University of London)
M.Sc. Project: Depression,
confidence, and decision: Evidence against depressive
realism. Abstract
Ph.D. Project: Affective states and accuracy of confidence
assessments:
A test of two competing hypotheses. Abstract
Lesley Tranter (Post-doctoral Fellow)
Project: Enhancing cognitive performance in normal cognitive
aging: Novelty, play, and plasticity.
(Research supported by the Office for Sponsored Research, UK.) Abstract Preprint of Article
Ming-Ching Wen (Graduate Student)
Project: The impact of apathy and depression on problem-solving
training in young and older adults
Andrew Budson (Boston University School of Medicine)
Laurie Butler (University of Reading)
Anthony Cleare (Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London)
Stephen Engel (University of Minnesota)
Rik Henson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK)
Gordon Legge (University of Minnesota) with Allen Cheong and Tiana Bochsler (graduate student)
Chad Marsolek (University of Minnesota) with Rebecca Deason and Vaughn Steele (graduate students)
Daniel Schacter (Harvard University)
Jon Simons (University of Cambridge)
Mieke Verfaellie (Boston University)
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