Results for "memory"

Projects

Depression and memory in adults across the lifespan

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Depression is associated with memory impairments but the underlying causes of these impairments are poorly understood. This project uses neuroimaging to investigate the neural systems underlying depression-associated…

Improving Learning and Instruction

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How we can empower people to become motivated and effectively self-regulated learners? Learners must have the right mindset—they must be motivated and interpret the experience of difficulty in productive ways—but…

Faculty

Laura Lee Colgin

Affiliated Departments:
Neuroscience
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Brain rhythms reflect synchronized activity across many neurons and thus provide a means for studying how groups of neurons coordinate their activity during complex cognitive functions such as learning. My work uses…

Audrey Duarte

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Psychology, Dell Medical School, Neurology
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Dr. Duarte's research interests are primarily in episodic memory, which is long-term memory for personally experienced events, across the adult lifespan. Her lab explores the individual difference factors like sleep…

Robert A Duke

Affiliated Departments:
Butler School of Music, Dell Medical School, Jackson School of Geosciences, School of Undergraduate Studies
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The faculty and graduate students in the Center for Music Learning investigate the processes of human skill development, integrating the results of systematic research from multiple disciplines with effective…

Joseph Dunsmoor

Affiliated Departments:
Psychology, Neuroscience, Dell Medical School
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Research in our lab focuses on how emotion and cognition interact to determine how we learn about and remember important events. Some research questions include (1) how do we generalize from past emotional…

F Gonzalez-Lima

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Psychology, College of Natural Sciences, Neurobiology, College of Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dell Medical School
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Human brain research in neuroscience, psychobiology, neurocognitive enhancement, learning and memory, brain stimulation, photobiomodulation, cognitive aging, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, bipolar disorder, ADHD,…

Dr. Jarrod Lewis-Peacock

Affiliated Departments:
Psychology, Neuroscience, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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Working memory, cognitive control, episodic memory, functional neuroimaging

Marie Helene Monfils

Affiliated Departments:
Psychology, Neuroscience
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Dr. Monfils is currently pursuing 2 research streams: (1) identifying the factors that promote or hinder the social transmission of information between conspecific, and (2) investigating different post-consolidation…

Felicity Muth

Affiliated Departments:
College of Natural Sciences, Integrative Biology, Cockrell School of Engineering
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Felicity Muth is an Assistant Professor Department of Integrative Biology. She is broadly interested in animal behaviour and cognition, especially aspects of learning and memory that have a clear function in the…