Our interests in human memory and cognition encompass the cognitive and neural bases of working memory, attention, control, and consciousness.
News
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"Lab alumnus Drew Sheldon (PhD in Neuroscience, 2017) matches to Yale School of Medicine combined Child and Adult Psychiatry Research track residency/fellowship!"
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"Reactivation of latent working memories with transcranial magnetic stimulation"
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"Faster brain waves make shorter gaps in visual stream"
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"Direct evidence for a prefrontal contribution to the control of proactive interference in verbal working memory"
"The Unforgettable Career of Suzanne Corkin"
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Recent publications from alumni/ae
Widhalm, M. L., & Rose, N. S. (2019). How can transcranial magnetic stimulation be used to causally manipulate memory representations in the human brain?. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 10(1), e1469.
Starrett, M. J., & Ekstrom, A. D. (2018). Perspective: Assessing the Flexible Acquisition, Integration, and Deployment of Human Spatial Representations and Information. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, 1-9. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00281
Kundu, B., Schrock, L., Davis, T., & House, P. A. (2017). Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Essential Tremor Also Reduces Voice Tremor. Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface. doi: 10.1111/ner.12739
Mallett, R., & Lewis-Peacock, J. A. (2018). Behavioral decoding of working memory items inside and outside the focus of attention. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1-12. doi: 10.111/nyas.13647
Emrich, S.M., Lockhart, H.A., & Al-Aidroos, N. (2017). Attention mediates the flexible allocation of visual working memory resources. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 43(7), 1454-1465. doi:10.1037/xhp0000398
Kyritsis, M., Gulliver, S. R., & Feredoes, E. (2017). Acknowledging crossing-avoidance heuristic violations when solving the Euclidean travelling salesperson problem. Psychological research, 1-13. doi:10.1007/s00426-017-0881-7
Bocincova, A., van Lamsweerde, A. E., & Johnson, J. S. (2016). Assessing the evidence for a cue-induced trade-off between capacity and precision in visual working memory using mixture modelling and Bayesian model comparison. Visual Cognition, 24(9-10), 435-446.
Cronin, K. A., Acheson, D. J., Hernández, P., & Sánchez, A. (2015). Hierarchy is detrimental for human cooperation. Scientific reports, 5, 18634.