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About the Brain Imaging & Memory Lab
Research in our Brain Imaging and Memory lab focuses on thinking abilities mediated by critical parts of the brain in the medial-temporal lobes, primarily the hippocampus and amygdala, and their application to understanding cognitive impairment accompanying clinical conditions like schizophrenia, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder, among others. Core cognitive abilities of interest include memory, meta-memory, and spatial cognition. These aspects of cognition are important for successful functioning in everyday life, such as understanding and remembering the location of a classroom relative to other locations (e.g., to plan the most efficient route to meet a friend, grab a coffee, and get to a next class). Central themes in our research are that memory, emotion, and spatial cognition are not unitary constructs and brain regions like the hippocampus are neither homogenous nor isolated structures.
RESEARCH
Brain Imaging
We investigate the relations between neurocognitive profiles and the brain using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques with both healthy and clinical samples.
Memory & Cognition
Primary domains of interest in our lab are memory and medial-temporal lobe function, in both healthy and clinical populations.
Clinical Spectra
Our lab harnesses tools of cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology to better understand clinical and anomalous conditions.