I study the cognitive, psychological, and biological processes of human memories (both conscious and unconscious memories; how they are formed, consolidated, and retrieved correctly/incorrectly), ranging from the neuroanatomy of the medial temporal lobe to the widespread distributed patterns of electrical activity at the cortex. An overarching goal is elucidating how cognitive neuroscience may bridge the gap between basic research and its direct clinical translations. Research investigates several populations, including normal young adults, aging populations, and neuropsychological patients suffering from amnesia and brain damage due to heart attack, stroke, epileptic temporal lobectomies, and diabetes, as well as other forms of medial temporal lobe neuropathology. I integrate cognitive, behavioral, neuropsychological, and electrophysiological approaches in order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of how memory is processed in the brain. Advancing our understanding of how basic memory is impaired in MTL damage is also essential for accurately characterizing various forms of amnesia and then developing effective therapeutic interventions in these amnesic patient groups. Other research interests include neuroethics, attention, cognitive control, and various psychiatric populations including autism, depression, and schizophrenia .

Publications:

RESEARCH PAPERS:

Leynes, P., A., Landau, J., Walker, J., &  Addante, R.J.  (2005). Event-related potential (ERP) evidence for multiple causes of the revelation effect.  Consciousness and Cognition 14(2): 327-350

ABSTRACTS:

McGoldrick, M., & Addante, R.J.  (2005). Brain activation associated with semantic memory for gender stereotypes: An ERP study [Abstract].  The College of New Jersey Journal of Student Scholarship, 7: 83.

PRESENTATIONS:

Addante, R.J., Yonelinas, A.P., & Ranganath, C.  (April, 2009). ERP correlates of recollection and familiarity: Item and source memory confidence.  Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Watrous, A.J., Addante, R.J., Yonelinas, A.P., & Ranganath, C.  (April, 2009). Oscillatory correlates of episodic retrieval during item and source memory confidence judgments. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Addante, R.J., & Yonelinas, A.P. (September, 2008).  Cortical activity provides converging correlates of medial temporal lobe-supported memory in a novel paradigm. Poster presented at the (1) Annual Meeting of the Cajal Club, & (2) UC Davis Neuroscience Poster Session.

Diana, R., Yonelinas, A., Blumenfeld, R., Addante, R.J., & Ranganath, C. (2007, May).  ROC analyses of source effects predicted by imaging data: Intraitem source vs. Extraitem source.  Poster presented at (1) Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.

Leynes, P., A., Grey, J., & Addante, R.J.  (2005, April).  Brain activity for memory of motioned and performed actions.  Poster session presented at annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.

Leynes, P., A., Addante, R.J., Grey, J, Huston, C., & Ugolini, S.  (2005, March).  Brain activity and memory for high and low contrast visual processing of gender stereotypical words.  Poster session presented at annual Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Boston, MA.

Martinetti, M., Adler, R. Wichnick, A., Vona, S., Bladzinski, J., Addante, R.J., Cichon, B., & Finch, D.  (2005, April).  Consumption of Ascending Concentrations of Ethanol in Alcohol-Preferring (P), Non-Preferring (NP), and Sprague-Dawley (SD) Rats in a Limited-Access Paradigm.  Poster session presented at annual Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Boston, MA.

McGoldrick, M., & Addante, R.J.  (2004, April).  Brain activation associated with semantic memory for gender stereotypes: An ERP study.  Poster session selected for presentation at the Council of Undergraduate Research annual Posters on Capitol Hill event, Washington, D.C.

Crawford, J, Leynes, P., Addante, R.J., Burke, J., Croce, M., Guimaraes, L., Klein, E., & McGoldrick, M.  (2003, March).  An investigation of gender stereotype information during source monitoring: An ERP study.  Poster session presented at annual Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Baltimore, MD.

RESEARCH SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS:

Addante, R.J. (2008, March). The event-related potential technique: informing neuroanatomy and cognition from electrical activity at the scalp.  Research seminar given to the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain Monday Seminar Series.

Addante, R.J. (2008, September). The ERP correlates of recognition memory during encoding & retrieval, for healthy controls & amnesic MTL patients.  Research seminar given to UC Davis Neuroscience Graduate Group.

Addante, R.J. (2008, June).  Distributed electrical activity at the cortex distinguishes recognition memory processes among normal and brain damaged humans.  Research seminar given to the UC Davis Neuroscience Program

Addante, R.J. (2008, March).  Re-discovering memory in the medial temporal lobes.  Research seminar given to the UC Davis Neuroscience Program.

Addante, R.J. (2005, April).  Convergent ERP evidence for theories of recognition memory and the Revelation Effect.  Invited talk to TCNJ Psychology Department for Psi Chi Colloquium Lecture Series.