Neuroscientists are making rapid progress in understanding the mechanisms by which people learn and remember, by studying how experience modifies brain circuits, and by understanding the organization of large-scale brain networks that support the ability to recollect past events.
Questions we are exploring include:
- Why do we remember some events and forget others?
- How do we keep information in mind without getting distracted?
- What are the brain changes that put someone at risk for Alzheimer's Disease?
- How can we develop better approaches to education based on our understanding of the brain?
- How can we diagnose and treat people who have memory problems?
- How is memory and brain function affected by stress or trauma?
- How does memory change over the course of development from childhood to old age?
Faculty studying learning and memory
In-House
- William DeBello, PhD
- Diasynou Fioravante, PhD
- Mark Goldman, PhD
- John Gray, MD, PhD
- Tim Hanks, PhD
- Alex Nord, PhD
- Charan Ranganath, PhD
- Gregg Recanzone, PhD
- Mitchell Sutter, PhD
- Martine Therrien, PhD
- W. Martin Usrey, PhD
- Jennifer Whistler, PhD
- Brian Wiltgen, PhD
- Andrew Yonelinas, PhD
- Karen Zito, PhD
Affiliated
- David Amaral, PhD
- Erie Boorman, PhD
- Stacey Combes, PhD
- Charles DeCarli, MD
- Megan Dennis, PhD
- Catherine Fassbender, PhD
- Melanie Gareau, PhD
- Simona Ghetti, PhD
- Cecilia Giulivi, PhD
- Gene Gurkoff, PhD
- Amanda Guyer, PhD
- Randi Hagerman, MD
- Johannes Hell, PhD
- Petr Janata, PhD
- Wilsaan Joiner, PhD
- Janine LaSalle, PhD
- Steven Luck, PhD
- Peter Mundy, PhD
- Karl Murray, PhD
- Kwan Ng, MD, PhD
- Christine Wu Nordahl, PhD
- David Olson, PhD
- Dan Ragland, PhD
- Julie Schweitzer, PhD
- David Segal, PhD
- Kiarash Shahlaie, MD, PhD
- Julia Devi Sharma, M.D., F.R.C.S.C, F.A.A.N.S.
- Sergi Simo, PhD
- Tamara Swaab, PhD
- Diane Swick, PhD
- Brian Trainor, PhD
- Jie (JZ) Zheng, PhD