The fNIM lab has great success at the Society for Neuroscience conference

Six members of the fNIM lab presented their work at the 49th Annual Society for Neuroscience meeting which took place in October in Chicago, IL. The lab was well represented: Erin, Song, Marianne, Sabina, and Mingzhu each presented a poster, Paul gave a nanosymposium presentation, and Marianne and Paul co-chaired a nanosymposium session. See the … Read more

fNIM Lab to present latest research at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting

fNIM lab is going to Chicago later this month to attend SfN’s Neuroscience 2019 meeting. Members of our lab will be presenting research findings from a variety of topics discussing the brain – cognition relationships in younger and older adults. The topics range from subsequent memory effects at encoding, cortical reinstatement and monitoring at retrieval, … Read more

Celebrating Dr. Erin Horne at Doctoral Hooding Ceremony

We are delighted to be celebrating the achievements of Dr. Erin Horne who was hooded at a doctoral hooding ceremony earlier this month. Erin, a former doctoral student in the fNIM lab, successfully finished her graduate studies with the defense of her dissertation, entitled: “The Neural correlates of recollection and post-retrieval monitoring in younger and … Read more

New beginnings – Students join lab to study emotional memory

Derek, a PhD student, and Kalynn, an MS student, will work on an upcoming research project examining how emotional states affect neural mechanisms of memory. Derek Lehtonen, previously a Masters student in the fNIM lab, is now a PhD student in the Systems Neuroscience program. Derek will continue his work in our lab, and will … Read more

Erin Horne successfully defends her PhD dissertation

Congratulations to Dr. Erin Horne who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled: “The Neural correlates of recollection and post-retrieval monitoring in younger and older adults“. Erin, a doctoral student in the fNIM lab, has played a crucial role in much of our laboratory’s research and we are very proud of her achievements. Congratulations!

fNIM lab welcomes Dr. Wei Wang!

We are excited to welcome Dr. Wei Wang as a visiting research scientist in our lab. Dr. Wang received his PhD in psychology from Capital Normal University in China. His doctoral research focused on the interactions between implicit memory and recognition memory. Currently, he is interested in how episodic memory is affected by aging. Outside … Read more

fNIM lab at Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting

The fNIM lab recently attended the 26th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in San Francisco, March 23-26, 2019. We had a great representation this year which consisted of 7 posters and a symposium talk by Dr. Rugg. Our presentations: Saad A. Alghamdi: The Effects of Age on Subjective and Objective Estimates of Recollection Erin … Read more