FNIM Lab members Josh and Mingzhu at the Hope for Caregiver Conference @ Prestonwood Baptist Church in the DFW metroplex.

We are excited to welcome Karel Lopez Vilaret, a visiting PhD student from Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain. Karel will be working in the fNIM lab this summer as he develops a new research project examining age differences in neural selectivity. Welcome Karel!

Congratulations to Sabina Srokova, a graduate student of the fNIM Lab, for defending her dissertation: The relationship between age, cognitive performance, and the neural correlates of episodic memory encoding and retrieval.

Nehal Shahanawaz, a former undergraduate student at the fNIM lab, successfully completed his undergraduate studies and we are very excited to see him continue his work with us as our new Research Assistant! Nehal majored in Neuroscience here at UT Dallas and he is currently preparing to apply to medical schools. We are also pleased … Read more

fNIM graduate student Sabina Srokova successfully defended her dissertation proposal, entitled ‘Effects of Age on Neural Specificity at Memory Encoding and Retrieval and the Relationship with Memory Performance and Eye Movement Behaviors‘, on March 25th. Well done Sabina!

Warmest congratulations to fNIM’s graduate student Song Liu who successfully defended her dissertation, entitled ‘Effects of Age on Neural Correlates of Episodic Encoding and Brain Structures, and the Relation to Cognitive Performance’. Great job, Song!

fNIM’s graduate student Saad Alghamdi successfully defended the proposal of his dissertation: ‘The relationship between the age, preretrieval neural activity, and subjective and objective measures of recollection.’ Congratulations!

Amber, Sabina, and Dr. Rugg attended the 3rd Workshop on Research Definitions for Reserve and Resilience in Cognitive Aging & Dementia. The workshop was held from October 31-November 1, 2021 in Bethesda, MD.