We are very pleased to welcome Eduardo Hernandez and Joshua Olivier to the fNIM lab. Eduardo is joining us as our new Lab manager, and Josh is our new Research assistant. Their short bios are now posted on our people page. We are looking forward to working with you, Eduardo and Josh!

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

After a year’s pause, we are pleased to announce that fNIM lab is restarting data collection with volunteers. If you are interested in participating in our research, navigate to the Participate page or click here to learn more.

Warmest congratulations to our Research assistants, Chris, Seham and Amber on their acceptances to graduate school! Chris will be joining the lab of Dr. Andrew Yonelinas at UC Davis, Seham will be joining the lab of Dr. Joshua Koen at the University of Notre Dame, and Amber will transition to being a graduate student in … Read more

Dr. Paul Hill, our former postdoc, is leaving the fNIM lab to join the Human Spatial Cognition Lab with Dr. Arne Ekstrom at the University of Arizona. Although Paul is relocating to Arizona, he will continue to collaborate with us on an upcoming project. We are very excited for him and we wish him the … Read more

We are thrilled to welcome a new lab member: Muneeza Sheikh! Muneeza is currently an undergraduate at UT Dallas majoring in Healthcare Studies. Her research interests include understanding how memory changes with aging and how it is affected by neurological diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s. Muneeza will be screening research volunteers for eligibility, conducting neuropsychological assessments, and … Read more

We bid a fond farewell to Dr. Erin Horne and Mel Racenstein who are leaving the fNIM lab to pursue great things in their careers. Mel, a former research assistant, is leaving us to study medicine at The Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, New Mexico. Erin, a former graduate student, is staying nearby as a … Read more

Although our lab has paused all data collection, and the previously advertised presentations which were to take place in April at the Cognitive Aging Conference were postponed until further notice, the lab is still striving to progress in research from our homes. Our members are actively analyzing data, preparing for upcoming studies, writing up new … Read more

Members of the fNIM lab will be attending the Cognitive Aging Conference (CAC) in Atlanta, GA from April 16 to 19, 2020. Dr. Rugg will be chairing a symposium entitled “Neural Pattern Analysis and Brain Aging” on Friday, April 17th Dr. Paul Hill and Sabina Srokova are then presenting their posters later the same day … Read more

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