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

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

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

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

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!

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 receives a shout-out for our recent publication on age-related neural dedifferentiation. Neural dedifferentiation refers to the reduction of neural selectivity for specific classes of stimuli, a phenomenon which can be observed in older age. The study has observed that selective patterns of activity are subsequently associated with poorer memory performance. However, the relationship … Read more

The fNIM Lab recently attended the 6th Biennial Dallas Aging & Cognition Conference (DACC) sponsored by the Center for Vital Longevity and UT Dallas on January 27th and 28th, 2019. This year’s conference focused on four main themes: Animal & Human models of cognitive aging, The healthy brain in transition to disease, The Social and Neural underpinnings … Read more

In older adults, changes in brain structure and function are associated with declines in some aspects of cognitive performance. One phenomenon that may play an important role in cognitive aging is “neural dedifferentiation” – the finding that older adult brains tend to show less selective patterns of neural activity for certain types of information. This … Read more