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