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Statement of Interests
In my laboratory, we are interested
in explaining human cognitive abilities--especially memory,
vision, learning, and how these abilities are modulated
by emotion and social interaction--in terms of how the
brain accomplishes them.
The goal is to understand the functions of anatomically
and physiologically separable brain substrates that perform
neurocomputationally distinct processes. In this way, cognitive
abilities are explained through the architecture, functions,
and interactions of the underlying neural processing subsystems.
To constrain our theories, we integrate computational
analyses/models (e.g., neural network modeling of these
subsystems) and implementational evidence (e.g., functional
hemispheric asymmetries, neuroimaging, psychophysiological
measures, and neuromodulation of these subsystems) with
behavioral evidence (e.g., behaviorally expressed learning
and memory effects).
From this perspective, we currently are investigating
visual form recognition, implicit memory, perceptual-motor
skill acquisition, interhemispheric communication, emotional
memory, false memory, stereotype processing, preference
learning, inference generation during comprehension, and
other abilities.
We have wide-ranging interests in cognitive neuroscience, but three of the major themes of the research in our lab are: (a) the processing of abstract and specific information, (b) the nature of implicit memory, and (c) effects of emotion on vision and memory. For more information, see http://www.psych.umn.edu/psylabs/marsoleklab/research/research_themes.html
Selected Publications
Marsolek, C. J. (2008). What antipriming reveals about priming. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 176-181.
Marsolek, C. J., & Burgund, E. D. (2008). Dissociable neural subsystems underlie visual working memory for abstract categories and specific exemplars. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 17-24.
Snyder, K. A., Blank, M. P., & Marsolek, C. J. (2008). What form of memory underlies novelty preferences? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 315-321.
Marsolek, C. J., Schnyer, D. M., Deason, R. G., Ritchey, M., & Verfaellie, M. (2006). Visual antipriming: Evidence for ongoing adjustments of superimposed visual object representations. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 6, 163-174.
Marsolek, C. J. (2004). Abstractionist versus exemplar-based theories of visual word priming: A subsystems resolution. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57, 1233-1259.
Bowers, J. S., & Marsolek, C. J. (Eds.). (2003). Rethinking implicit memory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Westerberg, C. E., & Marsolek, C. J. (2003). Sensitivity reductions in false recognition: A measure of false memories with stronger theoretical implications. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 747-759.
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