In this 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, physiologically, and pharmacologically 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 the following abilities:

• The Nature of Priming and Implicit Memory
• Emotion and Memory
• Activation and Suppression of Stereotypes
• Visual Form Recognition and Visual Memory
• Interhemispheric Communication
• Affective and Preference Learning
• False Memory
• Inference Generation during Comprehension
• Perceptual-Motor Skill Acquisition

 

 

 

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