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Faculty Keywords: Aging (6), Cognitive Neuroscience (17), Development (21), Emotion (4), Hippocampus (11), Imaging (8), Individual Differences (Human) (6), Learning and Memory (13), Mathematical Modeling (14) My research covers areas such as human memory and decision-making, statistics and mathematical modeling, psychological assessment, learning, intelligence, cognitive development, learning disability, child abuse, and memory impairments in aging and Alzheimer's Disease. My current research program centers on the relation between memory and higher reasoning abilities in children and adults, and it also focuses on false-memory phenomena. Together with another Cornell Professor, Valerie Reyna, I have developed fuzzy-trace theory, a model of the relation between memory and higher reasoning that has been widely applied within cognitive neuroscinece, medicine, and law. |
Faculty Keywords: Aging (6), Cognitive Neuroscience (17), Development (21), Emotion (4), Imaging (8), Individual Differences (Human) (6), Social behavior (12) Joseph Mikels’ research program lies at the intersection of cognitive and affective neuroscience. His primary interests include topics related to emotion, attention, and decision making, with particular consideration of the development trajectory of these processes across the life span. By incorporating the perspective of functional magnetic resonance imaging, ongoing projects in Mikels’ Emotion and Cognition Laboratory are exploring the neural substrates of observed behavioral differences between younger and older adults. For example, what brain structures underlie the preference for positively valenced emotional material among older adults? Do younger and older adults recruit different brain regions in making decisions? Answers to these questions have the potential to explain the strategic means by which individuals may successfully compensate for the decline in cognitive function during later life. |
Faculty Keywords: Behavioral Neuroscience (9), Cognitive Neuroscience (17), Development (21), Individual Differences (Human) (6), Mathematical Modeling (14), Motor Systems (13), Vision (11) Professor Robertson studies the dynamic relations between mind and body during early development. Recent work focuses on visual foraging behavior in young infants using measurements of visual spatial attention (amplitude modulation of steady state visual evoked potentials), gaze (corneal reflections of stimuli), and body movement (piezoelectric sensors). Dynamical models of visual foraging are being studied in collaboration with John Guckenheimer in the Center for Applied Mathematics. The functional significance of individual differences in early movement-gaze-attention coupling is being examined in experimental studies of novelty detection and longitudinal studies of attention problems. |
Faculty associated with: Bo Pedersen Keywords: Cognitive Neuroscience (17), Computational Neuroscience (13), Language (5), Vision (11) In my lab, we track people's eye movements and the streaming x,y coordinates of their computer-mouse movements as they perform visual and linguistic tasks. Within the theoretical framework of dynamical systems, we design localist attractor networks to simulate our data. Our findings reveal two main properties of human cognition: 1) continuos processing and graded representations in mapping sensory input to motor output, and 2) rapid interaction beteween visual and linguistic processes. Also visit my Research/Photo Gallery entry |
Faculty associated with: Elise Temple Keywords: Cognitive Neuroscience (17), Individual Differences (Human) (6), Learning and Memory (13), Social behavior (12), Stress (8) Professor Depue's work involves the neurobiology and neurochemistry associated with the structure of personality,emotion, and cognition. He studies the relation of dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine, and opiod function to the traits of extraversion, emotional stability, fear-anxiety, and affiliation, repectively, as well as to cognitive functioning. These neurotransmitter and neuropeptide systems are modulated pharmacologically in humans, and the sensitivity of the responses is assessed hormonally, emotionally, motorically, and cognitively. The work has direct implications for personality disorders and disorders of affect. Finally, the manner in which these systems come to be controlled by environmental context is addressed. |
Faculty Keywords: Aging (6), Behavioral genetics (7), Behavioral Neuroscience (9), Cognitive Neuroscience (17), Development (21), Emotion (4), Hippocampus (11), Imaging (8), Individual Differences (Human) (6), Learning and Memory (13), Mathematical Modeling (14), Social behavior (12) My research focuses on memory, judgment, and decision making across the lifespan. My recent work concerns neurocognitive mechanisms of memory in normal aging and mild cognitive impairment, and how these differ from disease processes such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. In collaboration with Charles Brainerd, we apply mathematical models of memory to such tasks as recall, recognition, semantic and pragmatic inference, other higher reasoning tasks, and the Deese-Roediger-McDermott false-memory procedure. In another stream of research, our laboratory is investigating rationality and risky decision making in a variety of populations, ranging from emergency room physicians to adolescents (e.g., examining mental representations, dual processes, risk and reward pathways, impulsivity, and emotion in HIV prevention). |
Faculty associated with: Richard A. Depue, Kathleen M. Linnane Keywords: Auditory Neuroscience (5), Cognitive Neuroscience (17), Development (21), Education (1), Imaging (8), Individual Differences (Human) (6), Language (5), Social behavior (12), Stress (8) Dr. Temple's focus is in the fields of developmental cognitive neuroscience and educational neuroscience. This includes both an exploration of the development of neural mechanisms underlying cognitive and emotional processes and how these mechanisms undergo plasticity based on experience, education, disordered development or disease, and /or remediation. This overarching focus is being explored with a number of projects including 1) normal and disordered literacy development and the effect of remediation and education, 2) a newly developing program in neuro-math-ed, the exploration of brain mechanisms involved in mathematical processing - how they develop and are impacted by educational strategies, 3) the effects of stress and trauma on brain function and brain development, and 4) the development and plasticity of the brain mechanisms underlying theory of mind and the effects of culture and language on these brain mechanisms. Dr. Temple is now at Dartmouth College, Hanover NH in the Department of Education and graduate faculty in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences. She maintains some active collaborations with people at Cornell, but to contact her please use the elise.temple@dartmouth.edu email. |
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