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Valerie F. Reyna     (WEB PAGE) vr53 @ cornell.edu B44 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall      (607) 255-6778   [edit] Faculty Department: Human Development Field: Cognitive Science; Human Development; Psychology 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).

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