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Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience: Faculty
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Roberto Cabeza Dr. Cabeza and his students investigate the neural mechanisms of episodic memory and other cognitive functions using fMRI and other neuroimaging techniques. They also examine how these neural mechanisms change as a function of healthy and pathological aging. Lab Website |
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Ruth Day Dr. Day studies a wide variety of topics in human cognition. Some focus on Basic Cognition (e.g., memory, comprehension, and problem solving), while others examine Everyday Cognition (e.g., remembering to take medications, understanding jury instructions, and remembering dance sequences). Lab Website |
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Tobias Egner Dr. Egner and his students employ functional MRI and transcranial magnetic stimulation to study the neural bases of cognitive and affective control processes in the human brain. The Egner Lab also investigates how visual cognition is shaped by attention and expectation. Lab Website |
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Ahmad Hariri Dr. Hariri and his students apply an integrated multimodal strategy encompassing behavioral, neuroimaging, and genomic measures to identify biological pathways mediating individual differences in how successfully we navigate our complex environments, and how these differences shape our risk for psychopathology. Lab Website |
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Scott Huettel Dr. Huettel and his laboratory investigate the mechanisms that underlie decision making, with a focus on economic and social decisions. Most studies use fMRI in conjunction with measures of individual variability, including economic preferences, traits, and genetic information. Lab Website |
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Kevin LaBar Dr. LaBar and his students focus on the neuroscience of emotion-cognition interactions in the human brain, with an emphasis on understanding how emotional events are linked to memory and attention systems. His laboratory combines studies of neurologic and psychiatric patients with studies of healthy adults using functional MRI, ERPs and psychophysiological recording techniques. Lab Website |
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Elizabeth Marsh Dr. Marsh and her students investigate learning, memory, and the processes that make memory accurate in some cases and erroneous in others. They use behavioral studies with children, college students, and older adults to understand how people acquire, maintain, and update their knowledge bases, with a second interest involving how people remember their personal pasts. Lab Website |
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Stephen Mitroff Dr. Mitroff and the Duke Visual Cognition lab explore topics of visual attention, perception, and memory. They investigate individual differences in visual abilities that have both theoretical and applied implications. Lab Website |
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David Rubin Dr. Rubin and his students investigate long-term memory for complex or real-world stimuli, such as autobiographical memory, oral traditions, and prose. Dr. Rubin also investigates memory in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the neural bases of autobiographical memory using fMRI. Lab Website |
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Nestor Schmajuk Dr. Schmajuk has developed neural network models of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, animal communication, spatial learning, cognitive mapping, and prepulse inhibition. Using these neural networks, he investigates the effects of lesions (hippocampal, cortical, cerebellar) and drugs (dopaminergic, cholinergic) on various sensory, learning and cognitive paradigms. |
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