This division focuses on cognitive-experimental and neuroimaging approaches to cognition across the life span. There is an emphasis on normal and abnormal aging, and degenerative neurological disease.
Domains of current cognitive experimental studies include:
- memory: explicit recall, working memory, priming
- basic timing mechanisms and their relation to other cognitive tasks
- metacognition
- control processes
- effects of literacy, education, ethnicity, and acculturation on neuropsychological task performance
- traditional neuropsychological battery-based studies of cognition in normal aging and our diseases of interest
Foci of current cognitive neuroimaging studies include:
- networks underlying recognition and working memory in young adults, normal aging and Alzheimer's disease
- cognitive reserve and compensation
- priming in young adults and normal aging
- correlates of aging and Alzheimer's disease in structural and resting CBF scans
- improved analytic methods for functional imaging