Cognitive Neuroscience

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
University Professor; Professor of Psychology and Director, Center for Memory and the Brain, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Boston University

EDUCATION:
BS, PhD, University of Michigan

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
He is editor-in-chief of the journal Hippocampus, and is a member of the editorial board of several other research journals. He has also served on review panels for the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The hippocampus plays a critical role in memory formation, but our understanding of just what the hippocampus does and how it performs its functions are still issues of considerable controversy. To enhance our knowledge about hippocampal function, we are pursuing a combination of neuropsychological studies of the nature of memory loss in animals with damage to the hippocampus and related cortical areas, and we are pursuing electrophysiological recording studies that seek to determine how information is represented by the hippocampus and associated cortical areas.