Cognitive Neuroscience

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
• Principal Investigator: Cabeza Lab, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University
• Associate Professor, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University

EDUCATION:
• Postdoc: Rotman Research Institute, University of Toronto, Canada
• 1994 PhD in Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Tsukuba, Japan

HONORS AND AWARDS:
2005 Busse Research Award in the Biomedical Sciences (18th World Congress of Gerontology)
2005 Elected to International Neuropsychology Symposium
2003 Young Investigator Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society
2003 Fast Breaking Paper in Psychology/Psychiatry – Institute for Scientific Information
2003 Elected to Memory Disorders Research Society
2003 Elected to International Society for Behavioral Neuroscience
1999-2004 Medical Scholar Award from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research
1997 Fellowship for McDonnell Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience
1996-1997 Tanenbaum Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
1995 Max and Roslyn Gordon Research Prize
1995-1996 Postdoctoral fellowship from the International Human Frontier Science Program
1989 Graduate fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Program (not used)
1988-1994 Graduate fellowship from the Ministry of Education of Japan

MEMBERSHIPS:
• International Neuropsychology Symposium
• Memory Disorders Research Society
• International Society for Behavioral Neuroscience
• Organization for Human Brain Mapping
• Society for Neuroscience)
• Cognitive Neuroscience Society

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
We investigate the cognitive neuroscience of memory by using functional MRI (fMRI) to examine the neural correlates of episodic memory (memory for personally experienced past events) in healthy young and older adults. We have been pursuing four main lines of research:
(1) basic episodic memory processes,
(2) autobiographical memory,
(3) emotional memory, and
(4) cognitive aging.