Research programs in our laboratory use electrophysiological (EEG & ERP) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) methods to investigate a variety of aspects of human memory.

We are mainly interested in the cognitive and neural bases of memory encoding and retrieval, as well as how and why memory function differs as a result of healthy aging or neurological disease.
 Lab photo - Fall 2008
Check out some of our recent papers  (Copyright notice)
Click for PDF LJ Gottlieb, MR Uncapher, & M.D. Rugg (Ahead of Print) Dissociation of the neural correlates of visual and auditory contextual encoding. Neuropsychologia.
Click for PDF HK Park & M.D. Rugg (Ahead of Print) Pre-stimulas hippocampal activity predicts later recollection. Hippocampus.
Click for PDF H Hayama & M.D. Rugg (2009) Right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is engaged during post-retrieval processing of both episodic and semantic information. Neuropsychologia 47(12):2409-16.
Click for PDF KL Vilberg & M.D. Rugg (2009) Left parietal cortex is modulated by amount of recollected verbal information. Neuroreport.
Click for PDF JD Johnson, SG McDuff, M.D. Rugg & KA Norman(2009) Recollection, familiarity, and cortical reinstatement: a multivoxel pattern analysis. Neuron.


Center for the Neurobiology
of Learning and Memory
Qureshey Research Laboratory
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3800
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