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 H.K. Park & M.D. Rugg (in press) Neural correlates of successful encoding of semantically and phonologically mediated inter-item associations. NeuroImage.
Click for PDF J.D. Johnson, L.T. Muftuler, & M.D. Rugg (2008) Multiple repetitions reveal functionally and anatomically distinct patterns of hippocampal activity during continuous recognition memory. Hippocampus 18:975-980.
Click for PDF K.L. Vilberg & M.D. Rugg (2008) Memory retrieval and the parietal cortex: A review of evidence from a dual-process perspective. Neuropsychologia 46:1787-1799.
Click for PDF S. Duverne, S. Motamedinia, & M.D. Rugg (in press) The relationship between aging, performance, and the neural correlates of successful memory encoding. Cerebral Cortex.


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