The Office of the Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors and the University Co-operative Society have award Dr. Kristen Harris the Career Research Excellence Award. This award is given to a  faculty member or staff researcher who has maintained a superior research, scholarly and/or creative endeavor across many years. Dr. Harris is recognized […]

Dr. Jarrod Lewis-Peacock and his collaborator Dr. Marie Banich (University of Colorado) were awarded funding from the National Institute of Mental Health for their research project “Neural and Cognitive Mechanisms for Removing Emotional Information from Working Memory”. This research seeks to investigate the mental processes and brain systems that enable people to purposefully remove emotional […]

Dr. Joey Dunsmoor and colleagues publishes a review article entitled “Tag and capture: how salient experiences target and rescue nearby events in memory”. It is a longstanding axiom in psychological research that personally meaningful and motivationally relevant experiences are prioritized in long-term memory. This review article explores a neurobiological model of long-term memory, known as […]

Darrin Brager received a grant from the Department of Defense to support his research proposal ” Tuberous sclerosis is a disorder that affects the function of multiple organ systems including the brain. Patients with tuberous sclerosis may experience neurodevelopmental delay, epilepsy, and neuropsychiatric disorders such as cognitive disability and autism spectrum disorder. This research will […]

The Colgin Lab published an article in Nature Communications entitled “Hippocampal place cell sequences differ during correct and error trials in a spatial memory task”.   Zheng C, Hwaun E, Loza CA, Colgin LL. Hippocampal place cell sequences differ during correct and error trials in a spatial memory task. Nat Commun. 2021 Jun 7;12(1):3373. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-23765-x

Gus Hennings, a graduate student that is jointly mentored by Dr. Joey Dunsmmor and Dr. Jarrod Lewis-Peacock, is lead author on a paper published in Learning & Memory  entitled “Emotional learning retroactively enhances item memory but distorts source attribution”.   Hennings AC, Lewis-Peacock JA and Dunsmoor JE. Emotional learning retroactively enhances item memory but distorts source […]

Nicholas Riveira, an undergraduate researcher in Dr. Laura Colgin’s lab, won a 2021 American Physiological Society Hearst Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. The Hearst Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) programs provide fellows with a hands-on research experience in the laboratory of an established APS member, professional development activities and an opportunity to present their research at the APS […]

Lauren Hewitt, an INS graduate student in Dr. Darrin Brager’s lab, is the first author on a paper f published in Physiological Reports entitled “High and low expression of the hyperpolarization activated current (Ih) in mouse CA1 stratum oriens interneurons”. Hewitt LT, Ordemann G, and Brager DH. High and low expression of the hyperpolarization activated […]

Dr. Brian Kalmbach (formerly a postdoc in the Brager Lab and now of The Allen Institute) is first author of a paper from the Brager Lab published in the Journal of Neurophysiology entitled “Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein modulates somatic D-type K + channels and action potential threshold in the mouse prefrontal cortex”. Kalmbach BE […]

Gus Hennings, a graduate student that is jointly mentored by Dr. Joey Dunsmmor and Dr. Jarrod Lewis-Peacock, is lead author on a paper published in Behavioural Brain Research entitled “Thought suppression inhibits the generalization of fear extinction”. Hennings AC, Bibb SA, Lewis-Peacock JA, & Dunsmoor JE (2020). Thought suppression inhibits the generalization of fear extinction, Behavioural […]