Cognitive Neuroscience Research
The Division of Cognitive Neuroscience focuses on epidemiologic, neuropsychological, cognitive experimental, and neuroimaging approaches to cognitive function across the life span. There is an emphasis on normal and abnormal aging and neurological conditions.
Areas of Research
- Cognitive, experimental, and traditional neuropsychological battery-based studies of cognition and metacognition
- Cognitive and exercise interventions
- Cognitive reserve
- Genetics, CSF, and blood measures
- Influences on brain health and cognition, including literacy, education, ethnicity, culture, social networks, sleep function, physical activity, nutrition, lifestyle, personality
- Innovative image processing and analytic approaches
- Multimodal structural and functional brain imaging
