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Dr. Larson received an NIH R01 Grant – Acute neurocognitive-affective predictors of chronic post-trauma outcomes

Dr Larson at a desk with dual monitors displaying brain scan images and research data

Dr. Christine Larson was recently awarded an NIH R01 titled “Acute neurocognitive-affective predictors of chronic post-trauma outcomes.” The research team includes Terri deRoon-Cassini of the Trauma/Surgery department at the Medical College of Wisconisn, and Fred Helmstetter, Hanjoo Lee, and Shawn Cahill from the 51ÁÔĆć Psychology Department.

Trauma is extremely common. Fortunately, most people are resilient and experience minimal long-term consequences. Unfortunately, some trauma survivors go on to experience serious and debilitating chronic problems as a result of the trauma, most notably Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This award funds work that aims to identify neurobiological markers evident in the immediate aftermath of experiencing a trauma that help identify those most at risk for chronic PTSD and other problems. This work should aid in identifying those at risk and also to identify neurobiological processes to target for treatment in recent trauma survivors.

April 2015 Update

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Luke Jenkins & Deborah Hannula (2015). Representational similarity predicts gist-based false recognition in a DRM paradigm. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. San Franciso, CA. / *both authors are 51ÁÔĆć-affiliated

Deborah Hannula gave an interview describing her NSF-funded research project that addresses questions about memory-attention interactions. The interview aired on Lake Effect, a Milwaukee-area NPR production, and can be heard here:

Frick, K.M. (February, 2015). This is your brain on estrogen: How estrogen affects learning and memory. American Association of University Women, Racine Chapter.

Larson, C.L., deRoon-Cassini, T., Taubitz, L.E., & Belleau, E.L. Neural markers of emotion dysregulation in acute trauma survivors predict chronic PTSD. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, April 9-12, 2015, Miami, FL. All authors except deRoon-Cassini are 51ÁÔĆć-affiliated.

Qualls*, W., Wandrey**, R., Zander*, R., & Mosack, K. (2015, May). Generativity among lesbian-identified breast cancer survivors in an online support forum. Poster to be presented at the Association for Psychological Science annual convention, New York.

Gracian**, E.I., Austiff*, M.B., Billig**, A.K., Wandrey**, R.L., de St. Aubin, E., & Mosack, K.E. (2015, May). Big personality traits, religiosity, and conservative beliefs are not uniformly related to negative attitudes about gay men in two samples from a mid-size Midwestern city. Poster to be presented at the Association for Psychological Science Convention, New York, NY.

Lewis*, C.B., & Mosack, K.E. (2015, April). African American emerging adults’ experiences with mental health care. Poster to be presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Cheney, Washington. *Undergraduate students in Dr. Mosack’s Patient Advocacy and Research Lab **Doctoral students in Dr. Mosack’s lab.

Ciera Lewis accepted an offer to attend the clinical/community psychology doctoral program at Georgia State University.

Matthew Austiff presented his work, entitled, “Social Support Systems and Managing HIV/AIDS: A content analysis of the support processes utilized within seroconcordant dyads” at the UW System Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (April, 2015).

Rachael Wandrey defended her thesis (April, 2015) entitled, “I know I can’t be the only lesbian out there:” An inductive thematic analysis of a virtual community of lesbian breast cancer survivors.

Angela Wendorf (Ph.D. in clinical and health psychology, 2013) has accepted a position as Health Psychologist in the Transplant Division at UMass Memorial Medical Center.

Publications

Benoit, J.D., Rakic, P., and Frick, K.M*. (2015). Prenatal stress induces spatial memory deficits and epigenetic changes in the hippocampus indicative of heterochromatin formation and reduced gene expression. Behavioural Brain Research, 281, 1-8.

Tuscher, J.J.*, Kim, J.*, Fortress, A.M.*, and Frick, K.M.* (2015). Regulation of object recognition and object placement by ovarian sex steroid hormones. Behavioural Brain Research, 285, 140-157.

Frick, K.M.* What’s your name again? (2015). Effects of estrogens, cognitive stimulation, and exercise on age-related memory loss. F&M Scientist, Winter 2015, 27-53.

Frick, K.M.* and Fortress, A.M.* (2015). Pharmacological manipulation of learning and memory. In: The Maze Book: Theories, Practice, and Protocols for Testing Rodent Cognition, Bimonte-Nelson, H (Ed). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. pp. 165-210. *51ÁÔĆć-affiliated

Becker, K. A., Billig*, A. K., & Mosack, K.E. (Oct 24, 2014 Epub ahead of print). Spirituality, religion, and health: The role of communication, appraisals, and coping process for individuals living with chronic illness. Journal of Religion and Health. doi: 10.1007/s10943-014-9965-5. *Current doctoral student in experimental and social psychology.

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March 2015 Update

51ÁÔĆć Psychology Among the Best

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Online B.A. in Psychology Degree Program ranked among the best in the article titled “The 30 Best Online Bachelor in Psychology Degree Programs” by TheBestSchools.org. Here is the link to that article:

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Diba, K. (December 11, 2014) “Dynamic coordination of neuronal spiking in memory circuits.” Talk presented at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Diba, Kamran (January 14, 2015) State-dependent coordination of neurons in memory circuits. Lecture presented at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

Kamran Diba presented a talk entitled “Regulation of hippocampal firing across extended sleep” at the Center for Sleep and Consciousness, University of Wisconsin–Madison. February 5, 2015.

Kamran Diba presented a talk on “State-dependent coordination of neurons in memory circuits” at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Marquette University, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee Joint Bioengineering Seminar, February 13, 2015.

LeBlanc, B., Campbell, V., Kodak, T., Cariveau, T., & Kurtz-Nelson, E. (2015). Comparing the Efficiency of Error Correction Procedures and Children’s Preference for a Particular Procedure. Poster presented at the meeting of the Heartland Association of Behavior Analysis, Omaha, NE.

Moberg, S., Kodak, T., LeBlanc, B., Ayazi, M., Gorgan, E., Liu, Z., (2015, March). An Experimental Analysis of Verbal Behavior: Effects of Auditory Stimuli on Accuracy and Latency to Respond in a Mental Math Task. Poster presented at the Heartland Association for Behavior Analysis Annual Conference, Omaha, Nebraska.

Brittany LeBlanc, a student in the behavior analysis master’s program, received an award for her poster that she presented at the Heartland Association for Behavior Analysis. Her mentor, Dr. Tiffany Kodak, was a co-author on the poster.

Dr. Devin Mueller (Psychology) gave an invited talk at the Winter Conference on Brain Research, in Big Sky, MT. on January 25, 2015 entitled “Prefrontal regulation of fear and drug seeking after extinction”.

Publications

*Brouwer, A. M. & Mosack, K.E. (2015). Expanding the Theory of Planned Behavior to predict healthy eating behaviors: Exploring the role of a healthy eater identity. Nutrition and Food Science, 49, 35-53. *Amanda Brouwer, Ph.D., is a graduate of the experimental psychology program.

Mosack, K.E. & Wandrey**, R. (2015). Discordance in HIV-positive patient and healthcare provider perspectives on death, dying, and end-of-life care. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 32, 161-167. doi:10.1177/1049909113515068 **Current doctoral student in clinical psychology

Whittle, J., Schapira, M.M., Fletcher, K.E., Hayes, A., Morzinski, J., Laud, P., Eastwood, D., Ertl, K., Patterson, L., & Mosack, K.E. (2014). A randomized trial of peer-delivered self-management support for hypertension. American Journal of Hypertension, 27, 1416-1423. doi: 10.1093/ajh/hpu058

Taubitz, L.E., Pedersen, W.S., & Larson, C.L. (2015). BAS reward responsiveness: A unique predictor of positive psychological functioning. Personality and Individual Differences, 80, 107-112. *all 51ÁÔĆć affiliated, Taubitz & Pedersen are students.

Stout, D.S., Shackman, A.J., Johnson, J., & Larson, C.L. (2015). Worry is associated with impaired gating of threat from working memory. Emotion, 15, 6-11. / *Stout & Larson 51ÁÔĆć-affiliated. Stout is a student /

Otis, J.M.*, Werner, C.T. and Mueller, D. (2015). Noradrenergic regulation of fear and drug-associated memory reconsolidation. Neuropsychopharmacology, 40, 793-803.

Hafenbreidel, M.*, Rafa Todd, C.^, Twining, R.C., Tuscher, J.J.*, and Mueller, D. (2014). Bidirectional effects of inhibiting or potentiating NMDA receptors on extinction after cocaine self-administration in rats. Psychopharmacology, 231, 4585-4594. All authors are 51ÁÔĆć-affiliated. * denotes graduate student, ^ denotes undergraduate student     Continue reading “March 2015 Update”

October 2014 Update

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On October 23, Dr. Frick gave a research talk to the Neuroscience program at the University of Wyoming entitled, “Molecular mechanisms underlying estrogenic memory enhancement”.

Dr. Adam Greenberg was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.

Dr. Adam Greenberg gave an invited colloquium in the Psychology department at Michigan State University on October 10, 2014 titled “The Neural Architecture Subserving Visual Attention”.

Katie Mosack was named to the Editorial Board of AIMS Public Health.

Debbie Hannula was an invited symposium speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Memory Disorders Research Society, held in Austin, Texas. The title of her talk was, “Eye movements index learning and memory without awareness.”

Tiffany Kodak became an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

On October 16, Devin Mueller presented “Overcoming addiction: Enhancing extinction and inhibiting cocaine-associated memory retrieval” at the Neuroscience Research Center of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.

Publications

Diba K, Amarasingham A, Mizuseki K, Buzsaki G (2014) Millisecond timescale synchrony among hippocampal neurons. J Neurosci 34(45): 14984-14994.   Only Diba is 51ÁÔĆć-affiliated.

Fortress, A.M. and Frick, K.M. (2014). Epigenetic regulation of estrogen-dependent memory. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 35(4), 530-549. Both authors are 51ÁÔĆć affiliated.

Libby, L.A., * Hannula, D.E., & Ranganath, C. (2014). Medial temporal lobe coding of item and spatial information during relational binding in working memory. Journal of Neuroscience, 34I, 15233-14242.  * Hannula is the only 51ÁÔĆć contributor

Kodak, T., Clements, A., Paden, A. R., LeBlanc, B., Mintz, J., & Toussaint, K. R. (2014). Examination of the relation between an assessment of skills and performance on auditory-visual conditional discriminations for children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 48, 1-19. C-authors Kodak and LeBlanc are affiliated with 51ÁÔĆć.

Becker, K. A., Billig, A. K., & Mosack, K. E. (Oct 24, 2014 Epub ahead of print). Spirituality, religion, and health: The role of communication, appraisals, and coping process for individuals living with chronic illness. Journal of Religion and Health. doi: 10.1007/s10943-014-9965-5.

Grants

Kamran Diba received a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health: NIH/NIMH R21 “KNCQ Potassium Channels and Schizophrenia” 09/10/2014 – 08/31/2016. with co-PI Behnam Ghasemzadeh, Marquette University. (Total $420,794; 51ÁÔĆć $201,613).

Dr. Adam Greenberg received a grant from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation in collaboration with Dr. Shai Gabay at the University of Haifa (Greenberg, PI; Gabay, Co-I) 2014-2016. Title: The Neural Basis of Object-Guided Attention and its Evolutionary Origin. Total costs: $150,000. Continue reading “October 2014 Update”

September 2014 Publications

Dr. Karyn Frick organized and chaired a symposium entitled “Estrogenic Regulation of Hippocampal Memory Formation Throughout the Lifespan” for the 2014 Pavlovian Society Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA.  She also gave a talk in the symposium entitled, “Cell signaling and receptor mechanisms essential for estrogenic regulation of hippocampal memory consolidation”.

Tiffany Kodak became an associate editor for Learning and Motivation.

Belleau, E.L., Taubitz, L. E., & Larson, C. L. Default mode and regulatory networks during externally focused processing in depression. Symposium presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, September 10-14, 2014, Atlanta, GA.

Larson, C.L. Neural markers of emotion dysregulation in acute trauma survivors predict chronic PTSD. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, September 18-21, 2014, Evanston, IL.

Larson, C.L., deRoon-Cassini, T., Taubitz, L.E., & Belleau, E.L. Divergent neural correlates of hyperarousal and intrusive symptoms in acute trauma survivors. Symposium presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, September 10-14, 2014, Atlanta, GA.  -deRoon-Cassini not 51ÁÔĆć-affiliated

Belleau, E.L., Taubitz, L. E., & Larson, C. L. Default mode and regulatory networks during externally focused processing in depression. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, September 18-21, 2014, Evanston, IL.

Haworth, K., Taubitz, L. E., Larson C. L. Gender differences in reward sensitivity. Poster has been accepted and will be presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology 28th Annual Conference, September 18-21, 2014, Evanston, IL.

Miskovich, T.A., Hanson, J.L., Newman, J.P., Baskin-Sommers, A.R., Koenigs, M.R., Stout, D.M., Balderston, N.L., Kiehl, K.A., & Larson, C.L.  Abnormal gyrification and white matter integrity in psychopathy. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, September 18-21, 2014, Evanston, IL.  -Newman, Baskin-Sommers, Koenigs, Kiehl are not 51ÁÔĆć affiliated

Stout, D.M., Shackman, A.J., Johnson, J.S., Miskovich, T.A., & Larson, C.L. Deficits gating threat from working memory in anxiety. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, September 18-21, 2014, Evanston, IL.  -Shackman and Johnson are not 51ÁÔĆć affiliated

Taubitz, L.E., & Larson, C.L. Reduced reward enhancement of visual selective attention in anhedonia and lifetime depression. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, September 18-21, 2014, Evanston, IL.

Octavio A. Santos**, Dmitriy Kazakov**, Mary K. Reamer***, Sydney E. Park*** and David C. Osmon* (2014). Effort in College Undergraduates Is Sufficient on the Word Memory Test. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. doi: 10.1093/arclin/acu039 (published first online, in print version has not yet come out) 

Santos, O. A**., deGail, N. M***., Morrison, T***., Hummer, B***., Storch, D. A***., & Osmon, D. C*. (August, 2014). Implicit self-esteem, explicit self-concept and personality traits discrepancy. Poster presented at the 122nd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

Santos, O. A**., deGail, N. M***, Storch, D. A***., Hummer, B***., & Osmon, D. C*. (June, 2014). Survey of ADHD and learning disabilities feigning in college students. Poster presented at 12th Annual American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology Conference, New York City, NY.

Santos, O. A**., Park, S. E***., Langenkamp, M. M***., Zupek, S. J***., Anderson, J. J***., & Osmon, D. C*. (May, 2014). Ex-Gaussian analysis of reaction time on non-executive and executive elementary cognitive tasks in ADHD and control subjects. Poster presented at the 2014 meeting of the Midwest Neuropsychology Group, Milwaukee, WI.

Santos, O. A**., deGail, N. M***, Storch, D. A***., Hummer, B***., & Osmon, D. C*. (April, 2014). ADHD feigning and drug use in college students. Poster presented at the 2014 Wisconsin Psychological Association Convention, Madison, WI.

Santos, O. A**., deGail, N. M***., Green, B**., Kozlowski, A. J***., Langenkamp, M. M***., Bergeron, C. D***., & Osmon, D. C*. (May, 2014). Prevalence of ADHD malingering in American college students. Poster presented at the Canadian Public Health Association 2014 Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Hummer, B***., deGail, N. M***., Storch, D. A***., Santos, O. A**., & Osmon, D. C*. (April, 2014). Implicit-explicit personality discrepancy and self-structure. Poster presented at the 2014 Wisconsin Psychological Association Convention, Madison, WI.

deGail, N. M***., Santos, O. A**., Green, B**., Kozlowski, A. J***., Langenkamp, M. M***., & Osmon, D. C*. (February, 2014). ADHD feigning questionnaire in college students. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Seattle, WA.

Kazakov, D**., Osmon, D. C*., Kapur, N., & Hannula, D. E*. (2014, April). Eye movements index memory despite simulated recognition impairment. Poster presented at the Wisconsin Psychological Association 2014 Convention, Madison, Wisconsin.

Kennedy-Hettwer, E***., Kazakov, D**., Osmon, D. C*., Kapur, N., & Hannula, D. E*. (2014, April). Eye movements unmask simulated recognition memory impairment. Poster presented at the 13th Annual UW-System Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Diane Reddy is the winner of the Online Learning Consortium’s 2014 Excellence in Online Teaching Award.

*faculty, **graduate student ,***undergraduate student

Psychology Major Learns to COPE

By Sarah Mann, College of Letters & Science

The stereotype is that interns only fetch the coffee, but Psychology major Ciera Lewis was counseling people with mental illness and suicidal thoughts rather than making the Starbucks run. Lewis, a senior Psychology student, is fresh off a nine-month internship with the COPE Crisis Hotline in Ozaukee County in southeast Wisconsin. Volunteers and interns with COPE Crisis Services provide emotional support, crisis intervention and information and referral services to both Ozaukee County and the greater Milwaukee area. Lewis answered phones and talked with callers about their hopes, fears and problems during her junior year at 51ÁÔĆć.

“I was looking for more field experience in Psychology, so I figured that would be a way to get my foot in the door,” Lewis said. “The experience in general was helpful because I don’t have any clinical experience, so getting to talk to people who have problems and listening to them, getting a sense of what it would be like to be a therapist or clinician, working with the mentally ill population – that was probably the best part of the internship.”

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Ciera Lewis stands near her research poster at the UW-Stystem Symposium this spring.

She was alerted to the internship opportunity by Associate Professor of Psychology Christine Larson. Lewis is a McNair Scholar and has conducted research, served as a student mentor for freshman at 51ÁÔĆć and tutored elementary school students, but the COPE internship was the first time that she
worked with populations that were mentally ill. She usually manned the phones with other volunteers on weekday nights. After her training in October, she was prepared to talk to people in crisis and call the police for emergency interventions, but the calls were far less dramatic than she anticipated.

“A lot of the people who call are calling because they don’t have anyone to talk to, because their mental illness has taken over their life and the people that take care of them … are sick of listening to their story over and over again,” Lewis said. “(Repeat callers) get really upset if you don’t know them because they’ve been calling for so long.”

There was the one woman who called every day just to talk to the volunteers about how her day had gone. There was another woman who liked to call to complain about how hard her life was and rejected each solution volunteers asked about. One man who regularly suffered psychotic episodes called to have a friendly voice in his ear while he waited for his medication to take effect. Another man called after a suicide attempt and volunteers were able to talk with his wife and checked in with him again on the way to the hospital.

Listening to the calls could be a bit draining, Lewis said.

“You have to drop everything at the door and just say, okay, well, I had a tough day but it’s my turn to just listen and help other people,” she explained.

There were some bright points too. Lewis recalls talking with one man who was anxious about returning to school as an adult student. She asked him about his plans and how he was feeling about the whole endeavor.

“He was so thankful that I was listening, because all of his family members didn’t want to hear about it. They didn’t want to see him doing good things. He just was very appreciative of it,” Lewis said with a smile.

Though she enjoyed her experience with the COPE Hotline, Lewis will probably not be returning during her senior year – she’s poised to become the first member of her family to earn a Bachelor’s degree and she’s in the process of applying to graduate schools and debating whether she wants to become a clinical psychologist or conduct research in academia. Even so, she encourages others to try volunteering themselves. All it takes is some patience, compassion and a friendly ear.

NSF Grant Helps Professor Make Memories

By Sarah Mann, College of Letters & Science

Hannula_600x850_croppedProfessor Deborah Hannula

Usually, memory’s a helpful thing to have when you’re working on a project. It’s a lot easier to find your keys if you remember where you put them down, for example. But your memories might not always be so beneficial. Professor Deborah Hannula is conducting research in the relatively unexplored field of memory’s effects on attention, and her work has netted her the first National Science Foundation CAREER Award to ever be earned by a member of the 51ÁÔĆć Psychology Department. Hannula’s is a five-year grant that was awarded in June. “NSF CAREER grants are one of the nation’s premier awards for young researchers who are on their way to becoming the future leaders in their fields. Our Psychology Department’s rapidly rising national reputation is due in large part to the cutting-edge research conducted by Deborah Hannula and others,” said Rodney Swain, Dean of the College of Letters and Science at 51ÁÔĆć. Hannula’s research seeks to answer questions about whether people’s attention can be co-opted from the task at hand if there is a meaningful and remembered object within the environment. The answers she finds could impact the field of mental health.

“The research may have implications for things like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or certain types of psychiatric conditions,” Hannula said. “Imagine that you’ve had a negative experience and that a neutral object was present at the time. This neutral object happens to be something that is present in the environment in lots of situations. … It is reasonable to ask, will the object suddenly capture your attention in a way that keeps you from completing on-going tasks effectively?”

To answer that question, Hannula will be conducting experiments that measure the eye movements and brain function of her participants. Participants will study a series of pictures to commit them to memory for a test at the end of the experiment. Before the test, they’ll engage in an attention task: Participants will be told to look at the middle of a screen
at a fixed point and respond to a target stimulus – in this case, they’ll try to fi nd an orange spot that will appear on the screen – as quickly as possible. The pictures they studied may be appear as well during this task, but they are irrelevant and unrelated to the current goals or objectives.

“Under these circumstances, we can address questions about the potential for remembered content to capture attention, and if this occurs, we can evaluate how long it takes before attention can be effectively disengaged and reallocated in a manner consistent with current objectives,” Hannula said. “The work has potential real-world implications because it’s possible that memory-based capture is slowing us down or making us less effective in a variety of situations, particularly in cases of neurological or psychiatric disorder. … In addition to addressing these basic questions, we will also attempt to identify the neural mechanisms that contribute to capture and subsequent disengagement of attention from capturing content.”

Elaine Mahoney demonstrates how to track the eye movements to determine if remembered content can capture attention and impact task performance. Photo courtesy of Deborah Hannula.Elaine Mahoney demonstrates how to track the eye movements to determine if remembered content can capture attention and impact task performance. Photo courtesy of Deborah Hannula.

She measures the “memory-based capture” by tracking the participants’ eye movements with infrared light. The light, projected from a camera, creates a corneal reflection off of the eye. The camera keeps track of the position of the reflection with respect to the eye’s pupil and Hannula uses that data and a computer algorithm to determine where the participant was looking and for how long.

In addition, Hannula will be using Functional Magnet Resonance Imaging, or fMRI, to measure brain activity during the performance of the task. The scans are expensive – about $1,000 per participant – so the CAREER grant will help defray the costs of the project. The fMRI shows which parts of the brain are active during the memory and attention task. “We’ll be able to look at trials in which participants’ eye movements were captured by an object versus trials in which that didn’t happen, and then we can see, by comparing these two trial types, the brain regions that are more active when capture occurs – the identified regions must be contributing to that process,” Hannula said. “We’re going to be collecting the eye movement data during scanning. So we’re combining those two techniques. That way, we’ll be able to sort the trials not only on the basis of behavioral performance like response time, but also based on these eye movement measures of capture, which is unusual. Very few researchers combine fMRI and eye-tracking methods like this.”

Hannula’s work doesn’t stop with her experiments, however. The NSF CAREER grant includes an educational and community outreach component. Over the summer, Hannula hosted a three-day workshop for high school students in the Upward Bound math and science program at 51ÁÔĆć to introduce them to the basics of attention, memory and neuroscience. In the fall of 2015, she will be teaching a freshmen seminar to discuss how cognitive neuroscience is portrayed in the media, especially in the context of computerized brain-training tools that have become increasingly popular. Hannula will also be forming a book club to encourage community members to read and think about the brain and memory.