Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience Symposium: Prof. Michael D. Rugg - Using Cognitive Neuroscience to understand age-related differences in cognitive function
| Dates: | 8 May 2025 |
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| Times: | 15:00 - 16:30 |
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| What is it: | Symposium |
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| Organiser: | Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Professor Michael D. Rugg |
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Title: "Using Cognitive Neuroscience to understand age-related differences in cognitive function."
Time: 15:00 (Drinks reception to follow)
Location: Michael Smith Seminar/Lecture Room, Michael Smith Building
Speaker: Professor Michael D. Rugg
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Prof Michael Rugg holds the Distinguished Chair in Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas and is Director of the University’s Center for Vital Longevity.
Mick Rugg obtained a BSc and PhD in psychology from the University of Leicester, UK. Following a postdoctoral year at the University of York, in 1979 he was appointed to a lectureship in psychology at the University of St Andrews, where he went on to become Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Department. In 1998 he moved to the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, as Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow. He remained there until 2003, when he moved to the University of California, Irvine as a Professor of Neurobiology and Director of The Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. He moved to the University of Texas, Dallas, in 2011 as Distinguished Chair in Behavioral and Brain Sciences and Director of the Center for Vital Longevity.
Professional recognition includes Fellowships of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Association for Psychological Science. He is past-chair of the Cognition and Perception and the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory study sections of the Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and former editor-in-chief of the international journal Neuropsychologia. He currently chairs NIH’s Cognitive Disorder and Brain Aging study section. Mick’s principal research interests are in the cognitive neuroscience of human memory, and how and why memory is affected by age and disease. He uses functional neuroimaging, electroencephalography and transcranial magnetic stimulation to identify the neural regions and the patterns of their activity that allow memories to be acquired and retrieved. His research addresses fundamental questions about how humans learn and remember, and translational issues such as identifying people most at risk of developing disorders of memory in later life. Current funded research projects focus of the neural mechanisms of memory encoding and retrieval, and on the brain basis of individual differences in memory function across the adult lifespan.
Speaker
Professor Michael D. Rugg
Biography: Distinguished Chair in Behavioral and Brain Sciences and Director of the Center for Vital Longevity at the University of Texas, Dallas
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Michael Smith Seminar/Lecture Room
Michael Smith Building
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