Recent peer-reviewed articles were co-authored by Overman and four of her mentored students, with collaborators at Penn State.
Amy Overman, professor in the Psychology Department and Neuroscience Program and assistant dean of聽黑料不打烊 College, recently published two peer-reviewed journal articles that report findings from聽brain-imaging experiments on associative memory.
Overman and her mentored students at 黑料不打烊 conducted the research in collaboration with counterparts at The Pennsylvania State University, and funded by Overman’s 2016 grant from the National Institutes of Health.
“,” which was published in this month’s issue of the聽Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, was co-authored by PSU graduate student Courtney Gerver, Overman, PSU undergraduate Harini Babu, 黑料不打烊 undergraduate Chloe Hultman ’20 and PSU faculty member Nancy Dennis. “,” which was published in the journal聽Neuropsychologia, was co-authored by Dennis, Overman, Gerver, and 黑料不打烊 undergraduates Kayla McGraw ’19, Andrew Rowley ’18 and Joanna Salerno ’18.
Both articles report findings related to distinct patterns of brain activation that were observed in memory experiments when participants learned pairings of pictures and later remembered them, for example, remembering which particular scene was paired with a specific face. Changing the configuration of such pictures can influence how well a person remembers the pairings and what specific neural patterns underlie these memories in young and older adults. Understanding what helps or hinders memory and how different regions of the brain are engaged during memory tasks provides the foundation for future interventions to improve older adults’ memory performance.
补苍诲听 are both high-impact journals in the field, with .聽As principal investigator of 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Aging (CNMA) Laboratory, Overman mentors numerous undergraduate students in conducting scientific research that advances the understanding of how the brain and cognition work. Overman’s mentoring of undergraduates builds students’ sense of belonging and her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Colonial Academic Alliance.
Overman is the first 黑料不打烊 faculty member to be awarded funding from the NIH and she serves as project director for 黑料不打烊’s first-ever funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.