Patricia Reuter-Lorenz Ph.D.
| 530 Church Street, East Hall |
| Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043 |
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Research in my laboratory investigates the neural and cognitive mechanisms of attention, working memory and strategic control. Using a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging studies we investigate such questions as: Do the hemispheres makes different contributions to attention and working memory? What is the effect of aging on attention and working memory? How can strategies be used to promote efficient performance? What is the relationship between attention and consciousness? How do emotion and cognition interact?
Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., Stanczak, L., & Miller, A.: Neural recruitment and cognitive aging: Two hemispheres are better than one especially as you age. Psychological Science 10, 494-500, 1999.
Reuter-Lorenz, P.A.: Parallel processing in the bisected brain: Implications for callosal function. In E. Zaidel, and M. Iacoboni, (eds.) The Parallel Brain: the Cognitive neuroscience of the Corpus Callosum. MIT Press, 2003.
Reuter-Lorenz, P.A. and Lustig, C. (2005). Brain aging: reorganizing discoveries about the aging mind. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 15 (4) 245-251.
Mikels, J. and Reuter-Lorenz, P.A. (2004) Neural gate keeping: Attentional functions of the corpus callosum. Neuropsychology, 18, 328-339.
Reuter-Lorenz, PA and Mikels, J. (2005). Disconnection deficits in Alzheimer‚ÄöÑ¥s disease? Behavioral measures of callosal function. Neuropsychologia. 43 (9), 1307-1317.
Nelson, J.K., Reuter-Lorenz, P.A., Sylvester, C.Y., Jonides, J., & Smith, E. (2003). Dissociable neural mechanisms underlying response-based and familiarity-based conflict in working memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 100 (19), 11171-11175.
Mikels, J.A.., Larkin, G.R., Reuter-Lorenz, P.A., & Carstensen, L.L. (2005). Divergent trajectories in the aging mind: Changes in working memory for affective versus visual information with age. Psychology & Aging. 20(4), 542-553.
Persson, J., Reuter-Lorenz, P.A., Jonides, J. & Welsh, K.A. (2007). Cognitive fatigue of executive processes: Interaction between interference resolution tasks. Neuropsychologia, 45, 1571-1579.
Persson, J., Lustig, C.A., Nelson, J.K. and Reuter-Lorenz, P.A., (2007). Aging and task-induced deactivations: A link to cognitive control? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Atkins, A. & Reuter-Lorenz, P.A., (in press). False working memories?: Memory distortions in a mere four seconds. Memory and Cognition.
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