🎓 Congratulations, Terps!! 🎉🐢
An incredible milestone for an incredible group of UMD graduates — a big send-off for these wonderful trainees. Thank you all for your great contributions to the lab and for making everything we do feel worthwhile. You are, in the most honest sense, the coolest thing our work has to a direct impact on the real world.
Josh — off to medical school! We are so grateful for the dedication, the long commute, and the genuine care you brought to every task in the lab. Your future patients will be lucky to have you in their corner! 🙂 🩺
Alena — on to graduate school, weaving together bioengineering and art in your genuinely creative way. Your curiosity, elegance, originality, and thoughtfulness will continue to make you shine wherever you go. 🎨🔬
Asbah — continuing at the NIH for postbac training! No coincidence — it's the direct result of hard work, dedication, and the quiet excellence of showing up every day and bringing your whole heart to it.🧬🏛️
So proud of all of you! 🌟🌟🌟 Fearless forward, Terps!
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What we do
We study the human brain and behavior to understand memory and cognition. We are curious about what constitutes the mind, how it is implemented in the brain, and how it relates to one's health. Our research is focused on memory, as it captures both the content (what we remember) and process (how we remember) of the mind, providing a solid foundation for us to understand more complex mental phenomena, such as affect, decision-making, social interaction, and mental health. As an outgrowth of this research and because discussions of this research raised interesting data-analytic questions, we also work to develop and promote methods to interpret large-scale behavioral and neural data. See our recent progress.
Credit: UMD neuroscience undergraduate program
Study Human Cognition and Neuroscience at the University of Maryland
Undergrad. major in Psychology or Neuroscience
Ph.D. in Neuroscience & Cognitive Science
Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems