Gabriele Gratton received his M.D. from University of Rome in 1980 and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1991. He is a professor in the Psychology Department and a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute Cognitive Neuroscience group. His field of interest is Cognitive Neuroscience. Gabriele Gratton's interests are in cognitive neuroscience, specifically in the basic organization (spatial, temporal, and functional) of elementary cognitive processes such as those involved in sensory and working memory, attention, motor preparation, and strategy selection. Gratton has been focusing on the application of functional brain imaging methods to the study of these processes in normal adult subjects using optical, electrophysiological and hemodynamic techniques.

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Monica Fabiani received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990. She is a professor in the University of Illinois Department of Psychology and a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute Cognitive Neuroscience Group. Her fields of professional interest are cognitive neuroscience, memory, and aging. Monica Fabiani's research interests are in the cognitive neuroscience of human memory and aging, as well as in the development of tools for the non-invasive mapping of human brain function. Her research involves the integration of data from different domains, including behavioral responses, neuropsychological tests, and brain anatomy and function (event-related brain potentials, or ERPs; structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI; and optical imaging, including near infrared spectroscopy, or NIRS, and a new technique developed by Gabriele Gratton (CNS Group) and Fabiani, the event-related optical signals, or EROS).

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I graduated from Salisbury University in Maryland with a B.A. in Psychology in May 2018. Before joining the Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab, I was involved in research with Salisbury’s Neuroscience Lab and Cognitive Aging Lab. My responsibilities here in the Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab include recruiting and scheduling participants, helping run optical sessions, administering neuropsychological tests, and conducting MRI, EEG, and ERP recordings relating cerebrovascular health to cognitive decline throughout the lifespan. In the future I hope to pursue a Ph.D. in Neuroscience.

I graduated from Boston University with a B.A. in Biology and French Studies in 2017. Before joining the Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab, I had done research in the areas of micro-biology, bio-energy, neurobiology, and neuroscience. My role here involves recruiting and screening participants, organizing and running neuropsych, MRI, and optical sessions, and various administrative tasks for the pulse elasticity study (also called the arterial health study).

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab. I received a BA (2013) and an MA (2015) in Psychology both from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. I completed my PhD in 2020 at the University of Sheffield in Dr Liat Levita’s Developmental Affective Neuroscience Lab. My dissertation focused on the neural and behavioral correlates of dynamic adjustments of cognitive control in adults and adolescents. At CNL, I am involved in work focusing on the oscillatory correlates of cognitive control and how these are affected by aging.

I received my Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018, and I am currently a Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow. I am interested in examining aspects of cognitive control, emotion processing, decision making, social cognition, and individual differences related to these processes. I use techniques such as structural and functional MRI, EEG/ERPs, and optical imaging (EROS, NIRS), as well as combinations of these techniques (e.g., simultaneous fMRI-EEG-EROS), in conjunction with behavioral and neuropsychological assessment tools.

I received my Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016 working in the CNL, where I did research on the relationship between vascular function and cognitive health in normal aging using magnetic resonance and diffuse optical imaging for non-invasive measures of neurovascular structure and function. As a postdoc, I am continuing this work and extending it to more deeply study interactions between vascular health in the brain and mechanisms of cognitive control. I also organize a neuroscience book club and am interested in the communication of science within the scientific community and between scientists and the public.

I graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology, Psychology, and Philosophy. Broadly, my research interests encompass emotion-cognition interactions and their associated neural mechanisms. Moreover, I aim to elucidate the role that healthy aging and individual differences play in modulating the interplay between emotional and cognitive processes. Currently, I utilize event-related brain potentials (ERPs), in conjunction with modified cognitive control tasks, in order to describe the time-course of emotional and cognitive processes. I am also incorporating resting-state fMRI in order to examine how the brain's functional architecture changes across the lifespan and how these alterations may impact executive functioning.

I am a graduate student in the Cognitive Neuroscience division of the Psychology Department. My research interests are in understanding the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive and behavioral changes occurring during healthy aging. I am beginning to explore the relationship between physiological effects, like physical fitness, and differences in an individual's cognitive functioning. I currently employ electroencephalography but am beginning to use MRI and optical imaging. I received my B.A. from Miami University (Ohio) in 2016 with majors in Psychology and Neuroscience and minors in Statistical Methods and Classical Languages.