Author: Lisa Johnson

Congratulations to our PhD student Yessenia Rivera, who was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for her proposal, Setting the stage: A neurophysiological approach to memory development from childhood into adulthood!

Welcome to undergraduate student Kira Benazzouz! Kira is studying Neuroscience and Cognitive Science. She will support our scalp EEG research program, and work on new projects using games to study memory and attention in kids and adults.

Welcome to PhD student Sophie Ack! During her rotation in the lab, Sophie will sort out the roles of prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices in working-memory based decision making using intracranial EEG. She holds a BA in Neuroscience with a Minor in Economics from Wellesley College.

Congratulations to our PhD student Joe Kelly, who was awarded a training grant by the NINDS-funded program on the neuroscience of human cognition!

Congratulations to our PhD student Josset Yarbrough, who was awarded a training grant by the NINDS-funded program on the neuroscience of human cognition!

Congratulations to postdoctoral scholar Dr. Zach Cross, who received the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Postdoctoral Fellowship Award! Come learn about his exciting project, Age-related differences in theta oscillations across development: Insights from intracranial EEG and brain structure-function relationships, this April in Toronto, ON.

Congratulations to our PhD student Yessenia Rivera, who was awarded a training grant by the NIMH-funded program on the neurobiology of information storage!

Congratulations to Josset Yarbrough, Dr. Zach Cross, Lindsay Shi, Samantha Gray, and Yessenia Rivera (left to right) on their awesome presentations at the 2023 Society for Neuroscience meeting! Some of our latest research on the electrophysiological mechanisms of working and long-term memory in children and adults, supported by the NIH BRAIN Initiative.

Ana de Souza is featured by the Northwestern Office of Undergraduate Research for her work developing experimental tasks to localize memory function in pediatric epilepsy patients being considered for surgery. Read about her research experience here.

The quest to understand how the development of the brain supports the development of complex cognitive functions is fueled by advances in methods. Intracranial EEG (iEEG) recorded directly from the developing human brain provides unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution for mapping the neurophysiological mechanisms supporting cognitive development. We review the burgeoning field of developmental iEEG, and demonstrate how recording directly from the developing brain holds immense potential to advance our understanding of cognitive development. Paper published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.