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Michael Derek Rugg

Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior
School of Biological Sciences
Director, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
Research Centers and Institutes

Degree
  Ph.D., University of Leicester, 1979, Psychology
   
Graduate Programs
  Neurobiology and Behavior
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
 
Web Site
  http://fnim.bio.uci.edu/
 
Interests
  Human Memory, EEG, fMRI, Neuroimaging, Aging
 
Abstract
  Resarch programs in the laboratory use electrophysiological (EEG & ERP) and functional neuroimaging (fMRI) methods to investigate a variety of aspects of human memory. These include the cognitive and neural bases of memory encoding and retrieval, as well as how and why memory function differs as a result of healthy aging or neurological disease.
 
Academic Distinctions
  Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh
 
Publications
  Yonelinas, A.P., Otten, L.J., Shaw, K.N., and Rugg, M.D. Separating the brain regions involved in recollection and familiarity in recognition memory. Journal of Neuroscience, 2005, 25, 3002-3008.
 
 
  Woodruff, C.C, Johnson, J.D., Uncapher, M.R. and Rugg, M.D. Content-specificity of the neural correlates of recollection. Neuropsychologia, 2005, 43, 1022-32.
 
 
  Johnson, J.D., and Rugg, M.D. Modulation of the electrophysiological correlates of retrieval cue processing by the specificity of task demands. Brain Research, 2006, 1071, 153-164.
 
 
  Otten , L.J., Quayle, A.H., Akram , S., Ditewig, T.A., and Rugg, M.D. Brain activity before an event predicts later recollection. Nature Neuroscience, 2006, 9, 489-491.
 
 
  Uncapher, M.R., Otten, L.J., and Rugg, M.D. Episodic encoding is more than the sum of its parts: an fMRI investigation of multifeatural contextual encoding. Neuron, 2006, 52, 547-556.
 
 
  Woodruff, C.C., Hayama, H., and Rugg, M.D. Electrophysiological dissociation of the neural correlates of recollection and familiarity. Brain Research, 2006, 1100, 125-135.
 
 
  Johnson, J.D. and Rugg, M.D. Recollection and the reinstatement of encoding-related cortical activity. Cerebral Cortex, 2007, 17, 2507-2515.
 
 
  Morcom, A.M., Li, J., and Rugg, M.D. Age effects on the neural correlates of episodic retrieval: Increased cortical recruitment with matched performance. Cerebral Cortex, 2007, 17, 2491-2506
 
 
  Vilberg, K., and Rugg, M.D. Dissociation of the neural correlates of recognition memory according to familiarity, recollection, and amount of recollected information. Neuropsychologia, 2007, 45, 2216-2225.
 
Phone
  (949) 824-8531
 
Fax
  (949) 824-4807
 
Email
  mrugg@uci.edu
 
Address
  University of California, Irvine
116 Bonney Research Lab
  Mail Code: 3800
  Irvine, CA 92697
   
Grant:
  National Institutes of Health. Neural correlates of episodic memory in older adults. Apr 2005- Mar 2010. $664,000 direct costs. National Institutes of Health. Episodic memory encoding: fMRI investigations. Aug 2005-July 2009. $558,000 direct costs. National Institutes of Health. Retrieval processing in human memory: ERP and fMRI investigations. Oct 2005-Sep 2010. $1,000,000 direct costs
 
 
 
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