Learning and Memory
The goal of learning and memory research is to understand how we allocate, acquire, retain, and retrieve information. By its very nature, this research is integrative and cross-disciplinary, incorporating molecular, cell biological, systems and behavioral level approaches to study synapses, neurons, circuits, brains and behavior. UCLA is internationally recognized for the excellence of its research in learning and memory. Together, its outstanding faculty cover molecular to systems approaches to the study of memory, working in model systems ranging from Aplysia to mouse to humans. Students in the Learning and Memory FAR will become part of this interactive and energetic community with organized, well-attended scientific activities, including a long-standing weekly Learning and Memory Journal Club, an annual Southern California Learning and Memory Symposium, and a myriad of other events that highlight the strengths of this community. Additional new courses are being developed to further enrich the training opportunities.
List of Faculty:
| Adhikari, Avishek | Neural control of emotional behaviors, with a focus on fear and anxiety |
| Arac, Ahmet | Mechanisms of motor behavior and neural activity relationship |
| Bari, Ausaf | Invasive Human Brain Mapping for Reward, Addiction, Decision-Making and Motor Control |
| Bearden, Carrie | Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Cognition, Neuroimaging and Genetics of Mood Disorders and Psychosis |
| Bisley, James | Cognitive Processing of Visual Information; Guidance of Eye Movements |
| Blair, Hugh Tad | Learning and Memory; Neural Computation |
| Blaisdell, Aaron | Learning and Behavior |
| Bookheimer, Susan | Functional Neuroimaging of Language and Memory |
| Buonomano, Dean | Neural Dynamics: Neural Basis of Learning and Temporal Processing |
| Cahill, Catherine | Chronic pain and opioid addiction |
| Castrellon, Jaime | Social and affective mechanisms of motivation and decision making |
| Churchland, Anne | Sensory perception and decision-making. |
| Clewett, David | Cognitive and neural mechanisms of emotional memory in humans |
| Coley, Austin | Neural populations and circuits involved in stress and depression behaviors |
| Colwell, Christopher | Neural Control of Behavior, Circadian Rhythms |
| Daboussi, Lydia | Mechanisms of Plasticity for Neural Repair |
| DeNardo, Laura | Assembly and function of neural circuits underlying adaptive behaviors |
| Deters, Kacie | Risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia in Black individuals |
| Donlea, Jeffrey M. | Sleep regulation, learning and memory |
| Fanselow, Michael | Learning, Memory and Emotion |
| Fried, Itzhak | The Neuronal Basis of Human Memory; Ameliorating Memory Dysfunction with Stimulation |
| Glanzman, David | Neurobiology of Learning and Memory |
| Golshani, Peyman | Autism Spectrum Disorders and Developmental Epilepsies |
| Harper, Ronald | Neural Mechanisms in Sleep State |
| Hong, Weizhe | Neural Mechanisms of Social Behavior |
| Huk, Alex | Neural computations underlying vision, cognition, and action |
| Izquierdo, Alicia | Neuroscience of Decision making; Addiction |
| Knowlton, Barbara | Neural Substrates of Higher Cognitive Functions |
| Leal, Stephanie | Cognitive and neural mechanisms of emotional memory in healthy and disease states (e.g. depression, aging, Alzheimer's disease) |
| Liu, Zili | How People See and Why They See The Way They Do? |
| Martin, Kelsey | Cell Biology of Learning-related Synaptic Plasticity |
| Masmanidis, Sotiris | Neural circuits of reward learning and motor control, addiction, movement disorders |
| Mathews, Paul | Mechanisms of learning and memory, motor coordination |
| Mazziotta, John | Neuroimaging, Brain Mapping |
| Mehta, Mayank | Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Learning and Memory, Sleep, Neural Oscillations, Neural Coding |
| Mody, Istvan | Synaptic Signaling in Health and Disease |
| O'Dell, Thomas | Synaptic and Molecular Mechanisms in Learning and Memory Formation |
| Poe, Gina | Investigating the mechanisms by which sleep traits serve learning and memory consolidation |
| Portera-Cailliau, Carlos | Imaging the Assembly and Plasticity of Cortical Circuits with Two Photon Microscopy |
| Rissman, Jesse | Cognitive and neural mechanisms of memory formation and retrieval in humans |
| Schweizer, Felix | Molecular Mechanisms and Regulation of Synaptic Transmission |
| Siegel, Jerome | Sleep, Motor Control |
| Silva, Alcino | Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory |
| Spigelman, Igor | Neuropharmacology |
| Suthana, Nanthia | Neuromodulation and Neuroimaging of Human Learning and Memory |
| Trachtenberg, Joshua | Understanding Cortical Plasticity from Synapses to Circuits |
| Wassum, Kate | Behavioral Neuroscience, Learning and Behavior, Addiction |
| White, Stephanie | Social Influences on Learning and Memory |
| Wikenheiser, Andrew | Understanding how neural representations guide behavior |
| Wilke, Scott | Role of prefrontal cortex circuits in adaptive and maladaptive decision making |
| Zhou, Z. Hong | Studies structures of synaptic receptors, neuronal infections and neurodegenerative diseases by cryo electron microscopy (cryoEM). |