Welcome to the CabezaLab
Welcome to our laboratory!

We investigate the cognitive neuroscience of memory by using functional MRI (fMRI) to examine the neural correlates of episodic memory (memory for personally experienced past events) in healthy young and older adults. We have been pursuing four main lines of research: (1) basic episodic memory processes, (2) autobiographical memory, (3) emotional memory, and (4) cognitive aging.
(e-mail) cabezalab@duke.edu (phone) 919.668.5262 (fax) 919.681.0815
Mailing address:
CabezaLab
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Duke University, LSRC, B254, Box 90999
Durham, NC 27708
Recent news:
6/2010- Web of Knowledge, Essential Science Indicators, ranks Cabeza & Nyberg's 2000 empirical review as the 8th most cited paper in Neuroscience & Behavior for 2000-2010.
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4/2010- The Vancouver Sun covered the Tsukiura and Cabeza, 2010 Scan publication, "Shared brain activity for asethetic and moral judgement: implications for the Beauty-is-Good stereotype".
3/2009 - Science Magazine has published a story on SenseCam, a wearable camera that records thousands of pictures passively. Our lab is currently using this device in studies of autobiographical memory.

1/2009 - Click the links below to see media coverage of Huijbers, Pennartz, Cabeza, and Daselaar's recent paper, "When Learning and Remembering Compete: A Functional MRI Study."
More links can be found by visiting our News page.
This video is currently on display at the American Museum of Natural History
12/2008 - St. Jacques, Dolcos, and Cabeza's recent paper entitled "Effects of Aging on Functional Connectivity of the Amygdala for Subsequent Memory of Negative Pictures: A Network Analysis of fMRI Data"
has received media coverage from many sources. Check out the links below, and visit our News page to read more. Also, click here to see a video segment describing the findings of this study.

Recent publications:
- Dennis, N. A., Need, A. C., LaBar, K. S., Waters-Metenier, S., Cirulli, E. T., Kragel, J., Goldstein, D. B., & Cabeza, R. (in press). COMT Val108/158Met genotype affects neural but not cognitive processing in healthy individuals. Cerebral Cortex.
- St. Jacques, P. L., Bessette-Symons, B., & Cabeza, R. (2009). Functional neuroimaging studies of aging and emotion: Fronto-amygdalar differences during emotional perception and episodic memory. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.
- Davis, S. W., Dennis, N. A., Buchler, N. G., White, L. E., Madden, D. J., & Cabeza, R. (2009). Assessing the effects of age on long white matter tracts using diffusion tensor tractography. Neuroimage.
- Prince, S. E., Dennis, N. A., & Cabeza, R. (2009). Encoding and retrieving faces and places: Distinguishing process- and stimulus-specific differences in brain activity. Neuropsychologia.
St. Jacques, P. L., Dolcos, F., & Cabeza, R. (2009). Effects of aging on functional connectivity of the amygdala for subsequent memory of negative pictures: A network analysis of fMRI data. Psychological Science.




