How do our brains enable memory and attention?
We study the cognitive and neural foundations of how we perceive the world, learn new things, and remember our past.
We study the cognitive and neural foundations of how we perceive the world, learn new things, and remember our past.
About the lab
Our ability to process our surroundings, learn new things, and remember our past determines who we are and how we interact with the world.
The Hutchinson Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience investigates these foundational cognitive processes — specifically how the brain gives rise to memory and attention, and how the two continuously shape one another. We combine behavioral experiments with neuroimaging to ask how past experience guides what we notice, and how what we notice becomes what we remember.
The lab is part of the Oregon Memory Group in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon.
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How does past experience shape what we attend to in the present? We study the control of selective attention by multiple memory systems.
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How does information become a lasting memory, and how are memory and perception reflected in distributed patterns of brain activity?
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We examine the roles of posterior parietal and medial temporal regions in attention and episodic memory decisions.
Open science
Experiment tasks, analysis pipelines, and lab tooling live on the lab’s GitHub. Publications update automatically from the PI’s ORCID record.