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Navigation Labs Laboratory for Basic and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience (Dr. Steve Luck) Research The ERP Boot Camp People Publications Participate Introduction to the ERP Technique ERP Stimuli An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique Working Memory Stimuli An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique Research In Attention Research In Visual Working Memory Research In Schizophrenia Research In Development and Communication of ERP Methods Research In Development and Communication of ERP Methods Visual Working Memory Demonstration Downloadable scripts for experimental paradigms Change Detection task for assessing visual working memory capacity (E-Prime Script) Change Localization task for assessing visual working memory capacity (E-Prime Script) Laboratory for Brain and Language (Tamara Swaab) Affiliated Labs 267 Cousteau Place Davis, CA 95618 (530) 297-4651 phone (530) 297-4400 fax Quick links University Library MyUCDavis Search the CMB

Center for Mind and Brain > Labs > Laboratory for Basic and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience (Dr. Steve Luck) Personal tools Log in Laboratory for Basic and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience Our laboratory focuses on the neural and cognitive mechanisms of attention and working memory in healthy young adults and dysfunction of attention and working memory in psychiatric and neurological disorders. We also work to develop and promote ERP methods, including a yearly 10-day NIH-funded summer workshop (the ERP Boot Camp) and an open-source Matlab toolbox (ERPLAB Toolbox). Research The human brain is the most complex single object known to science, and firm footing is needed as we reach upward to understand complex cognitive function. Much of our research therefore focuses on the role of cognitive processes in vision, taking advantage of the wealth of knowledge and methods that have accumulated in the field of vision science over the past century. In particular, much of our research focuses on visual attention and visual working memory. Our research on attention emphasizes the idea that attention is not a single mechanism, but is instead a type of mechanism that operates within different neurocognitive subsystems under different conditions. Our research on working memory emphasizes the nature of working memory representation and the function of this memory system in the real-world visually guided behavior.  Attention and working memory are densely interaction, and we are also actively exploring the role of attention in controlling the storage of information in working memory and the role of working memory in guiding attention to relevant sources of information. Our translational work on schizophrenia emphasizes taking recent methodological and conceptual advances from basic cognitive neuroscience and translating rapidly them into clinical research. More Information about our Attention Research More Information about our Visual Working Memory Research More Information about our Schizophrenia Research Overview of the ERP Technique Development and Communication of ERP Methods Downloadable scripts for experimental paradigms   ERPLAB Toolbox  ERPLAB Toolbox is a set of open source, freely available Matlab routines for analyzing ERP data.  The ERP Boot Camp The ERP Boot Camp is a workshop series on ERP methods this is organized and led by Steve Luck. We hold both a yearly 10-day ERP Boot Camp at UC Davis and 2- or 3-day Mini ERP Boot Camps at various conferences, universities, and industry sites.   People Meet the Luck Lab's members and alumni. Publications See and download our publications. Participate Information about participating as a research subject or as an undergraduate research assistant.