Cognitive Control Lab (Dr. Silvia Bunge)
The Cognitive Control Lab at UC Davis uses behavioral and brain imaging techniques to examine how we control our thoughts and actions to make them consistent with our internal goals.
Cognitive control refers to the set of
processes that underlie the ability to flexibly shape and constrain our
thoughts and actions in accord with our goals and the current context.
These control processes include actively maintaining goals and goal-relevant information in mind (working memory), transforming and integrating information held in working memory, keeping irrelevant information out of mind (selective attention or cognitive inhibition), selecting a response from among a number of possible responses (response selection), and inhibiting inappropriate response tendencies (response inhibition).
The lab's goals are to elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive control in healthy and neurologically impaired adults and children.The lab is moving:
Dr. Bunge has accepted a faculty position in the Department of Psychology & the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley, effective January 2007.
Click here for Dr. Bunge's website at UC Berkeley
The new laboratory, titled the
"Cognitive Control and Development Lab", will be located on the first
floor of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (Barker Hall). Many of
the current lab members will be staying on at UC Davis through June
2007 to finish up data collection, before either moving to Cal or going
on to the next stage of their careers.
Positions available:
There are currently no openings in the
laboratory.
Exploring the Mind: Herman H.J. Kolk, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands and Dr. Angelique W. Hendriks, Radboud Univeristy
Dr. Joy Geng to join CMB faculty