Nancy Dennis

Professor of Psychology

Nancy Dennis

Research Summary

The cognitive and neural mechanisms that support learning and memory in young and older adults.

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Most Recent Publications

Reduced ERS in aging leads to increased false alarms to perceptual and mnemonic lures

Jordan Chamberlain, Caitlin Bowman, Nancy Dennis, Neurobiology of Aging

Investigating the cognitive correlates of semantic and perceptual false memory in older and younger adults: A multi-group latent variable approach

John T. West, Rebecca L. Wagner, Ashley Steinkrauss, Nancy A. Dennis, 2025, Journal of Memory and Language

Neural effects of memory training to reduce false memories in older adults: Univariate and multivariate analyses

Indira C. Turney, Ashley C. Steinkrauss, Rebecca L. Wagner, Jordan D. Chamberlain, John T. West, Jonathan G. Hakun, Lesley A. Ross, Brenda A. Kirchhoff, Nancy A. Dennis, 2025, Neurobiology of Aging on p. 187-202

Introduction to the special issue on individual differences in memory modulation

Stephanie L. Leal, Jaclyn H. Ford, Nancy A. Dennis, 2025, Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience on p. 1-5

Hippocampal network connectivity and episodic memory in individuals aging with traumatic brain injury

Catherine M. Carpenter, Hollie A. Mullin, Andrew Cwiek, Emily Carter, Samantha Vervoordt, Xinhui Lan, Nancy A. Dennis, Amanda Rabinowitz, Umesh M. Venkatesan, Frank G. Hillary, 2025, Brain Imaging and Behavior

Examining the neural basis of unitization: A review

Nancy A. Dennis, Catherine M. Carpenter, Alexa Becker, 2024, Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience on p. 389-401

Enhancing creative divergent thinking in older adults with a semantic retrieval strategy

Luke Dubec, Courtney R. Gerver, Nancy A. Dennis, Roger E. Beaty, 2024, Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Introduction to the special issue: the neuroscience of false memory

Yana Fandakova, Nancy A. Dennis, 2024, Memory on p. 1267-1270

Corrigendum to “Neural distinctiveness and discriminability underlying unitization and associative memory in aging” [Aging Brain 4 (2023) 100097] (Neurobiology of Aging Science (2023) 4, (S2589958923000348), (10.1016/j.nbas.2023.100097))

A. C. Steinkrauss, C. M. Carpenter, M. K. Tarkenton, A. A. Overman, N. A. Dennis, 2024, Aging Brain

Investigating the neural basis of schematic false memories by examining schematic and lure pattern similarity

Catherine M. Carpenter, Nancy A. Dennis, 2024, Memory on p. 1271-1285

Most-Cited Papers

Event-related fMRI studies of false memory: An Activation Likelihood Estimation meta-analysis

Kyle A. Kurkela, Nancy A. Dennis, 2016, Neuropsychologia on p. 149-167

Chronology and chronicity of altered resting-state functional connectivity after traumatic brain injury

Umesh M. Venkatesan, Nancy A. Dennis, Frank G. Hillary, 2015, Central Nervous System Trauma on p. 252-264

From hippocampus to whole-brain: The role of integrative processing in episodic memory retrieval

Benjamin R. Geib, Matthew L. Stanley, Nancy A. Dennis, Marty G. Woldorff, Roberto Cabeza, 2017, Human Brain Mapping on p. 2242-2259

Sensory representations supporting memory specificity: Age effects on behavioral and neural discriminability

Caitlin R. Bowman, Jordan D. Chamberlain, Nancy A. Dennis, 2019, Journal of Neuroscience on p. 2265-2275

What's the gist? The influence of schemas on the neural correlates underlying true and false memories

Christina E. Webb, Indira C. Turney, Nancy A. Dennis, 2016, Neuropsychologia on p. 61-75

Memory and creativity: A meta-analytic examination of the relationship between memory systems and creative cognition

Courtney R. Gerver, Jason W. Griffin, Nancy A. Dennis, Roger E. Beaty, 2023, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Age differences in the neural correlates of novelty processing: The effects of item-relatedness

Caitlin R. Bowman, Nancy A. Dennis, 2015, Brain Research on p. 2-15

Functional neuroimaging of false memories

Nancy A. Dennis, Caitlin R. Bowman, Indira C. Turney, 2015, on p. 150-171

The Effects of Useful Field of View Training on Brain Activity and Connectivity

L. Ross, Christina E. Webb, C. *Webb, Christine Whitaker, C. *Whitaker, Jarrod M. Hicks, J. *Hicks, Erica L. Schmidt, E. *Schmidt, S. *Samimy, Shaadee Samimy, Nancy A. Dennis, Kristina M. Visscher, 2019, Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences on p. 1152-1162

The neural basis of recollection rejection: Increases in hippocampal–prefrontal connectivity in the absence of a shared recall-to-reject and target recollection network

Caitlin R. Bowman, Nancy A. Dennis, 2016, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience on p. 1194-1209