Nancy Dennis

Professor of Psychology

Nancy Dennis

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

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Memory Young Adult False Memory Temporal Lobe Hippocampus Psychology Recognition Brain Associative Recognition (Psychology) Prefrontal Cortex Semantics Magnetic Resonance Imaging Cognition Cognitive Control Performance Interference Creativity Associative Memory Visual Cortex Cognitive Process True Memory Episodic Memory Parietal Lobe Event Gyrus Cinguli

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

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

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

Catherine M. Carpenter, Nancy A. Dennis, 2024, Memory

Does unitization really function like items? The role of interference on item and associative memory processes

Catherine M. Carpenter, Nancy A. Dennis, 2023, Memory and Cognition

Neural distinctiveness and reinstatement of hippocampal representations support unitization for associations

S. Ricupero, C. M. Carpenter, A. C. Steinkrauss, C. R. Gerver, J. D. Chamberlain, R. G. Monkman, A. A. Overman, N. A. Dennis, 2023, Brain Research

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-related differences in encoding-retrieval similarity and their relationship to false memory

Jordan D. Chamberlain, Caitlin R. Bowman, Nancy A. Dennis, 2022, Neurobiology of Aging on p. 15-27

Within-category similarity negatively affects associative memory performance in both younger and older adults

C. M. Carpenter, C. E. Webb, A. A. Overman, N. A. Dennis, 2022, Memory

Introduction to the special issue: advances in understanding the cognitive neuroscience of aging with multivariate methods

Nancy Dennis, Joshua Koen, 2022, Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition on p. 367-374

Understanding associative false memories in aging using multivariate analyses

Nancy A. Dennis, Amy A. Overman, Catherine M. Carpenter, Courtney R. Gerver, 2022, Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition on p. 500-525

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

Cognitive control, cognitive reserve, and memory in the aging bilingual brain

Angela Grant, Nancy A. Dennis, Ping Li, 2014, Frontiers in Psychology

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

Age-related differences in the neural correlates mediating false recollection

Nancy A. Dennis, Caitlin R. Bowman, Kristina M. Peterson, 2014, Neurobiology of Aging on p. 395-407

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

Neural correlates underlying true and false associative memories

Nancy A. Dennis, Christina E. Johnson, Kristina M. Peterson, 2014, Brain and Cognition on p. 65-72

The cognitive control of memory: Age differences in the neural correlates of successful remembering and intentional forgetting

Avery A. Rizio, Nancy A. Dennis, 2014, PLoS One

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