Psychology Faculty

Scott Slotnick

Professor

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Scott Slotnick

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn Hall 330

Telephone: 617-552-4188

Email: sd.slotnick@bc.edu

Education

  • Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley

Courses

PSYC5571 Controversies in Cognitive Neuroscience

PSYC5572 Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory

PSYC5576 Methods in Human Brain Mapping

Research Interests

Prof. Slotnick investigates the cognitive neuroscience of visual attention and visual memory, capitalizing on the well-known functional鈥揳natomic organization of visual perception. His lab employs multiple techniques, including behavioral studies, quantitative modeling, computational modeling, fMRI, ERPs, TMS, and research with patients to shed light on the complex nature of processing in the human mind and brain.

Curriculum Vitae

Department

Psychology

Profile

Prof. Slotnick joined the Psychology Department 艾可直播in the summer of 2005. His research program aims to understand the nature of visual memory (i.e. memory for visual items or events). Drawing on the foundation of research in visual perception, he employs cognitive modeling (based on behavioral measures), event-related potentials (ERPs), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). His research indicates that memory retrieval is a continuous process that is constructive in nature, where features or components from disparate cortical regions bind together to form a unified memory.

Representative Publications

  • Slotnick, S. D. (2017). Cognitive neuroscience of memory. Cambridge University Press. (2nd Edition, in preparation)

  • Slotnick, S. D. (2013). Controversies in cognitive neuroscience. Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Fritch, H. A., Moo, L. R., Sullivan, M. A., Thakral, P. P., & Slotnick, S. D. (2023). Impaired cognitive performance in older adults is associated with deficits in item memory and memory for object features. Brain and Cognition, 166, 105957, 1鈥�9.

  • Spets. D. S., & Slotnick, S. D. (2022). Sex is predicted by spatial memory multivariate activation patterns. Learning & Memory, 29, 297-301.

  • Slotnick, S. D. (2018). The experimental parameters that affect attentional modulation of the ERP C1 component. Cognitive Neuroscience, 9, 53鈥�61.

  • Slotnick, S. D. (2017). Cluster success: fMRI inferences for spatial extent have acceptable false鈥損ositive rates. Cognitive Neuroscience, 8, 150鈥�155.

  • Slotnick, S. D., & White, R. C. (2013). The fusiform face area responds equivalently to faces and abstract shapes in the left and central visual fields. NeuroImage, 83, 408鈥�417.

  • Slotnick, S. D. (2009). Rapid retinotopic reactivation during spatial memory. Brain Research, 1268, 97鈥�111.

  • Slotnick, S. D., & Dodson, C. S. (2005). Support for a continuous (single鈥損rocess) model of recognition memory and source memory. Memory & Cognition, 33, 151鈥�170.

  • Slotnick, S. D., Moo, L. R., Kraut, M. A., Lesser, R. P., & Hart, J. (2002). Interactions between thalamic and cortical rhythms during semantic memory recall in human. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 99, 6440鈥�6443.

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Editorial Positions

  • Editor-in-Chief, Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Book-Series Editor, Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology, Cambridge University Press
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