Learning, memory and cognition
The focus of this research cluster is to investigate the relationships between synaptic plasticity, cognition and changes in learned behaviour. Recent highlights include the establishment of a specialized memory clinic and the development of technologies for independent living in partnership with St. James Hospital and Intel. Research work utilises a variety of techniques from formal studies of deductive reasoning and counterfactual imagination, to brain imaging of human cognition and analysis of basic mechanisms using pre-clinical models. There is also a strong research programme on disordered cognition in neurological and neuropsychiatric patients.
Principal investigators
- Prof. Shane O'Mara
- Prof. Ruth Byrne
- Prof. Hugh Garavan
- Dr. Fiona Newell
- Prof. Ian Robertson
- Prof. Michael Rowan
- Prof Brian Lawlor
- Prof. Desmond O'Neill
- Prof. John O'Doherty
- Prof. Mani Ramaswami
- Dr. Alice Witney
- Dr. James Gibney (Tallaght Hospital, Affiliate)
- Prof. John Foxe (Nathan Kline Institute, Affiliate)
- Dr. Niall Pender (St. James Hospital, Affiliate)
- Dr. Richard Roche (NUI, Maynooth, Affiliate)