CoNDA Monthly Seminar - Dr. Patricia Reuter-Lorenz

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Join the CoNDA Center either live or virtually for a talk by Dr. Reuter-Lorenz.

• Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz is the Michael I. Posner Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, at the University of Michigan. She received her MS and PhD from the University of Toronto, and postdoctoral training at Cornell Medical Center, NY and Dartmouth Medical School. Using behavioral and brain imaging methods, she investigates working memory, executive functions, and emotion-cognition interactions in adulthood and older age. Her seminal research identified age-related alterations in prefrontal recruitment and neurocognitive compensation in older adults. Her theoretical contributions also provide a framework for understanding neurocognitive effects of training interventions, as well as life span environmental, experiential and biological influences on aging cognition, decline, and brain plasticity (scaffolding). She has published 150 peer-reviewed articles to date, in addition to numerous chapters, commentaries, and two edited books. An elected Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, she received Baltes Research Achievement Award for her contributions to the cognitive neuroscience of aging, the Justine Sergent Prize for Research in Cognitive Neuroscience, as well as outstanding mentor awards from APA-Division 20 and the University of Michigan. She is the current co-director of the International Max Planck Research School on Life Span Development, former chair of the Department of Psychology, governing board member of the Psychonomics Society, Editor-in-Chief of Aging, Neuropsychology & Cognition, among numerous other service roles. She is a co-founder of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, and has played a leadership role in this organization for over thirty years.