The Laboratory for Basic and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience is led by Steve Luck (@stevenjluck) and is a part of the UC-Davis Center for Mind & Brain and the Visual Cognition Research Group.
Our research focuses on the neural and cognitive mechanisms of attention and working memory in healthy young adults and dysfunction of cognition and emotion in schizophrenia and other disorders. We also work to develop and promote ERP methods, including a yearly 10-day NIH-funded summer workshop (the ERP Boot Camp) and an open-source Matlab toolbox (ERPLAB Toolbox).
If you are a student or postdoc who is interested in joining the lab, please click the Join link at the top of the page for information.
Visual working memory provides a key interface between perceptual processes and higher-level cognitive processes.
Our research seeks to define and understand the many mechanisms of attention, both at the cognitive and neural levels.
Schizophrenia
Our research aims to understand the specific cognitive and neural functions that are impaired in schizophrenia and related disorders.
We make extensive use of event-related potentials (ERPs) and other methods in our research on attention, working memory, and schizophrenia.
The ERP Boot Camp is a Workshop series focusing on ERP methods. There is a 2-week ERP Boot Camp at UC-Davis or SDSU every summer, and you can arrange for a 2- or 3-day Mini ERP Boot Camp at your site.
Collaborators
We collaborate with a variety of top scientists at UC Davis and beyond.