Nancy Dennis
Associate Professor of Psychology

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450 Moore
University Park, PA - nad12@psu.edu
- 814-865-1712
Research Summary
The cognitive and neural mechanisms that support learning and memory in young and older adults.
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Memory Young Adult Temporal Lobe Brain Performance Associative Hippocampus Prefrontal Cortex Magnetic Resonance Imaging Neural Correlates Psychology Recognition Semantics Recognition (Psychology) Encoding Parietal Lobe Psychological Inhibition Inhibition (Psychology) Individuality Stimulus Paradigm Cognitive Reserve Healthy Aging Age Groups Event Episodic MemoryMost 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
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
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
Understanding age-related increases in associative false memories using pattern similarity analyses
Nancy Dennis, Amy Overman, Catherine Carpenter, Courtney Gerver, 2022, Aging, Neuropsychology, & Cognition on p. 500-525
The effect of memory cue duration on performance in the directed forgetting task in healthy aging
Kyle A. Kurkela, Catherine M. Carpenter, Harini Babu, Jordan D. Chamberlain, Courtney Allen, Nancy A. Dennis, 2022, Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition on p. 943-964
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
The effect of memory cue duration on directed forgetting performance in healthy aging
K Kurkela, C Carpenter, H Babu, J Chamberlain, C Allen, Nancy Dennis, 2022, Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition on p. 35
The influence of item familiarization on neural discriminability during associative memory encoding and retrieval
Daniel B. Elbich, Christina E. Webb, Nancy A. Dennis, 2021, Brain and Cognition
Most-Cited Papers
The neural correlates of cognitive control: Successful remembering and intentional forgetting
Avery A. Rizio, Nancy A. Dennis, 2013, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience on p. 297-312
Cognitive control, cognitive reserve, and memory in the aging bilingual brain
Angela Grant, Nancy A. Dennis, Ping Li, 2014, Frontiers in Psychology
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
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
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
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