Nancy Dennis

Associate Professor of Psychology

450 Moore
University Park, PA
nad12@psu.edu
814-865-1712

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Research Summary

The cognitive and neural mechanisms that support learning and memory in young and older adults.

Huck Affiliations

Neuroscience Institute

Center for Brain, Behavior, and Cognition

Neuroscience

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Memory Young Adult Temporal Lobe Brain Performance Associative Hippocampus Semantics Prefrontal Cortex Magnetic Resonance Imaging Cognition Psychology Recognition Neural Correlates Creativity Interference Recognition (Psychology) Parietal Lobe Psychological Inhibition Inhibition (Psychology) Paradigm Individuality Age Groups Cognitive Reserve Episodic Memory Healthy Aging

Most 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

Memory and creativity: A meta-analytic examination of the relationship between memory systems and creative cognition

Courtney R. Gerver, Jason W. Griffin, Nancy A. Dennis, Roger E. Beaty, 2023, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Does unitization really function like items? The role of interference on item and associative memory processes

Catherine M. Carpenter, Nancy A. Dennis, 2023, Memory and Cognition

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

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

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

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

The effect of memory cue duration on performance in the directed forgetting task in healthy aging

K Kurkela, C Carpenter, H Babu, J Chamberlain, C Allen, Nancy Dennis, 2022, Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition on p. 943-964

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

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