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 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Brain Hippocampus Prefrontal Cortex Recognition (Psychology) Neural Correlates Learning Parietal Lobe Inhibition (Psychology) Episodic Memory Visual Cortex Paradigm Rejection Semantics Multivariate Analysis Individuality Rejection (Psychology) Parahippocampal Gyrus Short Term Memory Remembering Aptitude False MemoryMost Recent Papers
Shared neural recruitment across working memory and motor control tasks as a function of task difficulty and age
Courtney R. Gerver, Kristina A. Neely, Kyle A. Kurkela, Michele T. Diaz, Jordan T. Goodman, Samantha Blouch, Shaadee Samimy, Nancy A. Dennis, 2020, Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition on p. 864-879
Lexical frequency affects functional activation and accuracy in picture naming among older and younger adults.
Victoria H. Gertel, Hossein Karimi, Nancy A. Dennis, Kristina A. Neely, Michele T. Diaz, 2020, Psychology and Aging
Cross-situational statistical learning in younger and older adults
Federica Bulgarelli, Daniel J. Weiss, Nancy A. Dennis, 2020, Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition
Examining the neural basis of congruent and incongruent configural contexts during associative retrieval
Courtney R. Gerver, Amy A. Overman, Harini J. Babu, Chloe E. Hultman, Nancy A. Dennis, 2020, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience on p. 1796-1812
Different types of associative encoding evoke differential processing in both younger and older adults: Evidence from univariate and multivariate analyses
Nancy A. Dennis, Amy A. Overman, Courtney R. Gerver, Kayla E. McGraw, M. Andrew Rowley, Joanna M. Salerno, 2019, Neuropsychologia
Differentiating true and false schematic memories in older adults
Christina E. Webb, Nancy A. Dennis, 2019, Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences on p. 1111-1120
The effects of useful field of view training on brain activity and connectivity
Lesley A. Ross, Christina E. Webb, Christine Whitaker, Jarrod M. Hicks, Erica L. Schmidt, Shaadee Samimy, Nancy A. Dennis, Kristina M. Visscher, 2019, Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences on p. 1152-1162
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
Same face, same place, different memory: Manner of presentation modulates the associative deficit in older adults
Amy A. Overman, Nancy A. Dennis, John M. McCormick-Huhn, Abigail B. Steinsiek, Luisa B. Cesar, 2019, Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition on p. 44-57
Memory for the usual: The influence of schemas on memory for non-schematic information in younger and older adults
Christina E. Webb, Nancy A. Dennis, 2019, Cognitive Neuropsychology
Most-Cited Papers
Age-related dedifferentiation of learning systems
Nancy Anne Coulter Dennis, Roberto Cabeza, 2011, Neurobiology of Aging on p. 2318.e17-2318.e30
True and phantom recollection
Nancy A. Dennis, Caitlin R. Bowman, Simon N. Vandekar, 2012, NeuroImage on p. 2982-2993
The neural correlates of cognitive control
Avery A. Rizio, Nancy A. Dennis, 2013, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience on p. 297-312
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
Chronology and chronicity of altered resting-state functional connectivity after traumatic brain injury
Umesh M. Venkatesan, Nancy A. Dennis, Frank G. Hillary, 2015, Journal of Neurotrauma on p. 252-264
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor val66met polymorphism and hippocampal activation during episodic encoding and retrieval tasks
Nancy Anne Coulter Dennis, Roberto Cabeza, Anna C. Need, Sheena Waters-Metenier, David B. Goldstein, Kevin S. Labar, 2011, Hippocampus on p. 980-989
From hippocampus to whole-brain
Benjamin R. Geib, Matthew L. Stanley, Nancy A. Dennis, Marty G. Woldorff, Roberto Cabeza, 2017, Human Brain Mapping on p. 2242-2259
The cognitive control of memory
Avery A. Rizio, Nancy Anne Coulter 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
The neural basis of recollection rejection
Caitlin R. Bowman, Nancy A. Dennis, 2016, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience on p. 1194-1209