Nancy Dennis
Professor of Psychology
-
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.
Huck Affiliations
Links
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
Examining the neural basis of unitization: A review
Nancy A. Dennis, Catherine M. Carpenter, Alexa Becker, 2024, Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience on p. 389-401
Investigating the neural basis of schematic false memories by examining schematic and lure pattern similarity
Catherine M. Carpenter, Nancy A. Dennis, 2024, Memory
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
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
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
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
Most-Cited Papers
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
Cognitive control, cognitive reserve, and memory in the aging bilingual brain
Angela Grant, Nancy A. Dennis, Ping Li, 2014, Frontiers in Psychology
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
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
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
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
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 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
Age differences in the neural correlates of novelty processing: The effects of item-relatedness
Caitlin R. Bowman, Nancy A. Dennis, 2015, Brain Research on p. 2-15