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Roberto Cabeza

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Education

Ph.D.	University of Tsukuba (Japan)	1994
Licentiate in Psychology	University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)	1985

Areas of Research: Human Memory and Aging

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University: Associate Professor, Psychology & Neuroscience, 2004 - present; Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, 2001 - present; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, July 1, 2001-2004; Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, 2001-present

University of Alberta: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, 1997-2000

University Toronto: Post-doctoral Fellow, Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest Centre, 1995-1997

ATR Human Information Processing Laboratories: Research Associate, ATR Human Information Processing Laboratories, 1994

Interdisciplinary Center for Research in Mathematical & Exp. Psychology (Argentina): Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Center for Research in Mathematical & Exp. Psychology (Argentina), 1987

University of Buenos Aires: Lecturer, Faculty of Psychology, 1985-1988

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions: Elected Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, Society of Experimental Psychologists, December, 2013
Elected to International Neuropsychological Symposium, International Neuropsychological Symposium
Nominated Editor of Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience (nomination declined), March, 2006
Busse Research Award in the Biomedical Sciences presented at 18th World Congress of Gerontology, 2005
Elected to International Neuropsychology Symposium, 2005
Medical Scholar Award, Alberta Heritage foundation for Medical Reseaerch, 1999-2004
Busse Research Award in the Biomedical Sciences, 18th World Congress of Gerontology
Who's Who in Social Sciences Higher Education
Graduate Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Program — DAAD, 1989; declined
Graduate Fellowship, Ministry of Education of Japan, 1988-1994
Honors Diploma, University of Buenos Aires, 1985
Max and Roslyn Gordon Research Prize, 1995
McDonnell Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, 1997
Postdoctoral Fellowship, International Human Frontier Science Program, 1995-1996
Research Fellowship, National Council of Science and Technological Research of Argentina, 1987-1988
Tanenbaum Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 1996-1997
Elected to International Society for Behavioral Neuroscience
Elected to Memory Disorders Research Society, Memory Disorders Research Society
Fast Breaking Paper in Psychology/Psychiatry, Institute for Scientific Information
Young Investigator Award, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2003
Young Investigator Award, Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Medical Scholar Award, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, 1999-2004
Honors Diploma, University of Buenos Aires

Recent Grant Support

Duke/UNC ADAR Program, National Institutes of Health, 2024/04-2029/03.
Behavior and Physiology in Aging, National Institute on Aging, 2015/09-2025/08.
Effects of Healthy Aging and Mild Cognitive Impairment on Memory Representations, National Institutes of Health, 2021/05-2025/04.
Effects of Aging on Episodic Memory-Dependent Decision Making, National Institutes of Health, R01-AG058574-01, 2018/08-2025/03.
A Phase II Study of an ApoE mimetic peptide to reduce Postoperative Delirium, Cognitive Dysfunction after Non-Cardiac Surgery in Older Adults, Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, 2018/07-2024/07.
Collaboratory on Research Definitions for Cognitive Reserve and Resilience, The Trustees of Columbia University, 2018/09-2023/05.
Elucidating mechanisms underlying fluctuations of sustained attention and their influence on memory, National Institutes of Health, 2020/06-2023/05.
Training Autobiographical Memory Retrieval in Healthy Older Adults Using Novel Lifelogging Technology, National Institutes of Health, 1R21-AG059006, 2018/08-2023/04.
Neuro-inflammation in Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction: CSF and fMRI Studies, National Institutes of Health, 2017/07-2023/03.
Neural Correlates of Autobiographical Memory (PI: Rubin, Co-PIs: Cabeza, LaBar), NIH/NIMH R01-AG23123-01, 2004/09.

Conferences Organized: Functional Neuroimaging of Episodic Memory (Tokyo, Japan), Functional Neuroimaging of Episodic Memory (Tokyo, Japan). December 21, 2012, December 2012; Governing Board of Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Governing Board of Cognitive Neuroscience Society. December 12, 2010, 2010-12; Chair Slide Session Committee, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2010 - 2012; Co-organizer (with Kevin LaBar) : 2009 Meeting of Memory Disorders Research Society, Co-organizer (with Kevin LaBar) : 2009 Meeting of Memory Disorders Research Society. January 08, 2009, January 2009

Professional Service

Chair/Director: Chair Slide Session Committee, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chair Slide Session Committee, Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2010 - 2012, 2010-12

Department Committee: Director of Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, 2009 - 2011; Chair of the Cognitive, Affective, and Social Neuroscience Search Committ, 2009 - 2009; Chair of Promotion to Full Professor Committee, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, 2009 - 2009; Member, Steering Committee, Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Neuroscience, 2004 - 2008; Member of the Graduate Admissions Committee, Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Neuroscience, 2004 - 2008; Member of the Physicist Search Committee, Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, 2007 - 2007; Acting Director of Graduate Studies, Interdiscip. Program in Cognitive Neuroscience, 2007 - 2007; Chair, Tenure Review Committee, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, 2007 - 2007; Member of Cognitive Psychology/Neuroscience Search Committee, Psych. & Neurosci, 2006 - 2007; Graduate Programs Committee, Dept. of Psych. & Neurosci., 2006 - 2007; Member of the Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, 2006 - 2007; Member, Scientific Committee, Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University, December 10, 2003 - 2006; Member, Neuropsychology Search Committee, CCN, 2005 - 2006; Psychology Steering Committee, Duke University, 2005 - 2006; Member of Chairs’ Advising Committee, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, 2006 - 2007; Committee on Psychology at Duke, 2005 - 2005; Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Psychological & Brain Sciences, Duke University, 2003 - 2005; Member, Leadership Team, Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate, 2003 - 2004; Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Psychological & Brain Sciences, Duke University, 2002 - 2004; Member, Neuropsychology Search Committee - Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, 2001-2002; Member, Chair's Advisory Committee - Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, 1999-2000; Member, Brain & Behavior Search Committee - Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, 1998-2000; Member, Graduate Curriculum Committee - Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, 1998-1999

Special Projects: Consulting Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2002-Present; Member of Cognitive neuroscience Section (Heads: R.G.M. Morris & L. G. Ungerleider), Faculty of 1000, 2003-Present; Consulting Editor, BrainMap Database/Journal, 2002-Present; Consulting Editor, Psicológica, 2000-Present; Associate Editor, Memory, 2002-Present; Regular member, NIH Study Section Cognition and Perception, 2001-present

Other: Member, Editorial Board, Cognitive Brain Research, 2004 - present; Member, Editorial Board, Psychological Science, 2004 - present; Member, Memory Disorders Research Society, 2003-present; Member, International Society for Behavioral Neuroscience, 2003-present; Member, American Psychological Association, 1998-present; Organizers: D. Park, R. Cabeza, & L. Nyberg, Symposium Title: Second Symposium on Neuroscience of Aging and Cognition (SNAC II), 2003; Member, Editorial Board, Faculty of 1000, Cognitive Neuroscience Section, 2003 - present; Member, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2003-present; Associate Editor, Editorial Board, Memory, 2002 - present; Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2002 - present; Member, Editorial Board, BrainMap Database/Journal, 2002 - present; Regular Member, NIH Study Section Cognition and Perception (Previously called Biobehavioral and Behavioral Processes 4), 2001 - present; Member, Editorial Board, Psicológica, 2000 - present; Member, Society for Neuroscience, 1995-present; Member, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 1995-present; Member, Psychonomic Society, 1995-present; Organizer: R. Cabeza, Symposium Title: Prefrontal Cortex: Unitary Function or Multiple Functional Subregions?, 2003; Co-organizer Memory, Emotion, and Attention (MEAL) seminar, December 2012; Letter writer for arm-length faculty, December 2012; Reviewer Ad Hoc, Professional Journals; Guest Editor, Special issue on Functional Neuroimaging of Memory, 2003; Reviewer Ad Hoc - Grants, 2003; Organizers: D. Park, R. Cabeza, & L. Nyberg, Symposium Title: Symposium on Neuroscience of Aging and Cognition (SNAC), 2002; Reviewer Ad Hoc - Grants, 2002; Organizers: R. Cabeza & L. Nyberg, Symposium Title: Functional Neuroimaging of Memory, 2001; Reviewer Ad Hoc - Grants, 2001; Organizer: R. Cabeza & A. Kingstone, Symposium Title: Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition, 2000; Organizer: R. Cabeza, Symposium Title: Functional Neuroimaging of Memory, 2000; Organizer: R. Cabeza, Symposium Title: Functional Neuroimaging of Cognitive Aging, 2000; Reviewer Ad Hoc - Grants, 2000; Organizer: A. Kingstone, M. Mason, & R. Cabeza, Banff Annual Seminar in Cognitive Science (Banff, Canada)., 1998; Reviewer Ad Hoc - Grants, 1998; Organizers: A. Troyer & R. Cabeza, Conference: Baycrest Research Day (Toronto, Canada)., 1995

Selected Recent Invited Talks: Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research, University Hospital Magdeburg, Germany, November 27, 2013; Keynote Address at Aging, Memory, and Cognitive Decline symposium. McKnight Brain Institute, Gainesville, FL, 21 December 2012; Talk at Cognitive Aging Symposium. Japanese Society of Cognitive Psychology, Tsukuba, Japan, 21 December 2012; Talk at Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, 21 December 2012; Talk at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, 21 December 2012; Neural correlates of opposing modulation of emotion on perception and working memory vs. episodic memory., Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual conference, Chicago, IL, 31 March 2012; International Conference on Memory - 5, York, England, July 31-August 5, 2011 [available here]; International Forum Series at Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden), October, 2011; Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference, Dallas, TX, February, 2011; Talk at Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 2010, Feb 9; Talk at The Frontal Lobes, 20th Annual Rotman Research Conference, Toronto, 2010, March 22-26; Talk at Theoretical Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, 2010, June 13-16; Talk at Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, October 19, 2009; Talk at symposium Changing Memory Function across the Lifespan, MDRS meeting, Chapel Hill, NC, September 24-26, 2009; Talk at Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, July 15, 2009; Talk at Translational Neuroscience – Models of Aging, Lexington, KY, October 9, 2008; Talk at Workshop on Higher Cognition in Adolescents and Young Adults: Social, Behavioral, and Biological Influences on Learning, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, September 29, 2008; Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute Seminar Series, University of Arizona, Tucson, September 22, 2008; Talk at symposium What is the Parietal Lobe Contribution to Memory?, MDRS meeting, St. Lois, MO, September 17, 2008; Talk at Cognitive Neuroscience and Brain Imaging Symposium, Singapore, August 6, 2008; Talk at INSERM, Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, June 23, 2008; Talk at SenseCam Collaborators' Meeting, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK, June 18, 2008; Talk at Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, May 7, 2008; Talk at Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, March 31, 2008; Talk at Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University, Boston, MA, February 26, 2008; Samuel Sutton Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, January 15, 2008; Talk at symposium Compensation for Memory Failure in Aging, Winter Neurobiology of Learning and Memory meeting, Park City, Utah, January 3, 2008; Talk at Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon and Pittsburgh Universities, Pittsburgh, December 10, 2007; Seminar at Gerontology Research Center of National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, November 30, 2007; Keynote Address at Biannual Congress of the Latino-American Society of Neuropsychology, Buenos Aires, November 6, 2007; Talk at Cognitive Aging Summit at National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, October 10, 2007; Invited Address at Annual meeting of Society for Psychophysiological Research, Savannah, GA, October 7, 2007; Talk at symposium Cognitive neuroscience perspectives on normal aging, MDRS meeting, Cambridge, UK, September 5, 2007; Two talks at course Cognitive Changes across the Lifespan: A Behavioural and Neuroscientific Perspective. Organized by the Universities of Berne, Geneva, and Zurich, Geneva, September 2, 2007; Talk at symposium The Role of Parietal Cortex in Memory Retrieval, annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, May 05, 2007; Talk at Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, 18 December 2006; Talk at Current Research in Cognitive Neuroscience Series, Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, 18 December 2006; Talk at Duke Institute for Learning in Retirement, Duke Continuing Education, The Forest at Duke, Durham, NC, 18 December 2006; Talk at symposium Neuroscience and Memory. Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, 18 December 2006; Talk at symposium Neuroimaging and the Varieties of Psychology. University of Missouri, Columbia, 2005; Talk at Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Texas, Austin, 2005; Talk at Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2005; Talk at Invited Symposium: Successful Cognitive Aging I – Brain Change Can Be Good, APA Annual Convention, Washington, DC, 2005; Talk at Neuroscience Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, 2005; Talk at Perspective in Neuroscience Series, Neuroscience Program, University of Western Ontario, Canada, 2005; Talk at Perspectives in Neuroscience Series, Center for Neuroscience, University of California – Davis, 2005; Talk at Tsukuba International Conference on Memory – Memory and Emotion., Tsukuba University, Japan, 2005; Talk at Winter Conference on Neural Plasticity, Guadeloupe, French Antilles, 2005; Talk at XVIII World Congress of Gerontology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2005; Compensatory brain activity in older adults, Keynote Address at VIII International Cognitive Aging Conference, Marseille, France, 2004; Contributions of prefrontal regions to episodic memory retrieval in young and older adults, 16th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, 2004; Dissecting the neurocognitive components of episodic memory retrieval, Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, 2004; Functional neuroimaging of memory and cognition in young and older adults, Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, 2004; Parietal cortex and episodic retrieval: Retrieval success vs. perceived oldness, Symposium: What is the role of parietal cortex in memory retrieval? At the 2004 meeting of the Memory Disorders Research Society, New York, 2004; Age-related hemispheric asymmetry reductions and individual differences in healthy aging, Symposium: Cognitive Neuroimaging: Progress and Processes, Albuquerque, New Mexico, University of New Mexico and MIND Institute, 2003; Brain plasticity in older adults: Functional neuroimaging evidence, Conference: Reprogramming the Human Brain, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 2003; Cognitive neuroscience of aging: Contributions of functional neuroimaging, International Brain Awareness Week, University of Geneva, 2003; Cognitive neuroscience of aging: Contributions of functional neuroimaging, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Amsterdam, 2003; Functional neuroimaging of aging: Compensation or less?, Keynote Address at Biannual Congress of the Latino-American Society of Neuropsychology, Montreal Canada, November 2003; Individual differences in healthy aging: Functional neuroimaging evidence, 2003 meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Neuroscience, Prague, Czech Republic, 2003; Neural correlates of episodic memory in young and older adults, Department of Psychology, Emory University, 2003; Neural correlates of episodic memory in young and older adults, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 2003; Reserve, lateralization, and aging, Invited speaker/discussant at the workshop Cognitive/Brain Reserve and Aging, 2003; Cognitive neuroscience of aging: Contribution of functional neuroimaging, Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University, 2002; Cognitive neuroscience of aging: Contributions of Functional Neuroimaging, Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, 2002; Cognitive neuroscience of memory, Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience, Sion, Switzerland, 2002; Comparing brain activity in high-performing and low-performing older adults: Evidence for the compensation hypothesis, Binding in Human Memory: A Neurocognitive Approach, Saarland University, Sarrbrücken, Germany, 2002; Lateralization of brain activity in young and older adults, Research Center, Montreal University Geriatric Institute, 2002; Lateralization of brain activity in young and older adults, Fall Academy, Berlin, Germany, 2002; Process-related lateralization of prefrontal activity in young and older adults, International Neuropsychological Symposium, Sitges, Spain, 2002; Seeing the forest and the trees: Imaging cognition across functions and age groups, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California, Irvine, 2002; Seeing the forest and the trees: Imaging cognition across the functions and age groups, Department of Psychology, New York University, 2002; Cognitive neuroscience of aging, Conference: New Frontier in Cognitive Aging, Whistler, Canada, 2001; Comments on Marcus Raichle's Plenary Talk, 5th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Duke University, 2001; Functional neuroimaging of memory: Age-related asymmetry reductions, Frontiers of Human Memory, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Symposium, Sendai, Japan, 2001; Hemispheric asymmetry reduction in old adults, Talk series on Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging at the Department of Psychology of the University of Michigan, 2001; Hemispheric asymmetry reduction in older adults, Symposium Visualizing the Aging Brain: The Impact of Non-invasive Neuroimaging on Understanding of Cognitive Aging, Symposium in the official program of the 2001 Annual Meeting Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, 2001; Hemispheric asymmetry reduction in older Adults: The HAROLD model, Symposium: Many Levels and Facets of Memory Aging, International Conference of Memory III, Valencia, Spain, 2001; Imaging cognition across functions and across age groups, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2001; Age-related differences in neural activity during episodic memory retrieval, Symposium The Aging Brain and Mind, Conference: APA Convention, Washington, DC, 2000; Neural correlates of episodic memory in young and old adults, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 2000; Functional neuroimaging of episodic memory retrieval, Department of Psychology, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, 1999; Functional neuroimaging of episodic memory retrieval, ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan, 1999; Functional neuroimaging of cognitive aging, Conference: Old Memories, Cold Spring Harbor, 1999; Functional neuroimaging of episodic memory retrieval, Biomedical Imaging Research Centre, Fukui Medical University, Fukui, Japan, 1999; Functional neuroimaging of episodic memory retrieval, Laboratory for Cognitive Brain Mapping, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Wako, Japan, 1999; Functional neuroimaging of episodic memory retrieval, Inssbruck University Hospital, Innsbruck, Austria, 1998; How are cognitive functions organized within the prefrontal cortex?, Conference: Memory, Consciousness, and the Brain: The Tallinn Conference, Tallinn, Estonia, 1998; PET of memory and aging, 4th Innsbruck Neuropsychology Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, 1998; Functional neuroimaging of memory and aging, Institute of Experimental Biology and Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1997; Functional neuroimaging of memory and aging, Raúl Carrea Institute of Neurological Research-FLENI, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1997; Functional neuroimaging of memory and aging, Private Hospital of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina, 1997; Functional neuroimaging of memory and aging, Psychology Research Institute, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1997; Functional neuroimaging of memory and aging, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 1997; PET studies of memory and aging, National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, 1996; PET studies of memory and aging, Neural Computation Section, Communications Research Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan, 1996; PET studies of memory and aging, ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan, 1996; PET studies of memory and aging, National Hospital for Mental Disorders, Tokyo, Japan, 1996; PET studies of memory and aging, Institute for Brain Research, University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, 1996; PET studies of memory and aging, Department of Education, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo Campus, 1996

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