Ian G Dobbins, Assistant Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	207 Soc-Psych
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.duke.edu/~sh56

Education:

PhD	University of California: Davis	1999
MS	Western Washington University	1994
BS	University of Washington	1988

Specialties:

Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology

Research Interests:

My area of research involves explicit and implicit memory with a particular focus on explicit recognition judgments; that is, the decision that someone or something was an element of an earlier personal experience. The nature and number of processes involved in recognition memory is currently under debate. Using such methods as 1) statistical modeling of behavioral data, 2) examination of recognition in patients with focal brain damage and 3) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of healthy participants during various recognition tasks, we are beginning understand the complex processes which allow us to situate current experiences into our own unique personal pasts.

Areas of Interest:

Explicit Memory
Implicit Memory
Functional Neuroimaging
Criterion/Response Bias
Signal Detection Theory

Postdocs Mentored

• Ana L. Rapaso (2006/12-present)
• Norbou Bouchler (2006/12-present)

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. Dobbins, I.G., & Han, S (2006). Cue- versus probe-dependent prefrontal cortex activity during contextual remembering. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1439-52.
2. Schnyer, D.M., Dobbins, I.G., Nicholls, L., Davis, S., Verfaellie, M., & Schacter, D. L (in press). Item to decision mapping in rapid response learning. Memory & Cognition.
3. Dobbins, I. G., & Han, S (2006). Isolating rule- versus evidence-based prefrontal activity during episodic and lexical discrimination: A functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of detection theory distinctions. Cerebral Cortex, 16, 1614-22.
4. Daselaar, S. M., Fleck, M. S., Dobbins, I. G., Madden, D. J., & Cabeza, R (2006). Effects of healthy aging on hippocampal and rhinal memory functions: An event-related fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex, 16, 1771-82.
5. Fleck, M.S., Daselaar, S.M., Dobbins, I.G., & Cabaza, R (2006). Role of prefrontal and anterior cingulate regions in decision-making processes shared by memory and non-memory tasks. Cerebral Cortex, 16, 1623-30.