Research Description

My research interests focus on the organization of human memory. To approach the general question of how memory is implemented in the brain, my research attempts to identify the component processes of memory and how different brain regions subserve these component processes.

Education

• Ph.D. from Northwestern University, 2001

Webpages

• Lab Website

Courses

• Fall '10: Psyc 396 - False Memory
• Spring '10: Psyc 204 - Intro to Brain & Cognition
• Spring '10: Psyc 593 - Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory

Recent Publications

Baym, C.L. & Gonsalves, B.D. (2010). Comparison of neural activity that leads to true memories, false memories, and forgetting: An fMRI study of the misinformation effect. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2010, 10 (3), 339-348

Gonsalves, B. & Paller, K.A. (2000). Neural events that underlie remembering something that never happened. Nature Neuroscience, 3, 1316-1321.

Gonsalves, B., Kahn, I., Curran, T., Norman, K.A., & Wagner, A.D. (2005). Memory strength and repetition suppression: Multimodal imaging of medial temporal cortical contributions to recognition. Neuron, 47, 751-761.

Gonsalves, B., Reber, P.J., Gitelman, D.R., Parrish, T.B., Mesulam, M.-M., & Paller, K.A. (2004). Neural evidence that vivid imagining can lead to false remembering. Psychological Science, 15, 655-660

Woroch, B. & Gonsalves, B.D. (2010). Event-related potential correlates of item and source memory strength. Brain Research, 1317, 180-91.