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Alison Preston, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
VITA
Email: apreston@mail.clm.utexas.edu
Office Phone: (512) 850-6189
Main Office: NHB 3.352 Main Phone: 512-475-7255
Alternate Office: SEA 5.240 Alternate Phone: 512-232-5745
Lab: NMS 5.316
Preston Lab
See also Center for Learning and Memory, Cognitive Systems
Mailing Address:
Center for Learning and Memory
1 University Station C7000
University of Texas at Austin
Austin ,TX 78712-0805
My research focuses on understanding memory and how it is implemented in the human brain. Using a combination of behavioral and brain imaging techniques, my research explores how we form new memories, how we remember past experiences, and how our memory for the past can influence our present behavior. The structures of the medial temporal lobe play a critical role in the formation, retention, and retrieval of memory. High-resolution functional neuroimaging techniques allow the exploration of how the structures within this region make unique contributions to memory processing and how these regions may interact with brain regions involved in perception, attention, emotion, and other cognitive processes.
Visit Dr. Preston's lab web site for publications available as PDF downloads.
Selected Representative Publications:
Davis, T., Love, B.C., & Preston, A.R. (In press). Striatal and hippocampal entropy and recognition signals in category learning: Simultaneous processes revealed by model-based fMRI. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition.
Liang, J.C., Wagner, A.D. & Preston, A.R. (In press). Content representation in the human medial temporal lobe. Cerebral Cortex.
Chen, J., Olsen, R.K., Preston, A.R., Glover, G.H., & Wagner, A.D. (2011). Associative retrieval processes in the human medial temporal lobe: Hippocampal retrieval success and CA1 mismatch detection. Learning & Memory, 18(8), 523-528.
Davis, T., Love, B.C., & Preston, A.R. (2011). Learning the exception to the rule: Model-based fMRI reveals specialized representations for surprising category members. Cerebral Cortex, Epub ahead of print.
Dudukovic, N.M., Preston, A.R., Archie, J.J., Glover, G.H., & Wagner, A.D. (2011). High-resolution fMRI reveals match enhancement and attentional modulation in the human medial temporal lobe. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(3), 670-682.
Preston, A.R., Bornstein, A.M., Hutchinson, J.B., Gaare, M.E., Glover, G.H., & Wagner, A.D. (2010). High-resolution fMRI of content-sensitive subsequent memory responses in human medial temporal lobe. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(1), 156-173.
Zeithamova, D., & Preston, A.R. (2010). Flexible memories: Differential roles for medial temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex in cross-episode binding. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(44), 14676-14684.
Preston, A.R., Bornstein, A.M., Hutchinson, J.B., Gaare, M.E., Glover, G.H., & Wagner, A.D. (2009). High-resolution fMRI of content-sensitive subsequent memory responses in human medial temporal lobe. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Ragland, J.D., Cools, R.*, Frank, M.*, Pizzagalli, D.A.*, Preston, A.*, Ranganath, C.*, & Wagner, A.D.* (2009). CNTRICS final task selection: Long-term memory. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 35(1), 197-212. *Authors had equal contribution.
Preston, A.R., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2008). Dissociation between explicit memory and configural memory in the human medial temporal lobe. Cerebral Cortex, 18(9), 2192-207.
Preston, A.R., Shohamy, D., Tamminga, C.A., & Wagner, A.D. (2005). Hippocampal function, memory, and schizophrenia: Anatomical and functional neuroimaging considerations. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 5(4), 249-256.
Preston, A.R., Shrager, Y., Dudukovic, N.M., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2004). Hippocampal contribution to the novel use of relational information in declarative memory. Hippocampus, 14(2), 148-152.
Preston, A.R., Thomason, M.E., Ochsner, K.N., Cooper, J.C., & Glover, G.H. (2004). Comparison of spiral-in/out and spiral-out BOLD fMRI at 1.5T and 3T. NeuroImage, 21(1), 291-301.
Gabrieli, J.D.E., & Preston, A.R. (2003). Working smarter not harder. Neuron, 37(2), 191-192.
Gabrieli, J.D.E., & Preston, A.R. (2003). Visualizing genetic influences on human brain function. Cell, 112(2), 144-145.
Preston, A.R., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2002). Different functions for different medial temporal lobe structures? Learning and Memory, 9, 215-217.
