The Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute

Daniel Butts, Ph.D.Professor, Dept of BiologyThe University of Maryland Cortical processing of high acuity vision When we want to see something, we look at it. Our highest acuity vision is present in the central one degree of our visual field (the fovea), and eye movements direct the fovea to regions of interest in the visual […]

Michael Yassa, Ph.D.Associate Dean, Professor, & DirectorUniversity of California, Irvine Episodic Memory, Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Memory is the sum of who we are. We strive to understand how brains can learn and remember information and in using this knowledge to improve the human condition. In particular, we focus on how our memory abilities change with […]