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Brad Postle
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 1997, MIT
Email: postle@wisc.edu
Our interest in human memory and
cognition encompasses the coginitive and neural bases of working memory, attention, control, intelligence, and nondeclarative memory. Topics motivating recent and current research include: the mediation of proactive interference in working memory; the relations between measures of working memory span, short-term memory span, executive control, and general fluid intelligence; the mental codes underlying visual working memory function; the neural bases of working memory storage; age-related differences in working and short-term memory performance; and the neural bases of pattern priming in Alzheimer's disease. Experimental methods employed in the laboratory include functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), behavioral testing with ey movement monitoring of healthy young adults, healthy elderly adults, and neurological patients, and fMRI-guideded repetitive transcranial magnetic stiumlation (rTMS).
Representative Publications
Postle, B.R. (2005). Delay-period activity in prefrontal cortex: one function is sensory gating. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 1679-1690
Postle, B.R., Idzikowski, C., Della Sala, S., Logie, R.H., and Baddeley, A.D. (2006). The selective disruption of spatial working memory by eye movements. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 100-120.
Postle, B.R. (in press). Working memory as an emergent property of mind and brain. Neuroscience.
Postle, B.R. (in press). Distraction-spanning sustained activity during delayed recognition of locations. NeuroImage.
Postle, B.R., Ferrarelli, F., Hamidi, M., Feredoes, E., Massimini, Peterson, M., Alexander, A., and Tononi, G. (in press). Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation dissociates working memory manipulation from retention functions in prefrontal, but not posterior parietal, cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neurocience.
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Phone: 608-262-4330
Fax: 608-262-4029
Office: 515 Psychology
Postle Laboratory
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