Brad Postle

Phone: 608 - 262-4330

Fax: 608-262-4029

Office: room 515 Psychology

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. 1997, MIT

My interest in human memory focuses on the cognitive and neural bases of working memory and nondeclarative memory. Topics motivating recent and current research include: the organization of working memory function in prefrontal cortex;the differential contributions of prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia to visual working memory; nonmnemonic controlprocesses that contribute to working memory performance; the mechanisms underlying repetition priming phenomena; anda novel mechanism that may support spatial working memory performance. Experimental methods employed in mylaboratory include functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), behavioral testing of neurological patients and of healthyyoung adults, and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS).

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Postle, B.R. and Brush, L.N. (2004). The neural bases of the effects of item-nonspecific proactive interference in working memory. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 379-392.

Postle, B.R., Druzgal, T.J., D'Esposito, M. (2003). Seeking the Neural Substrates of Visual Working Memory Storage. Cortex, 39, 927-946.

Postle, B.R., Zarahn, E., and D'Esposito, M. (2000). Using event-related fMRI to assess delay-period activity duringperformance of spatial and nonspatial working memory tasks. Brain Research Protocols, 5, 57-66.

Postle, B.R. , Berger, J. S. , and D'Esposito, M. (1999). Functional neuroanatomical double dissociation of mnemonicand executive control processes contributing to working memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(USA), 96, 12959-12964.

Postle, B.R. and D'Esposito, M. (1999). "What" - then - "where" in visual working memory: an event-related fMRI study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11, 585-597.

Postle, B.R. and Corkin, S. (1999). Manipulation of familiarity reveals a necessary lexical component of the word-stemcompletion priming effect. Memory & Cognition, 27, 12-25.

Postle, B.R. and Corkin, S. (1998). Impaired word-stem completion priming with novel words: Evidence from theamnesic patient H.M. Neuropsychologia, 36, 421-440.