Featured Faculty
Assistant Professor, Ariel Mosley, named 2022-23 CAMPSSAH Scholar
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Ariel Mosley, named a 2022-2023 CAMPSSAH Scholar (Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspective on Social Sciences, Arts, & Humanities)
Cam Hostinar: Helping Children Cope With Stress
Cam Hostinar is one of the newer members of the faculty, but her research on early-life stress is already making an impact.
Karen Bales: Expert on Pair Bonding
Professor Bales studies prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) and titi monkeys (Callicebus cupreus), because, like humans, both species form adult pair-bonds, and the males help care for infants.
Manipulating Memory: Brian Wiltgen
By Andrew McCullough - How does memory work? How do neurons in the brain allow us to remember past experiences? Understanding how the brain encodes and retrieves memories fascinates Brian Wiltgen, associate professor of psychology. Wiltgen and his colleagues use cutting-edge tools and techniques to understand how the brain remembers.
Ron Mangun: Attention to Training New Generation of Neuroscientists
Professor Ron Mangun likes UC Davis so much that he came here twice — the first time from Dartmouth College and Medical School in 1992, and then again from Duke University in 2002. With each arrival, he helped to propel UC Davis to the forefront of the field of cognitive neuroscience.
Susan Rivera: From First-Generation Student to Professor
Growing up in the industrial city of Gary, Indiana, Susan Rivera never dreamed that she would one day head a neuroscience lab researching cognitive development.
What Happened When? How the Brain Stores Memories by Time
By Andy Fell - Before I left the house this morning, I let the cat out and started the dishwasher. Or was that yesterday? Very often, our memories must distinguish not just what happened and where, but when an event occurred -- and what came before and after. New research from the University of California, Davis, Center for Neuroscience shows that a part of the brain called the hippocampus stores memories by their "temporal context" -- what happened before, and what came after.
