Chad Marsolek

Links

http://levels.psych.umn.edu

In my laboratory, we are interested in explaining human cognitive abilities--especially memory, vision, learning, and how these abilities are modulated by emotion and social interaction--in terms of how the brain accomplishes them. By this approach, cognitive abilities are explained through the architecture, functions, and interactions of the underlying neural processing subsystems. For more information, see http://levels.psych.umn.edu

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D.: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1992 - none

Specialties

Cognitive Neuroscience
Memory
Learning
Higher-Level Vision
Emotion

Publications

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Publications

Marsolek, Chad, Marsolek, C. J., & Burgund, E. D. (2008). Dissociable neural subsystems underlie visual working memory for abstract categories and specific exemplars.. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 17-24.
Marsolek, Chad, Marsolek, C. J., Schnyer, D. M., Deason, R. G., Ritchey, M., & Verfaellie, M. (2006). Visual antipriming: Evidence for ongoing adjustments of superimposed visual object representations.. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 6, 163-174.
Marsolek, Chad, Marsolek, C. J., Deason, R. G., Ketz, N. A., Ramanathan, P., Bernat, E. M., Steele, V. R., Patrick, C. J., Verfaellie, M., & Schnyer, D. M. (2010). Identifying objects impairs knowledge of other objects: A relearning explanation for the neural repetition effect. NeuroImage, 49, 1919-1942.
Marsolek, Chad, Westerberg, C. E., & Marsolek, C. J. (2003). Sensitivity reductions in false recognition: A measure of false memories with stronger theoretical implications. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 747-759.
Marsolek, Chad, Snyder, K. A., Blank, M. P., & Marsolek, C. J. (2008). What form of memory underlies novelty preferences?. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 315-321.
Marsolek, Chad (2008). What antipriming reveals about priming.. in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 176-181.
Marsolek, Chad (2004). Abstractionist versus exemplar-based theories of visual word priming: A subsystems resolution.. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57, 1233-1259.
Marsolek, Chad, Bowers, J. S., & Marsolek, C. J. (Eds.)., Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2003). Rethinking implicit memory. Oxford: Oxford University Press..
Andresen, D. R., & Marsolek, C. J. (in press). Effector-independent and effector-dependent sequence representations underlie general and specific perceptuomotor sequence learning. Journal of Motor Behavior.
Marsolek, C. J., DeYoung, C. G., Domansky, W. S., & Deason, R. G. (in press). Hemispheric asymmetries in motivation neurally dissociate self-description processes. Emotion.
McMenamin, B. W., Radue, J., Trask, J., Huskamp, K., Kersten, D., & Marsolek, C. J. (in press). The diagnosticity of color for emotional objects. Motivation and Emotion.
McMenamin, B. W. & Marsolek, C. J. (in press). Can theories of visual representation help to explain asymmetries in amygdala function? Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience.
Steele, V. R., Bernat, E. M., van den Broek, P., Collins, P. F., Patrick, C. J., & Marsolek, C. J. (in press). Separable processes before, during, and after the N400 elicited by previously inferred and new information: Evidence from time-frequency decompositions. Brain Research.

Awards

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Awards

Young Investigator Award, American Psychological Association (Division 3), 1996
Editor’s Choice Award, NeuroImage (Cognitive Neuroscience Section), 2010
Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2011

Courses Taught

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