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Memory Illusions in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease 3/29
Current Advances in Psychology Colloquia Series
Lake Forest, Ill - The Lake Forest College psychology department continues the semester long colloquia series, Current Advances in Psychology (CAP), with a presentation titled “Memory Illusions in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease” on Thursday, March 29 at 4 p.m. Presented by Dr. David Gallo, the talk will be held in Meyer Auditorium, located in Hotchkiss Hall on the College’s Middle Campus. The public is welcome to attend free of charge. For more information please call 847-735-6010.
Dr. David Gallo earned his PhD in cognitive psychology from Washington University, St. Louis in 2002. At Washington University, Gallo worked with some of the top memory scholars in the field, Henry L. Roediger III and Kathleen McDermott. Upon graduating, he completed a prestigious 3-year post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard, where he worked with a number of other top scholars including Daniel Schacter. In 2005, he accepted a post as an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Chicago where he conducts human memory research and teaches classes on memory, the mind, and an honors seminar. Dr. Gallo is the author of over 30 journal articles and book chapters and he has published in all of the top journals in the field including, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition; Journal of Memory and Language; Neuropsychology; Memory and Cognition. In 2006, he published his first book titled Associative Illusions of Memory, which is now available from Psychology Press.
The CAP series continues with the final talk of the semester on Monday, April 23rd at 4 p.m. in Meyer Auditorium—Dr. James Nairne from Purdue University will deliver a talk titled “Adaptive Memory: An Evolutionary / Function Perspective.”
The CAP Colloquia Series is sponsored by the Department of Psychology, Psi Chi, and the Center for Chicago Programs.
Lake Forest College is a national liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of Chicago. The College has 1,400 students representing 47 states and 55 countries.
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Dr. David Gallo earned his PhD in cognitive psychology from Washington University, St. Louis in 2002. At Washington University, Gallo worked with some of the top memory scholars in the field, Henry L. Roediger III and Kathleen McDermott. Upon graduating, he completed a prestigious 3-year post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard, where he worked with a number of other top scholars including Daniel Schacter. In 2005, he accepted a post as an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Chicago where he conducts human memory research and teaches classes on memory, the mind, and an honors seminar. Dr. Gallo is the author of over 30 journal articles and book chapters and he has published in all of the top journals in the field including, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition; Journal of Memory and Language; Neuropsychology; Memory and Cognition. In 2006, he published his first book titled Associative Illusions of Memory, which is now available from Psychology Press.
The CAP series continues with the final talk of the semester on Monday, April 23rd at 4 p.m. in Meyer Auditorium—Dr. James Nairne from Purdue University will deliver a talk titled “Adaptive Memory: An Evolutionary / Function Perspective.”
The CAP Colloquia Series is sponsored by the Department of Psychology, Psi Chi, and the Center for Chicago Programs.
Lake Forest College is a national liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of Chicago. The College has 1,400 students representing 47 states and 55 countries.
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