Psychology Faculty

Maureen Ritchey

Assistant Professor

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Maureen Ritchey

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn Hall 507

Telephone: (617) 552-4779

Email: maureen.ritchey@bc.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. Duke University

Courses

PSYC4443 Research Practicum in Social & Cognitive Methods

PSYC5577 The Hippocampus

Research Interests

Neuroscience of human memory: functional organization of the medial temporal lobes; effects of emotional arousal and other modulatory states on memory processes; memory consolidation; context representation and its influence on memory-guided behavior. Neuroimaging methods including fMRI and EEG: multi-voxel pattern analysis; functional connectivity; time-frequency聽

Curriculum Vitae

Department

Psychology

Biography

Maureen Ritchey鈥檚 research is focused on the psychology and neuroscience of human memory. She combines cognitive neuroscience methods, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), to investigate the relationship between brain networks and memory processes. The overarching goals of this research program are to determine how memories are organized in the human brain, to explain why we remember some things and not others, and to identify ways to intervene on memory-guided behavior. To this end, one line of research aims to uncover how memory processes are affected by modulatory states such as emotional arousal. Other research focuses on the role of context in shaping memory formation and retrieval.

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