Joshua Koen
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
- Cognition, Brain, and Behavior
Corbett Family Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Memory, Aging & Cognition Lab
Profile
Dr. Koen’s research focuses broadly on the cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory across the lifespan. His specific focus on understanding the neurocognitive processes that give rise to episodic memory – memory for unique events from one’s past – and how memory changes across the lifespan. He uses a combination of behavioral, psychophysiology (EEG and eye tracking), computational modeling, neuroimaging (fMRI), and neuromodulation (TMS) approaches to examine the cognitive processes and neural substrates that support episodic memory in young and healthy older adults.
Recent Publications
Liu, E. S., Koen, J. D., & Rugg, M. D. (2020). Effects of Age on Prestimulus Neural Activity Predictive of Successful Memory Encoding: An fMRI Study. Cerebral Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa265
Srokova, S., Hill, P. F., Koen, J. D., King, D. R., & Rugg, M. D. (2020). Neural differentiation is moderated by age in scene- but not face-selective cortical regions. eNeuro, 7(3), 1-16.
Koen, J. D., Srokova, S., & Rugg, M. D. (2020). Age-related neural dedifferentiation and cognition. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 32, 7–14. http://doi.org/dmgr
Horne, E. D., Koen, J. D., Hauck, N., & Rugg. M. D. (2020). Age differences in the neural correlates associated with the specificity of recollection: an event-related potential study. Neuropsychologia, 140, 107394. http://doi.org/dr9r
Koen, J. D., & Rugg, M. D. (2019). Neural Dedifferentiation in the Aging Brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(7), 547–559. https://doi.org/10/gf3sfj
Koen, J. D., Hauck, N., & Rugg, M. D. (2019). The relationship between age, neural differentiation, and memory performance. Journal of Neuroscience, 39(1), 149–162. http://doi.org/gfj82k
Koen, J. D., Horne, E. D., Hauck, N., & Rugg, M. D. (2018). Age-related differences in prestimulus subsequent memory effects assessed with event-related potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30(6), 829–850. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01249
Koen, J. D., Borders, A. A., Petzold, M. T., & Yonelinas, A. P. (2017). Visual short-term memory for high resolution associations is impaired in patients with medial temporal lobe damage. Hippocampus, 27(2), 184–193. doi: 10.1002/hipo.22682
Koen, J. D., Barrett, F. S., Harlow, I. M., & Yonelinas, A. P. (2017). The ROC toolbox: a toolbox for analyzing receiver-operating characteristics derived from confidence ratings. Behavior Research Methods, 49(4), 1399–1406. doi: 10.3758/s13428-016-0796-z
Koen, J. D., & Yonelinas, A. P. (2016). Recollection, not familiarity, decreases in healthy ageing: converging evidence from four estimation methods. Memory, 24(1), 75–88. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2014.985590
Koen, J. D., & Rugg, M. D. (2016). Memory reactivation predicts resistance to retroactive interference: evidence from multivariate classification and pattern similarity analyses. The Journal of Neuroscience, 36(15), 4389–4399. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4099-15.2016
Koen, J. D., & Yonelinas, A. P. (2014). The effects of healthy aging, amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Alzheimer’s disease on recollection and familiarity: a meta-analytic review. Neuropsychology Review, 24(3), 332–354. doi: 10.1007/s11065-014-9266-5