Joshua Koen
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
- Cognition, Brain, and Behavior
Corbett Family Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Professor Koen is open to mentoring graduate students in the fall
Profile
Dr. Koen’s research focuses on the cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory. His research aims to understand the neural processes that support encoding of memories that can be subsequently recollected. Another central question of his research program is to understand how episodic memory - memory for unique past events - changes across the lifespan. Dr. Koen uses a variety of behavioral (modeling, eye tracking), neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG), and neuromodulatory (TMS) techniques to address these questions. In addition, he investigates the link between the brain and memory by working with patients diagnosed or at elevated risk of Alzheimer’s disease, and with amnesic patients.
Recent Publications
Koen, J. D., Thakral, P. P., & Rugg, M. D. (2018). Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the left angular gyrus during encoding does not impair associative memory performance. Cognitive Neuroscience, 1–12. doi: 10.1080/17588928.2018.1484723
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
Koen, J. D., Aly, M., Wang, W.-C., & Yonelinas, A. P. (2013). Examining the causes of memory strength variability: recollection, attention failure, or encoding variability? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39(6), 1726–1741. doi: 10.1037/a0033671
Koen, J. D., & Yonelinas, A. P. (2011). From humans to rats and back again: bridging the divide between human and animal studies of recognition memory with receiver operating characteristics. Learning and Memory, 18(8), 519–522. doi: 10.1101/lm.2214511
Yonelinas, A. P., Parks, C. M., Koen, J. D., Jorgenson, J., & Mendoza, S. P. (2011). The effects of post-encoding stress on recognition memory: examining the impact of skydiving in young men and women. Stress, 14(2), 136–144. doi: 10.3109/10253890.2010.520376