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The Cognition & Action Lab at UMass Amherst is housed in the Department of Psychology and is an affiliate of the Neuroscience and Behavior Program.
Research in our lab broadly explores a range of questions pertaining to cognition and action and, particularly, the intersection between them. We use a variety of techniques to explore how the brain learns cognitive and motor tasks.
A portion of our work examines the benefit of sleep on learning and whether and how this memory processing stage declines in older adults. This work is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIA).
Another line of research is focused on understanding the function of the cerebellum. We’re particularly interested in the functional contribution to motor learning.
