Ingrid Olson

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Ingrid Olson
Professor Ingrid Olson
Professor Ingrid Olson of Temple University
NationalityAmerican
Education
Scientific career
FieldsCognitive Neuroscience
InstitutionsTemple University

Ingrid Olson is an American professor, who is the Thaddeus L. Bolton Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1] At Temple University, she serves as the Director of the Cognition and Neuroscience Area. She is an expert on the biological basis of human cognition, with special focus on memory and social cognition.[2] As of 2023, she has produced around 100 scientific publications, which have been cited around 14,000 times.

Research[edit]

Olson's early work was focused on visual statistical learning[3] and visual short term memory .[4] She published one of the first studies showing that the hippocampus plays an essential role in maintaining information over very brief delays,[5] going against dogma that this structure was only essential for long term memory. She has also done research on how our brain remembers people and other forms of social memory[6] and how this sort of memory can be improved by electrical stimulation of the anterior temporal lobes.[7] Newer work has focused on how the brain matures to support episodic memory in young children.[8] She has helped establish the fundamental role of neural white matter, such as the Fornix (neuroanatomy), Uncinate fasciculus, and Cerebellothalamic tract, in orchestrating complex cognitive processes such as episodic memory, person memory, and social cognition.[9][10][11][12] Her research program is funded by grants from the National Institute of Health.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Temple College of Liberal Arts
  2. ^ Helmreich, DL (2017) Profiles of women in science: Prof. Ingrid Olson of Temple University, European Journal of Neuroscience
  3. ^ Contextual guidance of attention: Human intracranial event-related potential evidene for feedback modulation in anatomically early temporally late stages of visual processing IR Olson, MM Chun, T Allison. Brain 124 (7), 1417-1425.
  4. ^ Organization of visual short-term memory Y Jiang, IR Olson, MM Chun Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, memory, and cognition 26 (3), 683
  5. ^ Working memory for conjunctions relies on the medial temporal lobe IR Olson, K Page, KS Moore, A Chatterjee, M Verfaellie Journal of Neuroscience 26 (17), 4596-4601
  6. ^ Dynamic neural architecture for social knowledge retrieval Y Wang, JA Collins, J Koski, T Nugiel, A Metoki, IR Olson Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (16), E3305-E3314
  7. ^ Improved proper name recall in aging after electrical stimulation of the anterior temporal lobes LA Ross, D McCoy, HB Coslett, IR Olson, DA Wolk Frontiers in aging neuroscience 3, 16
  8. ^ The fornix supports episodic memory during childhood LJ Hoffman, CT Ngo, O Pasternak, F Zhang, T Riggins, IR Olson Cerebral Cortex
  9. ^ Never forget a name: white matter connectivity predicts person memory A Metoki, KH Alm, Y Wang, CT Ngo, IR Olson Brain Structure and Function 222 (9), 4187-4201
  10. ^ Multimodal mapping of the face connectome Y Wang, A Metoki, DV Smith, JD Medaglia, Y Zang, S Benear, H Popal, IR Olson. Nature human behaviour 4 (4), 397-411
  11. ^ The social cerebellum: a large-scale investigation of functional and structural specificity and connectivity A Metoki, Y Wang, IR Olson Cerebral Cortex 32 (5), 987-1003
  12. ^ Dissecting the uncinate fasciculus: disorders, controversies and a hypothesis Von Der Heide RJ, Skipper LM, Klobusicky E, Olson IR.Brain. 2013 Jun;136(Pt 6):1692-707

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