Established 1983 (1983) Website www.cnlm.uci.edu Phone +1 949-824-5193 | Field of research Neurobiology Field of research Neuroscience Founded 1983 | |
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Location Irvine, California, United States Address Qureshey Research Lab, 506 C Student Center, Irvine, CA 92697, USA | ||
The Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) was established by the UC Regents in 1983 at the University of California, Irvine with James McGaugh as its Founding Director and is the first research institute in the world dedicated exclusively to the multidisciplinary study of learning and memory mechanisms in the brain. Center researchers have backgrounds and credentials in a variety of research disciplines (neuroscience, psychology, chemistry, anatomy, pharmacology, molecular biology) that influence their approaches to the study of learning and memory. Using state-of-the-art neuroscience techniques, they investigate the formation, maintenance and retrieval of memory across all levels of analysis, from studies of molecular and cellular processes in the brain to studies of memory in behaving animal and human subjects.
The Center is currently directed by Michael A. Yassa and includes over fifty active Fellows.
List of current CNLM Fellows
Center faculty reported the first known case of highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM) (previously known as hyperthymesia). They have also done research on false memory syndrome and noted memory expert Elizabeth Loftus is a Fellow of the center.