The CABI Lab was proud to walk in support of individuals and families coping with Alzheimer's Disease and with the hope of developing a cure to this devastating disease. We joined with the UWM STAR (Success Through Aging Research) program and Karyn Frick's lab at UWM. Happy to see so many folks from UWM and throughout the Milwaukee community out on a beautiful Fall day in Milwaukee!

Hear about one of our recently published studies. The results really surprised us!

We are happy to announce that we have published a new article based on research conducted in the CABI lab led by Dr. Kana Kimura and Maddie Valdez. In this study, we test what factors make someone good at learning new categories and whether those predictors differ between young and older people. We found that, across age groups, having more world knowledge and faster processing speed made for better category learners. We also found that someone's current state of mind (motivation, stress level, mood, and sleepiness) had very limited impact on their ability to learn a new category. Taken together, it seems that stable cognitive abilities matter more for new learning than transient states of mind.

See the full article for more details!

The CABI Lab is happy to announce that Kana Kimura is now has a PhD! She successfully defended her dissertation titled Investigating the Role of Preprocessing and Structural Segmentation in fMRI Data in Healthy Young and Older Adults to her committee! We're so proud of all the work she's done in the CABI Lab and look forward to seeing what she does next!

Interested in how our minds recognize the things all around us? Want to see Cait dress up in silly costumes? We have the video for you!

We are happy to announce that we have recently published a new article as part of a special issue on Neural Networks and Cognition in the journal Frontiers in Cognition. 

In this manuscript, we used a large, public dataset with participants aged 18-88 and tested how aspects of hippocampal function differed across the adult lifespan. Some prior work has suggested that there may be a gradient within this structure in terms of the signal properties and the kinds of memories that can be supported. Here, we tested whether those properties are consistent across the lifespan. We found that the gradient within the hippocampus did change with older age, but that those changes were not strongly related to memory performance.

See here for full details of the study and look for a future video on the results!