Congratulations to ALL SEVEN of the CABI Lab Undergraduate RAs who presented at this year's UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium, including our poster presenters Jacob, Ben, Yanelis, Sophia, Robert, and Mj. Special congratulations to Patricia who gave an oral presentation on her thesis work on subjective cognition - sorry that we missed getting a picture! We were so caught up listening to you!

We're so proud of the work that our undergraduates do, and we know that the lab could not work without you! 

We are seeking a full-time lab manager to begin Summer 2026 (flexible start date). This position is supported by a grant from the National Institute on Aging (R01AG098263) that seeks to understand the age-related differences in cognition and brain function associated with memory integration and the ability to generalize across related experiences. 
 
The lab manager will be responsible for administrative duties supporting day-to-day lab operations, participant recruitment, running behavioral and fMRI studies, data analysis, and assistance with manuscript preparation. There will be opportunities to develop independent projects, present at scientific conferences, and co-author manuscripts.
 
Competitive applicants will have a B.A. or equivalent in psychology, neuroscience or a related field as well as research experience. Programming skills in R and/or Python are desirable. The position is expected to last two years, contingent on satisfactory performance and continuation of grant funding. The position is well suited to students looking for additional research experience prior to applying for graduate studies in Psychology or Neuroscience. 
 
To apply, send a cover letter and a CV/resume to Caitlin Bowman ([email protected]). The cover letter should provide a brief summary of your prior research experience, skills, and career goals as well as a rationale for your interest in the position. Applications will be accepted through April 17, 2026.

We are happy to announce that the CABI lab was recently awarded a grant from the National Institute on Aging titled "Effects of older age on the neural basis of memory generalization". This grant will provide funding for 3 new experiments that we will conduct over the next 5 years, including MRI scanning to test for how memory function in the brain differs between young and older adults. See here for more information on the grant from the National Institutes on Health. We hope to see some of you in the lab over the next couple of years for these studies!

We are happy to announce that our recent study, Study choices and inference in an acquired equivalence task, has been accepted for publication in the journal Cognition. In this study, we examined how healthy young adults behaved when given the chance to make choices about what information to re-study after an initial learning phase. What's more, the study materials were a little unusual because there were relationships between items that participants could infer. We wondered whether participants would detect the relationships among study items and try to confirm them during the study phase. The results were not what we were expecting! 

Here is a link to the full paper, and look out for a video summary of the findings in the coming months!

Lab director, Dr. Caitlin Bowman, recently returned from a trip to Montreal, QC where she presented to the Memory Disorders Research Society about the lab's work on using memory to make inferences in older age. It was a great conference full of memory experts from around the world. The croissants were great too!

​You can hear more about the project Cait presented about here.

PhD student Kana Kimura recently taught a course through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute on healthy aging. She got this teaching opportunity through the new OLLI Scholars program. Look out for more courses taught by UWM students throughout the coming year. Congrats to Kana!