Michael Derek Rugg

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...

(born September 23, 1954) is a Distinguished Chair in Behavioral and Brain Sciences at

University of Texas at Dallas The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD or UT Dallas) is a public research university in Richardson, Texas, United States. It is the northernmost institution of the University of Texas System. It was initially founded in 1961 as a private res ...

. He is director of The Center for Vital Longevity in Dallas, Texas. His current research program involves the use of electrophysiological (

EEG Electroencephalography (EEG) is a method to record an electrogram of the spontaneous electrical activity of the brain. The bio signals detected by EEG have been shown to represent the postsynaptic potentials of pyramidal neurons in the neoc ...

and ERP) and

functional magnetic resonance imaging Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow. This technique relies on the fact that cerebral blood flow and neuronal activation are coupled. When an area o ...

(

fMRI Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow. This technique relies on the fact that cerebral blood flow and neuronal activation are coupled. When an area o ...

) methods to investigate the cognitive and neural bases of

memory encoding Memory has the ability to encode, store and recall information. Memories give an organism the capability to learn and adapt from previous experiences as well as build relationships. Encoding allows a perceived item of use or interest to be conv ...

and

memory retrieval Recall in memory refers to the mental process of retrieving information from the past. Along with encoding (memory), encoding and storage (memory), storage, it is one of the three core processes of memory. There are three main types of recall: fr ...

, as well as how and why memory function differs as a result of healthy aging or neurological disease. Rugg received a B.Sc. in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1979 from the

University of Leicester The University of Leicester ( ) is a public university, public research university based in Leicester, England. The main campus is south of the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park, Leicester, Victoria Park. The university's predecessor, Univ ...

. Rugg has been employed at

University of St. Andrews The University of St Andrews (, ; abbreviated as St And in post-nominals) is a public university in St Andrews, Scotland. It is the oldest of the four ancient universities of Scotland and, following the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, t ...

(1979-1998). There, he served as a Professor of Psychology (1992-1998) and a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow (1994-1998). From 1998–2003, he served as a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Psychology at

University College London University College London (Trade name, branded as UCL) is a Public university, public research university in London, England. It is a Member institutions of the University of London, member institution of the Federal university, federal Uni ...

. From 2004–2010, he was a

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in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior a
University of California, Irvine
and Director of th
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

External links

Laboratory Website
1954 births Academics of the University of St Andrews Academics of University College London Alumni of the University of Leicester British cognitive neuroscientists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Living people Memory researchers University of Texas at Dallas faculty University of California, Irvine faculty {{US-psychologist-stub