Amishi P. Jha, PhD

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				Amishi P. Jha, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Center for Cognitive Neuroscience 3401 Walnut St. Suite 302C (215) 746-0425 Fax (215) 898-1982 email: apjha@psych.upenn.edu For more about the Jha lab: www.mindbodyresearch.psych.upenn.edu www.attention.psych.upenn.edu Click here for selected publications since Dr. Jha's arrival at Penn RESEARCH INTERESTS Cognitive neuroscience of human working memory and attention. RESEARCH TECHNIQUES Functional MRI, event-related potentials (ERPs), behavioral studies in human subjects RESEARCH SUMMARY I am interested in elucidating the components of working memory and their corresponding functional neural architecture. More specifically, my research focuses on a venerable question in cognitive psychology: How is information maintained over short intervals in the absence of its immediate accessibility in the environment? In the laboratory, we use several techniques to understand the brain-basis of working memory maintenance (behavioral signal detection measures, event-related potentials (ERPs), and event-related functional MRI) and this reflects my belief that a dynamic interchange must exist between models of cognition and brain-derived data to more completely understand the instantiation of cognitive processes in the brain. KEY WORDS: Cognitive neuroscience, working memory, functional brain imaging, event-related potentials