Donna Rose Addis

Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 88552
Email: d.addis@auckland.ac.nz
Room: HSB 626
Office hours: Please email for appointment
Website: www.memorylab.org

Donna Rose completed her BA and MA in Psychology at The University of Auckland. She then undertook a PhD as a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Toronto, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Donna Rose returned to the Psychology Department in 2008, where she leads the Memory Lab. Her research is supported by the Marsden Fund and an inaugural Rutherford Discovery Fellowship. In 2010, Donna Rose won the prestigious Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize.

Donna Rose’s research combines neuroimaging, behavioural and neuropsychological methods to investigate how we learn new information, how we remember past experiences, and how we use memory to simulate future events and construct a sense of identity. These approaches allow investigation of the neural basis of memory and imagination, and how these abilities break down in patient populations. Donna Rose has a particular interest in the role of the hippocampus in memory, and thus her work focuses on populations with hippocampal dysfunction, including Alzheimer's disease, temporal lobe epilepsy, depression and healthy aging.

• Addis, D.R., Schacter, D.L. (2012). The Hippocampus and Imagining the Future: Where Do We Stand? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5, Article 173. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00173
• Addis, D.R., Knapp, K., Roberts, R.P., Schacter, D.L. (2012). Common and distinct neural substrates of direct and generative autobiographical memory retrieval. NeuroImage, 59, 2908-2922. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.09.066
• Szpunar, K.K., Addis, D.R., Schacter, D.L. (2012). Memory for emotional simulations: Remembering a rosy future. Psychological Science, in press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797611422237
• Addis, D.R., Roberts, R.P., Schacter, D.L. (2011). Age-Related Neural Changes in Remembering and Imagining. Neuropsychologia, 49, 3656-3669. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.09.021
• Martin, V.C., Schacter, D.L., Corballis, M.C., Addis, D.R. (2011). A role for the hippocampus in encoding future simulations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 108, 13858-13863. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105816108