ADAM LAWSON

Dr. Adam L. Lawson received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Oklahoma State University with an emphasis in cognitive neuroscience. He went on to serve as Assistant Professor in Psychology at Florida Southern College from 2000 to 2003. At the end of 2003, Adam joined the University of Kentucky as a post-doctoral fellow under the supervision of Yang Jiang, Ph.D. From his initial training as a student, Adam has been interested in higher-order cognitive processes and their underlying cortical mechanisms. His graduate training focused on the cognitive processes involved in memory and inhibitory mechanisms using EEG and behavioral measures. Currently, Adam is concentrating on cortical mechanisms relating to age-related effects of repetition priming and working memory performance using both ERP and fMRI techniques. He is also involved in ERP and fMRI studies examining cortical markers of drug abuse vulnerability and a study examining the ability of resting EEG to facilitate the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment.

Email: AdamLawson@uky.edu