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Addante, Richard J.

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Richard J. Addante

Associate Professor | College of Psych. and Liberal Arts: School of Psychology

Affiliate Faculty | College of Engineering and Science: Biomedical Engineering and Science

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raddante@hrfjk.com
Dahl Bldg. (Quad 405), Rm 127
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Dr. Addante earned a BA in Psychology from The College of New Jersey and a PhD in Neuroscience at UC Davis as a Diversity Fellow of the American Psychological Association, then completed a Post-doctoral Fellowship in Neuroimaging with University of Texas at Dallas with UT-Southwestern Medical School, and is a 3-time winner of an LRP Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and an LRP Fellow from the National Institute of Health.  Additional advanced coursework has included specialized courses at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; he is a Reviewer for many of top journals in the field, on the Editorial Board of Neuroimage and is an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychology: Neuropsychology, and a Fellow of the Psychonomics Society. Research work has focused on human memory, brain states, and metacognition, resulting in discoveries such as a new kind of human memory (context familiairty, 2024), the first neural correlates of the Dunning-Kruger Effect (2021), the first proof that implicit memory depends upon the human hippocampus (2015), adjudicating the nature of amensia impairments in hippocampal patients (2012), and discovering that memory is predicted by pre-stimulus brain activity (and not just stimulus-resposne relationships, 2011, PNAS). Research work has also focused upon studies of elite operational teams in isolated, confined, and extreme (ICE) environments analogs for space travel. He is the only psychologist to crew NASA’s largest psychology study for space travel (called the Human Exploration Research Analog, HERA Mission XIV), and has been a Principal Investigator of NASA studies investigating astronaut cognition (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, NEEMO). The overarching goal of these projects is to contribute to our understanding of humans in long duration space flight for success in exploration-class missions at the lunar surface and Mars.

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