Faculty Guide

Title

Assistant Professor of Psychology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems

Neuroscience
Psychology

Expertise

Effects of age and culture on memory and social cognition.

Profile

My research explores these topics using a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging (fMRI) methods.

Lab website: http://www.brandeis.edu/gutchess/

Awards and Honors

American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), Research Grant (2008)

Travel award to attend pre-APS workshop on "Opportunities for Advancing Behavioral and Social Research on Aging: An Introduction for Psychological Scientists" (2008)

APA Dissertation Research Award (2004)

APA Division of Adult Development and Aging Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research (2004)

Phi Beta Kappa, Boston University (1998)

Courses Taught

NPSY	154a	Human Memory
PSYC	1a	Introduction to Psychology
PSYC	52a	Research Methods and Laboratory in Psychology
PSYC	180a	Social Neuroscience and Culture
PSYC	302a	Proseminar in Brain, Body, and Behavior II

Scholarship

Gutchess, A.H.. "Cognitive psychology and neuroscience of aging." The Aging Consumer: Perspectives from Psychology and Economics. Ed. A. Drolet, N. Schwarz, & C. Yoon. LEA/Psychology Press, 2009 (forthcoming)

Gutchess, A. H. & Park, D. C.. "Effects of ageing on associative memory for related and unrelated pictures.." European Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 21. (2009): 235-254.

Schacter, D. L., Gutchess, A. H., & Kensinger, E. A.. "Specificity of memory: Implications for individual and collective remembering." Memory in Mind and Culture. Ed. P. Boyer & J. Wertsch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 83-111.

Cole, C., Laurent, G., Drolet, A., Ebert, J., Gutchess, A., Lambert-Pandraud, R., Mullet, E., Norton, M., & Peters, E.. "Decision making and brand choice by older consumers." Marketing Letters 19. (2008): 355-365.

Goh, J.O., Chee, M. W., Tan , J.C., Venkatraman, V., Hebrank, A., Leshikar, E.D., Jenkins, L., Sutton, B.P., Gutchess, A. H., & Park, D.C.. "Age and culture modulate object processing and object-scene binding in the ventral visual area." Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience 7. 1 (2007): 44-52.

Gutchess, A. H., Hebrank, A., Sutton, B. P., Leshikar, E., Chee, M. W., Tan, J. C., Goh, J. O., Park, D. C.. "Contextual interference in recognition memory with age." Neuroimage 35. 3 (2007): 1338-47.

Gutchess, A. H., Hebrank, A., Sutton, B. P., Leshikar, E., Chee, M. W., Tan, J. C., Goh, J. O., Park, D. C.. "Contextual interference in recognition memory with age." Neuroimage 35. 3 (2007): 1338-47.

Gutchess, A.H., Ieuji, Y., & Federmeier, K.D.. "Event-related potentials reveal age differences in the encoding and recognition of scenes." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 19. 7 (2007): 1089-1103.

Gutchess, A.H., Kensinger, E.A., & Schacter, D.L.. "Aging, self-referencing, and medial prefrontal cortex." Social Neuroscience 2. 2 (2007): 117-133.

Gutchess, A.H., Kensinger, E.A., Yoon, C., & Schacter, D.L.. "Ageing and the self-reference effect in memory." Memory 15. 8 (2007): 822-837.

Kensinger, E.A., Gutchess, A.H., & Schacter, D.L.. "Effects of aging and encoding instructions." Psychology and Aging 22. 4 (2007): 781-795.

Park, D.C., Gutchess, A.H., Meade, M.L., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L.. "Improving cognitive function in older adults: Nontraditional approaches." Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences 62B. (2007): 45-52.

Chee, M. W., Goh, J. O., Venkatraman, V., Tan, J. C., Gutchess, A., Sutton, B., Hebrank, A., Leshikar, E., Park, D.. "Age-related changes in object processing and contextual binding revealed using fMR adaptation." J Cogn Neurosci 18. 4 (2006): 495-507.

Gutchess, A. H., Park, D. C.. "fMRI environment can impair memory performance in young and elderly adults." Brain Res 1099. 1 (2006): 133-40.

Gutchess, A. H., Welsh, R. C., Boduroglu, A., Park, D. C.. "Cultural differences in neural function associated with object processing." Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 6. 2 (2006): 102-9.

Gutchess, A. H., Yoon, C., Luo, T., Feinberg, F., Hedden, T., Jing, Q., Nisbett, R. E., Park, D. C.. "Categorical organization in free recall across culture and age." Gerontology 52. 5 (2006): 314-23.

Park, D., Gutchess, A.. "The cognitive neuroscience of aging and culture." Current Directions in Psychological Science 15. 3 (2006): 105-108.

Yoon, C., Feinberg, F., Gutchess, A. H.. "Pictorial naming specificity across ages and cultures: a latent class analysis of picture norms for younger and older Americans and Chinese." Gerontology 52. 5 (2006): 295-305.

Yoon, C., Gutchess, A. H., Feinberg, F., Polk, T. A.. "A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of neural dissociations between brand and person judgments." Journal of Consumer Research 33. 1 (2006): 31-40.

Gutchess, A. H., Welsh, R. C., Hedden, T., Bangert, A., Minear, M., Liu, L. L., Park, D. C.. "Aging and the neural correlates of successful picture encoding: frontal activations compensate for decreased medial-temporal activity." J Cogn Neurosci 17. 1 (2005): 84-96.

Yoon, C., Laurent, G., Fung, H. H., Gonzalez, R., Gutchess, A. H., Hedden, T., Lambert-Pandraud, R., Mather, M., Park, D. C., Peters, E., Skurnik, I.. "Cognition, persuasion and decision making in older consumers." Marketing Letters 16. 3-4 (2005): 429-441.

Goh, J. O., Siong, S. C., Park, D., Gutchess, A., Hebrank, A., Chee, M. W.. "Cortical areas involved in object, background, and object-background processing revealed with functional magnetic resonance adaptation." J Neurosci 24. 45 (2004): 10223-8.

Yoon, C., Feinberg, F., Hu, P., Gutchess, A. H., Hedden, T., Chen, H. Y., Jing, Q., Cui, Y., Park, D. C.. "Category norms as a function of culture and age: comparisons of item responses to 105 categories by american and chinese adults." Psychol Aging 19. 3 (2004): 379-93.

Yoon, C., Feinberg, F., Luo, T., Hedden, T., Gutchess, A. H., Chen, H. Y., Mikels, J. A., Jiao, S., Park, D. C.. "A cross-culturally standardized set of pictures for younger and older adults: American and Chinese norms for name agreement, concept agreement, and familiarity." Behav Res Methods Instrum Comput 36. 4 (2004): 639-49.

Park, D. C., Welsh, R. C., Marshuetz, C., Gutchess, A. H., Mikels, J., Polk, T. A., Noll, D. C., Taylor, S. F.. "Working memory for complex scenes: age differences in frontal and hippocampal activations." J Cogn Neurosci 15. 8 (2003): 1122-34.

Park, D. C., Gutchess, A. H.. "Aging, cognition, and culture: a neuroscientific perspective." Neurosci Biobehav Rev 26. 7 (2002): 859-67.