michael.j.wenger@ou.edu
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Dr. Wenger is recruiting new graduate students in Cognitive Psychology and Cellular and Behavioral Neurobiology for the Fall 2027 - Spring 2028 school year.
Our research is currently focused on four questions in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. The first has to do with the effects of variations in iron levels on cognition and brain dynamics in women across the lifespan. In this work we relate blood-based measures of iron status, MRI measures of brain iron deposits, behavioral measures of cognitive performance, and electroencephalographic (EEG) measures of brain dynamics. The second has to do with perceptual learning and perceptual organization and the potential for perceptual learning to affect recognition memory. The third has to do with the combined effects of type 2 diabetes and diabetic retinopathy on the ability to perceive and remember faces. The fourth is exploring what it means, behaviorally and neurally, to bind features together in working memory. All of our work emphasizes the combined application of behavioral and noninvasive neuroscience methods, using the methods of computational neuroscience and mathematical modeling to link these variables.
