Michael Wenger

Our research is currently focused on three questions. The first has to do with the effects of iron deficiency on cognition and brain health 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 improve recognition memory for faces. The third has to do with the combined effects of type 2 diabetes and diabetic retinopathy on the ability to perceive and remember faces. All of our work emphasizes the combined application of behavioral and noninvasive neuroscience methods, using the methods of computational neuroscience to link these variables.