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Ingrid Olson
NationalityAmerican
Education
Scientific career
FieldsCognitive Neuroscience
InstitutionsTemple University

Ingrid Olson is an American professor, who is the Thaddeus L. Bolton Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1] At Temple University, she serves as the Director of the Cognition and Neuroscience Area. She is an expert on the biological basis of human cognition, with special focus on memory and social cognition.[2] As of 2023, she has produced around 100 scientific publications, which have been cited around 14,000 times.

Biography

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Ingrid Olson was born in Muskegon, Michigan. She attended Muskegon High School and did her undergraduate degree at University of Michigan. She got her PhD at Yale University and she conducted her postdoctoral research at the Yale School of Medicine.

Research

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Dr. Olson's graduate research was focused on visual statistical learning[3] and visual short term memory .[4] She published one of the first studies showing that the hippocampus plays an essential role in maintaining information over very brief delays,[5] going against dogma that this structure was only essential for long term memory. She has also done research on how our brain remembers people and other forms of social memory[6] and how this sort of memory can be improved by electrical stimulation of the anterior temporal lobes.[7] Newer work, in collaboration with Nora Newcombe, has focused on how the brain matures to support episodic memory in young children.[8] She has helped establish the fundamental role of neural white matter, such as the Fornix (neuroanatomy), Uncinate fasciculus, and Cerebellothalamic tract, in orchestrating complex cognitive processes such as episodic memory, person memory, and social cognition.[9][10][11][12] Her research program is funded by grants from the National Institute of Health.

References

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  1. ^ Temple College of Liberal Arts
  2. ^ Helmreich, Dana L.; EJN Diversity Initiative (2017). "Profiles of women in science: Prof. Ingrid Olson of Temple University". European Journal of Neuroscience. 46 (12): 2793–2794. doi:10.1111/ejn.13775. PMID 29127735.
  3. ^ Olson, I. R. (2001). "Contextual guidance of attention: Human intracranial event-related potential evidence for feedback modulation in anatomically early temporally late stages of visual processing". Brain. 124 (7): 1417–1425. doi:10.1093/brain/124.7.1417. PMID 11408336.
  4. ^ Organization of visual short-term memory Y Jiang, IR Olson, MM Chun Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, memory, and cognition 26 (3), 683
  5. ^ Olson, Ingrid R.; Page, Katie; Moore, Katherine Sledge; Chatterjee, Anjan; Verfaellie, Mieke (2006). "Working Memory for Conjunctions Relies on the Medial Temporal Lobe". Journal of Neuroscience. 26 (17): 4596–4601. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1923-05.2006. PMC 1764465. PMID 16641239.
  6. ^ Wang, Yin; Collins, Jessica A.; Koski, Jessica; Nugiel, Tehila; Metoki, Athanasia; Olson, Ingrid R. (2017). "Dynamic neural architecture for social knowledge retrieval". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (16): E3305–E3314. Bibcode:2017PNAS..114E3305W. doi:10.1073/pnas.1621234114. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 5402457. PMID 28289200.
  7. ^ Ross, Lars A.; McCoy, David; Coslett, H. Branch; Olson, Ingrid R.; Wolk, David A. (2011). "Improved Proper Name Recall in Aging after Electrical Stimulation of the Anterior Temporal Lobes" (PDF). Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 3: 16. doi:10.3389/fnagi.2011.00016. PMC 3191456. PMID 22016735.
  8. ^ Hoffman, Linda J; Ngo, Chi T; Canada, Kelsey L; Pasternak, Ofer; Zhang, Fan; Riggins, Tracy; Olson, Ingrid R (2022). "The fornix supports episodic memory during childhood". Cerebral Cortex. 32 (23): 5388–5403. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhac022. PMC 9712741. PMID 35169831.
  9. ^ Metoki, Athanasia; Alm, Kylie H.; Wang, Yin; Ngo, Chi T.; Olson, Ingrid R. (2017). "Never forget a name: white matter connectivity predicts person memory". Brain Structure & Function. 222 (9): 4187–4201. doi:10.1007/s00429-017-1458-3. PMC 5884066. PMID 28646241.
  10. ^ Multimodal mapping of the face connectome Y Wang, A Metoki, DV Smith, JD Medaglia, Y Zang, S Benear, H Popal, IR Olson. Nature human behaviour 4 (4), 397-411
  11. ^ Metoki, Athanasia; Wang, Yin; Olson, Ingrid R (2022). "The Social Cerebellum: A Large-Scale Investigation of Functional and Structural Specificity and Connectivity". Cerebral Cortex. 32 (5): 987–1003. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhab260. ISSN 1047-3211. PMC 8890001. PMID 34428293.
  12. ^ Von Der Heide, Rebecca J.; Skipper, Laura M.; Klobusicky, Elizabeth; Olson, Ingrid R. (2013). "Dissecting the uncinate fasciculus: disorders, controversies and a hypothesis". Brain. 136 (6): 1692–1707. doi:10.1093/brain/awt094. ISSN 1460-2156. PMC 3673595. PMID 23649697.
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