The University of Chicago
Department of Psychology
5848 South University Avenue
Chicago, IL, 60637
Office Phone: (773) 834-3701
Office: Kelly Hall, 303
Labs: Kelly Hall, 309, 311, 313
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David Gallo
Biography
David A. Gallo joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2005. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1997, his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002, and was an NIH-sponsored postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University until 2005. He researches the basic neurocognitive processes of human memory, how we actively (and sometimes inaccurately) reconstruct the past, and how healthy aging and Alzheimer’s disease affect these processes. For more detailed information, visit the Memory Lab Webpage (http://memorylab.uchicago.edu).
Research Interests
- memory accuracy and distortion
- healthy aging and Alzheimer’s disease
- metacognitive and nonconscious processes
- cognitive neuroscience and evolution
Representative Publications
Gallo, D. A., Foster, K. T., Wong, J. T., & Bennett, D. A. (in press). False recollection of emotional pictures in Alzheimer’s disease. Neuropsychologia.
Gallo, D. A., McDonough, I. M., and Scimeca, J. (2010). Dissociating source memory decisions in prefrontal cortex: fMRI of diagnostic and disqualifying monitoring. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 955-969.
Gallo, D. A., Cotel, S. C., Moore, C. D., and Schacter, D. L. (2007). Aging can spare recollection-based retrieval monitoring: The importance of event distinctiveness. Psychology & Aging, 22, 209-213.
Gallo, D. A. (2006). Associative Illusions of Memory. New York: Psychology Press.
Courses
- The Mind
- Fundamentals of Psychology
- Cognitive Psychology
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Human Memory
