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 and metacognition across the adult lifespan, including how we actively (and sometimes inaccurately) reconstruct the past. He also researches how healthy aging and aging-related disease impact different kinds of memory and cognitive abilities, including research on improving cognitive assessment technologies. More generally, he is interested in how cognitive and metacognitive processes relate to social and emotional processes and well-being with aging.

COURSES

• The Mind
• Long Term Memory
• Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging
• Previous Courses: Fundamentals of Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Evolutionary Psychology; Introduction to Learning & Memory