Study personnel

Learn more about and get in touch with the people who contribute to our current research projects. For general inquiries, please contact Megan Lyons.

Principal investigator

Dr. Robert M. Chapman

PhD, Brown University, 1960

O: Meliora 243
P: (585) 275-8679
E: rmc@cvs.rochester.edu

Robert Chapman, PhD works on visual information processing in humans and is concerned particularly with the question of how psychological processes depend upon underlying physiological mechanisms. The major research tool is the analysis of brain-evoked potentials and magnetic signals recorded from human subjects while they are performing specified tasks. Extensive use is made of computers to collect and analyze data. By using multivariate statistical analyses, relationships have been established between certain components of the brain's electrical and magnetic responses and characteristics of information processing operations such as stimulus relevance, expectancy, memory storage, and semantic meaning. He is currently studying these in aging and Alzheimer's disease.

Dr. Robert M. Chapman

Dr. Mark E. Mapstone

Principal investigator

Dr. Mark E. Mapstone

PhD, Northwestern University

Mark Mapstone, PhD is a practicing clinical neuropsychologist and active researcher in the field of cognitive neuroscience. He is the senior neuropsychologist in the University of Rochester Memory Disorders Clinic where his clinical focus is cognitive complaints in older adults and behavioral characterization of dementias. His research is funded by an Early Career Development Award from the National Institute on Aging and focuses on understanding brain mechanisms of cognitive aging and Alzheimer's disease. He is also involved in clinical trials designed to understand and treat age-related memory problems and neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Mapstone received a doctorate in clinical psychology from Northwestern University and completed fellowships in clinical neuropsychology and experimental therapeutics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.


Margaret Gardner

Study coordinator

Margaret Gardner

BA, University of Rochester, 2004

O: Meliora 171
P: (585) 275-8463
E: mgardner@bcs.rochester.edu
Megan Lyons

Study coordinator

Megan Lyons

BA, University of Rochester, 2017

O: Meliora 166
P: (585) 275-8142
E: mlyons10@u.rochester.edu

Student assistants

Sing Yik Chan

University of Rochester Class of 2022

Michael Holmes

University of Rochester Class of 2020


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