Tammy Thanh Tran

Assistant Professor

Education

Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, Johns Hopkins University

B.S. in Psychology, the University of Texas at Austin

Research Interests

Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroimaging, Memory, Spatial Navigation, Spatial Memory, Aging, Alzheimer’s Disease, biomarkers

About

I completed her B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin and her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in the laboratories of Michela Gallagher and Arnold Bakker (School of Medicine). My postdoctoral training was under the direction of Anthony Wagner and Elizabeth Mormino (School of Medicine) at Stanford.

My research program is broadly studying the mechanisms that underlie memory variability across the lifespan, with a particular interest in real-world contributors to memory (e.g., spatial context, stress, attention). I’m broadly interested in exploring how spatial representations and episodic memory are intertwined and guide memory encoding and retrieval contribute to memory variability and decline across the lifespan. To this end, the lab uses a combination of tools to examine and investigate memory, including functional and structural neuroimaging, web-based behavioral studies, desktop and immersive virtual reality.

I am accepting applications for PhD students, master’s students and research coordinators for this upcoming cycle. See the lab website here.

Selected Publications

Tran, T.T., Madore, K.P., Tobin, K.E., Block, S.H., Puliyadi, V., Hsu, S.C., Preston, A.R., Bakker, A., Wagner, A.D. (In Revision). Mnemonic Bridging across Events relates to Individual-Differences in Sustained Attention in Younger and Older Adults.

Tran, T. T., Speck, C. L., Gallagher, M., & Bakker, A. (2022). Lateral entorhinal cortex dysfunction in amnestic mild cognitive impairment. Neurobiology of aging, 112, 151-160.

Trelle, A.N., Carr, V.A., Wilson, E.N., Swarovski, M.S., Hunt, M.P, Toueg, T.N., Tran, T.T., Channappa, D., Corso, N.K., Thieu M.K., Jayakumar, M., Nadiadwala, A., Guo, A., Tanner, N.J., Bernstein, J.D., Litovsky, C.P., Guerin, S.A., Khazenzon, A.M., Harrison, M.B., Rutt, B.K., Deutsch, G.K., Chin, F.T., Davidzon, G.A., Hall, J.N., Sha, S.J., Fredericks, C.A., Andreasson, K.I., Kerchner, G.A., Wagner, A.D., Mormino, E.C. (2022). Association of CSF biomarkers with hippocampal-dependent memory in preclinical Alzheimer disease. Neurology.

Tran, T., Tobin, K. E., Block, S. H., Puliyadi, V., Gallagher, M., & Bakker, A. (2021). Effect of aging differs for memory of object identity and object position within a spatial context. Learning & Memory, 28(7), 239-247.

Tran, T.T., Speck, C., Pisupati, A., Gallagher, M., Bakker, A. (2017). Increased hippocampal activation in ApoE-4 carriers and non-carriers with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment. NeuroImage: Clinical, 13, 237-245.