How do we choose our actions given our goals, knowledge, and circumstances? Humans can avoid habitual tendencies and pick the right action for the right situation, an ability termed "cognitive control" or "executive function". Losing cognitive control, due to neurological or psychiatric condition, severely diminishes independence and quality of life. Our lab studies cognitive control of memory and action, using cognitive neuroscience methods that include fMRI and testing of patient populations.

Biography

David Badre received his B.S. from the University of Michigan in 2000, and his Ph.D. from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT in 2005. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined Brown's Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences as Assistant Professor in 2008. He is also an affiliate of the Brown Institute for Brain Science and a trainer in the Neuroscience Graduate Program. His lab at Brown focuses on the cognitive neuroscience of memory and cognitive control with an emphasis on frontal lobe function and organization. Dr. Badre serves on the editorial board of the journals Psychological Science and Cognitive Neuroscience. His research has been recognized by early career awards, including an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship in Neuroscience in 2011 and a James S. McDonnell Scholar Award in Understanding Human Cognition in 2012.

Awards

2012-2018 James S. McDonnell Scholar Award in Understanding Human Cognition
2011-2013 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
2008 Elected to the Memory Disorders Research Society
2005-2007 National Research Service Award, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH
2004 Walle Nauta Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
2003-2005 NIH Institutional Predoctoral Fellowship in Visual Cognition
2002 McDonnell Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience Fellowship
2001 Glenn Foundation/AFAR Scholarship for Research in the Biology of Aging
2000-2003 National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship
2000 Recipient of National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (Awarded, but did not accept in lieu of former)

Affiliations

2012 - present Editorial board, Psychological Science
2009 - present Editorial board, Cognitive Neuroscience
2008 – present Memory Disorders Research Society
2009 – present American Psychological Society
2001 – present Society for Neuroscience
1999 – present Cognitive Neuroscience Society

Courses Taught

• Cognitive Control Functions of the Prefrontal Cortex (COGS 1870)
• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Theory and Practice (PSYC 1840)
• Mind and Brain: Introduction to Cognitive Neurosciece (COGS0720)