# Bio Randy is Principal Investigator of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (CNL) and Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and member of the Center for Brain Science, where he is affiliated with the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School as well as an Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His research applies neuroimaging techniques to explore brain areas involved in human memory. He has recently focused on three interrelated questions. The first question surrounds how human prefrontal cortex may participate in the formation and retrieval of memories, and how these structures may interact with medial temporal regions. This work originates from human lesions studies that note damage to prefrontal cortex can cause memory difficulties associated with the strategic aspects of memory formation and retrieval. The second line of inquiry relates to how the human brain codes the remnants (the echo) of a memory while it is being remembered. We all know from our daily experiences that sounds and visual images can be remembered from the past and are often vividly experienced. However, it is largely a mystery how the human brain revives and represents these perceptions. This issue is being explored in its most basic form by testing hypotheses such as whether human visual cortex becomes active when one tries to retrieve a visual (image-based) memory and whether auditory cortex becomes active when a sound from the past is remembered. The final research question targets how activity within the human brain changes when items are repeated. Activity appears to reduce in certain, specific brain regions when items (such as a word) are repeatedly presented to a subject and the subject becomes faster at processing that item. Randy has also recently become interested in how information about the healthy brain can help to guide our understanding of damaged and diseased brain states such as occur after a stroke or during the progression of Dementia of the Alzheimer Type (DAT). A final focus of his work is to develop novel methods for functional neuroimaging -- such as those employed during event-related fMRI. ## Recent Publications Download 6 citations download- [BibTeX](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=11680&content_filter%5B1%5D=11679&content_filter%5B2%5D=11678&content_filter%5B3%5D=11677&content_filter%5B4%5D=11676&content_filter%5B5%5D=11675&&format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=11680&content_filter%5B1%5D=11679&content_filter%5B2%5D=11678&content_filter%5B3%5D=11677&content_filter%5B4%5D=11676&content_filter%5B5%5D=11675&&format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=11680&content_filter%5B1%5D=11679&content_filter%5B2%5D=11678&content_filter%5B3%5D=11677&content_filter%5B4%5D=11676&content_filter%5B5%5D=11675&&format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=11680&content_filter%5B1%5D=11679&content_filter%5B2%5D=11678&content_filter%5B3%5D=11677&content_filter%5B4%5D=11676&content_filter%5B5%5D=11675&&format=tagged) - [Marc](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=11680&content_filter%5B1%5D=11679&content_filter%5B2%5D=11678&content_filter%5B3%5D=11677&content_filter%5B4%5D=11676&content_filter%5B5%5D=11675&&format=marc) - [PubMedId](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=11680&content_filter%5B1%5D=11679&content_filter%5B2%5D=11678&content_filter%5B3%5D=11677&content_filter%5B4%5D=11676&content_filter%5B5%5D=11675&&format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=11680&content_filter%5B1%5D=11679&content_filter%5B2%5D=11678&content_filter%5B3%5D=11677&content_filter%5B4%5D=11676&content_filter%5B5%5D=11675&&format=ris) ### 2010 Buckner R. [The Role of the Hippocampus in Prediction and Imaination](/publications/role-hippocampus-prediction-and-imaination). Annual Review of Psychology. 2010;61:27–48. Buckner R. [The Role of the Hippocampus in Prediction and Imaination](/publications/role-hippocampus-prediction-and-imaination). Annual Review of Psychology. 2010;61:27–48. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.annualreviews.org/loi/psych) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.annualreviews.org/loi/psych) Van Dijk, Hedden, Venkataraman, Evans, Lazar, Buckner R. [Intrinsic Functional Connectivity as a Tool for Human Connectomics: Theory, Properties, and Optimization](/publications/intrinsic-functional-connectivity-tool-human-connectomics-theory-propertie). Journal of Neurophysiology. 2010;103(1):297–321. Van Dijk, Hedden, Venkataraman, Evans, Lazar, Buckner R. [Intrinsic Functional Connectivity as a Tool for Human Connectomics: Theory, Properties, and Optimization](/publications/intrinsic-functional-connectivity-tool-human-connectomics-theory-propertie). Journal of Neurophysiology. 2010;103(1):297–321. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://jn.physiology.org/) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://jn.physiology.org/) Andrews-Hanna J, Reidler J, Sepulcre, Poulin, Buckner R. [Functional-Anatomic Fractionation of the Brain’s Default Network](/publications/functional-anatomic-fractionation-brains-default-network). Neuron. 2010;65(4):550–62. Andrews-Hanna J, Reidler J, Sepulcre, Poulin, Buckner R. [Functional-Anatomic Fractionation of the Brain’s Default Network](/publications/functional-anatomic-fractionation-brains-default-network). Neuron. 2010;65(4):550–62. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.cell.com/neuron/) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.cell.com/neuron/) Biswal, Mennes, Zuo, Gohel, Kelly, Smith, Beckmann, Adelstein, Buckner R, Colcombe, et al. [Toward Discovery Science of Human Brain Function](/publications/toward-discovery-science-human-brain-function). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 2010;107(10):4734–9. Biswal, Mennes, Zuo, Gohel, Kelly, Smith, Beckmann, Adelstein, Buckner R, Colcombe, et al. [Toward Discovery Science of Human Brain Function](/publications/toward-discovery-science-human-brain-function). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 2010;107(10):4734–9. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.pnas.org/) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.pnas.org/) Vincent J, Kahn, Essen DV, Buckner R. [Functional Connectivity of the Macaque Posterior Parahippocampal Cortex](/publications/functional-connectivity-macaque-posterior-parahippocampal-cortex). Journal of Neurophysiology. 2010;103(2):793–800. Vincent J, Kahn, Essen DV, Buckner R. [Functional Connectivity of the Macaque Posterior Parahippocampal Cortex](/publications/functional-connectivity-macaque-posterior-parahippocampal-cortex). Journal of Neurophysiology. 2010;103(2):793–800. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://jn.physiology.org/) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://jn.physiology.org/) Tu, Buckner R, Zollei, Dyckman K, Goff D, Manoach D. [Reduced Functional Connectivity in a Right-hemisphere Network for Volitional Ocular Motor Control in Schizophrenia](/publications/reduced-functional-connectivity-right-hemisphere-network-volitional-ocular). Brain. 2010;133(Pt. 2 ):625–37. Tu, Buckner R, Zollei, Dyckman K, Goff D, Manoach D. [Reduced Functional Connectivity in a Right-hemisphere Network for Volitional Ocular Motor Control in Schizophrenia](/publications/reduced-functional-connectivity-right-hemisphere-network-volitional-ocular). Brain. 2010;133(Pt. 2 ):625–37. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/) [ More arrow\_circle\_right ](/publications)