Charan Ranganath is the Director of the Memory and Plasticity Program, and a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of California at Davis. He has been a pioneer in the use of brain imaging techniques like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the mechanisms in the brain that allow us to remember past events.

Dr. Ranganath’s Dynamic Memory Lab is using computational models and multiple neuroscience and behavioral methods to study how we remember complex events and how we use memory in the service of navigation and goal-directed behavior. He has also studied how memory is affected by emotion, stress, and curiosity, as well as age-related changes in memory, and effects of memory disorders like epilepsy, stroke, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Professor Ranganath has been recognized with several awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship at the University of Cambridge, the Laird Cermak Award from the Memory Disorders Research Society, the Samuel Sutton Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution to Human ERPs and Cognition, the Chancellor’s Fellow award from UC Davis, and the Young Investigator Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. In 2015, he was one of 11 researchers in the United States to receive a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship. His research has been funded by grants from the Department of Defense, the National Institute of Mental Health Ranganath, (NIMH) and several private foundations. He is completing a trade book on the neuroscience of memory, to be published by Doubleday (US) and Faber & Faber (UK) in Fall 2023.

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Charan Ranganath, Ph.D.
Director, Memory and Plasticity (MAP) program
Professor, Dept. of Psychology & Center for Neuroscience
University of California at Davis, USA

Phone: +1 530-757-8750
Email: cranganath@ucdavis.edu