CHBH Seminar Series: Dr Richard Addante

CHBH Seminars are free to attend and are open to all, both within and outside the University.

We are pleased to announce that the CHBH will welcome Dr Richard Addante, Assistant Professor of Psychology, who has recently joined Florida Tech University from California State University - San Bernardino, will be presenting a CHBH seminar on Thursday 24^th September 13:00-14:00 BST on Zoom (you can register your interest using the link above).

Memory, Metacognition, & Mars: Contributions of Cognitive Neuroscience for Martian Habitats

A mission to Mars will represent a unique combination of human isolation, confinement, and teamwork performance, during which errors of cognition in domains such as memory, attention, and perception can have catastrophic effects. Cognitive neuroscience is thus poised to make critical contributions to efforts making the human habitation of Mars possible. The talk will present a range of data which first identifies current research findings on the cognitive neuroscience of human memory, extends that towards novel innovations using neurophysiology to study metacognitive illusions, and then will present recent efforts working with NASA to apply these approaches to studying cognition of astronaut crews in analog studies of long duration space travel.  

Biography

Dr. Addante is an Assistant Professor at Florida Tech. He earned a BA in Psychology from The College of New Jersey and a PhD in Neuroscience at UC Davis as a Diversity Fellow of the American Psychological Association, then completed a Post-doctoral Fellowship in Neuroimaging at UT-Southwestern Medical School, and is currently an LRP Fellow from the NIH. He is the only psychologist to crew NASA’s largest psychology study for space travel and has been PI of studies investigating astronaut cognition. He does not believe in publishing high quantities of low-quality papers and has a soft spot for animals (especially greyhounds). 

Dr Addante's YouTube Channel

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CHBH Seminars are free to attend and are open to all, both within and outside the University.