Eve De Rosa, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Psychology

In graduate school I received training in animal neuroscience at Harvard University and in human neuroscience as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Comparative Cognitive Neuroscience

I am interested in understanding how the cholinergic basal forebrain, the major source of the neurochemical acetycholine to the hippocampus and cerebral cortex, contributes to attentional modulation of learning in both human and nonhuman animals. I use a cross-species approach to investigate the mechanisms by which the basal forebrain contributes to normal cognition and cognitive deficits associated with cholinergic deficiency, e.g. aging, Alzheimer's disease, and chronic alcoholism.

Botly, L.C.P., & De Rosa, E. (2007) A Cross-Species Investigation of Acetylcholine, Attention, and Feature Binding. (submitted).
Botly, L.C.P., Baxter, M.G., & De Rosa, E. (2007) Basal forebrain and memory. New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience
Botly, L.C.P., & De Rosa, E. (2007) Cholinergic influences on feature binding. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121(2), 264-276.