The UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) Colloquium Series brings learning, memory, and neuroscience scientists from around the world to UC Irvine. This neurobiology lecture series, colloquium series, is a great opportunity for faculty, students, trainees and research staff to learn about the latest in learning and memory research and gain feedback on their own work. Meeting with the speaker provides powerful network building opportunities for students and trainees and fosters future collaborations.
This year, the series features the work of UC Irvine scholars as CNLM celebrates the innovative research in learning and memory taking place across our campus. Among the speakers is CNLM fellow J. Zoe Klemfuss, associate professor of psychological science and leader of the Child Narratives Lab at UCI. Her research focuses on how children remember and report about their past experiences. She is particularly interested in how social contextual factors and children’s cognitive abilities separately and jointly impact the accuracy and content of their event narratives. This work is firmly rooted in cognitive and social developmental theory and has direct societal application, for example, in legal settings where a child’s memory report may be deciding evidence in a case.