RECENT PRESENTATIONS
Highlighted talks and conference abstracts since 2014.
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Invited Seminars and Conference Talks
September 6 2019
Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, Canada
Object discrimination reflects cognitive aging and medial temporal lobe dysfunction
June 26 2019
International Behavioral Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Cairns, Australia
Aging alters hippocampal neural ensemble activity subserving the formation of detailed memory
Contribution to session 'The importance of being earnest about sex and stress effects on cognition across the lifespan' chaired by Liisa Galea, University of British Columbia
March 25 2019
Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Reverse translation links memory performance to neural compensation in a rodent model of cognitive aging
Contribution to session 'Individual differences in age-related episodic memory decline: mechanisms, challenges, and opportunities’ chaired by Ali Trelle, Stanford
July 16 2018
Neuromedicine Seminar Series, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida
Leveraging rodent models of cognitive aging to study medial temporal lobe tauopathy
April 22 2018
International Conference on Learning and Memory, Huntington Beach, CA
Medial temporal lobe contributions to mnemonic discrimination in young and aged rats
June 30 2017
Association of Neuropsychology Students in Training Seminar
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida
Investigating the neural underpinnings of cognitive aging in animal models
January 7 2017
Winter Conference on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Park City, UT
Hippocampal contributions to mnemonic discrimination are experience-dependent
Contribution to session 'The role of the medial temporal lobe in sensory discrimination and the relationship with memory’ chaired by Sara Burke, University of Florida
March 4 2016
Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Contributions of multi-modal stimulus discrimination deficits to memory loss in aging
February 22 2016
Clinical-Translational Aging Research Seminar
Malcolm Randall VA, Department of Aging & Geriatric Research, University of Florida
Stimulus discrimination as an index of cognitive aging across species
July 20 2015
Neuromedicine Seminar Series, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida
Pattern separation deficits in aging
April 10 2014
New York University Annual Neuroscience Institute Retreat, New Paltz, NY
Rescue of an age-related memory deficit by hippocampal IGF-II
Published Conference Abstracts
2019
McQuail JA, Johnson SA, Litenski MN, Ghay S, Hellbusch B, Peguero G, Rossi SL, Chakrabarty P, Giasson BI, Rapp PR, Burke SN, Bizon JL. (2019) Influence of normal aging on tau isoforms and post-translational modifications in transentorhinal cortex. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
Zequeira S, Johnson SA, Hampton A, Maurer AP, Bizon JL, Burke SN. (2019) Translational rat model of cognitive aging using a touchscreen operant platform to test visual discrimination and association. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
2018
Johnson SA, Turner SM, Lubke KL, Fertal KE, Maurer AP, Bizon JL, Burke SN. (2018) Hippocampal, perirhinal, and lateral entorhinal contributions to mnemonic discrimination in young and aged rats. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
McQuail JA, Johnson SA, Litenski MN, Ghay S, Rossi SL, Chakrabarty P, Giasson BI, Burke SN, Rapp PR, Bizon JL. (2018) Normal aging increases susceptibility to human wild type tau in transentorhinal cortex. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
Turner SM, Johnson SA, Flint JJ, Robertson KL, Nick JA, Lovett SD, Bizon JL, Burke SN, Maurer AP. (2018) Perforant path fiber loss results in mnemonic similarity task deficits in rats. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
Truckenbrod LM, Hernandez AR, Reasor JE, Campos KT, Federico QP, Lubke KN, Johnson SA, Clark BJ, Maurer AP, Burke SN. (2018) Dissociable effects of advanced age on prefrontal cortical and medial temporal lobe ensemble activity. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
Sanchez LM, Benthem SD, Johnson SA, Turner SM, Savage DD, Burke SN, Clark BJ. (2018) The effect of moderate prenatal alcohol exposure on object discrimination by adult rats. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
2017
Johnson SA, Turner SM, Fertal KE, Santacroce LA, Bizon JL, Maurer AP, Burke SN. (2017) Role of CA3 and dentate gyrus in the discrimination of perceptually similar objects depends on novelty of stimuli. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
Mizell JM, Chetram D, Kreher MA, Wasanwala H, Garcia-Sosa SR, Johnson SA, Setlow B, Bizon JL, Burke SN, Maurer AP. (2017) Untangling the cortical-hippocampal circuitry of spatial delay discounting. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
Hernandez AR, Truckenbrod L, Reasor JE, Fertal KE, Johnson SA, Clark BJ, Maurer AP, Burke SN. (2017) Age-related changes in the perirhinal-hippocampal-prefrontal cortical circuit: evidence for neural compensation in aged rats. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
2016
Johnson SA, Yoder WM, Lubke KN, Lister JP, Maurer AP, Bizon JL, Burke SN. (2016) Broad neuronal population coding in hippocampus relative to piriform cortex during difficult olfactory discriminations. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
Turner SM, Johnson SA, Maurer AP, Burke SN. (2016) A rodent model of medial temporal lobe-dependent discrimination deficits in the elderly. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
2015
Johnson SA, Gaynor LS, Sacks PK, Turner SM, Yoder WM, Ormerod BK, Maurer AP, Bizon JL, Burke SN. (2015) Age-related decline of spatial discrimination performance based on difficulty may reflect pattern separation deficits. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
Gaynor LS, Johnson SA, Maurer AP, Bizon JL, Burke SN. (2015) Cholinergic modulation of spatial discrimination performance in young and aged rats. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
Topper N, Ndum R, Hernandez AR, Johnson SA, Reasor JE, Mizell JM, Turner SM, Maurer AP, Burke SN. (2015) An open-source software suite for collecting and analyzing spontaneous object recognition data. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
Reasor JE, Hernandez AR, Turner SM, Barthle SE, Johnson SA, Maurer AP, Burke SN. (2015) Age-related impairments in object-place associations signify a decline in systems-level neural communication. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
Hernandez AR, Reasor JE, Turner SM, Barthle SE, Johnson SA, Bizon JL, Maurer AP, Burke SN. (2015) Object-place paired associations require interactions between prefrontal and perirhinal cortices. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
2014
Johnson SA, Alberini CM. (2014) Insulin-like growth factor 2 prevents memory decay associated with normal aging. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.