The Roger B. Loucks Lectureship
Professor Roger B. Loucks (1903-1987) received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1930, and completed further training at Rockefeller University and Johns Hopkins University before joining the faculty at the University of Washington in 1936. He served on the faculty here until his retirement in 1968, interrupted only during World War II when served as Senior Psychologist with the Army and Air Force.
Professor Loucks investigated many aspects of the physiology of learning and memory throughout a long and distinguished career. Among other accomplishments, he developed one of the initial methods for manipulating the electrical activity of the brain of awake, behaving animals and thus helped pave the way for the contemporary study of the brain and behavior, especially as it applies to learning. He was also one of the first scientists in the U.S. to demonstrate unambiguously that Pavlovian conditioning is a genuine phenomenon.
The Roger Loucks Lectureship in the Neurophysiological Bases of Learning and Memory was established by an endowment from the estate of Professor Loucks, and sponsors one or more annual lectures and visits by outstanding scholars who have achieved recognition in the field of Neurophysiological Psychology. The UW Department of Psychology named the Lectureship in honor of Professor Loucks to recognize and pay tribute to an important pioneer in the fields of physiological psychology (now termed behavioral neuroscience) and the neurophysiology of learning and memory.
Previous Roger B. Loucks Lecturers
Carol A. Barnes
University of Arizona
Aging and the Hippocampus: The Good and Bad News
Alcino J. Silva
University of California – Los Angeles
Molecular and Cellular Cognition: Unraveling the Mechanisms of Memory
Richard Thompson
University of Southern California
In Search of Memory Traces
Claudio V. Mello
Oregon Health and Science University
Mapping Vocal Communication Pathways in Birds with Inducible Gene Expression
Michael M. Merzenich
University of California-San Francisco
Contributions of Brain Learning Mechanisms to Adult & Developmental Disability Genesis: Important Implications for Neurorehabilitation
Helen Neville
University of Oregon
Rewiring the Human Brain: Birth to Three & Beyond
Bermundez-Rattoni
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Cortical Cholinergic Regulation of Memory Formation
Larry R. Squire
VA Medical Center, San Diego
Memory Systems of the Brain
Fernando Nottebohm
Rockefeller University
Neurogenesis & Neuronal Replacement in the Adult Brain
Tim Tully
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Vertical & Horizontal Integration of Genes Involved with Memory
William T. Greenough
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Cellular Approaches to Memory & Mental Retardation Syndrome
Wolfram Schultz
University of Cambridge
The neurobiology of decision and reward: The 2nd annual spring symposium by the Center for Integrative Neuroscience
Raymond Kesner
University of Utah
A behavioral analysis of the contribution of the hippocampus and parietal cortex to the processing of information: Interactions and dissociations
Daeyeol Lee
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Neurobiology
Repeated games and neural basis of decision making
Thomas J. Carew
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California
How Time Flies: the Molecular Architecture of Memory
Mark E. Bouton
University of Vermont
Context and memory processes in extinction: Some implications for understanding relapse
Michael S. Fanselow
Department of Psychology & Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles
Competition and Compensation in the Circuitry Mediating Contextual Fear