Dr. Nielson is a Professor of Psychology at Marquette University. Dr. Nielson's teaching interests include experimental psychology and research design; cognition; brain and behavior; adult development and aging; psychopharmacology; and neuropsychology and neurological disease Research Interests Dr. Nielson's research interests include cognition, psychobiology and neuropsychology, specifically related to memory, attention, aging, dementia, and functional MRI. She principally studies how memories are enhanced or impaired, how aging affects memory, the prediction of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease using fMRI and risk factors, and methods to enhance memory and performance across the lifespan in environments such as classrooms and at work.
Articles
Gender-specific Disruptions in Emotion Processing in Younger Adults with Depression (with S L. Wright, S A. Langenecker, P J. Deldin, L J. Rapport, A A. Kade, L S. Own, H Akil, E A. Young, and J J. Zubieta), Depression and Anxiety (2009)
One of the principal theories regarding the biological basis of major depressive disorder (MDD) implicates...
Semantic Knowledge for Famous Names in Mild Cognitive Impairment (with M Seidenberg, L Guidotti, J L. Woodard, S Durgerian, Q Zhang, A Gander, M Franczak, P Antuono, and S M. Rao), Journal of the International Neuropsychological Association (2009)
Person identification represents a unique category of semantic knowledge that is commonly impaired in Alzheimer’s...
A Task to Manipulate Attentional Load, Set-Shifting, and Inhibitory Control: Convergent Validity and Test-retest Reliability of the Parametric Go/No-go Test (with S A. Langenecker, J K. Zubieta, E A. Young, and H Akil), Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology (2007)
Traditional neuropsychological measures of executive functioning are difficult to employ in functional imaging and clinical...
The Sensitivity and Psychometric Properties of a Brief Computer-based Cognitive Screening Battery in a Depression Clinic (with S A. Langenecker, A Caveney, B Giordani, E A. Young, L J. Rapport, L A. Bieliauskas, M J. Mordhorst, S Marcus, N Yodkovik, K Kerber, S Berent, and J K. Zubieta), Psychiatry Research (2007)
At present, there is poor accuracy in assessing cognitive and vegetative symptoms in depression using...
Positive and Negative Sources of Emotional Arousal Enhance Long-term Word-list Retention when Induced as Long as Thirty Minutes after Learning (with Mark Powless), Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (2007)
The consolidation of newly formed memories occurs slowly, allowing memories to be altered by experience...