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University of Leicester.
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Michael Rugg FRSE
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He is co-director of The Center for Vital Longevity in Dallas, Texas. His current research program involves the use of electrophysiological (Electroencephalogram and Enterprise resource planning) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) methods to investigate the cognitive and neural bases of memory encoding and memory retrieval, as well as how and why memory function differs as a result of healthy aging or neurological disease. Rugg received a Bachelor of Science in 1976 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1979 from the University of Leicester.
Rugg has been employed at University of Saint Andrews (1979-1998).
There, he served as a Professor of Psychology (1992-1998) and a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow (1994-1998). From 1998-2003, he served as a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Psychology at University College London.
From 2004-2010, he was a Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at University of California, Irvine and Director of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.
