Attention, Memory, and Aging Study at Stanford (AMASS)

Papers

• Schwartz, S. T., Yang, H., Xue, A. M., & Wagner, A. D. (accepted, pending revision). Attending to remember: Recent advances in methods and theory. Current Directions in Psychological Science. Preprint
• Tran, T. T., Madore, K. P., Tobin, K. E., Block, S. H., Puliyadi, V., Hsu, S. C., Preston, A. R., Bakker, A., & Wagner, A. D. (in press). Age-related differences in the predictive relationship between sustained attention and associative memory and memory-guided inference. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. Preprint

Posters

• Schwartz, S. T., Madore, K. P., & Wagner, A. D. (2022, November). Readiness-to-remember: On the relationship between recognition memory, recollection precision, and moment-to-moment fluctuations in preparatory sustained attention. Poster presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego, CA, USA.  Poster here
• Tran, T. T., Madore, K. P., Hsu, S., Schwartz, S. T., & Wagner, A. D. (2022). Lapses in Attention Predict Memory Variability in Young and Older Adults. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
• Rathmann-Bloch, J. E., Tran, T. T., Lloyd, H., Hsu, S., Madore, K. P., & Wagner, A. D. (2022). Attention as a gatekeeper of learning and memory: Interactions of state, trait, and age.
• Schwartz, S. T., Miller, D. S., Tran, T. T., Rathmann-Bloch, J. E., Park, J., Romero, A., Vossler, H., Sheng, J., Yang, H., Winer, J. R., Mormino, E. C., & Wagner, A. D. (2023, November). Effects of attention, goal representation, and amyloid burden on episodic retrieval in cognitively unimpaired older adults. Poster presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, DC, USA. Poster here
• Miller, D. S., Schwartz, S. T., Tran, T. T., Rathmann-Bloch, J. E., Park, J., Romero, A., Sheng, J., Yang, H., Mormino, E. C., & Wagner, A. D. (2023, November). Effects of spontaneous lapses of attention on goal representation and episodic memory retrieval. Poster presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, DC, USA. Poster here
• Subbulakshmi, S., Romero, A., Rathmann-Bloch, J. E., Park, J., Schwartz, S. T., Miller, D. S., Tran, T. T., Vossler, H., Trelle, A. N., Mormino, E. C., & Wagner, A. D. (2023). Effects of white matter integrity and amyloid-β on sustained attention in cognitively unimpaired older adults. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC.
• Romero, A., Winer, J. R., Tran, T. T., Rathmann-Bloch, J. E., Park, J., Schwartz, S. T., Miller, D. S., Anders, D., Morales, A., Wilson, E. N., Trelle, A. N., Andreasson, K. I., Davidzon, G. A., Mormino, E. C., & Wagner, A. D. (2024, January) Tau and Amyloid associations with sustained attention and episodic memory performance in clinically unimpaired older adults. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Human Amyloid Imaging Conference in Miami, FL, USA. Poster here
• Subbulakshmi, S., Rathmann-Bloch, J. E., Park, J., Cheng, G. L., Romero, A., Schwartz, S. T., Miller, D. S., Tran, T. T., Vossler, H., Trelle, A. N., Mormino, E. C., & Wagner, A. D. (2024, August). Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) related changes in white matter integrity underlie variability in memory and attention in cognitively unimpaired older adults. Poster presented at Knight Resilience Symposium, Stanford, CA, USA.
• Xue, A. M., Norcia, A. M., & Wagner, A. D. (2024, October). Mnemonic prediction errors enhance learning and increase arousal by signaling a need for cognitive control. Poster presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington DC, USA. October 8. Poster here
• Schwartz, S. T., Nguyen, K. K., Yang, H., deBettencourt, M. T., Tran, T. T., Madore, K. P., & Wagner, A. D. (2024). Real-time reorienting of preparatory sustained attention lapsing during episodic retrieval using closed-loop pupillometry. Data blitz at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Toronto, Canada. Poster here
• Subbulakshmi, S., Park, J., Rathmann-Bloch, J. E., Cheng, G. L., Romero, A., Schwartz, S. T., DMiller, D. S., Tran, T. T., Vossler, H., Trelle, A. N., Mormino, E. C., & Wagner, A. D. (2025, February). White matter integrity underlies variability in sustained attention & memory in cognitively unimpaired older adults. Poster presented at Knight Resilience Symposium, Stanford, CA, USA.
• Subbulakshmi, S., Srinivasan, M., Medina, L., Park, J., Sai, I., Mormino, E. C., & Wagner, A. D. (2025, March). Role of event boundaries and prior knowledge in influencing learning and memory in healthy aging and preclinical Alzheimer's disease. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, USA.

Presentations

• Tran, T. T. Mnemonic Generalization and Precision: Variability in Young and Older Adult Memory Predicted by Attention Lapsing. Talk presented at Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. 
• Subbulakshmi, S., Romero, A., Rathmann-Bloch, J. E., Park, J., Schwartz, S. T., Miller, D. S., Tran, T. T., Vossler, H., Trelle, A. N., Mormino, E. C., & Wagner, A. D. (2023, August). Effects of white matter integrity and early stage Alzheimer's Disease on episodic memory performance in cognitively unimpaired older adults. Talk presented at Bay Area Memory Meeting, Stanford, CA, USA.
• Schwartz, S. T. (2024, April). Real-time reorienting of preparatory sustained attention lapsing during episodic retrieval using closed-loop pupillometry. CNS Data Blitz, Stanford Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, CA. Video here Poster here