Agatha Lenartowicz

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1285 Franz Hall
Box 951563
Department of Psychology

University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
90095-1563

alenarto at ucla dot edu

Curriculum Vitae

Welcome! If you are here, you probably already know a little something about me, but here is a little more. I am a post-doctoral scholar working in the laboratory of Russell A. Poldrack at the University of California, Los Angeles. My research aims to delineate the neural interactions that produce efficient behaviour. To do so I examine networks of brain activity (functional connectivity) that are involved in representing context for cognitive control, how these change with learning, and how cognitive control and automaticity interact to optimize performance. To address these questions I combine psychological paradigms testing learning in tasks that require cognitive control (multitasking, task switching), with both neuroimaging methods (fMRI, EEG) and multivariate approaches to data analysis.

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Publications & Manuscripts

Lenartowicz, A., Escobedo-Quiroz, R., & Cohen, J.D., (submitted), Updating working memory for context in prefrontal cortex: An event related potential study.

Eshel, N., Luka, J., Lenartowicz, A., Nystrom, L. E., & Cohen, J.D., (submitted) Transiently disrupting right prefrontal cortex interferes with updating of working memory.

Lenartowicz, A., Yeung, N., Cohen, J.D., (in prep). Evidence of task-set engagement in preparation during cued task-switching.

Rowe, G., Valderrama, S., Hasher, L., & Lenartowicz, A. (2006). Attention disregulation: A benefit for implicit memory. Psychology & Aging, 21(4). pp. 826-830.

Lenartowicz, A., & McIntosh, A.R. (2005). The role of anterior cingulate cortex in working memory shaped by functional connectivity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17(7). pp.1026-1042.