Margaret M. Keane, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurology
Biography
She is the Associate Director of the Memory Disorders Research Center at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and V.A. Boston Healthcare System.Her research interests are neurology, clinical neuropsychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Margaret Keane has always had an interest in unraveling the mysteries of mind, brain, and memory. As a professor, she loves conducting research with students. Most experiments examine how memory performance can be influenced by a variety of experimental manipulations. Her current research goal is to understand the functional and neural bases of distinct forms of human memory. She does this by examining impaired memory function in amnesic patients and memory function in healthy patients. Previous work explores interactions between episodic and semantic memory, the role of memory in envisioning the future, and the relationship between long-term memory and working memory.
Other Positions
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Psychiatry, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
- VA Boston Healthcare System
Websites
Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD
- Harvard College, AB
Publications
- Published on 5/14/2021
Patt VM, Hunsberger R, Jones DA, Keane MM, Verfaellie M. Temporal discounting when outcomes are experienced in the moment: Validation of a novel paradigm and comparison with a classic hypothetical intertemporal choice task. PLoS One. 2021; 16(5):e0251480. PMID: 33989315.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/9/2021
Verfaellie M, Hunsberger R, Keane MM. Episodic processes in moral decisions: Evidence from medial temporal lobe amnesia. Hippocampus. 2021 06; 31(6):569-579. PMID: 33687125.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/25/2020
Lynch K, Keane MM, Verfaellie M. The status of semantic memory in medial temporal lobe amnesia varies with demands on scene construction. Cortex. 2020 10; 131:114-122. PMID: 32836086.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/14/2019
Keane MM, Bousquet K, Wank A, Verfaellie M. Relational processing in the semantic domain is impaired in medial temporal lobe amnesia. J Neuropsychol. 2020 09; 14(3):416-430. PMID: 31729186.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/8/2019
Verfaellie M, Wank AA, Reid AG, Race E, Keane MM. Self-related processing and future thinking: Distinct contributions of ventromedial prefrontal cortex and the medial temporal lobes. Cortex. 2019 06; 115:159-171. PMID: 30826623.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/1/2018
Palombo DJ, Hayes SM, Peterson KM, Keane MM, Verfaellie M. Medial Temporal Lobe Contributions to Episodic Future Thinking: Scene Construction or Future Projection? Cereb Cortex. 2018 02 01; 28(2):447-458. PMID: 27913433.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/1/2017
Verfaellie M, Keane MM. Neuropsychological Investigations of Human Amnesia: Insights Into the Role of the Medial Temporal Lobes in Cognition. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2017 Oct; 23(9-10):732-740. PMID: 29198269.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/3/2016
Palombo DJ, Keane MM, Verfaellie M. Using future thinking to reduce temporal discounting: Under what circumstances are the medial temporal lobes critical? Neuropsychologia. 2016 Aug; 89:437-44. PMID: 27384755.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/1/2015
Palombo DJ, Keane MM, Verfaellie M. Does the hippocampus keep track of time? Hippocampus. 2016 Mar; 26(3):372-9. PMID: 26343544.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/19/2015
Palombo DJ, Keane MM, Verfaellie M. How does the hippocampus shape decisions? Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2015 Nov; 125:93-7. PMID: 26297967.
Read at: PubMed
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