Margaret M. Keane, PhD

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

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.

Publications

  • Published 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.

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  • Published 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.

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  • Published 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.

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  • Published 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.

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  • Published 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.

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Other Positions

  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Psychiatry
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Education

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD
  • Harvard College, AB