doctoral_advisor fields workplaces residence article_title name alma_mater
peter fried neuroscience , memory , learning university of arizona united states carol a. barnes
 carol a. barnes b.a. , university of california , riverside
carol a. barnes

carol a. barnes is a neuroscientist and a regents ' professor of psychology at the university of arizona .
since 2006 , she has been the evelyn f. mcknight chair for learning and memory in aging and is director of the evelyn f. mcknight brain institute .
barnes has been president of the society for neuroscience and is a fellow of the american association for the advancement of science , and foreign member of the royal norwegian society of sciences and letters .
barnes has produced over 170 peer reviewed publications .
broadly , her research is focused on the neurophysiological and behavioral changes that occur in the brain during aging .
understanding of these changes may shed light on the processes that contribute to age-related neurodegenerative disorders such as alzheimer 's disease .
barnes also developed the barnes maze , a spatial navigation memory task that is used to assess hippocampal-dependent memory .
