6th year Graduate Student
Office: 1400 Biological Sciences III
Email: rsteven1@uci.edu
Biosketch:
I use intracranial recordings from pre-surgical epilepsy patients and fMRI to study the ways in which the medial temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex contribute to spatial memory and learning.
Awards and Honors:
- NIH T32 Predoctoral Training Fellowship
- Kavli Summer Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Fellowship
- John Haycock Memorial Travel Award
- Founders Scholarship, Tulane University
Publications:
- Zheng, J., Stevenson, R. F., Mander, B. A., Mnatsakanyan, L., Hsu, F. P. K., Vadera, S., … Lin, J. J. (2018). Multiplexing of Theta and Alpha Rhythms in the Amygdala-Hippocampal Circuit Supports Pattern Separation of Emotional Information. SSRN Electronic Journal, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3206268
- Stevenson, R. F., Zheng, J., Mnatsakanyan, L., Vadera, S., Knight, R. T., Lin, J. J., & Yassa, M. A. (2018). Hippocampal CA1 gamma power predicts the precision of spatial memory judgments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(40), 10148–10153. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1805724115
- Stark, S. M., Stevenson, R., Wu, C., & Rutledge, S., (2015). Stability of age-related deficits in the mnemonic similarity task across task variations. Behavioral Neuroscience. DOI:10.1037/bne0000055.
Abstracts, Posters and Presentations:
- Stevenson, R., CA1 and MEC gamma power predicts spatial memory precision. Data Blitz presentation, Park City Winter Conference on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.
- Stevenson, R., Reagh, Z.M., Chun, A.P., Murray, E.A., Yassa, M.A., (2015). High-resolution fMRI of source memory and mnemonic discrimination. Society for Neuroscience.
- Lin, J.J., Stevenson, R.F., Leal, S.L., Zheng, J., Roberts, J.M., Riley, J., Yassa, M.A., (2015). Intracranial EEG of hippocampal-amygdala dynamics during emotional memory discrimination. Society for Neuroscience.
- Stevenson, R.F. (2015). Depth electrode recordings in the human medial temporal lobe. Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory awards ceremony.
- Stevenson, R.F. (2015). Depth electrode recordings in the human medial temporal lobe. UC Irvine Neuroblitz.
- Stark, S.M., Stevenson, R.F., Stark, C.E. (2014) Stability of age-related deficits in the Mnemonic Similarity Task across task variations. ReMIND Emerging Scientists Symposium on Neurological Disorders, UC Irvine.
- Stark, S.M., Stevenson, R.F., Stark, C.E. (2014) Stability of age-related deficits in the Mnemonic Similarity Task across task variations. Society for Neuroscience.
- Stevenson, R.F. (2014). The effect of task design on age-related deficits in mnemonic discrimination. UC Irvine Neuroblitz.