Logan Harriger

Graduate Student
Office: 1400 Biological Sciences III
Email: lharrige@uci.edu

About Me

Projects

Research Interests

Fun!

I received my B.S. in Neuroscience at Indiana University. My honors thesis, advised by Dr. Olaf Sporns, involved a partial brain network derived from hundreds of tract-tracer studies on macaque brains (CoCoMac) and showed evidence of a rich-club topology; in other words, highly connected brain regions, or hubs, tended to connect with other hubs, and this organization served to connect distributed modules of the brain. At UCI, I am a PhD candidate in Mathematical, Computational and Systems Biology, and Dr. Yassa is advising me on a thesis studying how oscillatory processes in the medial temporal lobe support and hinder memory of emotional images.

Lab Research Projects

I contribute to the following research areas in the Translational Neuroscience Laboratory.

I am using a mnemonic discrimination task and intracranial electroencephalography to study how oscillatory activity in the medial temporal lobe supports memory for images which subjects rate as emotionally positive, negative, or neutral.

I enjoy staying active with yoga, inline skating, snowboarding, biking, hiking, and volleyball. When I want to relax, I lounge on the beach, listen to music, watch documentaries and movies, and take my dog to the park.

What the lab means to me…
“The Yassa Lab is a community of scientists, students, and staff working to advance the field of cognitive neuroscience. We are primarily interested in learning, memory, and emotion — especially as they relate to dementia, sleep, and exercise. We study these topics in various populations by relating performance on neuropsychological surveys or cognitive tasks to a multitude of brain imaging, such as MRI, fMRI, dsi, PET, intracranial EEG, etc. As a group, our interests are broad, but we foster an inclusive and collaborative environment by valuing each other’s ideas, offering support, and just enjoying each other’s company.”