Simon Davis

Co-Director

I am a Professor in the Department of Psychology & Brain Sciences at Indiana University, and Co-PI of the Mnemology Lab. I completed my PhD at Duke University with Roberto Cabeza, where I was a student in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience. I then trained at the Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain in Cambridge University under Lolly Tyler. I served as an assistant professor in the Duke department of Neurology, until 2025 when I accepted my current position at Indiana University. I’m a cognitive neuroscientist with experience in behavioural modelling, psychological task design, neuroanatomy, neuroimaging, and the global and local changes in brain physiology and anatomy associated with aging.

Publications

Simon W. Davis, Nancy A. Dennis, Sander M. Daselaar, Mathias S. Fleck, Roberto Cabeza, Qué PASA? The Posterior–Anterior Shift in Aging, Cerebral Cortex, Volume 18, Issue 5, May 2008, Pages 1201–1209, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhm155

Davis SW, Dennis NA, Buchler NG, White LE, Madden DJ, Cabeza R. Assessing the effects of age on long white matter tracts using diffusion tensor tractography. Neuroimage. 2009 Jun;46(2):530-41. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.01.068. PMID: 19385018; PMCID: PMC2775533.

Simon W. Davis, James E. Kragel, David J. Madden, Roberto Cabeza, The Architecture of Cross-Hemispheric Communication in the Aging Brain: Linking Behavior to Functional and Structural Connectivity, Cerebral Cortex, Volume 22, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 232–242, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhr123