Carol A. Barnes
Carol A. Barnes is an American neuroscientist who is 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. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.
Carol A. Barnes | |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Riverside University of Ottawa Carleton University |
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| Fields | Neuroscience, memory, learning |
| Institutions | University of Arizona |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Fried |
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.