Paul Reber

Paul Reber is a Professor and Director of the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience program at Northwestern University's Department of Psychology. His research investigates how the brain encodes and expresses memory, with a focus on implicit learning and memory system interactions.

• Email: preber@northwestern.edu
• Office: Cresap 308

Key research areas include:

• Neuroscience of memory systems (medial temporal lobe, caudate nucleus)
• Perceptual-motor skill learning (SISL task)
• Cognitive expertise development through repetition
• Computational modeling of memory interactions (PINNACLE model)
• Impact of reward on memory processes

Publications reveal expertise in visual category learning, implicit memory mechanisms, and cortical network distinctions between familiarity and conceptual priming. The ReberLab explores these through empirical experiments, computational modeling, and simulation-based training protocols.