Richard J. Addante

Dr. Richard J. Addante is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at Florida Institute of Technology (College of Psychology and Liberal Arts) and an Affiliate Faculty in the College of Engineering and Science (Biomedical Engineering and Science). His research focuses on human memory systems, brain states, metacognition, and cognitive performance in extreme environments, particularly space travel simulations. He holds a BA in Psychology from The College of New Jersey and a PhD in Neuroscience from UC Davis, with postdoctoral training in neuroimaging at the University of Texas at Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical School.

Notable achievements include discovering context familiarity as a third memory type (2024), identifying neural correlates of the Dunning-Kruger Effect (2021), and proving hippocampal dependence of implicit memory (2015). He has served as Principal Investigator for NASA studies on astronaut cognition and participated in the HERA Mars simulation mission. Dr. Addante is an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychology: Neuropsychology and sits on the editorial board of Neuroimage.

His awards include three LRP Awards from the NIH and Fellow status in the Psychonomics Society. Research integrates clinical neuroscience, neuroimaging, and space psychology, with ongoing work on long-duration space missions' cognitive impacts.