Roberto Cabeza

Prof. Dr. Roberto Cabeza is a Professor at Humboldt University's Institute of Psychology, part of the Faculty of Life Sciences. He leads the Mnemology Lab, with a branch at Duke University, focusing on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of episodic memory and its changes in healthy/pathological aging. His research integrates behavioral and neuroimaging methods, emphasizing memory representations, neural networks, and aging effects. Key topics include encoding-retrieval similarity, cortical-hippocampal interactions, and compensatory mechanisms in aging.

His work spans studies on perceptual vs. conceptual memory, semantic vs. visual representations, and age-related dedifferentiation/hyperdifferentiation. Notable collaborations involve analyzing structural-functional connectivity links in aging brains. He has contributed to high-impact journals like Cerebral Cortex, Journal of Neuroscience, and Human Brain Mapping.