Dr Dace Apšvalka


University position

Career Development Fellow

Departments

School of Clinical Medicine

Institutes

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Email

dace.apsvalka@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk

Home page

http://www.dcdace.net

Research Theme

Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience

The Cambridge Neuroscience Community

Interests

I study the brain mechanisms of memory and thought control in humans.

Research Focus

Keywords

Memory

Cognitive Control

GABAergic inhibition

Hippocampus

Clinical conditions

Anxiety disorders

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Depressive disorders

Obsessive compulsive disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Equipment

Behavioural analysis

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Collaborators

Cambridge

Michael Anderson

Associated News Items


    Publications

    2019

    Apšvalka D, Emily SC, Ramsey R (2019), “Fluid intelligence and working memory support dissociable aspects of learning by physical but not observational practice” Cognition 190: 170-183

    2018

    Apšvalka D, Emily SC, Ramsey R (2018), “Observing action sequences elicits sequence-specific neural representations in frontoparietal brain regions.” The Journal of Neuroscience 38(47): 10114-10128

    Apšvalka D, Ramsey R, Emily SC (2018), “Anodal tDCS over Primary Motor Cortex Provides No Advantage to Learning Motor Sequences via Observation” Neural Plasticity 2018: 1-14

    2015

    Apšvalka D, Gadie A, Clemence M, Mullins PG (2015), “Event-related dynamics of glutamate and BOLD effects measured using functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy (fMRS) at 3 T in a repetition suppression paradigm” NeuroImage 118: 292-300