Nicholas A. Ruiz

This study develops a human paradigm to measure food craving incubation by linking self-reports with instrumental behavior, showing non-linear relationships over time.

This paper shows that when individuals have agency in a situation, they form stronger memories for all items involved, including associations between contestants, doors, and prizes.

The paper investigates how cholinergic modulation affects hippocampally mediated attention and perception using a task involving spatial layout and artistic similarity judgments.

This study shows that the medial temporal lobe, particularly the hippocampus, is critical for spatial relational perception, as patients with MTL damage were selectively impaired in tasks requiring relational processing of spatial layouts.