Steven J. Luck

Steven J. Luck is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, where he runs the Laboratory for Basic and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at the Center for Mind & Brain. He received a Ph.D. in Neurosciences from the University of California, San Diego in 1993, joined the Psychology Department at the University of Iowa in 1994, and then moved to UC Davis in 2006. Dr. Luck’s research focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of attention and memory in typical adults and on neurocognitive dysfunction in people with psychiatric and neurological disorders. Dr. Luck is also a leading expert on the use of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to measure the neural activity underlying cognition, and he conducts workshops on this technique that have provided training to over 1500 scientists around the world. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he is the winner of many awards, including the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences. He has published over 200 books, book chapters, and journal articles.