# Michael D. Rugg

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**Michael Derek Rugg** [FRSE](/source/FRSE) (born September 23, 1954) is a Distinguished Chair in Behavioral and Brain Sciences at [University of Texas at Dallas](/source/University_of_Texas_at_Dallas). He is director of [The Center for Vital Longevity](/source/The_Center_for_Vital_Longevity) in Dallas, Texas. His current research program involves the use of electrophysiological ([EEG](/source/EEG) and [ERP](/source/Event-related_potential)) and [functional magnetic resonance imaging](/source/Functional_magnetic_resonance_imaging) ([fMRI](/source/FMRI)) methods to investigate the cognitive and neural bases of [memory encoding](/source/Memory_encoding) and [memory retrieval](/source/Memory_retrieval), as well as how and why memory function differs as a result of healthy aging or neurological disease.

Rugg received a B.Sc. in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1979 from the [University of Leicester](/source/University_of_Leicester). Rugg has been employed at [University of St. Andrews](/source/University_of_St._Andrews) (1979–1998). There, he served as a professor of psychology (1992–1998) and a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow (1994–1998). From 1998 to 2003, he served as a professor of [Cognitive Neuroscience](/source/Cognitive_neuroscience) and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Psychology at [University College London](/source/University_College_London). From 2004 to 2010, he was a [Professor](/source/Professor) in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at [University of California, Irvine](http://www.cnlm.uci.edu/) and Director of the [Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory](http://www.cnlm.uci.edu)

## External links

- [Laboratory Website](https://fnim.utdallas.edu/)

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