Welcome to the lab webpage of Dr. Daniel Krawczyk at the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. We are a cognitive neuroscience lab studying the mental processes involved in reasoning, decision-making, working memory, and motivation. We study the relationship between brain and behavior in healthy individuals with functional brain-imaging (fMRI) and psychological experiments. We also study brain function in individuals with psychiatric or neurological impairments in an effort to better determine how the impairments affect mental functions.

 

The lab utilizes the state-of-the-art research facilities at three Dallas-area locations: The Center for BrainHealth ®, the Department of Psychiatry, and Advanced Imaging Research Center at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; and the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the main campus of UT Dallas in Richardson TX.

 

In addition to our studies of the relationship between brain and behavior, we are involved in the study of psychiatric and neurological conditions including dementia, autism, schizophrenia, and traumatic brain injury. Our mission is to contribute to the ongoing effort to rehabilitate these individuals and improve their mental functions by developing new measures to assess deficits and by seeing how performance on those measures changes through cognitive interventions.  

 

 

 

                             

             LINK to Brain Training Study 

  

 

        

 

 

Paper on the neural networks of reasoning by Ehsan Shokri Kojori et al. appears in Scientific Reports at nature.com LINK 

 

 

        

 

 

 

Kandalaft et al. paper on social cognition training to build skills in autism receives coverage at health news website daily Rx LINK

 

 

          

 

 

 

Studies of cognition and chess expertise receive coverage in UT Dallas News LINK