Peter Wais, PhD
Associate Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Postdoctoral Studies Graduate Division University of California, San Francisco

Grants and Projects

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• Neural Correlates of Discrimination and Generalization in Recognition Memory, NIH, 2013-2019
• Neural Correlates of Discrimination and Generalization in Recognition Memory, NIH, 2013-2016

Publications (27)

Top publication keywords:
AttentionParahippocampal GyrusMemory, Long-TermNeural PathwaysMemory, EpisodicPrefrontal CortexVideo GamesJudgmentMental RecallBrainHippocampusVisual PerceptionSignal Detection, PsychologicalPerceptual MaskingMemory

• Virtual Reality Video Game Improves Memory in Older Adults.
  Frontiers for Young Minds 2024 Melissa Arioli, Roger Anguera-Singla, Peter E. Wais
• Gamma neuromodulation improves episodic memory and its associated network in amnestic mild cognitive impairment: a pilot study.
  Neurobiology of aging 2023 Jones KT, Gallen CL, Ostrand AE, Rojas JC, Wais P, Rini J, Chan B, Lago AL, Boxer A, Zhao M, Gazzaley A, Zanto TP
• Editorial: Early detection of neurodegenerative disorders using behavioral markers and new technologies: New methods and perspectives.
  Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2023 Manera V, Rovini E, Wais P
• Validation of At-Home Application of a Digital Cognitive Screener for Older Adults.
  Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022 Arioli M, Rini J, Anguera-Singla R, Gazzaley A, Wais PE
• Leveraging technology to personalize cognitive enhancement methods in aging.
  Nature aging 2022 Ziegler DA, Anguera JA, Gallen CL, Hsu WY, Wais PE, Gazzaley A

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• Virtual reality video game improves high-fidelity memory in older adults.
  Scientific reports 2021 Wais PE, Arioli M, Anguera-Singla R, Gazzaley A
• Evidence of a Causal Role for mid-Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Based Functional Networks in Retrieving High-Fidelity Memory.
  Scientific reports 2018 Wais PE, Montgomery O, Stark CEL, Gazzaley A
• Retrieval of high-fidelity memory arises from distributed cortical networks.
  NeuroImage 2017 Wais PE, Jahanikia S, Steiner D, Stark CEL, Gazzaley A
• Exercise to enhance hippocampal function and memory in older adults: Proof of concept findings from a 12-week exercise intervention trial.
  Alzheimer's & Dementia 2015 Judy Pa, Sasha Skinner, Peter Wais, Christian Thompson, Adam Gazzaley
• Exercise to enhance hippocampal function and memory in older adults: Proof of concept findings from a 12-week exercise intervention trial.
  Alzheimer's & Dementia 2015 Judy Pa, Sasha Skinner, Peter Wais, Christian Thompson, Adam Gazzaley
• External distraction impairs categorization performance in older adults.
  Psychology and aging 2014 Wais PE, Gazzaley A
• Distractibility during retrieval of long-term memory: domain-general interference, neural networks and increased susceptibility in normal aging.
  Frontiers in psychology 2014 Wais PE, Gazzaley A
• The limited usefulness of models based on recollection and familiarity.
  Journal of neurophysiology 2012 Wais PE
• The impact of auditory distraction on retrieval of visual memories.
  Psychonomic bulletin & review 2011 Wais PE, Gazzaley A
• The impact of visual distraction on episodic retrieval in older adults.
  Brain research 2011 Wais PE, Martin GM, Gazzaley A
• Distractibility during episodic retrieval is exacerbated by perturbation of left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex.
  Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2011 Wais PE, Kim OY, Gazzaley A
• Strong memories are hard to scale.
  Journal of experimental psychology. General 2011 Mickes L, Hwe V, Wais PE, Wixted JT
• Hippocampal signals for strong memory when associative memory is available and when it is not.
  Hippocampus 2011 Wais PE
• Neural mechanisms underlying the impact of visual distraction on retrieval of long-term memory.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010 Wais PE, Rubens MT, Boccanfuso J, Gazzaley A
• In search of recollection and familiarity signals in the hippocampus.
  Journal of cognitive neuroscience 2010 Wais PE, Squire LR, Wixted JT
• Recollection is a continuous process: implications for dual-process theories of recognition memory.
  Psychological science 2009 Mickes L, Wais PE, Wixted JT
• FMRI signals associated with memory strength in the medial temporal lobes: a meta-analysis.
  Neuropsychologia 2008 Wais PE
• Remember/know judgments probe degrees of recollection.
  Journal of cognitive neuroscience 2008 Wais PE, Mickes L, Wixted JT
• A direct test of the unequal-variance signal detection model of recognition memory.
  Psychonomic bulletin & review 2007 Mickes L, Wixted JT, Wais PE
• The hippocampus supports both the recollection and the familiarity components of recognition memory.
  Neuron 2006 Wais PE, Wixted JT, Hopkins RO, Squire LR
• Emotion enhances remembrance of neutral events past.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2006 Anderson AK, Wais PE, Gabrieli JD
• Amygdala responses to emotionally valenced stimuli in older and younger adults.
  Psychological science 2004 Mather M, Canli T, English T, Whitfield S, Wais P, Ochsner K, Gabrieli JD, Carstensen LL