1. Director, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study George Mason University
Dr. James Olds
Director, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study
George Mason University

2. Education Amherst College – B.A. (Chemistry)
University of Michigan – Ph.D. (Neuroscience)

3. Research
The functional role of the mammalian neocortex, hippocampus, and cerebellum with special emphasis on how these highly ordered neuroanatomical regions interact to store and retrieve complex memories (i.e. – face recognition)

4. Research Protein Kinase C’s critical role in cellular memory
Development of human brain from birth through age six

5. How do you think your perspective as a neuroscientist shapes the way you seek knowledge?
Dr. Olds uses the Karl Popper approach as his way of seeking knowledge. Dr. Popper repudiated the classical observationist/inductive account of scientific methods by advancing empirical falsification.

6. Falsification
The logical possibility that an assertion is false by observation or by conducting an experiment
Karl Popper stated that a proposition, hypothesis, or theory is scientific only if is falsifiable.

7. How do people in your field learn new things?
By conducting experiments
Falsifying hypotheses and theories

8. Future Research Interested in doing further research on memory
Interested in studying consciousness/mind
Core Belief
The Mind is Immersed in the Brain