Richard J. Addante, Ph.D.
Associate Professor | School of Psychology | Florida Tech
Melbourne, FL, UNITED STATES
Dr. Addante researches the cognitive neuroscience of memory, brain states and metacognition, and analog missions for space exploration.
Areas of Expertise (6)
Space Psychology
Metacognition
Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Human Memory
Amnesia
About
Dr. Richard Addante earned a B.A. in psychology from the College of New Jersey and a Ph.D. in neuroscience at University of California Davis as a Diversity Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in neuroimaging with University of Texas at Dallas and UT-Southwestern Medical School. He is currently an LRP Fellow from the National Institute for Health.
Additional advanced coursework has included specialized courses at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Addante is the only psychologist to crew NASA’s largest psychology study for space travel (called the Human Exploration Research Analog, HERA Mission XIV), and has been a principal investigator of NASA studies investigating astronaut cognition (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, NEEMO). The overarching goal of these projects is to contribute to our understanding of the psychology of long-duration space flight for exploration-class missions in the Artemis generation and beyond.
Dr. Addante is a reviewer for many of top journals in the field and an associate editor of Frontiers in Psychology: Neuropsychology.
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Study uncovers some electrophysiological processes associated with the Dunning–Kruger effect
PsyPost.com online
2021-01-24
“When I was on the faculty at Cal State, I frequently noticed the over-estimating errors and the better-than-average-effect exhibited among our department and administration, and like many people probably do, wondered about what is happening in the brain for such instances,” said study author Richard Addante, an assistant professor at Florida Institute of Technology.
Memory May Not Serve Completely Correct in New Study
Florida Tech News online
2021-02-11
“Recallable but not recognizable: The influence of semantic priming in recall paradigms,” a paper written by Florida Tech psychology assistant professor Richard Addante, along with researchers from NASA, SUNY Geneseo, University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, discovered the memory error through examining the mechanism that drives the production of recognition failures. The paper, which was published in the January edition of Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, showed that just because a person can recall a word doesn’t mean they consciously remember it.
Boosting Memory Performance by Finding Amplitude of Brain Waves and Speeding Oscillations
Neuroscience News online
2021-11-27
Psychology assistant professor Rick Addante and clinical psychology doctoral student Mairy Yousif, along with researchers from California State University, San Bernardino, looked at the brains boosting potential in the research paper, “Boosting Brain Waves Improves Memory.”
CSUSB students and professor are part of the effort to send humans to Mars – and beyond
Inside CSUSB online
2020-06-03
While it may have been nerve-wracking at the start, it didn’t end that way. As Richard Addante, their psychology professor on the project, explained it, “They did a great job. I was telling them that after I introduced the project, one of my favorite parts was I got to just stand back and watch them take the reins to do what they were trained to do. … And it was perfectly executed.”
The Asteroid Mission That Never Leaves Earth
The Atlantic print
2017-12-22
“I’ve built a career asking other people to be test subjects. I felt like I owed it to the science to be a guinea pig myself,” says Rick Addante, a psychology and neuroscience professor at California State University at San Bernardino. Addante and three others moved into the hera habitat in August. “If we want to get to Mars, we have to use our brains, but we also have to understand our brains and what’s going to happen to them on the way to Mars,” he says.
Free Will May Just Be the Brain's 'Background Noise,' Scientists Say
Live Science online
2014-06-19
This brain activity wasn't strictly a signal at all — it was "noise," part of the brain's omnipresent and seemingly random electrical firing. In fact, neuroscientists usually consider this background noise meaningless and subtract it when trying to figure out the brain response to a specific task, said Rick Addante, a neuroscientist at the University of Texas at Dallas who was not involved in the research.
Education (2)
University of California, Davis: Ph.D., Neuroscience 2011
The College of New Jersey: B.A., Psychology 2005
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Selected Articles (8)
Recallable but not recognizable: The influence of semantic priming in recall paradigms
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience2021
Entrainment enhances theta oscillations and improves episodic memory
Cognitive Neuroscience2018
A critical role of the human hippocampus in an electrophysiological measure of implicit memory☆
NeuroImage2015
Examining ERP correlates of recognition memory: Evidence of accurate source recognition without recollection
NeuroImage2012
Neurophysiological evidence for a recollection impairment in amnesia patients that leaves familiarity intact
Neuropsychologia2012
Languages (2)
- Russian
- Spanish
Affiliations (5)
- Caribbean Student Association : Faculty Advisor
- Seaplane Pilots of America
- Psychonomics Society
- Cognitive Neuroscience Society
- Association for Psychological Science : Member
Accomplishments (5)
NIH LRP Award (professional)
Oct 2021 - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Aerospace Education Officer of the Year (professional)
Aug 2019 - US Air Force Auxilliary (CAP), California Wing
Outstanding Faculty Research Mentor Award (professional)
Apr 2019 - California State University
Young Alumnus Award (professional)
2018 - University of California, Davis
National Research Service Award (professional)
National Institute of Mental Health
Event Appearances (5)
Speaker
Learning Technology Symposium Association for the United States Army
Panelist
Chair Session on Statistics & Methodology Psychonomics Society
Keynote Speaker
Aerospace STEM Academy Edwards Air Force Base, USAF Auxiliary
Panelist
Session on Episodic Memory Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Panelist
NASA Human Research Program Investigators Workshop
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