Marc Coutanche is associate professor of psychological sciences at Rice University. He directs a cognitive neuroscience laboratory that seeks to understand how perceptual information becomes integrated into human memory. His research interests include learning and memory, the role of sleep in memory consolidation, and developing new computational tools to extract information from neuroimaging data.
Coutanche earned a B.A. in experimental psychology at the University of Oxford in 2005 and a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania in 2013. He conducted postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University. He has been recognized by the Association for Psychological Science Rising Star Award, is a fellow of the Psychonomic Society and has been elected to the Memory Disorders Research Society.
