David A. Gallo

Departmental website:
https://psychology.uchicago.edu/directory/david-gallo
Lab website:
https://voices.uchicago.edu/memorylab/

David A. Gallo is a psychologist interested in the functions of the human brain. He researches how we actively (and sometimes inaccurately) reconstruct the past from memory, and how memory and related cognitive functions are impacted by different factors (e.g., healthy aging and Alzheimer’s disease; psychoactive drugs; artificial brain stimulation). 

Prof. Gallo is the director of UChicago’s Memory Research Laboratory, where research tools from cognitive psychology and neuroscience are used to study memory and cognition in different contexts.

David A. Gallo

  • Title: Professor of Psychology; Director, Memory Research Laboratory
  • Education: BA, Wesleyan University; MA, PhD, both from Washington University in St. Louis
  • Joined UChicago faculty: 2005
  • dgallo@uchicago.edu
  • @gallomemorylab

Media Contacts

Elizabeth Braun Rush

Executive Director for Strategic Communications, Social Sciences Division

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Expertise

Memory, Alzheimer’s, Aging

Gallo Stories

Using a foreign language can reduce false memories, study shows Outline of a human head with a tangle of yellow and blue lines in the "brain." The yellow line leads outside the brain to the left and says "true" while the blue line leads to the right and reads "false."

Using a foreign language can reduce false memories, study shows