David J. Bucci, Ph.D.
Young Investigator

David Bucci is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College. He is a member of the Society for Neurosciece, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience, and Pavlovian Society. Dr. Bucci's teaches courses on Research Methods and Ethics in Psychology as well as various courses in neuroscience. His research is focused on the neurobiological basis of attention, learning, and memory. Of particular interest are the neural mechanisms that are at the interface between attention and learning. One goal of this research is to further our understanding of the basic mechanisms of information processing in the brain. A second goal is to relate these findings to the biological basis of cognitive dysfunction and mental illness in humans.

Dr. Bucci received his BA in Psychology and Biology at Wesleyan University and then went on to work as a Research Scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company before attending graduate school. He earned his PhD in Neurobiology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1998 and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University before joining the faculty at the University of Vermont and then Dartmouth College.

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