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Daniel Krawczyk, Ph.D.

Daniel Krawczyk, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Endowed Title
Debbie and Jim Francis Chair in Behavioral Brain Science (UT Dallas)
School
Medical School
Department
Psychiatry
Graduate Programs
Clinical Psychology
  • Biography

    Dr. Krawczyk studies reasoning and executive function in health and disease. Specifically, he is focused on how people use working memory, inhibitory control, and semantic knowledge to accomplish reasoning tasks that occur under the complex conditions of everyday life. His studies have included diagnostic approaches to cognition and brain function, evaluating responses to interventions for individuals with deficits in reasoning, and examinations of individuals with exceptional talent in reasoning acquired through expert knowledge.

    Dr. Krawczyk received his PhD in 2003 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied reasoning, decision making, and working memory with healthy populations as well as dementia patients. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied working memory and incentive processing using functional MRI. He joined the faculty in Psychiatry at UT Southwestern in 2006 and is jointly appointed at the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at UT Dallas. 

     

  • Education
    Graduate School
    Uni of California (UCLA) (2000), Psychology
    Graduate School
    Uni of California (UCLA) (2003), Psychology
  • Research Interest
    • Expertise
    • Neuroimaging
    • Social Cognition
    • Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Publications

    Star Featured Publications

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    Distraction during relational reasoning: The role of prefrontal cortex in interference control.
    Krawczyk, D. C., Morrison, R. G., Viskontas, I. V., Holyoak, K. J., Chow, T. W., Mendez, M., Miller, B. L. & Knowlton, B. J. Neuropsychologia 2008 46 2020-2032
    Reward modulation of prefrontal and visual association cortex during an incentive working memory task
    Krawczyk, D.C., Gazzaley, A., & D’Esposito, M. Brain Research 2007 1141 168-177
    Contributions of the prefrontal cortex to the neural basis of human decision making
    Daniel C. Krawczyk Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 2002 26 631-664