Charan Ranganath
Neuroscientist and psychology professor
Charan Ranganath is a neuroscientist who studies how the brain remembers past events. He is a professor at the University of California at Davis and wrote Why We Remember.
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Born in Madras, India
About Charan Ranganath
Charan Ranganath is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of California at Davis, where he leads the Dynamic Memory Lab. For more than 25 years he has studied how the brain lets us recall past events, using imaging, computer models and research with people who have memory disorders. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, and has served as an editor for the Journal of Neuroscience. He lives in Davis, California. Outside the lab, Ranganath is a songwriter and guitarist, and one of his songs appears on a film soundtrack.