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Ken Roberts

Associate In Research
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Box 90999, Durham, NC 27708-0999
B242 LSRC, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Grants


Neural Mechanisms Underlying Attentional Resilience in the Aging Brain

ResearchResearch Associate · Awarded by National Institute on Aging · 2024 - 2029

Inflammatory Hangover and Cognitive Aging: A role of the brain-heart-immune axis in cognitive decline

ResearchResearch Associate · Awarded by American Federation for Aging Research · 2025 - 2028

Adaptive Neuromodulation of Working Memory Networks in Aging and Dementia

ResearchResearch Associate · Awarded by National Institute on Aging · 2022 - 2025

Real-time electroencephalography (EEG) changes with blinded, sham-controlled, transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) in anxious older adults awaiting surgery

ResearchResearch Technician · Awarded by Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care · 2022 - 2024

A Phase II Study of an ApoE mimetic peptide to reduce Postoperative Delirium, Cognitive Dysfunction after Non-Cardiac Surgery in Older Adults

Clinical TrialLaboratory Technician · Awarded by Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation · 2018 - 2024

Ken Robert's VA IPA Agreement

ResearchAssociate in Research · Awarded by Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center · 2021 - 2023

The Modulatory Role of Reward on Attentional Brain Processes

ResearchAssociate in Research · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2006 - 2019

Path Toward MRI with Direct Sensitivity to Neuro-Electro-Magnetic Oscillations

ResearchAssociate in Research · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2018

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Cortical Neuronal Activity

ResearchTechnician · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2015

Studies of Attention Using Combined ERPs and fMRI

ResearchResearch Assistant · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2001 - 2015

Multisensory Processing and Attention

ResearchResearch Assistant · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2005 - 2010