Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

The Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) is a research center established in 1983 in the Francisco J. Ayala School of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine that studies memory and learning. Center faculty reported the first known case of hyperthymesia; they have also done research on false memory syndrome.James McGaugh was the founding director, and noted memory expert Elizabeth Loftus is a research fellow of the center.