Cognitive
Neuroscience
The University of Colorado
Cognitive neuroscience research at the University of
Colorado thrives across different departments and different areas of
psychology. The following links
highlight relevant resources and faculty profiles.
Cognitive
Neuroscience Faculty
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
The Brain Imaging Center, directed by Robert Freedman, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, is located at Building 400 in the Fitzsimmons Campus. The core equipment of the center is a research dedicated 3.0 Tesla human MRI scanner, purchased with a fund provided by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President of the United States. This MR facility has been operational since May, 2003. The core team of the center includes psychiatrists, psychologists, radiologists, and physicists. This center provides support of function MRI, anatomical MRI, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) studies to researchers at the university. For more information about the center, please contact Yiping Du, Ph.D., Technical Director, at 303-724-1717, or e-mail to Yiping.Du@UCHSC.edu.
Electroencephalography (EEG,
ERP)
Tim Curran's laboratory currently houses two 128-channel EEG systems (Electrical Geodesics Inc.) One system is permanently housed in the Muenzinger Psychology Building (D458). The other is a portable system that is currently located at the General Clinical Research Center on the Boulder Campus, where the system is being used in research examining drug effects on learning and memory. Tiffany Ito's lab in the Muenzinger Psychology Building houses a 32 channel EEG system (Neuroscan Synamps). These systems are available for use by other faculty and graduate students.
Whole-Head Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
The
Neuromagetic Imaging Center (http://www.neuromeg.org/), directed by Dr. Martin
Reite, is located in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center. The center
currently houses a 4-D Neuroimaging 248-channel Model 3600 Neuromagnetometer
with 64 EEG channels. The MEG
system is available for use by other faculty and graduate students.
Cognitive Neuroscience
Links
Institute of Cognitive Science
Institute for Behavioral Genetics
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department
of Psychiatry
General Clinical Research Center
Research in Neural and Statistical
Computation
Cognitive Neuroscience Faculty
Marie T.
Banich, Professor of
Psychology (Cognitive) & Psychiatry
http://psych.colorado.edu/~mbanich
303-492-6655
Neural bases of executive function and attentional
control in normal and clinical populations; Integration of information across
brain regions; Neural bases of the development of executive control during
adolescence.
Tim Curran,
Associate Professor of Psychology (Cognitive)
http://psych.colorado.edu/~tcurran
303-492-5040
Human learning, memory, and cognition; focusing on ERP
studies of recognition memory and perceptual learning.
Yiping Du,
Ph.D., Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Radiology
303-724-1717
Research interests: Development of new techniques in MRI, with a focus in
functional MRI (fMRI). My current research interests include the reduction of
image artifacts of echo-planar imaging (EPI) in fMRI, T2* analysis and mapping,
and perfusion MRI using the arterial spin labeling technique.
Lewis O. Harvey, Jr., Professor of Psychology (Cognitive)
http://psych.colorado.edu/~lharvey/
303-492-8882
Vision and Visual Perception. I use psychophysical
methods to measure the properties of perceptual and sensory systems.
Tiffany Ito,
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Social)
http://psych.colorado.edu/~tito/
303-492-5879
My research examines the neural bases of social
behavior, focusing in particular on issues relevant to stereotyping, prejudice,
and affect and emotion. Specific
topics being investigated include the neural basis of stereotype activation and
inhibition and the processing of social cues from faces, primarily through
event-related brain potentials and fMRI.
Michael Mozer, Professor of Computer Science
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~mozer/
303-492-4103
Computational models of human visual perception and
attention, awareness, and cognitive control; neurobiological models of learning
Yuko Munakata, Associate Professor of Psychology (Cognitive)
http://psych.colorado.edu/~munakata
303-735-5499
Memory development in prefrontal and posterior
cortical areas, behavioral dissociations as a window onto the nature and organization
of knowledge representations, computational and behavioral experiments informed
by single-cell recording, lesion, and neuroimaging studies.
Randall O'Reilly, Associate Professor of Psychology (Cognitive)
http://psych.colorado.edu/~oreilly
303-492-0054
I develop computational and formal models of the
biological bases of cognition
(computational cognitive neuroscience), focusing on specialization of
function in and interactions between hippocampus, prefrontal cortex & basal
ganglia, and posterior neocortex in learning, memory, attention, and controlled
processing.
Erik Willcutt, Assistant Professor of Psychology (Clinical)
http://psych.colorado.edu/~willcutt/index.html
303-492-3304
My research program focuses on the identification of
etiological factors that lead to the development of psychopathology, with a specific
focus on childhood disruptive disorders and learning disabilities. In addition
to behavioral and molecular genetic studies, collaborative projects with
Dr. Marie Banich, Dr. Tim Curran, and Dr. Randy O'Reilly employ techniques such
as functional magnetic resonance imaging, event-related potentials, and neural
network modeling to identify the specific neural substrates that play a role in
these disorders. By integrating these results with data from clinical studies,
we hope to develop comprehensive models that explain how genetic and
environmental risk factors influence brain development and lead to the final
behavioral symptoms of these disorders.