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Brain Imaging

Here is a list of potential academic supervisors for your research project. You can directly email the staff member you are interested in working with and discuss a possible project. Alternatively, email the programme coordinator, who will be able to help you find a potential supervisor. You can also look at our staff webpages, where you will be able to see the research interests of individual academic staff members:

http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/staff/

http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/neurosciencepsychology/staff/

 

Pascal Belin

Webpage:

http://vnl.psy.gla.ac.uk/ 

Keywords:

Cerebral voice processing; auditory cortex; fMRI; MEG

Articles:

  • Understanding voice perception. Belin P, Bestelmeyer PE, Latinus M, Watson R. Br J Psychol. 2011 Nov;102(4):711-25
  • Implicitly Perceived Vocal Attractiveness Modulates Prefrontal Cortex Activity. Bestelmeyer PE, Latinus M, Bruckert L, Rouger J, Crabbe F, Belin P. Cereb Cortex. 2011 Aug 9.
  • Learning-induced changes in the cerebral processing of voice identity. Latinus M, Crabbe F, Belin P. Cereb Cortex. 2011 Dec;21(12):2820-8.

 

Joachim Gross

Webpage:

http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/staff/index.php?id=JG001

Keywords:

Brain oscillations, Attention, conscious perception, MEG

Articles:

  • Hanslmayr, S., Gross, J., Klimesch, W. & Shapiro, K.L., 2011, The role of alpha oscillations in temporal attention, Brain research reviews.
  • Schyns, Thut & Gross, 2011, Cracking the Code of Oscillatory Activity, PLoS biology, 9(5), p. e1001064.
  • Thut, G., Veniero, D., Romei, V., Miniussi, C., Schyns, P. & Gross, J., 2011, Rhythmic TMS causes local entrainment of natural oscillatory signatures, Current biology : CB, 21(14), pp. 1176-85.

 

Monika Harvey

Webpage:

http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/staff/index.php?id=MH001

Keywords:

stroke rehabilitaiton, perception and action, hemispatial neglect

Articles:

  • Rossit, S., Malhotra, P., Muir, K., Reeves, I., Duncan G., Harvey, M. (2011). The role of right temporal lobe structures in off-line action: evidence from lesion-behaviour mapping in stroke patients. Cerebral Cortex,21 (12), 2751-2761.
  • Morand, S.M., Grosbras, M.-H., Caldara R. and Harvey, M (2010) Looking away from faces: Influence of high level visual processes on saccade programming. Journal of Vision, 10 (3): 16, 1-10.
  • Rossit, S., Malhorta, P., Muir, K., Reeves, I., Duncan, G., Livingstone, K., Jackson H., Hogg, C., Castle P., Learmonth G. and Harvey, M. (2009) No neglect- specific deficits in reaching tasks. Cerebral Cortex, 19, 2616-2624.

 

Martin Lages

Webpage:

http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/staff/index.php?id=ML001

Keywords:

motion and depth perception, visual awareness, Bayesian modeling, perception and action, decision making 

Articles:

  • Lages, M. & Jaworska, K. (2012). How predictable are “spontaneous decisions” and “hidden intentions”. Comparing classification results based on previous responses with multivariate pattern analysis of fMRI BOLD signals. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 1-8.
  • Lages, M., &, Heron, S. (2010). On the inverse problem of local binocular 3D motion perception. PLoS Computational Biology, 6(11), e1000999.
  • Lages, M., Adams, W.J., Graf, E.W. (2009). Motion after-effect induced blindness. Journal of Vision, 9(11), 1-7.

 

Christopher McCabe

Webpage: 

http://www.fom.gla.ac.uk/research/profile.php?id=4cdae8e68792

Keywords: 

Stroke, MRI cerebral blood flow, oxidative stress

Articles:

  • Robertson C, McCabe C, Gallagher L, Lopez-Gonzalez MR, Holmes WM, Condon B, Muir K, Santosh C,  Macrae IM (2011).  Stroke Penumbra Defined by an MRI-based Oxygen Challenge Technique: 1. Validation Using [14C]2-Deoxyglucose Autoradiography.  J Cereb Blood Flow Metab Aug;31(8):1778-87.
  • Robertson C, McCabe C, Gallagher L, Lopez-Gonzalez MR, Holmes WM, Condon B, Muir K, Santosh C,  Macrae IM (2011).  Stroke Penumbra Defined by an MRI-based Oxygen Challenge Technique: 2. Validation Based on the Consequences of Reperfusion.   J Cereb Blood Flow Metab Aug;31(8):1788-98.
  • Baskerville T.A., McCabe C., Weir C.J., Macrae I.M., Holmes W.M (2012).  Non-invasive MRI measurement of CBF: evaluating an arterial spin labelling sequence with 99mTc-HMPAO CBF autoradiography in a rat stroke model. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab (in press).

 

Lars Muckli

Webpage:

http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~lars/

Keywords:

Functional brain imaging, fMRI, natural visual scenes, apparent motion, predictive coding, change blindness

Articles: 

  • Smith FW & L Muckli (2010) Nonstimulated early visual areas carry information about surrounding context. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA (PNAS), Nov 16;107(46):20099-103.
  • Muckli L (2010) What are we missing here? Brain imaging evidence for higher cognitive functions in primary visual cortex V1. International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology. 20 (2 SI): 131-139
  • Alink A, CM Schwiedrzik, A Kohler, W Singer & L Muckli (2010) Stimulus predictability reduces responses in primary visual cortex. J Neurosci. Feb 24;30(8):2960-6          

 

Guillaume Rousselet

Webpage:

http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/staff/index.php?id=GAR01

Keywords:

Visual processing of objects, faces, and natural scenes; aging; individual differences; statistics

Articles:

 

Philippe Schyns

Webpage:

http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/staff/index.php?id=PGS01

Keywords:

visual categorization of faces, objects and scenes; visual coding in the brain

Articles:

  • Jack, R.E., Garrod, O.G.B., Yu, H., Caldara, R. & Schyns, P.G.  (in press).  Facial expressions of emotion are not culturally universal.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
  • Smith, M.L., Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P.G.  (2012).  Measuring internal representations from behavioral and brain data.  Current Biology, 22, 191-196.
  • Schyns, P.G., Thut, G. & Gross, J.  (2011).  Cracking the code of oscillatory activity.  PLoS Biology, 9(5):e1001064. doi:10/1371/journal.pbio.1001064.

 

Gregor Thut

Webpage:

http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/staff/index.php?id=GT001

Keywords:

Cognitive neuroscience, visual attention and perception, multisensory interactions, brain oscillations, (neuro)modulation, transcranial stimulation techniques

Articles:

  • Thut G., Schyns P. & Gross J. (2011) Entrainment of perceptually relevant brain oscillations by non-invasive rhythmic stimulation of the human brain Frontiers in Psychology Vol.2:170
  • Thut G. & Miniussi C. (2009) New insights into rhythmic brain activity from TMS-EEG studies Trends in Cognitive Sciences Vol.13 pp 182-189