Cognitive neuroscience is the study of groups of neurons working in concert to encode higher order information or to control behavior. The cognitive issues being addressed at Utah include the nature of attention, object recognition, learning and memory. For example, researchers are studying the tuning of cells in vision and hearing; others are studying how the brain takes visual information and determines the spatial location of the animal in a complex environment; and finally, others are studying how neurotransmitters and potent neuroactive drugs alter the mental state of an individual. Work of this type is also leading to the development of somatosensory, visual and auditory prostheses.
Faculty doing cognitive neuroscience research and their departmental affiliation are:
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Alessandra Angelucci |
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences |
Structure and function of the visual cerebral cortex |
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Brenda L. Bass |
Biochemistry |
Determining the roles of RNA editing in the nervous system, using C. elegans as a model system |
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Paul Bressloff |
Mathematics |
Theoretical neuroscience |
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Gregory A. Clark |
Bioengineering |
Electrophysiological, cellular, and computational analyses of neuronal plasticity in simple systems (Aplysia and Hermissenda); neural information processing; bio-based neuroprostheses |
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Donnell J. Creel |
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences |
Sensory anomalies associated with hypopigmentation and diagnostic use of electrophysiological tests in patients |
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Sarah Creem-Regehr |
Psychology |
Cognitive neuroscience; visual perception; visual-motor control; spatial cognition |
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Ed Dudek |
Physiology |
Mechanisms of neuronal communication under normal developmental conditions and in models of epilepsy using electrophysiological techniques in brain slices as well as in behaving animals |
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Frances J. Friedrich |
Psychology |
Cognitive neuropsychology; language processes and spatial attention |
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Robert S. Fujinami |
Pathology |
Neurovirology |
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Franz Goller |
Biology |
Behavioral physiology of sound production and song learning in songbirds |
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Bradley Greger |
Bioengineering |
Neural Prosthetics, Neural Interfaces, Neural Plasticity |
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Glen R. Hanson |
Pharmacology & Toxicology |
Interaction between neuropeptide and biogenic amine transmitter systems in the central nervous system |
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John M. Hoffman |
Radiology and Neurology |
Modern imaging techniques including positron emission tomography (PET), MRI, and autoradiography to understand clinically relevant brain related problems and biologic processes |
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Kristen A. Keefe |
Pharmacology & Toxicology |
Pharmacology of neuropsychiatric disorders |
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Raymond P. Kesner |
Psychology |
Neurobiological basis of learning and memory |
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Janet E. Lainhart |
Psychiatry |
Neurobiology of autism |
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Alan R. Light |
Anesthesiology |
Neurobiology of pain and fatigue enhancement caused by injury and in Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia syndromes |
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J. Michael McIntosh |
Psychiatry and Biology |
Molecular Pharmacology of CNS receptors and ion channels |
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Richard A. Normann |
Bioengineering |
Information processing in the vertebrate retina; phototransduction |
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Richard D. Rabbitt |
Bioengineering |
Micro-electric impedance spectroscopy of auditory and vestibular hair cells |
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Gary Rose |
Biology |
Information processing in the auditory and electrosensory systems |
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Kimberly D. Statler |
Pharmacology & Toxicology |
Clinical and translational research in traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic epilepsy, and both pathophysiology and management aspects of pediatric neurointensive care |
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Neil Vickers |
Biology |
Neuroethology of olfaction |
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Jason M. Watson |
Psychology |
Experimental investigation of reading, remembering, executive functions, and other brain-behavior relationships |
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John A. White |
Bioengineering |
Hippocampal neurophysiology, computational neuroscience, real-time instrumentation |
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