Human Neuroscience Lab (HNL)

Electric Fields
Of The Brain

Lab Director
	Ramesh Srinivasan Associate Professor, Cognitive Sciences, School of Social Sciences Ph.D., Tulane University, Biomedical Engineering B.S., University of Pennsylvania, Electrical Engineering Research Interests: Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain Development, Consciousness, Perception, EEG, Brain Dynamics
Post Doc
	Javier Omar Garcia Ph.D., Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA M.A., Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA B.A., Cognitive Sciences and Psychology, Rice University, Houston, TX website CV Research Interests:http://ejavi.com/professional.html
Graduate Students
	Siyi Deng Graduate Student, Department of Cognitive Sciences M.S., Fudan University, Shanghai, China website Research Interests:Speech recognition, Bio-signal processing, Source modeling, Brain-machine interfacing

	William Winter MSTP III PhD I M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, 2007 CV Research Interests:Telemedicine, Synthetic Telepathy, Steady State Evoked Potentials, Computational Electrophysiology, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

	Samuel Thorpe Graduate Student, Institute of Mathematical and Behavioral Sciences (IMBS) B.A., Psychology, University of California, Irvine, 2005 B.S., Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, 2005 Research Interests: My general research interests include cognitive neuroscience, cortical modeling, and nonlinear systems analysis. I am currently using experimental EEG together with computational modeling approaches to study visual and auditory attention in human subjects. It is our goal to determine the physiological mechanisms by which attention affects global information processing in the brain, as well as to characterize the various nonlinearities inherent in the basic visual pathway (from the external world, to the thalamus, to primary visual cortex). Ultimately, I would like to use this understanding of the visual pathway to develop a global physiological cortical model which can be used to interpret and predict various aspects of Human EEG, specifically in steady-state evoked potential paradigms.

	Lavanya Krishnan Graduate Student, Department of Cognitive Sciences M.S, Bioengineering, Penn State University Research Interests: I am interested in selective attention, specifically, in the interaction of various local and global cortical networks and their role in attention and perception. My current projects involve exploring this interaction in the context of visual feature and space- based attention studies using EEG, fMRI and MEG.

	David Bridwell Graduate Student, Department of Cognitive Sciences B.S., Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, UC Davis website CV Research Interests: I study attention and visual perception using psychophysical methods, high-density electroencephalography (EEG), and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)

	Cort Horton Graduate Student, Department of Cognitive Sciences B.A., Psychology, Emory University, 2004 CV Research Interests:I am interested in the interplay between sensory systems. In particular, my current work looks at how the auditory and visual information is merged in speech. I am also involved in the development of brain-computer interfaces for the decoding of imagined speech and the direction of attention.
Research Assistant
	Elizabeth Hecker B.A., Cognitive Psychology, University of California, Irvine Research Interests:Cognitive Neuroscience, Awareness, Consciousness, Memory