Faculty are listed by Department within their Research Areas,
with descriptions of their active projects.

DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

HERBERT F. VOIGT
Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Associate Research Professor,
Otolaryngology, School of Medicine; PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Voigt is currently engaged in experimental and theoretical studies of the neuronal circuitry in the cochlear nucleus. He uses single- and multi-unit recording and analysis techniques to study the responses of neurons and neural nets to acoustic stimulation. Other interests include brainstem auditory evoked responses and neural modeling of the cochlear nucleus.

For more information regarding Herbert F. Voigt's research and publications, please click on the following link:
http://bme.bu.edu/faculty/voigt.html

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DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS

DANIEL H. BULLOCK
Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and
Psychology; PhD, Stanford University

Integrated neural network models of sensory-motor learning, planning and control. These neural network models encompass circuits in cortex, basal ganglia, cerebellum, and the spinal cord. Our studies focus on step-by-step reconstruction of known brain and CNS circuits within the context of a quantitative functional theory of adaptive behavior and cognition. Concepts and hypotheses are rigorously assessed by comprehensive computer simulations of neural circuits that are specified as systems of ordinary differential equations.

For more information regarding Daniel H. Bullock's research and publications, please click on the following link:
http://cns-web.bu.edu/Profiles/Bullock.html

GAIL A. CARPENTER
Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Mathematics;
PhD, University of Wisconsin

Development of neural network models for self-organizing category learning and pattern recognition; neural mechanisms of synaptic transmission and adaptation; and systems that incorporate these models into neural networks architectures for incremental supervised learning and prediction. Also: Neural models of vision, nerve impulse generation (Hodgkin-Huxley equations), transmitter dynamics, and biological rhythms.

For more information regarding Gail A. Carpenter's research and publications, please click on the following link:
http://cns.bu.edu/~gail/

MICHAEL A. COHEN
Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and
Computer Science; PhD, Harvard University

Neural network models of speech and language processing. Stability and instability of dynamical systems underlying neural networks. Models of memory, language comprehension, and auditory psychoacoustics, statistical neural network models of depression, and cardiovascular control.

For more information regarding Michael A. Cohen's research and publications, please click on the following link:
http://cns-web.bu.edu/Profiles/Cohen.html

STEPHEN GROSSBERG
Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Professor of
Mathematics, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering; Director,
Center for Adaptive Systems; Chairman, Department of Cognitive and
Neural Systems; PhD, Rockefeller University

Development of neural models of learning, recognition, memory, vision, audition, speech, cognition, reinforcement, attention, adaptive sensory-motor control, and biological rhythms. Systematic analysis and prediction of behavioral and brain data in both normal and clinical patients. Applications to outstanding technological problems.

For more information regarding Stephen Grossberg's research and publications, please click on the following link:
http://cns-web.bu.edu/Profiles/Grossberg/

ENNIO MINGOLLA
Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and
Psychology; PhD, University of Connecticut

Theoretical research includes design of neural network architectures for visual perception, including segmentation, completion, and grouping of static and moving boundaries, textures, and shaded regions. Empirical research includes psychophysical studies of human perception of visual motion, visual search, surface perception and object recognition.

For more information regarding Ennio Mingolla's research and publications, please click on the following link:
http://cns-web.bu.edu/~ennio/

MICHELE RUCCI
Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems;
PhD, Scuola Superiore, Pisa, Italy

I use mathematical and computational techniques to study the principles underlying perceptual capabilities in neural systems and apply such principles to the design of new algorithms in machine perception. I am particularly interested in problems related to visuomotor control and in the role of eye movements in vision. An important feature of my approach is the use of robotic systems to expose neural models to the non-idealized characteristics of real environments.

For more information regarding Michele Rucci's research and publications, please click on the following link:
http://www.cns.bu.edu/~rucci

ERIC L. SCHWARTZ
Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Electrical and
Computer Systems Engineering, and Anatomy and Neurobiology;
PhD, Columbia University

Computational neuroscience, space-variant vision, modeling of cortical map and column systems, spatial representation, computer-aided neuroanatomy, robotics, and VLSI.

For more information regarding Eric L. Schwartz's research and publications, please click on the following link:
http://www.cns.bu.edu/pub/ericlee/

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DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

ALICE CRONIN-GOLOMB
Associate Professor; PhD, California Institute of Technology

Visual perception and cognition in normal aging and age-related neurodegenerative disorders. I am especially interested in the cortical mechanisms underlying perceptual deficits in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders (e.g., Down syndrome, Parkinson's disease), and in the causal relations between perceptual deficits and cognitive dysfunction.

For more information regarding Alice Cronin-Golomb's research and publications, please click on the following link:
http://www.bu.edu/neuropsychology/memberpages/acg.html

HOWARD EICHENBAUM
Professor; PhD, University of Michigan

My research involves explorations of the neural circuitry that mediates our capacities for cognition and memory. In particular, work in my lab focuses on the contributions of a system of brain structures including the hippocampus and cerebral cortex. Our approach to understanding this system entails a combination of neuropsychological testing to analyze how memory breaks down after selective damage to components of this system and electrophysiological recording to characterize how experiences are encoded by the activity patterns of neurons in these brain structures.

For more information regarding Howard Eichenbaum's research and publications, please click on the following link:
http://www.bu.edu/uni/faculty/profiles/eichenbaum.html

MICHAEL HASSELMO
Associate Professor; DPhil, Oxford University

Research in the Hasselmo laboratory focuses on physiological and computational analysis of the mechanisms of memory function in mammalian cortical circuits, including the role of activation in muscarinic acetylcholine receptors and GABAB receptors, and the role of oscillatory dynamics in the olfactory cortex and hippocampus. Students in the laboratory have the opportunity to learn a wide range of neuroscience research techniques, including electrophysiological recording from brain slice preparations of the hippocampus and piriform cortex, recordings of evoked potentials and unit activity in anesthetized and chronic preparations, detailed compartmental biophysical simulations of cortical circuits, and behavioral studies of cholinergic modulation in olfactory behavior. Articles from this laboratory have been co-authored by numerous trainees, many of whom have performed both computational modeling work and physiological research while working in the laboratory.

For more information regarding Michael Hasselmo's research and publications, please click on the following link:
http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/hasselmo/

KATHLEEN M. KANTAK
Associate Professor; PhD, Syracuse University

Behavioral pharmacology and neuropharmacology of drug addiction. Specific emphasis is on memory system regulation of drug-seeking and drug-taking behavior as well as on the influence of drugs of abuse on multiple memory system functioning.

For more information regarding Kathleen M. Kantak's research and publications, please click on the following link:
http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/kantak/

JACQUELINE A. LIEDERMAN
Associate Professor; PhD, University of Rochester

Mechanisms underlying interhemispheric collaboration during information processing; endocrinological and immunological mechanisms underlying male prevalence for neurodevelopmental disorders and lefthandedness; the effects of environmental estrogens on the developing brain.

For more information regarding Jacqueline A. Liederman's research and publications, please click on the following link:
http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/liederman/

HENRY MARCUCELLA
Professor; PhD, Boston University

Conditioning and learning; behavioral pharmacology; drugs as reinforcers with particular interest in alcohol self-administration.

For more information regarding Henry Marcucella's research and publications, please click on the following link:
http://www.bu.edu/psych/graduate/clinical/faculty/henrymarcucella.shtml

DAVID I. MOSTOFSKY
Professor; PhD, Boston University

Application of conditioning and learning to behavioral medicine, particularly problems of epilepsy, pain, and aging; anticonvulsant effects on behavior; chronic fatigue syndrome.

For more information regarding David I. Mostofsky's research and publications, please click on the following link:
http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/mostofsky/

DAVID SOMERS
Assistant Professor; PhD, Boston University

My research investigates the neural mechanisms of visual perception and attention. These investigations take place at three levels of analysis: investigating perceptual function; mapping perceptual function onto brain structures; and studying the computational architecture of the underlying neural mechanisms. In pursuing these goals, three primary techniques are employed: traditional human visual psychophysics; functional magnetic resonance imaging of human brain activity during visual perceptual and attentional tasks; and computational modeling of visual cortical circuitry. Current specific topics of interest include visual spatial attention, visual motion perception, lightness perception, and neural computations in primary visual cortex.

For more information regarding David Somers's research and publications, please click on the following link:
http://people.bu.edu/fmri/contact_dcs.html

CHANTAL E. STERN
Assistant Professor of Psychology; DPhil, Oxford University

Research in the Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory at Boston University is focused on using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study memory and cognition. The long-term objective of the laboratory is to elucidate the neural substrates underlying memory processing in the normal human brain, and to extend these finding to study changes in memory functioning in normal aging, Alzheimer's disease, and AIDS-related dementia. An additional goal is to integrate the fMRI studies of human memory processing with knowledge from animal models and computational modeling (Eichenbaum and Hasselmo laboratories). Recent work includes fMRI studies of prefrontal and medial temporal lobe interactions in picture and word encoding, examining the role of prefrontal and medial temporal lobe contributions to working memory for spatial, non-spatial, and complex visual stimuli, and studies combining cognitive, physiological and morphometric methods to examine changes associated with aging. Imaging is carried out at the Massachusetts General Hospital-NMR Center. Students and postdoctoral fellows are provided with training in cognitive neuroscience, neuroanatomy, block design and event-related fMRI, cortical inflation and flattening techniques, and cortical parcellation techniques. In 1999, installation of MEG facilities at the MGH-NMR Center further enhanced available research opportunities.

For more information regarding Chantal E. Stern's research and publications, please click on the following link:
http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/stern/

TAKEO WATANABE
Associate Professor; PhD, University of Tokyo

Visual perception and attention by means of visual psychophysics and f-MRI technique. Specific emphasis is effects of attention on motion processing.

For more information regarding Takeo Watanabe's research and publications, please click on the following link:
http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/watanabe/

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