OUR TEAM

STEERING COMMITTEE

JOSEF PARVIZI

Leader of Project 1
Stanford University

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Dr Parvizi has worked at Stanford University Medical Center since 2007 and specializes in treating patients with uncontrollable seizures. He runs the Laboratory of Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience whose research activities have been supported by NIH, NSF and private foundations.

E: jparvizi@stanford.edu

SABINE KASTNER

Leader of Project 2
Princeton

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Sabine Kastner is a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton. She studies the neural basis of visual perception, attention, and awareness using a translational approach that combines neuroimaging in humans and monkeys, monkey physiology and studies in patients with brain lesions.

E: skastner@princeton.edu

BOB KNIGHT

Leader of Project 3
Princeton

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The Knight laboratory studies the effects of frontal lobe damage on cognitive functioning. The laboratory also records the electrocorticogram directly from the cortical surface in neurosurgical patients with implanted electrodes to study the electrophysiology of network activity supporting goal-directed behavior in humans.

E: rtknight@berkeley.edu

CHARLES SCHROEDER

Center Director, Co-leader of Project 4 and Leader of Core A
Columbia – Nathan Kline Institute

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Dr. Schroeder investigates Active Sensing and sensory/motor integration through neurophysiological studies in behaving monkeys, that are directly integrated with studies in humans. Monkey studies entail sampling of synaptic activity and neuronal firing using multielectrode arrays in different brain areas. Parallel studies using ElectroCorticoGraphy (ECoG) in surgical epilepsy patients link the microscale measures in monkeys to the macroscopic scale of non-invasive EEG and fMRI in normal humans.

E: cs2388@columbia.edu

E: charles.schroeder@nki.edmh.org

W: http://cognitiveandtransitionalbraindynamicslab.columbianeuro.org/charles-e-schroeder-ph-d/

W: https://www.nki.rfmh.org/faculty/charles-schroeder-phd

PETER LAKATOS

Leader of Project 4
Nathan Kline Institute

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Dr. Lakatos focuses on characterizing attention related modulations of spontaneously occurring and stimulus-driven gamma oscillations in auditory cortex using electrocorticographic recordings. Current studies are aimed at determining the role of internal rhythmic neuronal ensemble dynamics in the processing of external and internal information

E: Peter.Lakatos@NKI.rfmh.org

W: https://www.nki.rfmh.org/faculty/peter-lakatos-md-phd

NANCY KOPELL

Co-leader of Project 5
Boston University

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Nancy Kopell directs the Cognitive Rhythms Collaborative (CRC), a group of over two dozen labs, mostly in the Boston Area, working on brain dynamics and their cognitive implications. She investigates how the brain produces its dynamics, and how rhythms take part in cognition (sensory processing, attention, memory, motor control).

E: nk@bu.edu

GERWIN SCHALK

Leader of Core B
University of Albany

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Dr Gerwin Schalk’s primary research interests are the development and application of novel techniques to study brain function using signals recorded from the surface of the brain (electrocorticography (ECoG)), and the application of the resulting understanding to important clinical problems.

E: gschalk@neurotechcenter.org

W: http://www.neurotechcenter.org/people/btrc-director/gerwin-schalk-phd

MICHAEL MILHAM

Leader of Core C
Nathan Kline Institute

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Dr. Michael P. Milham, is an internationally recognized neuroscience researcher, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, and Director for the Center of Biomedical Imaging and Neuromodulation at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research.

E: Michael.Milham@NKI.rfmh.org

W: https://www.nki.rfmh.org/faculty/michael-milham-md-phd

W: https://childmind.org/bio/michael-p-milham-md-phd/

INTERNAL SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

BARBARA SHINN-CUNNINGHAM

Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Co-director (with Nancy Kopell) of the Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology, Boston University

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Barbara Shinn-Cunningham is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University (BU). She is an auditory neuroscientist best known for her work on attention and the cocktail party problem, sound localization, and the effects of room acoustics and reverberation on hearing.

E: shinn@bu.edu

SARAH WOOLLEY

Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, Columbia University

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Dr. Woolley focuses on understanding how the perception of communication sounds is accomplished in the brain. In songbirds, she studies how the brain codes vocalizations at successive neural processing stages, and how that neural coding is related to experience and species evolution. Among other things, she studies the mechanisms of tuning plasticity in these sensory neurons, and how that plasticity is related to perception.

E: sw2277@columbia.edu

SERGE PRZEDBORSKI

Professor of Neurology and Pathology, and Director of the Columbia Translational Neuroscience Institute, Columbia University

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Dr. Przedborski focuses on the molecular and cellular biology of neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). His ongoing research aims at understanding the contributions of cell-autonomous and non cell-autonomous mechanisms to neurodegeneration using both toxic and genetic experimental models of PD and ALS.
These research efforts are supported by federal grants from both NIH and the DoD as well as by several private agencies such as the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation and the Thomas Hartman Foundation

E: sp30@cumc.columbia.edu

GUY MCKHANN II

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Columbia Conte Center Educational Outreach Liaison

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E: cs2388@columbia.edu

E: charles.schroeder@nki.edmh.org

W: http://cognitiveandtransitionalbraindynamicslab.columbianeuro.org/charles-e-schroeder-ph-d/

W: https://www.nki.rfmh.org/faculty/charles-schroeder-phd

JOSHUA BRUMBERG

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Queens College of CUNY and Dean of the CUNY Graduate Center

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Dr. Brumberg’s research integrates anatomical and physiological techniques to further our understanding of the individual building blocks of cortical microcircuit and the role that sensory activity has on their development. In parallel, he has shown that neurons participating in specific pathways (e.g. callosal versus cortico-thalamic) have specific anatomical, physiological and synaptic characteristics which are likely adapted to their roles in inter-areal communication within the brain.

E: joshua.brumberg@qc.cuny.edu

ELIZABETH GOULD

Professor and Chair of Psychology at Princeton.

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Dr. Gould studies structural plasticity in the adult mammalian brain. The ultimate goals of her work are to determine the impact changes in brain structure have on cognition and anxiety regulation, as well as to identify factors that enhance plasticity and cell survival in the adult mammalian brain. She has also been exploring mechanisms by which rewarding experiences such as mating and running enhance cognition and have found that running stimulates growth of neurons and astrocytes and this latter effect is linked causally with improved cognition.

E: goulde@princeton.edu

EXTERNAL SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE

ELISABETH BUFFALO, PHD

Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington and serves as the chief of the Neuroscience Division of the Washington National Primate Research Center

E: beth.buffalo@wanprc.org

EARL K. MILLER, PHD

Picower Professor of Neuroscience at
The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

E: ekmiller@mit.edu

DAVID POEPPEL, PHD

Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, NYU

E: david.poeppel@nyu.edu

ANNA KRISTIANA (KIA) NOBRE

Picower Professor of Neuroscience at
The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

E: ekmiller@mit.edu

MARTIN UASREY

Professor and Chair of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior; Neurology, UC Davis

E: wmusrey@ucdavis.edu

ELIZABETH GOULD

Professor and Chair of Psychology at Princeton.

E: goulde@princeton.edu