Abstract

The proposed Program Project in Cognitive Neuroscience has as its aim the multi-disciplinary study of human perception, cognition, and motor function. It is our belief that while it is important to establish relationships between mental functions and particular brain structures, it is equally important to understand how such localilzable functions interact in the control of behavior. To this end, a range of mental functions including language, attention, auditory pattern recognition, memory, and motor control will be studied in normal and special neurological populations. Studies in these areas have been designed to examine specific psychololgical functions as well as the roles these specific functions play in more general behavior. Our structual approach, on the other hand, includes metabolic analysis with Positron Emission Tomography (PET), structural analysis with Computerized Tompgraphy (CT), and electrophysiological analysis with Event Related Potentials (ERP). These activities are all presently being pursued.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
5P01NS017778-08
Application #
3099706
Study Section
(SRC)
Project Start
1988-07-01
Project End
1990-06-30
Budget Start
1989-07-01
Budget End
1990-06-30
Support Year
8
Fiscal Year
1989
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Dartmouth College
Department
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
041027822
City
Hanover
State
NH
Country
United States
Zip Code
03755

  Publications

Shimamura, Arthur P; Marian, Diane E; Haskins, Andrew L (2013) Neural correlates of emotional regulation while viewing films. Brain Imaging Behav 7:77-84
Shimamura, Arthur P (2010) Hierarchical relational binding in the medial temporal lobe: the strong get stronger. Hippocampus 20:1206-16
Shimamura, Arthur P; Wickens, Thomas D (2009) Superadditive memory strength for item and source recognition: the role of hierarchical relational binding in the medial temporal lobe. Psychol Rev 116:1-19
Miller, Michael B; Donovan, Christa-Lynn; Van Horn, John D et al. (2009) Unique and persistent individual patterns of brain activity across different memory retrieval tasks. Neuroimage 48:625-35
Mullette-Gillman, O'Dhaniel A; Cohen, Yale E; Groh, Jennifer M (2009) Motor-related signals in the intraparietal cortex encode locations in a hybrid, rather than eye-centered reference frame. Cereb Cortex 19:1761-75
Turken, Andu; Whitfield-Gabrieli, Susan; Bammer, Roland et al. (2008) Cognitive processing speed and the structure of white matter pathways: convergent evidence from normal variation and lesion studies. Neuroimage 42:1032-44
Saygin, Ayse Pinar; Wilson, Stephen M; Dronkers, Nina F et al. (2004) Action comprehension in aphasia: linguistic and non-linguistic deficits and their lesion correlates. Neuropsychologia 42:1788-804
Bates, Elizabeth; Wilson, Stephen M; Saygin, Ayse Pinar et al. (2003) Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping. Nat Neurosci 6:448-50
Stone, Valerie E; Cosmides, Leda; Tooby, John et al. (2002) Selective impairment of reasoning about social exchange in a patient with bilateral limbic system damage. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:11531-6
Eliassen, J C; Baynes, K; Gazzaniga, M S (2000) Anterior and posterior callosal contributions to simultaneous bimanual movements of the hands and fingers. Brain 123 Pt 12:2501-11

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