University of South Carolina establishes the Institute for Mind and Brain. The Institute for Mind and Brain capitalizes on research strengths at the University of South Carolina to study cognitive processes in the human brain, in both health and disease, in children and adults. The institute will be housed at 1800 Gervais Street. The Institute for Mind and Brain coordinates interdisciplinary research efforts in cognitive neuroscience across the University of South Carolina; identifies and leverages opportunities for collaboration and external funding; presents a cohesive face for research efforts in cognitive neuroscience to the outside world; and generally serve as a hub for research and doctoral student training in human cognitive neuroscience on the University of South Carolina Columbia campus.
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Effects of Short Interstimulus Invervals (ISIs) on Infant Sustained Attention and Correlated Event-related Potentials (ERPs)
Wanze Xie: This is my qualifying project mentored by Dr. John Richards. The main idea of this project is that short ISIs will facilitate infant sustained attention and cause better attention engagement in infant ERP studies. I hope the findings of this project could contribute to infant attention and ERPs studies.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4949138/
Chinese MRI Children Brain Templates
Wanze Xie, John, and Kang Lee are working on a on a project to create brain templates and atlas for Chinese children and adolescents. And we are also interested in the difference in between Chinese and American children’s brain development. No one has constructed MRI brain templates for Asian children and adolescents yet. Therefore, this project will definitely contribute to the literature. The brain templates and atlas created in this project will be useful and helpful for fMRI, EEG, ERP, NIRS, and MEG studies on Chinese (or Asian) children and adolescents.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929315000869
Wanze Xie joins the lab
Wanze Xie: I joined the “JERLAB” in the fall, 2012. A milestone in my life. I am staring to learn science and do research, becoming a graduate student in the Experimental psychology graduate program, get straight A’s. Start to learn real science and do research. Become a graduate student in the experimental psychology program at USC. Start to get straight A’s.
“Practice Makes Perfect” University Gets A Mock MRI Scanner
A little practice never hurts, right? Even when conducted research! Everyone knows getting a MRI can be a little tricky and it’s not always easy to be completely still for a certain amount of time. This simulator helps participants who want to participant in our MRI studies get comfortable with the process before actually doing the real scan. It looks, sounds, and feels like a real MRI machine!
Michelle HDC
Michelle gave a talk at the USC Department of Psychology Hard Data Cafe in March of 2012 on the development of MRI templates for adults 20-89 years of age. The development of MRI templates and atlases for the lifespan has been an ongoing lab project. A manuscript based on data discussed at the Cafe is currently under review at the journal NeuroImage.
JER Named AAAS Fellow
AAAS named John Richards a fellow. Richards was recognized for contributions to the study of infant attention, with specific reference to work done showing the relation between brain and attention development in young infants.
SAY CHEESE!!! Lab Purchases Geodesic Photogrammetry System
Our lab acquired this system to assist with localizing sources of electrical activity in the brain. The machine contains 11 mounted cameras which simultaneously photograph the locations of EEG electrodes on the scalp. Finding these exact locations allow us to increase the accuracy of source estimation. It’s like having a GPS machine for the EEG cap!