Welcome to the Memory, Action & Perception (MAP) Lab!
Understanding the brain mechanisms by which our mental events are transformed into goal-directed action remains one of the most significant and exciting challenges facing modern neuroscience. This transformation allows us the ability to interact with other individuals and objects in our surrounding environment, travel from point A to point B (walking, running, driving) and, through the hands of the most gifted artists and musicians, the capacity to fascinate and captivate the world. Thus, elucidating the cognitive underpinnings and neural circuits that drive our complex, goal-oriented behaviours is an important endeavour. Our lab uses a combination of techniques including behavioural measurements, functional brain imaging (fMRI) and neuromodulation techniques to explore the cognitive and neural bases of a variety of processes—decision-making, perception, memory and learning—that govern the control of action. The results of our research will have applications in the study of injury and disease states that affect the mind and body.  Most Recent Publications  McGarity-Shipley, M., Heald, J., Ingram, J., Gallivan, J.P., Wolpert, D.M., & Flanagan, JR. The Journal of Neurophysiology  Dynamic reconfiguration, fragmentation and integration of whole-brain modular structure across depths of unconsciousness Standage, D., Areshenkoff, C.N., Nashed, J.Y., Hutchison, R.M., Hutchison, M., Heinke, D., Menon, R.S., Everling, S., & Gallivan, J.P. Cerebral Cortex Moskowitz, J., Gale, D.J., Gallivan, J.P., Wolpert, D.M. & Flanagan, J.R. PLoS Computational Biology Proud, K., Heald, J., Ingram, J., Gallivan, J.P., Wolpert, D.M. & Flanagan, J.R. Journal of Neurophysiology Gallivan, J.P., Chapman, C.S., Gale, D., Flanagan, J.R. & Culham, J.C. Cerebral Cortex Wispinksi, N., Gallivan, J.P. & Chapman, C.S. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences  de Brouwer A., Gallivan, J.P. & Flanagan, J.R. The Journal of Neurophysiology  Gallivan, J.P., Chapman, C.S., Wolpert, D.M. & Flanagan, J.R. Nature Reviews Neuroscience  Using gaze behavior to parcellate the explicit and implicit contributions to visuomotor learning de Brouwer A., Albaghdadi, M., Flanagan, J.R. & Gallivan, J.P. The Journal of Neurophysiology Gallivan, J.P. & Goodale, M.A. Handbook of Clinical Neurology  Hutchison, R.M. & Gallivan, J.P. Cortex  Recruitment of foveal retinotopic cortex during haptic exploration of shapes and actions in the dark Monaco, S., Gallivan, J.P., Figley, T., Singhal, A. & Culham, J.C. Journal of Neuroscience Grip force during reaching with target uncertainty provides evidence for motor optimization over averaging Nashed, J.Y., Diamond, J.S., Gallivan, J.P., Wolpert, D.M. & Flanagan, J.R. Scientific Reports Increased functional connectivity after stroke correlates with behavioural scores in a non-human primate model Hernandez-Castillo, C.R., Nashed, J.Y., Fernandez-Ruiz, J., Wang, J., Gallivan, J.P. & Cook, D.J. Scientific Reports  Lowe, M.X., Rasjic, J., Gallivan, J.P., Ferber, S. & Cant, J.S. Neuroimage  de Brouwer, A., Jarvis, T., Gallivan, J.P. & Flanagan, J.R. eNeuro  Rapid automatic motor encoding of competing reach options Gallivan, J.P., Stewart, B., Baugh, L., Wolpert, D.M. & Flanagan, J.R. Cell Reports | Recent Lab News Check out Corson's new preprint! Muting, not fragmentation, of functional brain networks under general anesthesia posted July 07 2020 Check out Anouk's new preprint! Variation in error-based and reward-based human motor learning is related and associated with entorhinal volume posted May 30 2020 New paper accepted! Dynamic reconfiguration, fragmentation and integration of whole-brain modular structure across depths of unconsciousness Standage, et al. Cerebral Cortex posted February 20 2020 Check out Dominic's new preprint! Dynamic reconfiguration, fragmentation and integration of whole-brain modular structure across depths of unconsciousness posted Sept 30 2019 Check out Dan's new preprint! Motor planning modulates neural activity patterns in early human auditory cortex posted July 5 2019 Congrats Dan! Dan Gale, a PhD student in the lab, has received a highly competitive NSERC CGS scholarship award! posted March 30 2019 New paper accepted! Separate motor memories are formed when implicitly controlling different locations on a tool Proud, Heald, Ingram, Gallivan, Wolpert & Flanagan Journal of Neurophysiology posted December 20 2018 New paper accepted! Selective modulation of early visual cortical activity by movement intention Gallivan, Chapman, Gale, Flanagan & Culham Cerebral Cortex posted December 18 2018 New paper published! Models, movements, and minds: Bridging the gap between decision making and action Wispinksi, Gallivan & Chapman Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences posted October 15 2018 New paper published! Using gaze behaviour to parcellate the explicit and implicit contributions to visuomotor learning de Brouwer, Albaghdadi, Flanagan & Gallivan Journal of Neurophysiology posted October 12 2018 New paper accepted! Visuomotor feedback gains are modulated by gaze position de Brouwer, Gallivan & Flanagan Journal of Neurophysiology posted September 4 2018 New paper published! Decision-making in sensorimotor control Gallivan, Chapman, Wolpert & Flanagan Nature Reviews Neuroscience posted August 9 2018 New book chapter published! The dorsal 'action' pathway Gallivan & Goodale Handbook of Clinical Neurology posted March 05 2018 New paper published! Functional coupling between frontoparietal and occipitotemporal pathways during action and perception Hutchison & Gallivan Cortex posted February 1 2018 New paper published! Recruitment of foveal retinotopic cortex during haptic exploration of shapes and actions in the dark Monaco, Gallivan, Figley, Singhal & Culham Journal of Neuroscience posted November 24 2017 |
