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 and neurostimulation to explore the human cognitive and neural bases of a variety of processes (e.g., decision-making, working memory, perception and learning) that underlie 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  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 Gallivan, J.P., Stewart, B., Baugh, L., Wolpert, D.M. & Flanagan, J.R. Cell Reports  Hutchison, R.M. & Gallivan, J.P. Cortex  Gallivan, J.P., Bowman, N., Chapman, C.S., Wolpert, D.M. & Flanagan, J.R. Journal of Neurophysiology  Gallivan, J.P., Logan, L., Wolpert, D.M. & Flanagan, J.R. Nature Neuroscience  Gallivan, J.P., Johnsrude, I.S. & Flanagan, J.R. Cerebral Cortex | Recent Lab News Congratulations to Dan! Dan Gale has obtained an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's Program Award posted May 13 2017 Congratulations to Corson! Corson Areshenkoff, who will be beginning his PhD in the lab in September, was awarded an NSERC PGS Award. posted May 1 2017 Congratulations to Dr. Michael Carter! Mike will be beginning a faculty position in the Kinesiology Dept. at McMaster University in early July. posted May 1 2017 |
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