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MAPlab   Memory, Action and Perception Laboratory

Understanding the brain mechanisms by which our mental events are transformed into 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 ability to captivate the world. Thus, elucidating the cognitive underpinnings and neural circuits that drive our complex, goal-oriented behaviors is an important endeavor.

 

Our lab uses a combination of tools including behavioral measurements, functional and structural brain imaging (fMRI and MRI) 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 from the lab

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Changes in cortical manifold structure following stroke and its relation to behavioral recovery in male macaques

Nashed, J.Y., Gale, D.J., Gallivan, J.P & Cook, D.J.

Nature Communications

Whole-brain modular dynamics at rest predict sensorimotor learning performance

Standage, D.I., Gale, D.J., Nashed, J.Y., Flanagan, J.R. & Gallivan, J.P.

Network Neuroscience

Adaptation of the gain of the corrective lifting response in object manipulation transfers across the hand.

McGarity-Shipley, M.R., Gallivan, J.P. & Flanagan, J.R.

Scientific Reports

 

 

 

Reconfigurations of cortical manifold structure during reward-based motor learning

Nick, Q., Gale, D.J., Areshenkoff, C.N., De Brouwer, A.J., Nashed, J.Y., Wammes, J., Flanagan, J.R., Smallwood, J & Gallivan, J.P. 

Elife

Interaction between decision-making and motor learning when selecting reach targets in the presence of bias and noise

Zhu, T., Gallivan, J.P., Wolpert, D.M. & Flanagan, J.R. 

PLoS Computational Biology

Grasping with a twist: Dissociating action goals from motor actions in human frontoparietal circuits

Rens, G., Figley, T.D., Gallivan, J.P., Liu, Y. & Culham, J.C.

Journal of Neuroscience

Visual search for reach targets in actionable space is influenced by movement costs imposed by obstacles

Moskowitz, J.B., Fooken, J., Castelhano, M.S., Gallivan, J.P. & Flanagan, J.R.

Journal of Vision

Distinct patterns of cortical manifold expansion and contraction underlie human sensorimotor adaptation.

Gale, D.J., Areshenkoff, C.N., Standage, D.P., Nashed, J.Y., Markello, R.D., Flanagan, J.R., Smallwood, J. & Gallivan, J.P.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Spontaneous behavioural recovery following stroke relates to the integrity of sensory and association cortices

Nashed, J.Y., Shearer, K.T., Wang, J.Z., Chen, Y., Cook, E.E., Champagne, A.A., Coverdale, N.S., Fernandez-Ruiz, J., Striver, S.I., Gallivan, J.P & Cook, D.J. 

Translational Stroke Research

The influence of movement-related costs when searching to act and acting to search.

Moskowitz, J.B., Berger, S.A., Fooken, J., Castelhano, M.S., Gallivan, J.P. & Flanagan, J.R.

Journal of Neurophysiology

 

 

 

Whole-brain dynamics of human sensorimotor adaptation.

Standage, D.I., Areshenkoff, C.N., Gale, D.J., Nashed, J.Y., Flanagan, J.R. & Gallivan, J.P.

Cerebral Cortex

Neural excursions from low-dimensional manifold structure explain patterns of learning during human sensorimotor adaptation

 

Areshenkoff, C.A., Gale, D.J., Standage, D., Nashed, J.Y., Flanagan, J.R., & Gallivan, J.P.

eLife

 

 

 

 

Human variation in error-based and reinforcement motor learning is associated with entorhinal volume

 

de Brouwer, A. J., Areshenkoff, C.A., Rashid, M.R., Flanagan, J.R., Poppenk, J.P. & Gallivan, J.P.

Cerebral Cortex

Human somatosensory cortex is modulated during motor planning

 

Gale, D.J., Flanagan, J.R. & Gallivan, J.P.

The Journal of Neuroscience

 

 

 

 

Muting, not fragmentation, of functional brain networks under general anesthesia

Areshenkoff, C.A., Nashed, J.Y., Hutchison, R.M., Hutchison, M., Levy, R., Cook, D.J., Menon, R.S., Everling, S. & Gallivan, J.P.

Neuroimage

 

 

Reaching for known unknowns: Rapid reach decisions accurately reflect the future state of dynamic probabilistic information

 

Wiskpinski, N.J., Stone, S.A., Bertrand, J.K., Zuk, A.A., Lavoie, E. B., Gallivan, J.P. & Chapman, C.S.

Cortex

 

 

 

 

Motor planning modulates neural activity patterns in early human auditory cortex

 

Gale, D.J., Areshenkoff, C.A., Honda, C., Johnsrude, I. S., Flanagan, J.R. & Gallivan, J.P.

Cerebral Cortex

 

 

 

 

 

Motor memories in manipulation tasks are linked to contact goals between objects

 

McGarity-Shipley, M., Heald, J., Ingram, J., Gallivan, J.P., Wolpert, D.M., & Flanagan, JR.

The Journal of Neurophysiology

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Contact Us

Principal Investigator

Jason Gallivan, PhD

Centre for Neuroscience Studies

Departments of Psychology &

Biomedical and Molecular Sciences

Queen's University

Kingston, Ontario

K7L 3N6

Email: gallivan@queensu.ca

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