Fiez, Julie, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology
PhD, Washington University at St. Louis
Primary Program: Cognitive Program
All programs: Clinical Program, Cognitive Program, Cognitive Neuroscience Concentration Program
Research Interests: My lab relies upon a broad-based and interdisciplinary cognitive neuroscience approach to address questions that fall within two predominant strands of research. One strand is focused on the neural basis of language processing. Topics of interest include the articulatory and phonological codes involved in verbal working memory, and the ways in which different writing systems influence the representation and processing of orthographic information. A second strand is focused on basic learning systems in the human brain. We are especially interested in how cognition may be optimized by reinforcement learning signals mediated by the basal ganglia and error-correction signals mediated by the cerebellum.
Contact
605 LRDC
412-624-7078
Fax: 412-422-9149
fiez@pitt.edu
http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/faculty/fiez.shtml
www.lrdc.pitt.edu/fiez
Peter L. Strick, Ph.D.
Peter Strick, Ph.D., is a Professor within the departments of Neurobiology and Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. Additionally, he serves as the Co-Director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) and has been featured in several publications for his research efforts. Within the laboratory, his research focuses on three major issues regarding the human nervous system. They are the control of voluntary movement by the cerebral cortex,functional organization of the basal ganglia and cerebellum and the
unraveling the circuitry of the central nervous system.
Dr. Peter Strick
Phone: (412) 383-9961
Email: strickp@pitt.edu
Tom Conturo M.D, Ph.D.
Tom Conturo, M.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Radiology, Physics, and Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He has bachelor's degrees in Chemistry and Biochemistry from University of Pennsylvania. He has an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Vanderbilt University, with a dissertation in MRI physics. After a residency in Diagnostic Radiology from Johns Hopkins, with board-certification and an NCI fellowship, he joined the faculty at Washington University, where he was Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) Project Leader for developing the 3T Allegra head-only MRI scanner with Siemens. He is also former Secretary of the Diffusion-Perfusion Study Group of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). His research interests include MRI physics and methods development in diffusion imaging, perfusion imaging, and fMRI. Studies and collaborations have involved the areas of neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, psychology, pediatrics, and oncology. Specific studies include diffusion tensor tracking (DTT) of unknown neuronal fiber pathways, DTT of face processing in autism, and physiologic imaging of brain tumors. CONTACT Phone: (314) 288-6580 Email: tconturo@yahoo.com