is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the CCBI. He earned his Ph.D. from the Santa Catarina Federal University, Brazil. He is interested in fMRI studies of bilingual text comprehension and cognition.
Email
abuch@andrew.cmu.edu
is a Ph.D. student in the Language Technologies Institute and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. He is interested in applying mathematical methodologies and machine learning techniques to investigate and model various human cognitive processes, such as knowledge representation and language processing. Kai-min received a B. Math in Computer Science and Psychology from University of Waterloo, Canada.
Email
kaimin.chang@gmail.com
Investigator's
Homepage http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kkchang
is a Doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh. His work with the CCBI explores the impact of learning and task demands on neural activation in a spatial reasoning (navigation) task in a Quake-implemented environment.
Email
anh23@pitt.edu
is a Senior Research Associate with expertise in fMRI. He is working on all of the fMRI projects. He has just the right computational skills to deal with the intensive data processing associated with fMRI data, as well as neuroanatomical knowledge for data interpretation. His substantive interests are in working memory, language, and spatial thinking. His Ph.D. is from the University of Missouri. He was previously an NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellow for two years.
Email
tk37@andrew.cmu.edu
Selected
Publications: Click here for CCBI publications list.
Keller, T. A.,
Kana, R. K., & Just, M. A. (in press). A developmental study of the structural integrity of
white matter in autism. NeuroReport.
Just, M. A.,
Cherkassky, V. L., Keller, T. A., Minshew, N. J. (2004). Cortical activation and
synchronization during sentence comprehension in high-functioning autism: Evidence of underconnectivity.
Brain, 127, 1811-1821.
Just, M. A., Newman,
S. D., Keller, T. A., McEleney, A., & Carpenter, P. A. (2004). Imagery in sentence comprehension:
An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 21, 112-124.
Keller,
T. A., Carpenter, P. A., & Just, M. A. (2003). Brain imaging of tongue-twister
sentence comprehension: Twisting the tongue and the brain. Brain
and Language, 84, 189-203.
is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the area of language processing. His Ph.D. is from the University of Massachusetts. He is interested in the use of fMRI and eye movements as a measure of cognitive workload in language, particularly syntactic and discourse processing. He has begun working on fMRI studies of syntactic ambiguity resolution.
Email
rmason@andrew.cmu.edu
Investigator's
Homepage www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/rmason/index.html
Selected
Publications: Click here for CCBI publications list.
Mason,
R.A., & Just, M.A. (2004). How the brain processes causal inferences
in text: A theoretical account of generation and integration component
processes utilizing both cerebral hemispheres. Psychological Science, 15, 1-7.
Mason,
R.A., Just, M.A., Keller, T.A., & Carpenter, P.A. (2003).
Ambiguity in the brain: How syntactically ambiguous sentences are processed.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 1319-1338.
Wiley,
J., Mason, R.A., & Myers, J.L. (2001). Accessibility of potential
referents following categorical anaphors. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27, 1238-1249.
Lea,
R. B., Mason, R. A., Albrecht, J. E., Birch, S., & Myers, J. L. (1998)
Who knows what about whom: What role does common ground play in accessing
distant information? Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 70-84.
Rouet,
J. F., Britt, M. A., Mason, R. A., & Perfetti, C. A. (1996). Using
multiple sources of evidence to reason about history. Journal of Educational
Psychology, 88, 478-493.
is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Psychology. She received a B.A. from San Diego State University with a psychology major and biology minor. Her primary research interest is functional connectivity in autism.
Email
amizuno@andrew.cmu.edu
is a fourth year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. He is interested in the application of machine learning techniques to the analysis of fMRI data and their use in building better cognitive models. He sees this as a stepping stone in the path to the creation of Artificial Intelligence. Francisco has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Porto, Portugal.
Email
fpereira+@cs.cmu.edu
Selected
Publications:
Mitchell
T., Hutchinson R., Just M., Newman S., Niculescu S., Pereira F., Wang X.
(2002). Machine Learning of fMRI Virtual Sensors of Cognitive States. Functional
Neuroimaging workshop at Neural Information Processing Systems.
Pereira
F., Just M. and Mitchell T. (2001). Distinguishing natural language processes
on the basis of fMRI-measured brain activation. Proceedings of Principles
of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, p.374-385..
Valdes-Perez
R., Pericliev V. and Pereira F. (2000). Concise, Intelligible, and Approximate
Profiling of Multiple Classes. International Journal of Human Computer
Systems, 53(3):411-436.
is a Post-Doctoral Fellow working on fMRI studies of the brain basis of individual differences in language and cognition. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis. Her doctoral research focused on individual differences in discourse representation across the two cerebral hemispheres. She is currently using fMRI to investigate how individual differences in cognitive capacities are reflected in patterns of neural activation, especially in linguistic tasks.
Email
csprat@andrew.cmu.edu
Selected
Publications:
Prat, C. S., Keller, T. A., & Just, M. A. (2007). Individual differences in sentence comprehension: A functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of syntactic and lexical processing demands. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1950-1963.
Prat, C. S., Long, D. l., & Baynes, K. (2007). The representation of discourse in the two hemispheres: An individual differences investigation. Brain Language, 100, 283-294.
Long, D. L., Prat, C. S., Johns, C. L., Morris, P. E., & Jonathan, E. (In Press). Vivid remembering of text ideas. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
Long, D. L., & Prat, C. S. (2008). Individual differences in syntactic ambiguity resolution: Readers vary in their use of plausibility information. /Memory and Cognition, 36(2), 375-391.
Long, D. L., Baynes, K., & Prat, C. S. (2005). The propositional structure of discourse in the two cerebral hemispheres, Brain and Language, 95(3), 383-394.
is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Psychology. Her undergraduate training was in Biology and Chemistry from India and a Master's in Psychology from SUNY-Buffalo. She is interested in the neural underpinnings of cognition in normal and autistic individuals using fMRI as a tool.
Email
saudamin@andrew.cmu.edu
is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Psychology. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Science with a minor in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. She is investigating the neural basis of social cognition in autism using fMRI.
Email
ses@andrew.cmu.edu
Investigator's
Homepage www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ses/
is an Assistant Professor, Duquesne University, working on behavioral and fMRI studies of cognitive and linguistic processing in individuals with autism under the mentorship of Dr. Just. She has a Research Career Development Award from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Dr. Williams completed her doctoral work at Bowling Green State University in Ohio in Speech-Language Pathology. She was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Nancy Minshew, Director of the Collaborative Program of Excellence in Autism at the University of Pittsburgh, and continues to collaborate with Dr. Minshew on a number of studies with high-functioning adolescents and adults with autism. Dr. Williams has more than 20 years of clinical experience with individuals with autism.
Email
williamsdl@upmc.edu
Selected
Publications:
Minshew, N.J., & Williams, D.L. (in press). The new neurobiology of autism: Cortex,
connectivity, and neuronal organization. Archives of Neurology..
Williams, D.L., Goldstein G., Minshew N.J. (2006). Neuropsychologic functioning in
children with autism: Further evidence of disordered complex information processing.
Child Neuropsychology, 12, 279-298.
Williams, D.L., Goldstein G., Minshew N.J. (2006). Profile of memory function in
children with autism. Neuropsychology, 20, 21-29.
Williams, D.L., Goldstein G., Carpenter, P.A, Minshew N.J. (2005). Verbal and spatial
working memory in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Williams, D.L., Goldstein G., & Minshew N.J. (2005). Impaired memory for faces and social
scenes in autism: Clinical implications of the memory disorder. Archives of Clinical
Neuropsychology, 20, 1-15.