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Up one levelPeople in the Mangun Lab
- Ron Mangun, PhD (UCSD) , Professor of Psychology and Neurology; Dean of Social Sciences; Founding Director (2002-09), Center for Mind and Brain
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tel: 530-297-4655 office: 267 Cousteau Pl., Room 109
Dr. Mangun's work on the cognitive neuroscience of attention investigates how we perceive, attend, ignore and become aware of events in our environment. Recordings of event-related brain potentials (ERP) from healthy persons and special patient groups provide high temporal resolution measures of stimulus processing in the human brain. The goal of this research is to identify the mechanisms of attentional selection by permitting sensory analysis of attended and ignored stimuli to be studied under a wide variety of task circumstances. To identify the brain systems and circuits involved in various attentional processes (i.e., control and selection), tools such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are used in conjunction with ERP. fMRI permits the living human brain to be revealed to us as it functions to enable our sensations, thoughts and actions. The information obtained from these combined behavioral, neuropsychological and neurophysiological studies yields insight into the computational and functional neuroanatomical structure of human cognition, and is essential for addressing the deficits in attention and awareness that accompany neurological and psychiatric disease.
- Andre Bastos, BA, Graduate Student, Mangun Lab
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tel: 530-297-4408 office: 267 Cousteau Pl, Room 108 keywords: attention, consciousness, meditation, signal processing
I am a first year graduate student, currently rotating in Ron Mangun's Lab. We will be studying the mechanisms of attention selection and control using EEG and fMRI. My scientific interests include attention, consciousness, meditation, and advanced methods for data analysis and signal processing.
- Jesse Bengson, MS, Graduate Student, Mangun Lab
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tel: 530-297-4408 office: 267 Cousteau Pl., Room 109 keywords: attention, awareness & perception, experimental introspection
- Jane Couperus, PhD, Visiting Faculty, Mangun Lab
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- Nicholas Herald, Graduate Student, Mangun Lab
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- Thomas Hoesker, Visiting Scholar, Mangun Lab
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- Katherine MacLean, Graduate Student, Mangun Lab
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- Ali Mazaheri, Postdoctoral Scholar, Mangun Lab
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- Jaap Munneke, Visiting Scholar, Mangun Lab
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- Lara Polse, Junior Specialist, Mangun Lab
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Lara Polse is Junior Specialist in Ron Mangun's Lab, and also in Tamara Swaab's Lab, and works on studies of non-literal language and discourse in normal populations, and also language processing in children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
- Risa Sawaki, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Luck Lab
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tel: 530-297-4425 office: 267 Cousteau Pl., Room 133
- Bong Walsh, Postdoctoral Scholar, Mangun Lab
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