CMB researchers show how attention re-routes information through the brain
George R. Mangun, PhD (UCSD)
Office:
267 Cousteau Pl., Room 172
Telephone: 530-297-4655
Telephone: 530-297-4655
| Email: | mangun | @ | ucdavis.edu |
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.
- Mangun Lab Page — by Ron Mangun — last modified 2010-02-28 03:14 AM
- Laboratory for the Neural Mechanisms of Attention
- Textbook — by Ron Mangun — last modified 2010-02-28 03:20 AM
- Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind (3rd Edition) 2008
- Curriculum Vitae for George R. Mangun — by Ron Mangun — last modified 2011-11-27 01:37 PM
- Ron Mangun elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science — by Ron Mangun — last modified 2011-01-09 04:48 AM
- CMB scientist and Professor of Psychology and Neurology Ron Mangun was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in the Section on Psychology (http://www.aaas.org/). Mangun was honored for distinguished contributions to psychology and cognitive neuroscience in research on brain attention mechanisms, and in teaching, service, administration, and the dissemination of knowledge.
