Clifford Saron, PhD
Assistant Researcher, Center for Mind and Brain
Office: 202 Cousteau Pl., Suite 250, Room 255
Telephone: 415-307-9757
Office: 202 Cousteau Pl., Suite 250, Room 255
Telephone: 415-307-9757
| Email: | cdsaron | @ | ucdavis.edu |
My work centers on using high-density event-related potentials to investigate sensorimotor integration using simple visual and motor tasks. In particular, I am interested in identifying the sources of trial-to-trial variability underlying the simple reaction time distribution in terms of the activation state of visual, motor, and more anterior cortical regions, with an eye toward elucidating which of multiple possible visuomotor pathways are engaged for a given behavioral response. This work has grown out of a long-standing interest in the functions of the corpus callosum and interhemispheric interaction, in which my electrophysiological work has challenged the widely held interpretation of behavioral methods to investigate interhemispheric transfer time.
Additional research interests are concerned with the role of attention in these tasks and the relatively unexplored domain of multisensory integration, particularly the interplay of auditory and visual processing streams in the presence of either concordant or discordant inputs. Future studies in collaboration with UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute scientists will investigate responses to multimodal stimuli in normal individuals and those with autistic spectrum disorder, which is hypothesized to impair the capacity for multisensory integration.
Exploring the Mind: Herman H.J. Kolk, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands and Dr. Angelique W. Hendriks, Radboud Univeristy
Dr. Joy Geng to join CMB faculty