A key goal of cognitive neuroscience is to understand the relationship between neuroanatomy (i.e. connectivity and local circuitry), experience and neural representations. At the Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience at George Washington University, we study this relationship using many techniques with an emphasis on human fMRI, TMS, and behavior. We utilize a data-driven approach paired with many conditions allowing for the data-driven quantification of the structure of neural representations.
We apply this approach in a number of domains, currently in: visual working memory; perception (color, orientation, motion, faces), the representation of words, concepts and scenes; visual object recognition; and mental imagery.
