I am an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Rochester Center for Brain Imaging at the Univeristy of Rochester. Here's mv CV.
2006 Matlab and Psychophysics Toolbox Seminar
My research focus is the link between the architecture of the human visual system and the functions of perception and attention.
The human visual system contains multiple streams of information that originate in distinct classes of retinal ganglion cells. These information streams remain disjoint in the subcortex, innervating for example the magnocellular and parvocellular layers of the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and the superior colliculus, and become intermixed in the visual cortex. High-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the subcortex is the only way to directly access these information streams in humans, and has been used to detect phenomenon in the subcortex, such as attention and binocularly rivalry, that have not been observed here with primate electrophysiology.
I have been studying the effects of visual attention in human thalamus and midbrain structures such as the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and superior colliculus (SC) using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Studying human subcortical nuclei yields unique insights but also presents a technical challenge. An important facet of my research is therefore methodological. Using high resolution imaging sequences, we have been able to measure unprecedented structural detail in the human subcortex, including retinotopy and the division of the magnocellular and parvocellular layers in the LGN. To improve the spatial resolution even further, I have been developing a technique to extract spatial information from the subjects' inadvertent head movements during fMRI experiments.
PhD, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, 2002.
MA, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, 2000.
MA, Astronomy, Boston University, 1996.
BS, Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1994.
Schneider KA. In preparation. Spatial and featural attention in the human lateral geniculate nucleus, superior colliculus and pulvinar.
Schneider KA, Kastner S. In preparation. Sustained spatial attention in the human lateral geniculate nucleus and superior colliculus.
Schneider KA. In preparation. Super-resolution in functional magnetic resonance imaging using subject head motion.
Schneider KA, Kastner S. In preparation. Super-resolution in structural magnetic resonance imaging using subject head motion.
Schneider KA. In preparation. Interhemispheric suppression in the human lateral geniculate nucleus and superior colliculus.
Gu T, Kennedy SD, Chen Z, Schneider KA, Zhong J. 2007. Functional MRI at 3T using intermolecular double quantum coherence (iDQC) with spin-echo (SE) acquisitions. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine 20: 255–264.
Kastner S, DeSimone K, Konen CS, Szczepanski SM, Weiner KS, Schneider KA. 2007. Topographic maps in human frontal cortex revealed in memory-guided saccade and spatial working-memory tasks. Journal of Neurophysiology 97: 3494–3507.
Schneider KA. 2006. Does attention alter appearance? Perception & Psychophysics 68: 800–814. PDF
Wunderlich K, Schneider KA, Kastner S. 2005. Neural correlates of binocular rivalry in the human LGN. Nature Neuroscience 8: 1595–1602. PDF
Schneider KA, Kastner S. 2005. Visual responses of the human superior colliculus: A high-resolution fMRI study. Journal of Neurophysiology 94: 2491–2503. PDF
Schneider KA, Richter MC, Kastner S. 2004. Retinotopic organization and functional subdivisions of the human lateral geniculate nucleus: A high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Journal of Neuroscience 24: 8975–8985. PDF
Schneider KA, Bavelier D. 2003. Components of visual prior entry. Cognitive Psychology 47: 333–366. PDF
Bavelier D, Schneider KA, Monacelli A. 2002. Reflexive gaze orienting induces the line-motion illusion. Vision Research 42: 2817–2827. PDF
VSS 2006. Interhemispheric suppression: The case of the missing vertical meridian.
VSS 2004. Retinotopic organization and functional subdivisions of the human lateral geniculate nucleus and superior colliculus.
HBM 2003. Binocular summation in the human LGN and visual cortex.
VSS 2002. Components of visual prior entry.
SFN 2002. Attention and contrast perception.
VSS 2001. Exogenous cueing and visual latency: Attention, response bias or sensory facilitation?
ARVO 2000. Human cortical responses to perceived and cancelled motion induced by the line motion illusion.
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