Cognitive
Neurodynamics Laboratory
"As long as our brain is a mystery,
the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain,
will also be a mystery."
Santiago Ramon y Cajal
The
Cognitive Neurodynamics Laboratory is a research group within the Center for
Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at Florida Atlantic University. The central
goal of our
laboratory is to understand the spatio-temporal dynamics of brain activity as
it relates to cognition. Our theoretical and experimental studies focus on the
investigation of large-scale networks in the cerebral cortex.
Current Lab Members
Dr. Steven L. Bressler,
Director
Dr. Steven
L. Bressler is Professor of Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, and Psychology
at Florida Atlantic University. He directs the Cognitive Neurodynamics
Laboratory in the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences. He received his
B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University, his Ph.D. from the University of
California, Berkeley, and his postdoctoral training in the EEG Systems
Laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco. He has made
substantial contributions to the field of large-scale neural networks in the
brain, with papers cited over 7500 times in leading research journals. His
papers have been published in Nature
(1993), Science (1983, 1987, 2012),
and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
(2004). He served on the Board of Governors of INNS from 2009 to 2011, is an
Action Editor for Neural Networks, and is on the editorial board
of Computational Intelligence and
Neuroscience. He has organized or co-organized a number of conferences on
large-scale brain networks, including the 2007 NSF Conference on Brain Network Dynamics, the 2009 Symposium on Top-Down Mechanisms of Visual
Attention, the 2010 NSF Conference on
Neurocognitive
Networks, the 2011 International
Joint Conference on Neural Networks, and the 2011 NSF Symposium on From Brains to Machines at IJCNN11.
Graduate Students
Former Post-docs
Andrea
Brovelli, Researcher, Mediterranean Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience
(INCM), CNRS-Universite de la Mediterranee,
Marseille, France
Maciej
Kaminski, Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Medical Physics, Institute of
Experimental Physics, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland
Anders Ledberg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational Neuroscience,
Department of Technology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Hualou
Liang, Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Drexel
University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Sreenivasan
Rajamoni, Research Fellow, NIMH MEG Core Facility, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Emmanuelle Tognoli, Research Faculty, Center for Complex Systems &
Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
Gonzalo Viana Di Prisco, Researcher,
Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor University,
Houston, TX, USA
Former Graduate Students
Michael Mannino, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Miami,
Miami, FL, USA
Tim Meehan,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Montreal, Montreal, Ont, Canada
Avisa Asemi, Senior Embryologist, Boca Fertility, Boca Raton, FL,
USA
Edward Modestino, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of
Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Craig
Richter, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ernst Strungmann
Institute, Frankfurt, Germany
Tracy
Romano, Reports Analyst, FEMA, Washington, DC, USA
Wei Tang,
Research Fellow, Martinos Center for Biomedical
Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital & Department of Radiology, Harvard
Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Debra
Taylor, Adjunct, Forsyth Technical Community College, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Wilson Truccolo, Assistant Professor of Computational
Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Gene
Wallenstein, Senior Director, Inflamation/Immunology
Lead, Global Health & Value, Pfizer, Groton, CT, USA