This fund was generously established by H. Dean and Susan Regis Gibson to help one or two outstanding graduate or undergraduate students to conduct brain imaging research in the Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging. The H. Dean and Susan Regis Gibson Award is given on the basis of scholastic achievement, completed and/or intended research achievement, and the successful completion of a research proposal for conducting brain imaging research in the Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging. Funds from the award can be used to cover research expenses including scanner time, subject fees, and research supplies.
To learn more about Mr. and Mrs. Gibson and their commitment to taking part in movements that have a profound impact for all people, read this interview that appeared in The Imager!
Congratulations to our 2024-2025 recipients:
- Leah DiRubio, The Development and Behavioral Contributions of Laterality of the Visual Word Form Area.
Advisor - Zeynep Saygin - Nicole Saltiel, Investigating the Impact of White Matter Integrity and TBI on Age-Related Memory Decline.
Advisor - Julie Golomb
Our previous recipients:
2023 - 2024
- Kelly Hiersche, Understanding the selectivity, development, and plasticity of the Visual Word Form Area.
Advisor -Zeynep Saygin - Dan Zhu, Social Cognitive Neuroscience.
Advisor - Dylan Wagner
2022 - 2023
- Erica Howard, Structural Myelin Mapping and Plasma Amyloid Markers in Individuals with a History of Traumatic Brain Injury.
Advisor - Jasmeet Hayes - Zitong Lu, Unfolding the Spatiotemporal Neural Mechanisms of 3D Perception in the Human Brain.
Advisor - Julie Golomb - James Teng, Investigating the Contributions of an Age-Invariant Connectome Across the Lifespan.
Advisor - Ruchika Prakash
2021 - 2022
- Cody Mansfield, The KOBRA Study: The Effects of Knee Osteoarthritis on Brain Activation.
Advisors - James Oñate and Matt Briggs - Fiona Molloy, Neural Basis of Contextual Cueing.
Advisors - David Osher and Zeynep Saygin
2020 - 2021
- Timothy Broom, Does context alter the representational structure of person knowledge? Advisor - Dylan Wagner
- Anita Shankar, Test-Retest Reliability of Graph Theoretical Metrics of Resting-state Functional Connectivity in People with Multiple Sclerosis Advisor - Ruchika Prakash
2018-2019
- Athena Howell, Assessing the Neural Correlates of Infant Visual Recognition Memory. Advisor - Zeynep M. Saygin
- Jin Li, Language affects high-level visual perception. Advisor - Zeynep M. Saygin
2017 - 2018
- Heather Hansen, Neural Mechanisms of Misophonia. Advisor - Zeynep Saygin and Andrew Leber
- Allison Londeree, Decoding the neural representations of taste and health. Advisor - Dylan Wagner
2016 - 2017
- Giwon Bahg, Implementation of Adaptive Design Optimization for fMRI experiments. Advisor - Brandon Turner
- Jiageng Chen, Dynamically tracking feature and conjunction representations in human visual cortex. Advisor - Julie Golomb
- Eunbin (Stephanie) Kim, Neural decoding of naturalistic social interactions and subjective affective experience. Advisor - Dylan Wagner
2015 - 2016
- Madeline Doran, Neurobiology of Reading Comprehension in Bilingual Young Adults. Advisor - Stephen Petrill
- Yoolim Hong, Attentional disengagement suppresses visual long-term memory. Advisor - Andrew Leber
- Xiaoli Zhang, How does spatial attention update across eye movements in human parietal cortex? Advisor - Julie Golomb
2014 - 2015
- Daniel Berman, Topographic maps of depth in human visual cortex. Advisor - Julie Golomb
- Rachael Gwinn, Willful manipulation of neural value signals and the associated changes in preference. Advisor - Ian Krajbich
- Margaret Mehling, Impact of Shakespearian Social Skills Intervention on Behavioral and Neuropsychological Indicators of Social Functioning in Children with Autism. Advisor - Marc Tassé
2013 - 2014
- Stephanie Fountain - Zaragoza, Ohio Meditation Study. Advisor - Ruchika Prakash
- Vishnu Sreekumar, The neural representation of reinstated context: An fMRI study of recognition memory. Advisor - Per Sederberg
- Aimee Zisner, Neural Correlates of Emotion Recognition and Reward Processing in Pediatric Bipolar Disorder and Depression. Advisor - Ted Beauchaine
2012 - 2013
- Angeline De Leon, Mindfulness Disposition and Cognitive Control in Older Adults. Advisor - Ruchika Prakash
- Nora Fritz, Examining the Effects of Dance Dance Revolution on Mobility, Brain Plasticity and Cognition in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis. Advisor - Deborah Larsen
- Sarah Lukowski, Neurobiological Markers of Scientific Thinking. Advisor - Stephen Petrill
2011 - 2012
- Tabitha Kirkland, Adivsor - Wil Cunningham
- Chelsea Voskuilen, Advisor - Roger Ratcliff