Youkyung Bae
The Voice and Resonance Laboratory team is working towards understanding the anatomic, physiologic, and acoustic aspects of the normal and abnormal speech production mechanism, with special emphasis on the velopharyngeal mechanism, through combining bio-imaging techniques and acoustic analysis methods.
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Christopher Browning
The Adolescent Health and Development in Context study (R01DA032371) is a large-scale, longitudinal, representative data collection effort focused on the social and spatial contexts of youth development. The project uses an innovative combination of smartphone-based GPS and ecological momentary assessment to gather real-time data on the everyday experiences of urban youth. The project is currently funded by NIDA (R01DA042080) to explore the links between exposure to violence, neural development, and substance use.
Kentaro Fujita
The Motivation and Cognitive Science Laboratory is dedicated to understanding how what people want (motivation) and how they think (cognition) interact to shape judgment and decision. We use a variety of cognitive, behavioral, and, more recently, neuroscientific methods, to examine why people make decisions and behave in ways that undermine their valued goals.
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Julie Golomb
The Vision & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab uses perceptual and computational cognitive neuroscience techniques to investigate human visual processing. Research topics include how visual properties such as color, shape, and spatial location are perceived and coded in the brain, and how these representations are influenced by eye movements, shifts of attention, and other dynamic cognitive processes.
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Jasmeet Hayes
The MINDSET lab studies the chronic effects of traumatic brain injury and psychological stress on the brain, cognition, and risk for neurodegenerative disease. We incorporate neuroscience tools including structural T1-weighted imaging, diffusion tensor imaging, and fMRI with genetic and molecular markers to examine links between trauma and neurodegenerative disease.
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Hayes, J.P., Moody, J.N., Roca, J.G., Hayes, S.M. (2020). Body mass index is associated with smaller medial temporal lobe volume in those at risk for Alzheimer's disease. NeuroImage: Clinical, 25, 102156.
Hayes, J.P., Logue, M.W., Sadeh, N., Spielberg, J.M., Verfaellie, M., Hayes, S.M. et al. (2017). Mild traumatic brain injury is associated with reduced cortical thickness in those at risk for Alzheimer's disease. Brain, 140, 813-825.
Scott M. Hayes
The Buckeye Brain Aging Lab (B-BAL) examines age-related changes in memory and the brain, variables that optimize cognitive and brain health (cardiorespiratory fitness, mobility, strength), and the neural correlates of memory in healthy and patient populations.
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Hayes, S. M., Salat, D. H., Forman, D. E., Sperling, R. A., & Verfaellie, M. (2015). Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with white matter integrity in aging. Ann Clin Transl Neurol, 2(6), 688-698. doi:10.1002/acn3.204
Palombo, D. J., Hayes, S. M., Reid, A. G., & Verfaellie, M. (2019). Hippocampal contributions to value-based learning: Converging evidence from fMRI and amnesia. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci, 19(3), 523-536. doi:10.3758/s13415-018-00687-8
Kristen Hoskinson
The Hoskinson Lab aims to improve understanding of the neuroanatomical and functional substrates that contribute to cognitive, emotional, and behavioral morbidities after childhood neurologic injury. Their research integrates neuroimaging methods with assessed and observed social and emotional function to identify those at greatest risk of poor outcome. Current funded work examines the neural and behavioral consequences of traumatic brain injury, congenital heart disease, and pediatric cancer.
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Anne Kloos
The Mobility and Exercise in Neurodegenerative Disorders (MEND) lab is primarily focused on conducting research related to assessments and interventions to measure or improve balance, mobility, and fall risk in individuals with neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and Alzheimer’s disease. They have explored the use of innovative interventions such as video game based exercise and biofeedback delivered via application software on an iPod to improve or maintain balance and gait functions. Their research utilizes a restorative approach of using targeted interventions to improve or maintain balance and gait functions through intensive training or medication to induce neuroplastic changes rather than through compensation.
William Kraemer
Dr. Kraemer’s laboratory is dedicated to the understanding of integrated physiology of physical function and how it mediates brain function. Using exercise stress models, we study cognition, recovery modalities, physical injury, and their effects on the brain. By better understanding stress, will allow improved coping and therapeutic strategies to effectively modulate it in people from all walks of life trying to optimize human performance.
Ian Krajbich
The Krajbich Lab studies Neuroeconomics and Decision Neuroscience. Their research combines tools from psychology, neuroscience, and economics to investigate the mechanisms behind decision-making. They are particularly focused on dynamic, computational modeling. https://u.osu.edu/krajbichlab/
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Marjean Kulp and Nicklaus Fogt
The goals of the ICITE study group are to compare BOLD response during convergence in those with normal binocular vision and those with poor convergence (convergence insufficiency) and also following treatment.
Andrew B. Leber
The Cognitive Control Lab aims to understand how we control behavior. The lab is especially interested in our abilities to resist distraction and suppress irrelevant information, the influences of past experience, and the factors motivating the choice of optimal vs. suboptimal control strategies.
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Irons, J. L. & Leber (2020). Developing an individual profile of attentional control strategy. Current Directions in Psychological Science. Advance Online Publication https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721420924018
Delwin Lindsey
Dr. Lindsey's lab studies human color vision. They use fMRI techniques to explore neurophysiological correlates of the high level representation of color appearance, categorization and memory. They are particularly interested in the role of language in mediating these representations.
Warren Lo
Dr. Lo's study goals were to compare children who had suffered stroke with age and gender matched controls, and 1) To determine whether there are group differences in resting state connectivity for brain networks associated with social cognition; 2) To determine any correlation between resting state connectivity of these networks and performance on functional measures of social cognition.
Aleix M Martinez
The Computational Biology and Cognitive Science Lab (CBCSL) focuses on the theoretical aspects of cognitive science and neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on vision, emotion, learning and linguistics. They combine computational modeling with imaging and behavioral data to acquire a broader understanding of how the human brain functions. This includes research in machine learning and computer vision.
James Onate
The Multidisciplinary Opportunities for Movement Education & Science (MOvES) Lab is made up of a group of athletic trainers, engineers, and students who are exploring human movement. The MOvES Lab is directed by Dr. James Onate and works in conjunction with the Movement Analysis and Performance (MAP) Lab and the Human Performance Collaborative (HPC)
The goal of the MOvES Lab is to minimize the occurrence of injuries and increase performance in a variety of active populations. The MOvES Lab works with Ohio State athletes, the military, youth baseball teams, high school athletes across the country, and active individuals in the Columbus area.
Ruchika Prakash
The Clinical Neuroscience Lab seeks to assess the efficacy of psychosocial lifestyle interventions, including physical activity and mindfulness meditation, in improving cognitive and affective functioning in clinical and healthy populations. The lab’s research utilizes resting state and task-based functional connectivity to elucidate potential mechanisms underlying change from healthy lifestyle behaviors.
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Zeynep Saygin
The Z-Lab studies Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. We use longitudinal neuroimaging and computational modeling to investigate the developing human brain, answering questions like: What are the brain building blocks that we are born with, how do they change with maturation and experience, and can we use this information to predict the development of individual abilities later in life?
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Brandon M. Turner
The Model-based Cognitive Neuroscience Lab investigates how individual experiences shape one’s representations of the world, and ultimately how these representations guide behavior. To this end, a large component of the lab’s focus is on understanding how brain and behavioral data can be linked to form a more complete understanding of the mind.
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Dylan Wagner
The Wagner Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab studies how the brain encodes and retrieves socially relevant information, from knowledge about ourselves and our friends to how the brain represents rewards and temptations such as food and drugs. Using a combination of functional neuroimaging, machine learning techniques and naturalistic stimuli (e.g., movies, stories, virtual reality and natural scenes), research in the lab is working towards developing methods to gain access to how individuals think and feel about the people and temptations that surround them.
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Baldwin Way
The Social Neurochemistry Lab's research is focused on how psychological factors (e.g. stress; valence weighting bias) trigger the immune system and also how the immune system can alter emotions and decision-making. They use both pharmacological (acetaminophen; ibuprofen; typhoid vaccination) and endogenous measures (e.g. C-Reactive Protein) of immune function. They are also conducting a large, longitudinal imaging study of adolescents to look at how geospatial stress exposure alters neural activity and predicts future substance use.
