UCSB/Dartmouth BRAIN IMAGING Program

Program Heads:
Michael Miller, Assistant Professor
Michael Gazzaniga, Distinguished Professor

The UCSB Psychology Department has forged a link between researchers at UCSB interested in cognitive neuroscience and the state-of-the-art functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) facilities at the Dartmouth Brain Imaging Center (DBIC). DBIC has a research-dedicated 1.5 Tesla General Electric MR Scanner with high-speed Echo Planar Imaging. The scanner is conveniently located in the basement of the Psychology building at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. A full-time MR technician staffs the facility under the direction of Dr. Scott Grafton.

Funding opportunities: The UCSB/Dartmouth Collaborative Brain Imaging Program provides access and limited funding for faculty, post-doctoral researchers, and students at UCSB to conduct fMRI studies. The program also provides workstations for data analysis and ongoing seminars on fMRI issues, methodology, and data analysis. Researchers interested in conducting fMRI studies through the UCSB/Dartmouth Collaborative Brain Imaging Program are encouraged to contact at miller@psych.ucsb.edu.

Point of contact: Faculty/postdoctoral researchers interested in conducting brain imaging experiments via the UCSB/Darthmouth Program should contact Prof. Miller, m_miller@psych.ucsb.edu. Graduate students require a faculty sponsor.

Process/Protocols for conducting an FMRI study via the UCSB/Dartmouth Brain Imaging Program can be found here: http://dbic.dartmouth.edu/researcher/procedures.php

Current fMRI projects:

• Longitudinal study of individual variability across different memory tasks (Mike Miller).
• The neural basis of spatial working memory (Greg Ashby, Michael Miller, Shawn Ell, Vivian Valentin, & Michael Casal).
• The neural correlates of detecting pretense displays (Tim German)
• Dissociation between mental rotation and perspective taking (Mary Hegarty, Madeleine Keehner, & Junko Yamazaki)
• Exploring the brain basis of social exchange and precautionary reasoning (Leda Cosmides, Michael Miller, Elsa Ermer, & John Tooby).

Recent Publications:

Miller, M.B., Van Horn, J., Wolford, G.L., Handy, T.C., Valsangkar-Smyth, M., Inati, S., Grafton, S., & Gazzaniga, M.S. (2002). Extensive individual differences in brain activations during episodic retrieval are reliable over time. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14(8).

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