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Michael S. Worden, Ph.D.
Sackler Institute for
Developmental Psychobiology
Weill Medical College
of Cornell University
1300 York Avenue, Box
140
New York, NY
10021
My research interests revolve around mechanisms of visual attention in humans. I use functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to investigate the relationship between bottom-up and top-down processing in very early areas of visual cortex. Recently, I have become interested in the relationship between cortical oscillations and attentional processing. Electrical data recorded from the scalp suggest that alpha rhythms may be associated with attentional gating of non-attended regions of visual space that are likely to contain distracting information. I also have a number of methodological interests and am especially interested in the combination of EEG and fMRI techniques.
Selected publications
Durston, S, Thomas, K, Worden, M.S., Yang, Y. and Casey, B.J. (2002) The effect of preceding context on inhibition: An event-related fMRI study. NeuroImage, 16(2), 449-453.
Worden, M , Foxe, J.J., Wang, N. and Simpson, G.V. (2000). Anticipatory biasing of visuospaital attention indexed by retinotopcially specific alpha-band electroencephalography increases over occiptial corex. Journal of Neuroscience, 20:RC63, 1-6.Worden, M. (1998) Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies of Attentional Selection in Early Visual Cortex. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
Worden, M., Wellington, R. and Schneider, W. (1996). Determining the locus of attentional selection with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Abstract of paper presented at Second Annual Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, NeuroImage, 3, 244.
Worden, M., Vincent, D. J., Schneider, W., & Shedden, J.M. (1995). Constraining high-density ERP source analysis using functional MRI. In M. Witten & D. J. Vincent (Eds.), Computational Medicine, Public Health and Biotechnology. (pp. 723-743). World Scientific.
Worden, M., & Schneider, W. (1995). Cognitive Task Design for FMRI. International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, 6, 253-270.
Schneider, W., Pimm-Smith, M., & Worden, M. (1994). The neurobiology of attention and automaticity. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 4, 177-182.