Staff Directory
The CBBI is staffed by experienced professionals dedicated to serving the needs of our users. Please contact us to discuss how we can meet your needs.
fMRI provides a way to measure and map brain activity. Brain cells communicate with each other using chemical and electrical signals. Generating thes signals uses energy which is provided by oxygen in the blood supply. When a brain area increases its activity, its enery needs also increase and this causes an increase in the supply of oxygenated blood to that area. fMRI provides a measure of brain activity by tracking the flow of blood to various regions of the brain. This increased blood flow is visualized as regions of intense color superimposed on an anatomical image of the participant’s brain.
Director, CBBI
University of Delaware
77 E Delaware Ave, Room 233
Newark, DE 19716
Phone: (302) 831-7148
Director
Background and Interests
I study how the timing and content of perception are encoded in the brain and modulated by attention, in both normal and clinical populations. I specialize in both psychophysics and measuring the subcortex—the lateral and medial geniculate nuclei and thalamic reticular nucleus in the thalamus, and the superior colliculus—using structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging. The subcortical nuclei play central roles in the recurrent regulation of sensory function, and here, like nowhere else in the brain, distinct information streams are spatially disjoint and their activity can be measured with high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging. Abnormalities in these structures may be important in clinical disorders such as dyslexia.
Manager
Manager, CBBI
University of Delaware 77 E Delaware Ave, Room 232 Newark, DE 19716
MRI Physicist
MRI Physicist, CBBI
University of Delaware 77 E Delaware Ave, Room 236 Newark, DE 19716 Phone: (302) 831-0648
Research Associates
University of Delaware 77 E Delaware Ave, Room 121A Newark, DE 19716 Phone: (302) 831-0910
ASSISTANCE
Keith Schneider
Director, CBBI
Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences
Phone: (302)-831-7148
Trevor Wigal
Manager, CBBI
Phone: 302-831-1463
Xingju Nie
MRI Physicist
Phone: 302-831-0648
Ibrahim Malik
Research Associate
Phone: 302-831-0910
Sarah Whitman
Research Associate
Phone: 302-831-0910
HOURS OF OPERATION
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