Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience, Time Perception, Space Perception, Datasharing
How does the brain perceive time and space? Philosophers may debate the nature of each, but my lab aims to empirically study how the brain constructs these dimensions. To do this, my lab uses a variety of different tools in the armamentarium of Cognitive Neuroscience: functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Electroencephalography (EEG), and Psychophysics. Additionally, my lab focuses on combining different techniques, such as simultaneous TMS-EEG or fMRI-EEG, to enhance their power and the repertoire of questions that can be asked.
Even more exciting: we are not just interested in time and space alone, but what they are used for. For time, a major use of interest is the perception of rhythm and music. For space, we are interested in how this dimension is used for navigation and processing value.
Lab website: https://starlabgmu.weebly.com/
Wiener, M., Michaelis, K., & Thompson J. (2016) Distance Reproduction is Influenced by Prior Stimulus History via the hippocampus and retrosplenial cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 37(9), 3172–3187.
Wiener, M., & Thompson, J. (2015). Repetition Enhancement and Memory Effects for Duration. NeuroImage, 113, 268-278.
Wiener, M., Kliot, D., Turkeltaub, P.E., Hamilton, R.H., Wolk, D., & Coslett, H.B. (2012). Parietal influence on temporal encoding indexed by simultaneous transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(35), 12258-12267
Wiener, M., Lohoff, F.W., & Coslett, H.B. (2011). Double dissociation of dopamine genes and timing in humans. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(10), 2811-2821.
Wiener, M., Turkeltaub, P., & Coslett, H.B. (2010). The image of time: a voxel-wise meta-analysis. NeuroImage, 49(2), 1728-1740.
Psyc 300-003, Statistics in Psychology
Psyc 892-006, Human Brain Stimulation Methods
Candice T. Stanfield-Wiswell , Context-Dependent Mechanisms in Numerosity-Time Interactions (2023)
Keri Anne Gladhill, The Effects of Movement Parameters on Time Perception (2023)