Members of the BMI

• Daniel Ansari, PhD (CRC Tier 2 Developmental Neuroscience) Psychology, Education
• Rob Bartha, PhD (Ivey-Bank of Montreal Financial Group Scientist) Robarts
• Blaine Chronik, PhD (CRC Tier 2 Medical Physics) Physics & Astronomy
• Brian Corneil, PhD (Associate Professor) Physiology & Pharmacology
• Jody Culham , PhD (Associate Professor, E.W. Steacie Fellow) Psychology
• Rhodri Cusack, PhD (Associate Professor) Psychology
• Mark Daley, PhD (Associate Professor) Computer Science
• Stefan Everling, PhD (Professor) Physiology & Pharmacology
• Jessica Grahn, PhD (Assistant Professor) Psychology
• Paul Gribble, PhD (Professor) Psychology
• Melvyn Goodale, PhD, FRSC (CRC Tier 1 Visual Neuroscience) Psychology
• Adam Hampshire, PhD (Research Assistant Professor) Psychology

• Marc Joanisse, PhD (Professor) Psychology
• Stefan Köhler, PhD (Professor) Psychology
• Stephen Lomber , PhD (Professor) Physiology & Pharmacology
• Penny MacDonald, MD,  PhD (CRC Tier 2 nominee) Clinical Neurological Sciences
• Ravi Menon , PhD (CRC Tier 1 Functional and Molecular Imaging) Robarts
• Derek Mitchell, PhD (Associate Professor) Anatomy & Cell Biology
• Bruce Morton, PhD (Associate Professor) Psychology
• Adrian Owen, PhD (CERC in Cognitive Neuroscience & Imaging) Psychology
• Dante Pirouz, PhD (Assistant Professor) Ivey Business School
• Brian Timney, PhD  (Professor and Dean) Psychology
• Tutis Vilis , PhD (Professor) Physiology & Pharmacology

Associate Members, Department of Philosophy and The Rotman Institute of Philosophy:

Angela Mendelovici, (Prof.) Philosophy
Robert Stainton, Distinguished University Professor, Philosophy
Christopher Viger, (Prof. and assitant Chair) Philosophy
Charles Weijer, (CRC Tier 1 Bioethics, Dir. Rotman Institute of Philosophy) Philosophy

We are pleased to announce that two new faculty members will be joining the BMI team in 2012:

Publications: some of our greatest hits!

• Ansari, D. (2012). Culture and Education: New Frontiers in Brain Plasticity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16, 93-95.
• Sperandio, I., Chouinard, P.A., & Goodale, M.A. (2012). Retinotopic activity in V1 reflects the perceived not the retinal size of an after-image.  Nature Neuroscience, 15, 540-542.
• Hutchison, R.M., Womelsdorf, T., Gati, J.S., Everling, S., & Menon, R.S. (2012). Resting-state networks show dynamic functional connectivity in awake humans and anesthetized macaques. Human Brain Mapping. doi:10.1002/hbm.22058. [Epub ahead of print]
• Cruse, D., Chennu, S., Chatelle, C., Bekinschtein, T.A., Fernández-Espejo, D., Pickard, J.D., Laureys, S., & Owen, A.M. (2011).  Bedside detection of awareness in the vegetative state: a cohort study.  Lancet, 378, 2088-2094.
• Thaler, L, Arnott, S.R., & Goodale, M.A.  (2011). Neural correlates of natural human echolocation in early and late blind echolocation experts. PLoS One, 6(5):e20162.
• Gallivan, J. P., McLean, D. A., Smith, F. W., & Culham, J. C. (2011). Decoding effector-dependent and effector-independent movement intentions from human parieto-frontal brain activity.  Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 17149-17168.
• Lomber, S.G., Meredith, M.A., & Kral, A. (2010).  Crossmodal plasticity in specific auditory cortices underlies visual compensations in the deaf.  Nature Neuroscience, 13, 1421-1427.
• Nestor, S.M., Rupsingh, R., Borrie, M., Smith, M., Accomazzi, V., Wells, J.L., Fogarty, J.,& Bartha, R. (2008). Ventricular enlargement as a possible measure of Alzheimer's disease progression validated using the Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative database. Brain, 131, 2443-2454.
• DeSmedt, B., Taylor, J., Archibald, L., & Ansari, D.  (2010). How is phonological processing related to individual differences in children’s arithmetic skills?  Developmental Science, 13, 508-520.
• Corneil, B.D., Elsley, J.K., Nagy, B., & Cushing, S.L. (2010).  Motor output evoked by sub-saccadic stimuaton of primate frontal eye fields. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 6070-6075.
• Kielar, A. & Joanisse, M.F. (2010). Graded Effects of Regularity in Language Revealed by N400 Indices of Morphological Priming.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 1373-1398.
• Grahn, J.A. & Rowe J.B. (2009).  Feeling the beat: premotor and striatal interactions in musicians and non-musicians during beat perception.  Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 7540-7548.
• Whitney, D., Goltz, H., Thomas, C.G., Gati, J., Menon, R., & Goodale, M.A.  (2003).  Flexible retinotopy: Motion dependent position coding in the visual cortex.  Science, 302, 878-881.
• James, T.W., Culham, J.C., Humphrey, G. K., Milner, A.D., & Goodale, M.A. (2003). Ventral occipital lesions impair object recognition but not object-directed grasping: A fMRI study. Brain, 126, 2463-2475.