Research Projects

Cognitive neuroscience projects

Precision neuroscience and behavioral approaches to cognitive control

• A project that is characterizing the large-scale brain networks involved in diverse cognitive control processes using deep phenotyping.
  • Previous funding: 5R01MH117772
• A project that is reframing the Cognitive Systems component of RDoC using deep phenotyping with behavior and fMRI.
  • Current funding: 1R01MH130898
• Representative publications:
  • A dual-task approach to inform the taxomony of inhibition-related processes

Neural network models of human performance

• A project that is developing end-to-end neural network models for the dynamics of human performance on cognitive control tasks
• Representative publications:
  • Modelling human behaviour in cognitive tasks with latent dynamical systems
  • An image-computable model of speeded decision-making

Challenging existing models and developing new models for response inhibition

• A project aimed at development next-generation models of response inhibition
• Representative publications:
  • Severe violations of independence in response inhibition tasks
  • Estimating the time to do nothing: Towards next-generation models of response inhibition.
  • Design issues and solutions for stop-signal data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study

Informatics/analysis projects

OpenNeuro

• A data sharing archive for neuroscience data
• Current funding: R24MH117179
• Representative publications:
  • The OpenNeuro resource for sharing of neuroscience data

The impact of AI on Neuroimaging Data Privacy

• A project investigating the effectiveness of deidentification in the context of AI face recognition systems
• Previous funding: Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute
• Representative publications:
  • Demystifying the likelihood of reidentification in neuroimaging data: A technical and regulatory analysis

Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS)

• A framework for organization of neuroimaging data and metadata
• Previous funding: R01MH126699, R24MH114705
• Representative publications:
  • The brain imaging data structure, a format for organizing and describing outputs of neuroimaging experiments
  • The past, present, and future of the brain imaging data structure (BIDS)

Experiment Factory

• A platform for online behavioral experimentation
• Current funding: Columbia University Science of Behavior Change Resource and Coordinating Center
• Representative publications:
  • The Experiment Factory: Standardizing Behavioral Experiments

Neurosynth

• A platform for coordinate-based meta-analysis on neuroimaging data
• Previous funding: 5R01MH096906
• Representative publications:
  • Large-scale automated synthesis of human functional neuroimaging data

fMRIPrep

• A robust and reproducible preprocessing workflow for fMRI data
• Current funding RF1MH121867
• Representative publications:
  • fMRIPrep: a robust preprocessing pipeline for functional MRI

Women’s Brain Health Initiative Data Coordinating Center

• A project to coordinate data from several University of California Imaging Centers in service of better understanding women’s brain health.
• Current funding: Noyce Foundation

Cognitive Atlas

• An ontology for cognitive science
• Previous funding: 5R01MH082795
• Representative publications:
  • The cognitive atlas: toward a knowledge foundation for cognitive neuroscience

Neurovault

• A data sharing archive for summary data from neuroimaging studies
• Representative publications:
  • NeuroVault.org: a web-based repository for collecting and sharing unthresholded statistical maps of the human brain

MRIQC

• A quality control tool for structural and functional MRI data
• Representative publications:
  • MRIQC: Advancing the automatic prediction of image quality in MRI from unseen sites

Templateflow

• A FAIR sharing archive and toolkit for neuroimaging templates and atlases
• Representative publications:
  • TemplateFlow: FAIR-sharing of multi-scale, multi-species brain models