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

Women’s Brain Health Projects

Our lab is part of the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative.

WBHI 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

Longitudinal neurocognitive and hormonal phenotyping

• A project collecting imaging, hormone and reproductive health information to understand the neural mechanisms that drive changes in mood and cognition across the menstrual cycle.
• Noyce Foundation

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
• Current 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

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