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• April 2012 Recent Papers:
  
  • Hutchison, R. M., Gallivan, J. P., Culham, J. C., Gati, J. S., Menon, R. S., & Everling, S. (In press). Functional connectivity of the frontal eye fields in humans and macaque monkeys investigated with resting-state fMRI. Journal of Neurophysiology.
    
  • Valyear, K. F., Gallivan, J. P., McLean, D. A. & Culham, J. C. (2012). fMRI repetition suppression for familiar but not arbitrary actions with tools. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(12), 4247-4259.
• January 2012 - Welcome to Dr. Michael Barnett-Cowan, who has joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Michael was previously a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute in Tuebingen and did his Ph.D. with Laurence Harris at York.
• January 2012 Recent Papers:
• Snow, J. C., Pettypiece, C., McAdam, T. D., McLean, A. D., Stroman, P. W., Goodale, M. A., & Culham, J. C. (2011). Bringing the real world into the fMRI scanner: Repetition effects for pictures versus real objects. Scientific Reports, 1, Article number 130.
• 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(47), 17149-17168.
• Gallivan, J. P., McLean, D. A., & Culham, J. C. (2011). Neuroimaging reveals enhanced activation in a reach-selective brain area for objects located within participants' typical hand workspaces. Neuropsychologia, 49, 3710-3721.
• Secen, J. Culham, J., Ho, C., & Giaschi, D. (2011). Neural correlates of the multiple-object tracking deficit in amblyopia. Vision Research, 51(23-24), 2517-2527.
• Wood, D. K., Gallivan, J. P., Chapman, C. S., Milne, J. L., Culham, J. C. & Goodale, M. A. (2011). Visual salience dominates early visuomotor competition in reaching behavior. Journal of Vision, 11 (10):16, 1-11. 
  
• December 2011 - Congratulations to Dr. Mark Daley, who successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis in Neuroscience.  Following his study leave to do the Master's, Mark resumed his position as Associate Professor in Computer Science.
• November 2011 - Welcome to Dr. Sara Fabbri, who joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow.  Sara did a Ph.D with Angelika Lingnau and Alfonso Caramazza at the University of Trento.
• September 2011 - Welcome to Scott Macdonald, a new Master's student in Neuroscience.  Scott did his bachelor's degree at Mount Allison with Dr. Genevieve Desmarais.
• August 2011 - Congratulations to Dr. Jason Gallivan, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in Neuroscience.  Jason will be doing a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Randy Flanagan at Queen's University.
• June 2011 Recent Papers:
• Gallivan, J. P., McLean, D. A., Valyear, K.F., Pettypiece, C. E., & Culham, J. C. (2011). Decoding action intentions from preparatory brain activity in human parieto-frontal networks. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(26), 9610-9599.
• Valyear, K. F., Chapman, C. S., Gallivan, J. P., Mark, R. S., & Culham, J. C. (2011). To use or to move: Goal set modulates priming when grasping real tools. Experimental Brain Research, 212, 125-142.
• Gallivan, J. P., Chapman, C. S., Wood, D. K., Milne, J. L., Ansari, D., Culham, J. C., & Goodale, M. A. (2011, published online). One to four, and nothing more: Non-conscious parallel object individuation in action. Psychological Science. Published online before print May 11, 2011, doi: 10.1177/0956797611408733
• Chapman, C. S., Gallivan, J. P., Culham, J. C. & Goodale, M. A. (2011). Mental blocks: fMRI reveals top-down modulation of early visual cortex when obstacles interfere with grasp planning. Neuropsychologia, 49, 1703-1717.
• June 2011 - Congratulations to former PhD student Ken Valyear for winning the Governor General’s Gold Medal for outstanding academic achievement by a graduate student (one of two such awards at UWO) and Collip Medal Award for outstanding PhD student graduating from a basic science program in the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry. Read the article in the Western News about Ken's award.