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The U of M Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab is located in the University of Michigan Department of Psychology and is supervised by Dr. Thad Polk. Our lab is currently pursuing two main programs of research. First, we are studying whether certain acquired skills (reading, second language processing...) depend on specialized brain areas and if so, how that specialization occurs. If such non-innate functions are indeed processed in segregated neural tissue it would suggest that environmental factors can lead to qualitative changes in brain organization. We are using behavioral, computational, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging (functional MRI) techniques in order to investigate these issues in the context of reading, bilingualism, and number processing. Our second program of research involves developing theories of cognitive processes (e.g., working memory, executive control, similarity judgment) that are inspired by neural function and that are sufficiently explicit to implement in artificial neural networks. We are now planning ways to test these ideas in normal controls, in elderly subjects, and in brain-damaged patients using fMRI and behavioral experiments.
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