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Ron Mangun
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267 Cousteau Pl., Room 109
Dr. Mangun's work on the cognitive neuroscience of attention investigates how we perceive, attend, ignore and become aware of events in our environment. Recordings of event-related brain potentials (ERP) from healthy persons and special patient groups provide high temporal resolution measures of stimulus processing in the human brain. The goal of this research is to identify the mechanisms of attentional selection by permitting sensory analysis of attended and ignored stimuli to be studied under a wide variety of task circumstances. To identify the brain systems and circuits involved in various attentional processes (i.e., control and selection), tools such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are used in conjunction with ERP. fMRI permits the living human brain to be revealed to us as it functions to enable our sensations, thoughts and actions. The information obtained from these combined behavioral, neuropsychological and neurophysiological studies yields insight into the computational and functional neuroanatomical structure of human cognition, and is essential for addressing the deficits in attention and awareness that accompany neurological and psychiatric disease.
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| fMRI evidence for both generalized and specialized components of attentional control | April 13, 2008 |
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| Laboratory for the Neural Mechanisms of Attention | September 12, 2006 |
| Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience of Language | September 12, 2006 |
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| Laboratory for the Neural Mechanisms of Attention (Dr. Ron Mangun) | September 12, 2006 |
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| ERP header graphic | September 12, 2006 |
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| Dr. Mangun elected to International Neuropsychological Symposium | July 12, 2006 |
| Dr. Mangun receives a 2006-07 James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowship | October 12, 2006 |
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