MAPlab Memory, Action and Perception Laboratory
Understanding the brain mechanisms by which our mental events are transformed into action remains one of the most significant and exciting challenges facing modern neuroscience. This transformation allows us the ability to interact with other individuals and objects in our surrounding environment, travel from point A to point B (walking, running, driving) and, through the hands of the most gifted artists and musicians, the ability to captivate the world. Thus, elucidating the cognitive underpinnings and neural circuits that drive our complex, goal-oriented behaviors is an important endeavor.
Our lab uses a combination of tools including behavioral measurements, functional and structural brain imaging (fMRI and MRI) and neuromodulation techniques to explore the cognitive and neural bases of a variety of processes—decision-making, perception, memory and learning—that govern the control of action. The results of our research will have applications in the study of injury and disease states that affect the mind and body.
Most recent publications from the lab
Reconfigurations of cortical manifold structure during reward-based motor learning
Elife
Zhu, T., Gallivan, J.P., Wolpert, D.M. & Flanagan, J.R.
PLoS Computational Biology
Grasping with a twist: Dissociating action goals from motor actions in human frontoparietal circuits
Rens, G., Figley, T.D., Gallivan, J.P., Liu, Y. & Culham, J.C.
Journal of Neuroscience
Moskowitz, J.B., Fooken, J., Castelhano, M.S., Gallivan, J.P. & Flanagan, J.R.
Journal of Vision
Gale, D.J., Areshenkoff, C.N., Standage, D.P., Nashed, J.Y., Markello, R.D., Flanagan, J.R., Smallwood, J. & Gallivan, J.P.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Nashed, J.Y., Shearer, K.T., Wang, J.Z., Chen, Y., Cook, E.E., Champagne, A.A., Coverdale, N.S., Fernandez-Ruiz, J., Striver, S.I., Gallivan, J.P & Cook, D.J.
Translational Stroke Research
The influence of movement-related costs when searching to act and acting to search.
Moskowitz, J.B., Berger, S.A., Fooken, J., Castelhano, M.S., Gallivan, J.P. & Flanagan, J.R.
Journal of Neurophysiology
Whole-brain dynamics of human sensorimotor adaptation.
Standage, D.I., Areshenkoff, C.N., Gale, D.J., Nashed, J.Y., Flanagan, J.R. & Gallivan, J.P.
Cerebral Cortex
Areshenkoff, C.A., Gale, D.J., Standage, D., Nashed, J.Y., Flanagan, J.R., & Gallivan, J.P.
eLife
Human variation in error-based and reinforcement motor learning is associated with entorhinal volume
de Brouwer, A. J., Areshenkoff, C.A., Rashid, M.R., Flanagan, J.R., Poppenk, J.P. & Gallivan, J.P.
Cerebral Cortex
Human somatosensory cortex is modulated during motor planning
Gale, D.J., Flanagan, J.R. & Gallivan, J.P.
The Journal of Neuroscience
Muting, not fragmentation, of functional brain networks under general anesthesia
Areshenkoff, C.A., Nashed, J.Y., Hutchison, R.M., Hutchison, M., Levy, R., Cook, D.J., Menon, R.S., Everling, S. & Gallivan, J.P.
Neuroimage
Wiskpinski, N.J., Stone, S.A., Bertrand, J.K., Zuk, A.A., Lavoie, E. B., Gallivan, J.P. & Chapman, C.S.
Cortex
Motor planning modulates neural activity patterns in early human auditory cortex
Gale, D.J., Areshenkoff, C.A., Honda, C., Johnsrude, I. S., Flanagan, J.R. & Gallivan, J.P.
Cerebral Cortex
Motor memories in manipulation tasks are linked to contact goals between objects
McGarity-Shipley, M., Heald, J., Ingram, J., Gallivan, J.P., Wolpert, D.M., & Flanagan, JR.
The Journal of Neurophysiology
Standage, D., Areshenkoff, C.N., Nashed, J.Y., Hutchison, R.M., Hutchison, M., Heinke, D., Menon, R.S., Everling, S., & Gallivan, J.P.
Cerebral Cortex
Contact Us
Principal Investigator
Centre for Neuroscience Studies
Departments of Psychology &
Biomedical and Molecular Sciences
Kingston, Ontario
K7L 3N6
Email: gallivan@queensu.ca