 Lucia M. Vaina, D.SC., M.D., PH.D.
| Title | Lecturer on Neurology |
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| Institution | Brigham and Women's Hospital |
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| Department | Neurology |
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| Address | Brigham and Women's Hospital
Neurology
75 Francis St
Boston MA 02115
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| Phone | 617/353-2455 |
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| Fax | 617/353-6766 |
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 Biography | 2000 -
| Millenium Professor | | 2003 -
2006 | Rientro dei cervelli Award | | 2004 -
| Doctor Honoris Causa | | 2005 -
| elected Fellow to American Institute of Medicine and Biological Sciences | | 2006 -
| Habilitation |
Mentoring Available: 11/01/11, Expires: 12/20/15 In order to understand pathological states after stroke, the projects involves using fMRI data, both from rest states and from quantitative computerized psychophysical tasks, to determine changes in functional brain networks in patients compared with healthy subjects. Students will learn fMRI data analysis (Free Surfer), and models of brain connectivity analysis and graph theory concepts that are used to quantitatively characterize the human connectome at the behavioral level. The projects may be done as a mini-project, in a few months, or as a full projects over a few years.
The project can be split into 3-4 related sub-projects to be carried out by multiple students. All projects are carried out at MGH-Neurology Department and the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, under the supervision of Drs. Lucia-Maria Vaina and Ferdinando Buonanno.
Prerequisites (desired but not obligatory): Matlab, fluent in basic statistics and signal processing, good with computers, good knowledge of human brain anatomy. But most important, energy and enthusiasm!
http://www.massgeneral.org/neurology/research/researchlab.aspx?id=1451 Bibliographic
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Calabro FJ, Vaina LM. Interaction of cortical networks mediating object motion detection by moving observers. Exp Brain Res. 2012 Aug; 221(2):177-89.
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Vaina LM, Chubb C. Dissociation of first- and second-order motion systems by perceptual learning. Atten Percept Psychophys. 2012 Jul; 74(5):1009-19.
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Calabro FJ, Beardsley SA, Vaina LM. Different motion cues are used to estimate time-to-arrival for frontoparallel and looming trajectories. Vision Res. 2011 Dec 8; 51(23-24):2378-85.
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Beardsley SA, Sikoglu EM, Hecht H, Vaina LM. Global flow impacts time-to-passage judgments based on local motion cues. Vision Res. 2011 Aug 15; 51(16):1880-7.
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Vaina LM, Dumoulin SO. Neuropsychological evidence for three distinct motion mechanisms. Neurosci Lett. 2011 May 16; 495(2):102-6.
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Calabro FJ, Rana KD, Vaina LM. Two mechanisms for optic flow and scale change processing of looming. J Vis. 2011; 11(3).
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Calabro FJ, Soto-Faraco S, Vaina LM. Acoustic facilitation of object movement detection during self-motion. Proc Biol Sci. 2011 Sep 22; 278(1719):2840-7.
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Rana KD, Caldwell B, Vaina LM. A method for selecting an efficient diagnostic protocol for classification of perceptive and cognitive impairments in neurological patients. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011; 2011:1129-32.
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Wagenaar RC, Sapir I, Zhang Y, Markovic S, Vaina LM, Little TD. Continuous monitoring of functional activities using wearable, wireless gyroscope and accelerometer technology. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011; 2011:4844-7.
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Calabro FJ, Vaina LM. A computerized perimeter for assessing modality-specific visual field loss. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011; 2011:2025-8.
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Calabro FJ, Vaina LM. Population anisotropy in area MT explains a perceptual difference between near and far disparity motion segmentation. J Neurophysiol. 2011 Jan; 105(1):200-8.
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Sikoglu EM, Calabro FJ, Beardsley SA, Vaina LM. Integration mechanisms for heading perception. Seeing Perceiving. 2010; 23(3):197-221.
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Vaina LM, Sikoglu EM, Soloviev S, LeMay M, Squatrito S, Pandiani G, Cowey A. Functional and anatomical profile of visual motion impairments in stroke patients correlate with fMRI in normal subjects. J Neuropsychol. 2010 Sep; 4(Pt 2):121-45.
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Goldenholz DM, Ahlfors SP, Hämäläinen MS, Sharon D, Ishitobi M, Vaina LM, Stufflebeam SM. Mapping the signal-to-noise-ratios of cortical sources in magnetoencephalography and electroencephalography. Hum Brain Mapp. 2009 Apr; 30(4):1077-86.
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Beardsley SA, Vaina LM. An effect of relative motion on trajectory discrimination. Vision Res. 2008 Mar; 48(8):1040-52.
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Cowey A, Campana G, Walsh V, Vaina LM. The role of human extra-striate visual areas V5/MT and V2/V3 in the perception of the direction of global motion: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Exp Brain Res. 2006 Jun; 171(4):558-62.
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Beardsley SA, Vaina LM. Global motion mechanisms compensate local motion deficits in a patient with a bilateral occipital lobe lesion. Exp Brain Res. 2006 Sep; 173(4):724-32.
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Calabro FJ, Vaina LM. Stereo motion transparency processing implements an ecological smoothness constraint. Perception. 2006; 35(9):1219-32.
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Michels L, Lappe M, Vaina LM. Visual areas involved in the perception of human movement from dynamic form analysis. Neuroreport. 2005 Jul 13; 16(10):1037-41.
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Vaina LM, Cowey A, Jakab M, Kikinis R. Deficits of motion integration and segregation in patients with unilateral extrastriate lesions. Brain. 2005 Sep; 128(Pt 9):2134-45.
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Beardsley SA, Vaina LM. Psychophysical evidence for a radial motion bias in complex motion discrimination. Vision Res. 2005 Jun; 45(12):1569-86.
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Beardsley SA, Vaina LM. How can a patient blind to radial motion discriminate shifts in the center-of-motion? J Comput Neurosci. 2005 Jan-Feb; 18(1):55-66.
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Vaina LM, Gross CG. Perceptual deficits in patients with impaired recognition of biological motion after temporal lobe lesions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Nov 30; 101(48):16947-51.
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Royden CS, Vaina LM. Is precise discrimination of low level motion needed for heading discrimination? Neuroreport. 2004 Apr 29; 15(6):1013-7.
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Vaina, Lucia M, Beardsley, s,, Rushton, S
. Cognition. Optic Flow and Beyond. 2004; 507.
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Vaina LM, Soloviev S. First-order and second-order motion: neurological evidence for neuroanatomically distinct systems. Prog Brain Res. 2004; 144:197-212.
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Beardsley SA, Ward RL, Vaina LM. A neural network model of spiral-planar motion tuning in MSTd. Vision Res. 2003 Mar; 43(5):577-95.
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Vaina LM, Gryzwacz NM, Saiviroonporn P, LeMay M, Bienfang DC, Cowey A. Can spatial and temporal motion integration compensate for deficits in local motion mechanisms? Neuropsychologia. 2003; 41(13):1817-36.
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Vaina LM, Cowey A, LeMay M, Bienfang DC, Kikinis R. Visual deficits in a patient with 'kaleidoscopic disintegration of the visual world'. Eur J Neurol. 2002 Sep; 9(5):463-77.
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Vaina LM, Solomon J, Chowdhury S, Sinha P, Belliveau JW. Functional neuroanatomy of biological motion perception in humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Sep 25; 98(20):11656-61.
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Beardsley SA, Vaina LM. A laterally interconnected neural architecture in MST accounts for psychophysical discrimination of complex motion patterns. J Comput Neurosci. 2001 May-Jun; 10(3):255-80.
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Vaina LM, Cowey A, Eskew RT, LeMay M, Kemper T. Regional cerebral correlates of global motion perception: evidence from unilateral cerebral brain damage. Brain. 2001 Feb; 124(Pt 2):310-21.
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Vaina LM, Soloviev S, Bienfang DC, Cowey A. A lesion of cortical area V2 selectively impairs the perception of the direction of first-order visual motion. Neuroreport. 2000 Apr 7; 11(5):1039-44.
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Vaina LM, Rushton SK. What neurological patients tell us about the use of optic flow. Int Rev Neurobiol. 2000; 44:293-313.
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Cowey A, Vaina LM. Blindness to form from motion despite intact static form perception and motion detection. Neuropsychologia. 2000; 38(5):566-78.
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Clifford CW, Vaina LM. Anomalous perception of coherence and transparency in moving plaid patterns. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res. 1999 Oct 25; 8(3):345-53.
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Clifford CW, Beardsley SA, Vaina LM. The perception and discrimination of speed in complex motion. Vision Res. 1999 Jun; 39(13):2213-27.
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Vaina LM, Cowey A, Kennedy D. Perception of first- and second-order motion: separable neurological mechanisms? Hum Brain Mapp. 1999; 7(1):67-77.
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Clifford CW, Vaina LM. A computational model of selective deficits in first and second-order motion processing. Vision Res. 1999 Jan; 39(1):113-30.
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Beardsley SA, Vaina LM. Computational modelling of optic flow selectivity in MSTd neurons. Network. 1998 Nov; 9(4):467-93.
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Vaina LM, Belliveau JW, des Roziers EB, Zeffiro TA. Neural systems underlying learning and representation of global motion. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 Oct 13; 95(21):12657-62.
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Vaina LM. Complex motion perception and its deficits. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 1998 Aug; 8(4):494-502.
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Burr DC, Morrone MC, Vaina LM. Large receptive fields for optic flow detection in humans. Vision Res. 1998 Jun; 38(12):1731-43.
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Clifford CW, Freedman JN, Vaina LM. First- and second-order motion perception in Gabor micropattern stimuli: psychophysics and computational modelling. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res. 1998 Apr; 6(4):263-71.
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Liu Z, Vaina LM. Simultaneous learning of motion discrimination in two directions. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res. 1998 Apr; 6(4):347-9.
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Vaina LM, Makris N, Kennedy D, Cowey A. The selective impairment of the perception of first-order motion by unilateral cortical brain damage. Vis Neurosci. 1998 Mar-Apr; 15(2):333-48.
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Vaina LM, Cowey A. Impairment of the perception of second order motion but not first order motion in a patient with unilateral focal brain damage. Proc Biol Sci. 1996 Sep 22; 263(1374):1225-32.
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Sundareswaran V, Vaina LM. Adaptive computational models of fast learning of motion direction discrimination. Biol Cybern. 1996 Apr; 74(4):319-29.
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Morrone MC, Burr DC, Vaina LM. Two stages of visual processing for radial and circular motion. Nature. 1995 Aug 10; 376(6540):507-9.
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Vaina LM, Sundareswaran V, Harris JG. Learning to ignore: psychophysics and computational modeling of fast learning of direction in noisy motion stimuli. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res. 1995 Jul; 2(3):155-63.
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Vaina LM, Grzywacz NM, Kikinis R. Segregation of computations underlying perception of motion discontinuity and coherence. Neuroreport. 1994 Nov 21; 5(17):2289-94.
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Vaina LM. Functional segregation of color and motion processing in the human visual cortex: clinical evidence. Cereb Cortex. 1994 Sep-Oct; 4(5):555-72.
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Vaina LM, Lemay M, Bienfang DC, Choi AY, Nakayama K. Intact "biological motion" and "structure from motion" perception in a patient with impaired motion mechanisms: a case study. Vis Neurosci. 1990 Oct; 5(4):353-69.
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Vaina LM, Zlateva SD. The largest convex patches: a boundary-based method for obtaining object parts. Biol Cybern. 1990; 62(3):225-36.
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Vaina LM. Selective impairment of visual motion interpretation following lesions of the right occipito-parietal area in humans. Biol Cybern. 1989; 61(5):347-59.
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Vaina L, Bennour Y. A computational approach to visual recognition of arm movements. Percept Mot Skills. 1985 Feb; 60(1):203-28.
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Marr D, Vaina L. Representation and recognition of the movements of shapes. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 1982 Mar 22; 214(1197):501-24.
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