Harvard Catalyst Profiles

This project seeks to develop and validate a movie functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigm for assessing language and emotion functions in individuals who have language and/or emotional impairments in relation to a neurological (brain tumor induced aphasia) or psychiatric (depression) disorder. This is an opportunity for an undergraduate or graduate student, or postdoctoral fellow, to get involved in cognitive neuroscience research. Depending on the student's skills and interests, and the stage of the project, the student may assist in developing a movie-clip stimulus database, behavioral and computational testing of movie clip stimuli, collection and analysis of eye tracking data, processing and analysis of retrospective fMRI data, and/or collection of new fMRI data. Required experience and skills include background and interest in cognitive, clinical, or computational neuroscience, and excellent analytical and communication abilities. Specific experience with neuroimaging data analysis, and/or methods for computational analysis of speech, voice, and face data, will be preferred.