Contact:

Phone:510-642-3134
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Education:

B.S. (2008) Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. (Expected 2013) Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley.

Research interests:

I am working jointly in the D'Esposito and Silver laboratories as a graduate student in the neuroscience program at UC Berkeley. I am broadly interested in understanding how brain areas communicate during top-down processing to manipulate bottom-up input. In particular, I will be exploring the mechanisms by which networks in the brain can alter visual perception, depending on task goals and context. An initial project will use fMRI to investigate the phenomenon of decreased spatial spread of activity in visual cortex with attention

Publications:

Gratton, C., Evans, K. M., Federmeier, K. D. (2009). See what I mean? An ERP study of the effect of background knowledge on novel object processing. Memory and Cognition. 37, 277-291

Li, L., Gratton, C., Yao, D., Knight, R. T. (submitted). Role of Frontal and Parietal Cortices in the Control of Bottom-up and Top-down Attention: an ERP Study.

Li, L., Gratton, C., Yao, D., Knight, R. T. (in preparation). Control of Bottom-up and Top-down Attention in Aging: an ERP Study.