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Dario L. Ringach, Ph.D.

Dario Ringach, Ph.D.

Biography

visual neurophysiology and perception

Our research focuses on visual perception and neurophysiology. In particular, we are interested in cortical dynamics, circuitry, function, and mathematical modeling of the visual system. The main methods in the laboratory include multi-electrode recordings from single neurons, as well as intrisic and voltage senstive dye imaging of visual cortex.

We also have an interest in developing novel technologies to record and stimulate from large neuronal populations for use in prostheses.

Felix E. Schweizer, Ph.D.

Felix Schweizer, Ph.D.

Biography

Felix E. Schweizer was born in Basel, Switzerland and conducted his graduate research in the laboratory of Prof. Max M. Burger under the direction of Dr. Theo Schafer. He received his PhD degree in biochemistry summa cum laude from the University of Basel in 1989. From 1990 to 1994, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University in the laboratory of Prof. Richard W. Tsien. From 1994 to 1998, he was postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurobiology at Duke University in the laboratory of Professor George J. Augustine. Dr. Schweizer joined the Department of Neurobiology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in 1998 as Assistant Professor and was promoted to Full Professor in 2010. Dr. Schweizer’s research interests concern the molecular mechanisms by which neurons communicate, the regulation of communication by neurons and how alterations in neuronal communication might contribute to neuronal diseases. The Schweizer laboratory uses electrophysiological and optical tools to investigate the dynamic molecular mechanisms underlying the regulation of neurotransmitter release. We are particularly interested in the role of protein ubiquitination in regulating neuronal excitability and synaptic transmission. In collaboration with Dr. James Wohlschlegel, we used multiplexed SILAC and identified synaptic proteins that are dynamically regulated. More recently, in collaboration with Dr. David Krantz, we are using pesticides linked to neuro-degenerative disorders as unbiased tools identify novel pathways that might be involved in early signs of degeneration. In addition, we are characterizing transmission at the first synapse of the vestibular system, i.e. between utricular sensory hair cells and primary afferent neurons. In collaboration with Dr. Larry Hoffman we are finding that changing the gravitational load alters synaptic structures. We are now using serial EM and EM tomography in addition to physiology and cell biology to define in more detail the transfer function between head-movement input and afferent nerve-firing output.

Jesse Rissman

Jesse Rissman, Ph.D.

Biography

 

Jesse Rissman joined the UCLA faculty in 2011 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University.

Publications

A selected list of publications:

Westphal Andrew J, Chow Tiffany E, Ngoy Corey, Zuo Xiaoye, Liao Vivian, Storozuk Laryssa A, Peters Megan A K, Wu Allan D, Rissman Jesse   Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to the Left Rostrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Selectively Improves Source Memory Retrieval Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2019; 31(9): 1380-1391.
Hennessee Joseph P, Reggente Nicco, Cohen Michael S, Rissman Jesse, Castel Alan D, Knowlton Barbara J   White matter integrity in brain structures supporting semantic processing is associated with value-directed remembering in older adults Neuropsychologia, 2019; 129(9): 246-254.
Bainbridge Wilma A, Rissman Jesse   Dissociating neural markers of stimulus memorability and subjective recognition during episodic retrieval Scientific reports, 2018; 8(1): 8679.
Reggente Nicco, Essoe Joey K-Y, Aghajan Zahra M, Tavakoli Amir V, McGuire Joseph F, Suthana Nanthia A, Rissman Jesse   Enhancing the Ecological Validity of fMRI Memory Research Using Virtual Reality Frontiers in neuroscience, 2018; 12(9): 408.
Reggente Nicco, Cohen Michael S, Zheng Zhong S, Castel Alan D, Knowlton Barbara J, Rissman Jesse   Memory Recall for High Reward Value Items Correlates With Individual Differences in White Matter Pathways Associated With Reward Processing and Fronto-Temporal Communication Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2018; 12(9): 241.
Brown Thackery I, Rissman Jesse, Chow Tiffany E, Uncapher Melina R, Wagner Anthony D   Differential Medial Temporal Lobe and Parietal Cortical Contributions to Real-world Autobiographical Episodic and Autobiographical Semantic Memory Scientific reports, 2018; 8(1): 6190.
Chow Tiffany E, Westphal Andrew J, Rissman Jesse   Multi-voxel pattern classification differentiates personally experienced event memories from secondhand event knowledge NeuroImage, 2018; 176(1): 110-123.
Reggente Nicco, Moody Teena D, Morfini Francesca, Sheen Courtney, Rissman Jesse, O’Neill Joseph, Feusner Jamie D   Multivariate resting-state functional connectivity predicts response to cognitive behavioral therapy in obsessive-compulsive disorder Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018; 115(9): 2222-2227.
Cohen Michael S, Rissman Jesse, Hovhannisyan Mariam, Castel Alan D, Knowlton Barbara J   Free recall test experience potentiates strategy-driven effects of value on memory Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, 2017; 43(10): 1581-1601.
Chow Tiffany E, Rissman Jesse   Neurocognitive mechanisms of real-world autobiographical memory retrieval: insights from studies using wearable camera technology Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2017; 1396(1): 202-221.
Treanor Michael, Brown Lily A, Rissman Jesse, Craske Michelle G   Can Memories of Traumatic Experiences or Addiction Be Erased or Modified? A Critical Review of Research on the Disruption of Memory Reconsolidation and Its Applications Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2017; 12(2): 290-305.
Westphal Andrew J, Wang Siliang, Rissman Jesse   Episodic Memory Retrieval Benefits from a Less Modular Brain Network Organization The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2017; 37(13): 3523-3531.
De Shetler Natalie G, Rissman Jesse   Dissociable profiles of generalization/discrimination in the human hippocampus during associative retrieval Hippocampus, 2017; 27(2): 115-121.
Rissman Jesse, Chow Tiffany E, Reggente Nicco, Wagner Anthony D   Decoding fMRI Signatures of Real-world Autobiographical Memory Retrieval Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2016; 28(4): 604-20.
Westphal Andrew J, Reggente Nicco, Ito Kaori L, Rissman Jesse   Shared and distinct contributions of rostrolateral prefrontal cortex to analogical reasoning and episodic memory retrieval Human brain mapping, 2016; 37(3): 896-912.
Cohen Michael S, Rissman Jesse, Suthana Nanthia A, Castel Alan D, Knowlton Barbara J   Effects of aging on value-directed modulation of semantic network activity during verbal learning NeuroImage, 2015; .
Uncapher Melina R, Boyd-Meredith J Tyler, Chow Tiffany E, Rissman Jesse, Wagner Anthony D   Goal-Directed Modulation of Neural Memory Patterns: Implications for fMRI-Based Memory Detection The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2015; 35(22): 8531-45.
Gordon Alan M, Rissman Jesse, Kiani Roozbeh, Wagner Anthony D   Cortical reinstatement mediates the relationship between content-specific encoding activity and subsequent recollection decisions Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2014; 24(12): 3350-64.
Waskom Michael L, Kumaran Dharshan, Gordon Alan M, Rissman Jesse, Wagner Anthony D   Frontoparietal representations of task context support the flexible control of goal-directed cognition The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2014; 34(32): 10743-55.
Cohen Michael S, Rissman Jesse, Suthana Nanthia A, Castel Alan D, Knowlton Barbara J   Value-based modulation of memory encoding involves strategic engagement of fronto-temporal semantic processing regions Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2014; 14(2): 578-92.
Kuhl Brice A, Rissman Jesse, Wagner Anthony D   Multi-voxel patterns of visual category representation during episodic encoding are predictive of subsequent memory Neuropsychologia, 2012; 50(4): 458-69.
Rissman Jesse, Wagner Anthony D   Distributed Representations in Memory: Insights from Functional Brain Imaging Annual review of psychology, 2012; 108(14): .
Kuhl Brice A, Rissman Jesse, Chun Marvin M, Wagner Anthony D   Fidelity of neural reactivation reveals competition between memories Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011; 108(14): 5903-8.
Rissman Jesse, Greely Henry T, Wagner Anthony D   Detecting individual memories through the neural decoding of memory states and past experience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010; 107(21): 9849-54.
Carr Valerie A, Rissman Jesse, Wagner Anthony D   Imaging the human medial temporal lobe with high-resolution fMRI Neuron, 2010; 65(3): 298-308.
Rissman Jesse, Gazzaley Adam, D’Esposito Mark   The effect of non-visual working memory load on top-down modulation of visual processing Neuropsychologia, 2009; 47(7): 1637-46.
Rissman Jesse, Gazzaley Adam, D’Esposito Mark   Dynamic adjustments in prefrontal, hippocampal, and inferior temporal interactions with increasing visual working memory load Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2008; 18(7): 1618-29.
Gazzaley Adam, Rissman Jesse, Cooney Jeffrey, Rutman Aaron, Seibert Tyler, Clapp Wesley, D’Esposito Mark   Functional interactions between prefrontal and visual association cortex contribute to top-down modulation of visual processing Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2007; 17 Suppl 1(7): i125-35.
Fiebach Christian J, Rissman Jesse, D’Esposito Mark   Modulation of inferotemporal cortex activation during verbal working memory maintenance Neuron, 2006; 51(2): 251-61.
Gazzaley Adam, Cooney Jeffrey W, Rissman Jesse, D’Esposito Mark   Top-down suppression deficit underlies working memory impairment in normal aging Nature neuroscience, 2005; 8(10): 1298-300.
Blumstein Sheila E, Myers Emily B, Rissman Jesse   The perception of voice onset time: an fMRI investigation of phonetic category structure Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2005; 17(9): 1353-66.
Ranganath Charan, Heller Aaron, Cohen Michael X, Brozinsky Craig J, Rissman Jesse   Functional connectivity with the hippocampus during successful memory formation Hippocampus, 2005; 15(8): 997-1005.
Misiurski Cara, Blumstein Sheila E, Rissman Jesse, Berman Daniel   The role of lexical competition and acoustic-phonetic structure in lexical processing: evidence from normal subjects and aphasic patients Brain and language, 2005; 93(1): 64-78.
Gazzaley Adam, Rissman Jesse, D’Esposito Mark   Functional connectivity during working memory maintenance Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2004; 4(4): 580-99.
Rissman Jesse, Gazzaley Adam, D’Esposito Mark   Measuring functional connectivity during distinct stages of a cognitive task NeuroImage, 2004; 23(2): 752-63.
Rissman Jesse, Eliassen James C, Blumstein Sheila E   An event-related FMRI investigation of implicit semantic priming Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2003; 15(8): 1160-75.
Ladan Shams, Ph.D.

Ladan Shams, Ph.D.

Publications

A selected list of publications:

Watkins, S, Shams, L, Tanaka, S, et al.   Sound alters activity in human V1 in association with illusory visual perception, NeuroImage , 2006; .
Shams, L, Iwaki, S, Chawla, A, et al.   Early modulation of visual cortex by sound: an MEG study, Neuroscience letters, 2005; 378(2): 76-81.
Shams, L, Ma, WJ, & Beierholm, U.   Sound-induced flash illusion as an optimal percept, Neuroreport, , 2005; 16(17): 1923-7.
Violentyev, A, Shimojo, S, & Shams, L.   Touch-induced visual illusion, Neuroreport, 2005; 16(10): 1107-10.
Shams, L., & von der Malsburg, C.   Acquisition of visual shape primitives, Vision Research, 2002; Vol. 42 (17): 2105-2122.
Shams, L.   Integration in the brain: The subconscious alteration of visual perception by cross-modal integration, Science & Consciousness Review, 2002; October(No. 1 ): .
Bhattacharya, J., Shams, L., S. & Shimojo, S.   Sound-induced illusory flash perception: Role of Gamma band responses, NeuroReport, 2002; Vol. 13: 1727-1730.
Shams, L. & von der Malsburg, C.   The role of complex cells in object recognition, Vision Research, 2002; Vol. 42 (22): 2547-2554.
Shams, L., Kamitani, Y., & Shimojo, S.   Visual illusion induced by sound, Cognitive Brain Research, 2002; Vol. 14: 147-152.
Shams, L., Brady, M. & Schaal, S.   Graph-matching vs. entropy-based methods for object detection, Neural Networks, 2001; 14: 345-354.
Shimojo, S., & Shams, L.   Sensory modalities are not separate modalities: plasticity and interactions, Current Opinion In Neurobiology, 2001; Vol. 11 (114): 505-509.
Shams, L., Kamitani, Y., Thompson, S. & Shimojo, S.   Sound alters visual evoked potentials in humans, NeuroReport, 2001; Vol. 12 (17): 3849-3852.
Shimojo, S., Scheier, C., Shams, L., & Watanabe, K.   Vision beyond visual modality: Auditory effects on visual perception, Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan, Special Issue on Hearing and the Brain, 2001; Vol. 22 (2): .
Shams, L., Kamitani, Y., & Shimojo, S.   What you see is what you hear, Nature, 2000; Vol. 408: 788.
Shams, L., & von der Malsburg, C.   Are Object Shape Primitives Learnable? , NeuroComputing, 1999; Vol. 26-27: 855-863.
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