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Russell A. Poldrack, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and Neurobiology
Director of the Imaging Research Center
VITA
Email: poldrack@mail.utexas.edu
Office Phone: (512) 850-6189
Office: SEA 5.238/NMS 5.312
Lab: NMS 5.316
Poldrack Lab
See also Imaging Research Center, Cognitive Psychology
Dr. Poldrack plans to accept a graduate student into his lab in the fall of 2010.
Russ Poldrack received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and did postdoctoral research in cognitive neuroscience at Stanford. He has previously held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School and UCLA. Dr. Poldrack's primary research interests are in the cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory, decision making, and executive function, using neuroimaging as the primary method to examine these questions. His recent work has focused on the neural systems that support flexible and rapid inhibition of ongoing behavior, and their role in adaptive behavior and decision making. Dr. Poldrack is also heavily involved in the development of informatics tools to support the mapping of cognitive function to neural systems, primarily through the Cognitive Atlas project.
Another recent interest is in the application of statistical learning and network analysis methods to the analysis of fMRI data and the prediction of behavior from neuroimaging signals. Finally, Dr. Poldrack is deeply interested in conceptual issues regarding the role of neuroimaging in cognitive neuroscience and the kinds of inferences that neuroimaging data can support.
Selected Representative Publications:
Poldrack, R.A., Halchenko, Y., & Hanson,S.J., (2009). Decoding the large-scale structure of brain function by classifying mental states across individuals. Psychological Science, in press.
Xue G, Aron AR, & Poldrack RA. (2008). Common Neural Substrates for Inhibition of Spoken and Manual Responses. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 1923-1932.
Aron, A.R., Behrens, T.E., Frank, M., Smith, S., & Poldrack, R.A. (2007). Triangulating a Cognitive Control Network using Diffusion-weighted MRIand Functional MRI. Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 3743-52.
Tom S.M.,Fox C.R.,Trepel C.,Poldrack R.A. (2007). The neural basis of loss aversion in decision making under risk, Science, 315, 515-8.
Poldrack, R.A. (2006). Can cognitive processes be inferred from neuroimaging data? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 59-63
