Representative Publications

• Negyessy L, Palfi E, Ashaber M, Palmer C, Balazs J, Friedman RM, Chen LM, Roe AW (2013) Intrinsic horizontal connections process global haptic features in the primary somatosensory cortex: neuroanatomical evidence  J Comp Neurol, in press.
• Lustig B, Winberry J, Friedman R, Giber K, Roe AW (2013) "Characterization of single and dual whisker response in rat Barrel Cortex using Voltage Sensitive Dye Imaging". J Neurophysiol, doi:10.1152/jn.00430.2012, in press. [PMID: 23390314]
• Rasch MJ, Chen M, Wu S, Lu HD, Roe AW (2012) Filtering model quantitatively predicts optical imaging maps in V1 and V2 to coherent dot motion. J Neurophysiol, doi:10.1152/jn.00673.2012, in press. [PMID: 23197457]
• Chen GC, Wang F, Gore, JC, Roe AW (2012) Layer-specific BOLD activation in V1 revealed by ultra-high spatial resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging in awake monkeys. Neuroimage, 64:147-155. [PMID 22960152].
• Fan RH, Baldwin MKL, Jermakowicz WJ, Casagrande VA, Kaas JH, Roe AW (2012) Intrinsic signal optical imaging evidence for dorsal V3 in the prosimian galago (Otolemur garnetti). J Comp Neurol, 520(18):4254-74. doi: 10.1002/cne.23154. [PMID 22628051] NIHMSID 448275
• Roe AW, Chelazzi L, Connor CE, Conway BR, Fujita I, Gallant J, Lu H, Vanduffel W (2012) Towards a unified theory of visual area V4. Neuron, 74(2):12-29. [PMID: 22500626][PMC2376798]
• Chen G, Wang F, Dillenburger CD, Friedman RM, Chen LM, Gore, JC, Avison MJ,  Roe AW (2012) Magnetic resonance imaging in awake monkeys: methods of improving imaging quality. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 30(1):36-47. [PMID: 22055855]
• Chen G, Wang F, Gore, JC, Roe AW (2012) Identification of cortical lamination in awake  monkeys by high resolution magnetic resonance imaging. Neuroimage. 59(4):3441-9. [PMID: 2208015][PMC3288753]
• Wang Z, Roe AW (2011) Columnar specificity of microvascular oxygenation and blood flow response in primary visual cortex: evaluation by local field potential and spiking activity. J Cereb Blood Flow & Metab. 32(1):6-16 [PMID: 22027939][ PMC3323306]
• Stepniewska I*, Friedman RM*, Gharbawie OA, Cerkevich CM, Roe AW and Kaas JH (2011) Activation patterns in motor cortex revealed by optical imaging during intracortical microstimulation of posterior parietal cortical sites that evoke complex movements, Proc National Acad Sci, 108(37):E725-E732. [PMID: 21873212]
• Friedman RM, Dillenburger BC, Wang F, Avison MJ, Gore JC, Roe AW, Chen LM (2011) Methods for fine scale functional imaging of tactile motion in  human and nonhuman primates. Open Neuroimaging Journal, 5:160-71. [PMID: 22253658]
• Cayce J, Friedman RM, Jansen D, Mahavaden-Jansen A, Roe AW (2011) Pulsed infrared light alters neural activity in rat somatosensory cortex in vivo. Neuroimage, 57(1):155-66. [PMID: 21513806]
• Wang Z, Roe AW (2011) Trial-to-trial noise cancellation of cortical field potentials in awake macaques by autoregression model with exogenous input (ARX). J Neurosci Methods, 194(2):266-73. [PMID: 21074560]
• Mahadevan-Jansen A, Cayce JM, Friedman R, Roe AW, Konrad PE, Hillman E, Jansen E. (2010) Imaging optically induced neural activity in the brain. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 1:3379-81. [PMID: 21097240]
• Tanigawa H, Lu HD, Roe AW (2010) Functional organization for color and orientation in macaque V4. Nature Neurosci, 13(12):1542-8. [PMID: 21076422][ PMC3005205]
• Lu HD, Chen GC, Tanigawa H, Roe AW (2010) A motion direction map in Macaque V2, Neuron, 68(5):1002-1013. [video link: http://www.cell.com/neuron/videos] [PMID: 21145011][ PMC3391546]
• Hung CP, Ramsden BM, Roe AW (2010) Inherent biases in spontaneous cortical dynamics. Neuronal Variability and Its Functional Significance (Ding M, Glanzman HD, eds). Oxford Univ Press.
• Kaskan PM, Dillenburger BC, Lu HD, Roe AW, Kaas JH (2010) Orientation and direction-of-motion response in the middle temporal visual area (MT) of New World owl monkeys as revealed by intrinsic-signal optical, Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 4:23, pp 1-12.
• Dillenburger BC, Roe AW (2010) Influence of parallel and orthogonal real lines on illusory contour perception. J Neurophysiol, 103:55-64.
• Chen LM, Friedman RM, Roe AW (2009) Optical imaging of digit topography in individual awake and anesthetized squirrel monkeys. Exp Brain Res, 196:393-401.
• Chen LM, Friedman RM, Roe AW (2009) Area-specific representation of mechanical nociceptive stimuli within SI cortex of squirrel monkeys. Pain, 141(3):258-68.
• Lu HD*, Chen G*, Ts'o DY, Roe AW (2009) A rapid topographic mapping and eye alignment method using optical imaging in Macaque visual cortex. Neuroimage, 44:636-46. *equal contributions.
• Kaskan PM, Lu HD, Dillenburger BC, Kaas JH, Roe AW (2008) The organization of orientation-selective, luminance-change and binocular-preference domains in the second (V2) and third (V3) visual areas of New World owl monkeys as revealed by intrinsic-signal optical imaging. Cereb Cortex, 19(6):1394-407.
• Friedman RM, Chen LM, Roe AW (2008) Responses of areas 3b and 1 in anesthetized squirrel monkeys to single and dual site stimulation of the digits. J Neurophysiol, 100(6):3185-96.
• Chen G, Lu HD, Roe AW (2008) A map of horizontal disparity in primate V2. Neuron, 58:442-450.
• Roe AW, Parker AJ, Born RT, DeAngelis GC (2007) Disparity channels in early vision: a mini-review. J Neurosci, 27:11820-11831. Cover figure.
• Kaskan PM, Lu HD, Dillenburger BD, Roe AW, Kaas JH (2007) Intrinsic-signal optical imaging reveals cryptic ocular dominance columns in primary visual cortex of New World owl monkeys. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 1:67-75.
• Chen LM, Turner G, Friedman RM, Gore JC, Roe AW, Avison MJ (2007) High resolution maps of real and illusory tactile activation in SI: intra-individual correlation with fMRI, optical imaging and electrophysiology. J Neurosci, 27(34):9181-9191.
• Hung CP, Ramsden RM, Roe AW (2007) A functional circuitry for edge-induced brightness perception. Nature Neurosci, 10:1185-1190.
• Lu HD, Roe AW (2008) Functional organization of color domains in V1 and V2 of Macaque monkey revealed by optical imaging. Cerebral Cortex, 18(3):516-33. Cover figure.
• Lu HD, Roe AW (2007) Optical imaging of contrast response in Macaque monkey V1 & V2. Cerebral Cortex 17(11):2675-95.
• Roe AW (2007) Long-term optical imaging of intrinsic signals in anesthetized and awake monkeys. Applied Optics 46:1872-1880.
• Chen LM, Friedman RM, Roe AW (2005) Optical imaging of SI topography in anesthetized and awake squirrel monkey. J Neurosci 25: 7648-7659. Cover figure.
• Roe AW, Lu H, Hung CP (2005) Cortical processing of a brightness illusion. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102:3869-3874.
• Friedman RM, Chen LM, Roe AW (2004) Modality maps within primate somatosensory cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101:12724-12729.
• Chen LM, Friedman RM, Roe AW (2003) Optical imaging of a tactile illusion in Area 3b of primary somatosensory cortex. Science 302:881-885.
• SOME REVIEW ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
• Roe AW (2009) Imaging the Brain with Optical Methods (Roe AW, ed). Springer, New York.
• Roe AW (2009) Imaging working memory in prefrontal cortex of macaque monkeys. Imaging the Brain with Optical Methods (Roe AW, ed). Springer, New York.
• Roe AW, Lu HD, Chen G (2008) Visual System: Functional architecture of Area V2. The Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (Squire L, ed.), Vol 10, pp. 331-349. Elsevier, Oxford, UK.
• Roe AW (2003) Modular complexity of Area V2 in the Macaque monkey. In The Primate Visual System (Collins C, Kaas J, eds.). CRC Press, New York NY, pp 109-138.
• Roe AW, Ts'o DY (1997) The functional architecture of Area V2 in the Macaque monkey. In Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 12: Extrastriate Cortex in Primates (Rockland K, Kaas JH, Peters A, eds.). Plenum Press, New York, pp. 295-333.

Honors

• Whitaker Fellow
• Whitehall Fellow
• Sloan Fellow
• Packard Foundation Fellow
• NIH study section (SMI)
• Assoc Editor, Neuroscience Letters
• German-American Frontiers of Science Organizer