Contact Information
Email
Lab Website
(615) 343-0901
066 Wilson Hall
Research Area
Education
B.A., Harvard/Radcliffe Colleges, 1984
Ph.D., M.I.T, 1991
Curriculum Vitae
Current Courses
- Visual System
- Neuroanatomy
Advising
- Gang Chen
(Post Doctoral Fellow) - Robert Friedman
(Post Doctoral Fellow) - Hisashi Tanigawa
(Post Doctoral Fellow) - Michele Cox
(Graduate Student) - Jonathan Cayce
(Graduate Student) - Reuben Fan
(Graduate Student) - Jeremy Winberry
(Graduate Student) - Zheng Wang
(Post Doctoral Fellow) - Xiang Ye
(Post Doctoral Fellow)
Societies
- Society for Neuroscience
- Women in Neuroscience
- Investigative Opthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Association for Advancement of Science
- Cognitive Neuroscience Society
- American Physiological Society
Anna W. Roe
Professor of Psychology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Roe studies the neuronal circuitry underlying visual and tactile perception in nonhuman primates. She uses high spatial resolution optical imaging and fMRI methods in combination with electrophysiological and anatomical methods to map networks of fundamental (100-200 um sized) cortical modules in the brain. By understanding how different networks of modules are activated by simple vs complex sensory stimuli and how attention modulates these patterns of activation, she aims to unravel modular circuitry underlying sensory behaviors.
Representative Publications
- 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, in press.
- 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 (COG)
- Assoc Editor, Neuroscience Letters
- German-American Frontiers of Science Organizer