Faculty Advisor
Faculty Advisor
Contact Information
Email
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(615) 322-5595
516 Wilson Hall
Research Area
Education
B.A., Miami University, 2007
Curriculum Vitae
Braden Purcell
Graduate Student
Research Area: Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
I use computational modeling and single-unit recordings in non-human primates to study neural mechanisms of visual attention and decision making.
Representative Publications
Purcell, B.A., Weigand, P.K., Schall, J.D. (submitted) Supplementary eye field during visual search: absence of salience and cognitive control.
Reinhart, R.M.G., Heitz, R.P., Purcell, B.A., Weigand, P.K., Schall, J.D., Woodman, G.F. (submitted) Homologous mechanisms of visuospatial working memory maintenance in macaque and human: Properties and sources.
Purcell, B.A., Schall, J.D., Logan, G.D., Palmeri, T.J. (in press) Multiple-alternative gated stochastic accumulator model of visual search. The Journal of Neuroscience.
Schall, J.D., Purcell, B.A., Heitz, R.P., Logan, G.D., Palmeri, T.J. (2011) Neural mechanisms of saccade target selection: gated accumulator model of visual-motor cascade. European Journal of Neuroscience.
Purcell, B.A., Heitz, R.P., Cohen, J.Y., Logan, G.D., Schall, J.D., & Palmeri, T.J. (2010). Neurally-constrained modeling of perceptual decision-making. Psychological Review.
Purcell, B.A., Schall, J.D., Palmeri, T.J. (2009) Discrete versus continuous flow of information: Relating neural activity and the drift diffusion model. Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (peer-reviewed proceedings paper), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.