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(513) 309-3830
516 Wilson Hall
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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., Schall, J.D., Woodman, G.F. (in press) Timing of attentional selection in macaque frontal eye field and posterior event-related potentials during pop-out search.
Purcell, B.A., Heitz, R.P., Cohen, J.Y., Schall, J.D. (2012) Response variability of frontal eye field neurons reflects sensory input and motor preparation, but not visual salience. Journal of Neurophysiology
Purcell, B.A., Weigand, P.K., Schall, J.D. (2012) Supplementary eye field during visual search: Salience, cognitive control, and performance monitoring. Journal of Neuroscience.
Reinhart, R.M.G., Heitz, R.P., Purcell, B.A., Weigand, P.K., Schall, J.D., Woodman, G.F. (2012) Homologous mechanisms of visuospatial working memory maintenance in macaque and human: Properties and sources. Journal of Neuroscience.
Purcell, B.A., Schall, J.D., Logan, G.D., Palmeri, T.J. (2012) Multiple-alternative gated stochastic accumulator model of visual search. 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.