Psychological Sciences
Jascha Swisher

Postdoctoral Fellow

Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

Office: 426 Wilson Hall
Phone: 615-322-2835
Cell Phone: 617-584-9881
Fax: 615-343-8449
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Laboratory Website



Degrees

  • Ph.D. Boston University, 2007
  • BS Harvey Mudd College, 1999

Current Research

  • Object and feature representations in human visual cortex

Professional Societies

  • Vision Sciences Society
  • Society for Neuroscience

Representative Publications

  • Lopresti, M.L., Schon, K., Tricarico, M.D., Swisher, J.D., Celone, K.A., and Stern, C.E. (2008) Working memory for social cues recruits orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala: An fMRI study of delayed matching to sample for emotional expressions. Journal of Neuroscience 28(14):3718-28.
  • Schwarzlose, R.F., Swisher, J.D., Dang, S., and Kanwisher, N.G. (2008) The distribution of category and location information across object-selective regions in human visual cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(11):4447-52.
  • Swisher, J.D., Halko, M.A., Merabet, L.B., McMains, S.A., and Somers, D.C. (2007) Visual topography of human intraparietal sulcus. Journal of Neuroscience 27(20):5326-37.
  • Merabet, L.B., Swisher, J.D., McMains, S.A., Halko, M.A., Amedi, A., Pascual-Leone, A., and Somers, D.C. (2007) Combined activation and deactivation of visual cortex during tactile sensory processing. Journal of Neurophysiology 97(2):1633-41.
  • Libeskind-Hadas, R., Hartline, J.R., Boothe, P.M., Rae, G. and Swisher, J.D. (2001) On multicast algorithms for heterogeneous networks of workstations. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 61(11):1665-1679.
 
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