Graduate Student

Neuroscience

Office: Rm 312
Phone: (615) 322-5522
Fax: (615) 343-8449
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Degrees

• B.Sc Hons., Imperial College London, Biochemistry, 2004

Research Area

• My interests lie in understanding the evolution of the neocortex and functional organization of sensory systems in mammals, and how complex brains, such as those of humans, are built from simpler forms.

Current Research

• Defining the architectonic subdivisions of small mammals, such as squirrels, close relatives of primates, such as tree shrews, and galagos.
• Understanding the connections between the visual cortex and the pulvinar in galagos and the connections of the temporal cortex of squirrels.
• The cellular scaling rules in brain evolution and how they may differ between various orders of mammals, such as rodents and primates.

Current Courses

• PSY 258, Animal Behavior (Jon Kaas), Spring 2008
• PSY 252, Human Sexuality (Leslie Smith), Fall 2007
• PSY 246, Schizophrenia (Sohee Park), Spring 2007
• PSY201, Introduction to Neuroscience (Leslie Smith), Fall, 2006
• PSY 258, Biological Basis of Mental Disorders (Leslie Smith), Spring, 2006
• PSY 201, Introduction to Neuroscience (Leslie Smith), Fall, 2005

Professional Societies

• Society for Neuroscience
• Royal College of Science Association
• Singapore Neuroscience Association

Representative Publications

• Peiyan Wong, Omar A. Gharbawie, Lynn E. Luethke, Jon H. Kaas (2008) Thalamic connections of architectonic subdivisions of temporal cortex in grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinenesis). Journal of Comparative Neurology (in press)
• Peiyan Wong, Jon H. Kaas (2008) Architectonic subdivisions of neocortex in the grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). Anatomical Record (in press)
• Suzana Herculano-Houzel , Christine E. Collins , Peiyan Wong , Jon H. Kaas , Roberto Lent (2008) The basic non-uniformity of the cerebral cortex. PNAS (in press)
• Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Christine E. Collins, Peiyan Wong, and Jon H. Kaas (2007) Cellular scaling rules for primate brains. PNAS 104: 3562-3567
• Tadin, D., Wong, P., Mebane, M.W., Berkowitz, M.J., Trott, H. & Park, S. (2005) Believing is seeing in schizophrenia: The role of top-down processing. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 775.