E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Neuroscience

Neuroscience

Office: 004 Wilson Hall
Phone: (615) 322-0868
Fax: (615) 343-5027
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Degrees

• B.S.Chem., University of Denver, 1982
• Ph.D., University of Utah, 1986

Research Area

• Schall's research aims to understand how the brain guides and controls actions by monitoring the signals in the frontal lobe during performance of visual search and countermanding tasks. His current work is addressing these questions: How does the brain choose where to look? How does the brain produce attention and awareness? How does the brain control whether and when to produce a movement? How does the brain know when it makes a mistake?

Current Courses

• Psychology 216: Movement

Current Positions

• Director of Center for Integrative Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience
• Director of Vanderbilt Vision Research Center

Professional Honors

• 2002 Elected into International Neuropsychology Symposium
• 2001 Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching
• 1998 Troland Research Award, National Academy of Sciences
• 1997-2000 Investigator Award, McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience
• 1990-1992 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
• 1986 James W. Prahl Memorial Award for the Outstanding Graduate Student, University of Utah School of Medicine.
• 1986 Phi Kappa Phi, University of Utah.
• 1982 Phi Beta Kappa, University of Denver.

Research Associates

• Stephanie Shorter-Jacobi
• Geoff Woodman
• Leanne Boucher
• Pierre Pouget
• Kirk G. Thompson,currently Perception and Action Section Head, Laboratory for Sensorimotor Research, NEI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
• Chenchal Rao Subraveti, currently computer programmer, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Tracy Taylor, currently Associate Professor of Psychology, Dalhousie University
• Aditya Murthy,currently Scientist III, National Brain Research Centre, New Delhi, India
• Joshua Brown, currently Research Associate, Washington University
• Chi-Hung Juan,currently Assistant Professor, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taiwan
• Veit Stuphorn, currently Assistant Professor of Psychology, Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University

Graduate Students

• Erik Emeric, Neuroscience Graduate Program
• Jennica Sherwood, Neuroscience Graduate Program
• Michael Mebane, Psychological Sciences Graduate Program, Vision Training Program
• Doug Hanes, currently legal consultant
• Narcisse Bichot, currently Intramural Postdoctoral fellow with Robert Desimone in the Laboratory of Neuropsychology, NIMH
• Takashi Sato, currently postdoctoral fellow with Wade Regehr, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
• Shigehiko Ito, currently law student

Representative Publications

• Hanes, D.P. and J.D. Schall (1996) Neural control of voluntary movement initiation. Science 274:427-430.
• Bichot, N.P. and J.D. Schall (1999) Effects of similarity and history on neural mechanisms of visual selection. Nature Neuroscience 2:549-554.
• Schall, J.D. and K.G. Thompson (1999) Neural selection and control of visually guided eye movements. Annual Review of Neuroscience 22:241-259.
• Thompson, K.G. and J.D. Schall (2000) Antecedents and correlates of visual detection and awareness in macaque prefrontal cortex. Vision Research, 40:1523-1538.
• Stuphorn V, Taylor TL, Schall JD (2000) Performance monitoring by supplementary eye field. Nature 408:857-860.
• Sato T, Murthy A, Thompson KG, Schall JD (2001) Effect of search efficiency but not response interference on visual selection in frontal eye field. Neuron 30:583-591.
• Schall, JD (2001) Neural basis of deciding, choosing and acting. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2:33-42.
• Murthy A, Thompson KG, Schall JD (2001) Dynamic dissociation of visual selection from saccade programing in frontal eye field. Journal of Neurophysiology 86:2634-2637.
• Bichot NP, Schall JD (2002) Priming in macaque frontal cortex during popout visual search: feature-based facilitation and location-based inhibition of return. Journal of Neuroscience 22:4675–4685.
• Schall JD, Stuphorn V, Brown J (2002) Monitoring and control of gaze by the frontal lobes. Neuron 36:309-322.
• Sato, T.R., Schall, J.D. (2003). Effects of stimulus-response compatibility on neural selection in frontal eye field. Neuron 38, 637-648.
• Ito S., Stuphorn V., Brown J.W., Schall J.D. (2003) Performance monitoring by the anterior cingulate cortex during saccade countermanding. Science 302:120-122.
• Schall J.D. (2003) On building bridges between brain and behavior. Annual Review of Psychology 55:23-50