Marty G Woldorff, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychological & Brain Sciences Psychological and Brain Sciences

Marty G Woldorff

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychological & Brain Sciences Psychological and Brain Sciences
PhD, University of California, San Diego, 1989
mailing address: B203 LSRC Durham, NC 27708
office: B203 LSRC
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phone: 919-681-0604

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Research Summary:
 Dr. Woldorff's main research interest is in the cognitive neuroscience of attention. How the human brain selects relevant from irrelevant information from the welter of sensory inputs striking the sensory receptors remains one of the great challenges of modern cognitive neuroscience. Dr. Woldorff uses a combination of electrophysiological (ERP, MEG) and functional neuroimaging (fMRI) methods to track the time course and functional anatomy of brain attention mechanisms. This multimethodological approach is directed along several main lines of research: (1) The influence of attention on sensory and perceptual processing; (2) The executive control of attention by higher level areas of the brain; and (3) The processes underlying multisensory (audio-visual) integration and the mechanisms by which feature-based and object-based attention interacts with such integration processes.

Representative Publications:   (More Publications)

  1. Giesbrecht, B., Woldorff, M.G., Fichtenholtz, H.M., Song, A.W., Mangun, G.R (2003). Neural mechanisms of top-down control during spatial and feature attention.. Neuroimage, 19, 496-512.
  2. Schoenfield, M.A., Woldorff, M.G., Scheich, H., Heinze, H.J., Mangum, G.R. (2003). "Form-From-Motion: MEG Evidence for Time Course and Processing Sequence". Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, 157-172.
  3. Busse, L., Woldorff, M.G. (2003). "Implications of the ERP Omitted Stimulus Response to "No-Stim" Events in Fast-Rate Event-Related fMRI Designs". Neuroimage, 18, 856-864.
  4. Weissman, D.H., Giesbrecht, B., Song, A.W., Mangun, G.R., Woldorff, M.G. (2003). Conflict monitoring in the human anterior cingulate cortex during selective attention to global and local object features.. Neuroimage, 19, 1361-1368.
  5. Weissman, D.H., Woldorff, M.G., Hazlett, C.J., Mangum, G.R. (2002). Effects of Practice on Executive Control Investigated with Event-Related fMRI. Cognitive Brain Research, 15, 47-60.

Courses (Fall 2008):

  • Psy 357s.01, Cog neuro presentation i
    Lsrc b240, Th 11:55 AM-01:00 PM