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Freelance Cognitive Neuroscientist | Expert in DTI, fMRI, sMRI, TMS, statistics, writing

Profile Summary

I am a cognitive neuroscientist and psychologist. I am also a neurofreelancer, neuroartist, and neurocryptography enthusiast. Currently, I research the topics of relations between language and thought as well as consciousness disorders in the Monti Lab at UCLA. Previously, I explored neurocognitive aging and language in the Diaz Lab at BIAC/Duke as well as the tip of the tongue state in the Burke Lab at Pomona College. I have expertise in these techniques: - behavioral/cognitive testing - diffusion imaging (DTI) - experimental design / causal reasoning - functional MRI (fMRI; acquisition, task and resting) - structural MRI (sMRI; acquisition, cortical analysis) - transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS, TBS) I have expertise in these statistics: - Bayesian model testing - factor analysis / pca - general linear modeling (GLM) - linear mixed effects (LME) - mediation / moderation - path analysis - regression I have expertise in these scripts and programs: - bash/linux - BrainSuite - DSI Studio - Excel/Word/PPT - JAMOVI - JASP - Mango - MATLAB - MRIcro/GL - Python - PsychoPy - R - SAS - SPSS

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Cognitive Neuroscience
• ★ Psychology
• ★ Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Bayesian Statistics
• ☆ Educational Statistics
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing

Research Market Research, Meta-Research, Gap Analysis, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Big Data Analytics, Data Insights

Work Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher

UCLA

July 2020 - Present

Graduate Researcher

UCLA

October 2014 - June 2020

Research Fellow

Brain Imaging and Analysis Center

September 2010 - June 2014

Education

PhD (Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience)

UCLA

October 2014 - June 2020

BA (Cognitive Science)

Pomona College

September 2006 - June 2014

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2021). Real time and delayed effects of subcortical low intensity focused ultrasound . Scientific reports.

(2021). Longitudinal changes in blood-based biomarkers in chronic moderate to severe traumatic brain injury: preliminary findings . Brain injury.

(2021). Ultrasonic thalamic stimulation in chronic disorders of consciousness . Brain stimulation.

(2020). Accounting for Changing Structure in Functional Network Analysis of TBI Patients . Frontiers in systems neuroscience.

(2020). Subcortical atrophy correlates with the perturbational complexity index in patients with disorders of consciousness . Brain stimulation.

(2020). High-voltage, diffuse delta rhythms coincide with wakeful consciousness and complexity in Angelman syndrome . Neuroscience of consciousness.

(2019). Age-related differences in the neural bases of phonological and semantic processes in the context of task-irrelevant information . Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience.

(2018). Network Analysis in Disorders of Consciousness: Four Problems and One Proposed Solution (Exponential Random Graph Models) . Frontiers in neurology.

(2017). Sources of disconnection in neurocognitive aging: cerebral white-matter integrity, resting-state functional connectivity, and white-matter hyperintensity volume . Neurobiology of aging.

(2017). Frontoparietal activation during visual conjunction search: Effects of bottom-up guidance and adult age . Human brain mapping.

(2016). Age-related differences in resolving semantic and phonological competition during receptive language tasks . Neuropsychologia.

(2014). Phonemic fluency and brain connectivity in age-related macular degeneration: a pilot study . Brain connectivity.

(2014). Global versus tract-specific components of cerebral white matter integrity: relation to adult age and perceptual-motor speed . Brain structure & function.

(2014). Age-related differences in the neural bases of phonological and semantic processes . Journal of cognitive neuroscience.

(2014). Written distractor words influence brain activity during overt picture naming . Frontiers in human neuroscience.