Abstract:

Prof. Culver’s group focuses on developing neurophotonic imaging systems and advancing functional mapping paradigms.  For humans, Culver’s group have developed a series of improvements in diffuse optical tomography (DOT) that enabled mappings of angular and eccentricity of visual cortex and mapping of a collection of language tasks. While isolated functional tasks are powerful, many applications require more naturalistic approaches. To address these needs Prof. Culver’s group developed a seminal task-less approach to mapping functional connectivity (FC) for DOT with the goal of tracking brain development, plasticity, and disease. More recently the Culver lab has been working on using naturalistic movies to both encode and decode human brain function.

Abstract:

Prof. Culver’s group focuses on developing neurophotonic imaging systems and advancing functional mapping paradigms.  For humans, Culver’s group have developed a series of improvements in diffuse optical tomography (DOT) that enabled mappings of angular and eccentricity of visual cortex and mapping of a collection of language tasks. While isolated functional tasks are powerful, many applications require more naturalistic approaches. To address these needs Prof. Culver’s group developed a seminal task-less approach to mapping functional connectivity (FC) for DOT with the goal of tracking brain development, plasticity, and disease. More recently the Culver lab has been working on using naturalistic movies to both encode and decode human brain function.