Research
Research Teams
Human Cognition and Neurophysiology Laboratory 
Our lab is interested in the neurophysiology and cognitive functioning of the human brain in both healthy and diseased states. To that end, we pursue several research aims that encompass measurement of human cognition, emotion, and neurophysiology. We typically ask subjects to complete behavioral tasks in the laboratory, in the neurosurgical operating room, or in the epilepsy monitoring unit. These behavioral computer tasks are designed to investigate circuits involved in decision-making, motor control, learning, and the representation of affective stimuli. We often target structures encountered during deep brain stimulation for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, Essential Tremor, and Tourette Symdrome, as well as subcortical (i.e. amygdala) and cortical sites in patients undergoing language localization for the treatment of epilepsy or tumor resection.
Read more:
- Focused stimulation of dorsal subthalamic nucleus improves reactive inhibitory control of action impulses.
- Dopaminergic medication shifts the balance between going and stopping in Parkinson's disease.
- The Effect of Deep Brain Stimulation Therapy on Fear-Related Capture of Attention in Parkinson's Disease and Essential Tumor: A Comparison to Healthy Individuals.
- Dopamine selectively modulates the outcome of learning unnatural action outcome associations.
- University of Louisville Psychology Department
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Neurology, Neurosurgery), Nashville, TN
- Vanderbilt University (Psychology), Nashville, TN
- University of Amsterdam (Psychology), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Sports Cognition Group
Research Faculty
Brandon Ally, PhD
Assistant Professor
Peter Kaskan, PhD
Assistant Professor
Specialty: Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurophysiology
Nelleke van Wouwe, PhD, M.Sc.
Assistant Professor
Scott Wylie, PhD
Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral Researchers
Adam Gifford, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Surya Rajan Selvam, M.S.
Research Technologist Sr.