Roe, Anna W., Department of Psychology

Anna Roe
Department of Psychology
066 Wilson Hall
615-343-0901 (office)
anna.roe@vanderbilt.edu

Roe studies the neuronal circuitry and functional organization underlying visual and tactile behavior in awake, behaving monkeys. To map these functions in the brain, she uses an array of optical imaging, fMRI, electrophysiological, anatomical and optogenetics methods. Chronic implanted windows on the brain permit: 1) study of sensory and attentional processes and 2) methods to influence brain activity with electrical, laser, and optogenetic stimulation methods. She hopes that this combined with behavioral, functional, anatomical, and neuroengineering approach will lead to development of future mind-machine interfaces that modify and enhance function in normal and diseased states.
PUBLICATIONS:

Chen G, Lu HD, Roe AW (2008) A map of horizontal disparity in primate V2. Neuron_, /in press/.

Roe AW, Parker AJ, Born RT, DeAngelis GC (2007) Disparity channels in early vision: a mini-review. _J Neurosci_, 27:11820-11831. /Cover figure/.

Chen LM, Turner G, Friedman RM, Gore JC, Roe AW, Avison MJ (2007) High resolution maps of real and illusory tactile activation in SI: intra-individual correlation with fMRI, optical
imaging and electrophysiology. _J Neurosc__i_,/ /27(34):9181-9191.

Hung CP, Ramsden RM, Roe AW (2007) A functional circuitry for edge-induced brightness perception.  _Nature Neurosci_,/ /10:1185-1190.

Lu HD, Roe AW* *(2007) Functional organization of color domains in V1 and V2 of Macaque monkey revealed by optical imaging. _Cerebral Cortex_, 18(3):516-33. /Cover figure/.

Chen LM, Friedman RM, Roe AW (2005) Optical imaging of SI topography in anesthetized and awake squirrel monkey. _J Neurosci_ 25: 7648-7659. /Cover figure/.