Jason Taylor's personal pages

I'm a postdoctoral research fellow working on the CamCAN project, and a legacy(?) member of the Memory and Perception Group. My research uses brain imaging techniques such as magnetoencephalography (MEG), elecroencephalography (EEG), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study memory in normal, ageing, and disordered (Alzheimer's disease, AD; mild cognitive impairment, MCI) brains.

Collaborations

With Rik Henson at the CBU and Ken Paller's lab at Northwestern University: We're using EEG and MEG to study the interaction of memory subprocesses (recollection, familiarity) and different types of priming (perceptual, conceptual/semantic). With Rik Henson, Lisa Brindley, and Yury Shtyrov at the CBU and John Olichney at University of California, Davis: During my postdoc with John at UCSD and UC Davis I explored an EEG/fMRI paradigm (repetition of words in congruous and incongruous semantic contexts) that is sensitive to the early neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease and may predict conversion from MCI to AD. With Bill Heindel's lab at Brown University: My PhD research investigated the interaction of perceptual feature representations and controlled processing in retrieval from semantic memory using an EEG semantic priming paradigm.

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Publications, contact information, etc., are listed on my CBU People Page. For MEG analysis tips, see the CBU MEG Wiki, to which I have contributed. Some Matlab tips (mostly for beginners) can be found in this presentation and the accompanying demo in the Matlab Intro course organised by Olaf Hauk.