Human Neuroscience Lab

Professor Gregory McCarthy

Lab News

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (3rd Ed)

A new edition of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging is now available!    Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Third Edition (2014) Scott A. Huettel, Allen W. Song, Gregory McCarthy

New lab paper to appear in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

A new paper from our lab was accepted for publication in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. The title and abstract can be found below.  Kim NY, Lee SM, Erlendsdottir MC, McCarthy G (2014) Discriminable spatial patterns of activation for faces and bodies in the fusiform gyrus. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 

New lab paper to appear in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

A new paper from our lab was accepted for publication in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. The title and abstract can be found below.   Engell AD, McCarthy G (in press) Face, eye, and body selective responses in fusiform gyrus and adjacent cortex: an intracranial EEG study.Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 

New lab paper to appear in Neuropsychologia

A new paper from our lab was accepted for publication in the journal Neuropsychologia. The title and abstract can be found below. The paper is available online!   Shultz S, McCarthy G (in press) Perceived Animacy Influences the Processing of Human-Like Surface Features in the Fusiform Gyrus. Neuropsychologia.

Lab alum Sarah Shultz won the Early Career Prize 2013

HNL alumna Sarah Shultz’s paper Neural specialization for speech in the first months of life has been selected as the winner of the Developmental Science Early Career Prize for its important and unique empirical and theoretical contribution to the field. Congratulations!!

Congratulations, Dr. Michele T. Diaz

Congratulations to lab alum and former graduate student Dr. Michele T. Diaz who was appointed Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of Human Imaging at Penn State University. Michele's dissertation work involved the differential activation of brain networks for language processing by subliminally presented words and nonwords.

New lab paper to appear in Biological Psychiatry

A new paper from our lab was accepted for publication in the journal Biological Psychiatry. The title and abstract can be found below.    Gold AL, Morey RA, McCarthy G (in press) Amygdala - prefrontal cortex functional connectivity during threat-induced anxiety and goal-distraction. Biological Psychiatry.

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