Department of Psychology
New York University
6 Washington Place, Room 472C
New York, NY 10003
Email: akiko@nyu.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS
How do humans select a target to attend to? What are the brain regions involved in such selection processes? What are the time courses of their activations and interactions?

• Attention control under top-down and bottom-up competition
• Neural network underlying the formation and update of “priority map"
  o    functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
  o    eye tracking (SR Research Eyelink 2000 /ASL Model 5000)
  o    magnetoencephalogram (MEG)
  o    intracranial electroencephalogram (iEEG)
  
  

EDUCATION

Spring 2010: expected graduation
2005 – present: doctoral student. Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY
M.S. Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (2005)
B.S. Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (2003)

PUBLICATION
Ikkai, A. & Curtis, C. E. (2008). Cortical Activity Time Locked to the Shift and Maintenance of Spatial Attention. Cerebral Cortex, 18(6):1384-94

Ikkai, A., Jerde, T. A & Curtis, C. E. (in preparation). Perception and action selection dissociate human ventral and dorsal cortex.

Ikkai, A., McCollough, A. W., Vogel, E. K. (submitted). Contralateral delay activity provides a neural measure of the number of representations in visual working memory.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Ikkai, A., Jerde, T. A.,& Curtis, C. E. (2008). Functional organization of human frontal cortex according to perceptual and response selection demands. Society for Neuroscience, annual meeting. Washington DC

Riggall, A.C., Ikkai, A., Srimal, R.,& Curtis, C.E. (2008). Predicting the direction of spatial attention, working memory, and motor intentions using multivoxel pattern classification. Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC

Ikkai, A., Jerde, T. A.,& Curtis, C. E. (2008). Functional organization of human frontal cortex according to perceptual and response selection demands. Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, San Francisco

Curtis, C. E., Ikkai, A & Srimal, R (2008). The maintenance of spatial working memory, covert attention, and motor intention in the human frontal eye field. Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, San Francisco

Ikkai, A. & Curtis, C. E. (2006). Cortical regions underlying shifting and maintenance of covert and overt attention. Society for Neuroscience, annual meeting. Atlanta

Vogel, E. K., Ikkai, A. & Perez, V. (2006). Do Perceptually Challenging Objects Consume More Working Memory Capacity? Vision Sciences Society, annual meeting, Sarasota

Ikkai, A. & Curtis, C. E. (2006) Detailed Analysis of Patterns of Human Frontal and Parietal Cortical Activity during Shifting and Maintaining Attention. Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, San Francisco

Vogel. E. K. & Ikkai, A (2005) Do Perceptually Demanding Items Consume More Working Memory Capacity? Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, New York

HONORS/AWARDS
2009 The Douglas and Katharine Fryer Thesis Fellowship in Psychology, New York University
2006 Travel Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University
2005 – present MacCracken Fellowship, Department of Psychology, New York University
2005 The Engberg Fellowship, Department of Psychology, New York University
2003 Phi Beta Kappa
2003 Summa Cum Laude, University of Oregon
2003 Departmental Honors, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon.
• “The Role of Muscarinic Receptors in Covert Orienting in Rats”
2002 Laurel Award, University of Oregon
2002 Thompson Award, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon.
• “Effect of muscarinic agonist/antagonist on visuospatial attention in rats”
2000-2001 General University Scholarship, University of Oregon