E-mail: trenton.jerde@nyu.edu

I do research on the brain control of spatial cognition and goal-directed movements. Specific topics include action and perception, eye-hand coordination, and topographic mapping of brain areas involved in movement and spatial attention. To investigate these subjects, I use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with 3, 4, and 7 Tesla magnets, positron emission tomography (PET), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), psychophysics, and state-of-the-art eye tracking and motion capture systems at the NYU Center for Brain Imaging.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

New York University
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology. Advised by Clayton Curtis

University of Minnesota
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research. Advised by Kâmil Uğurbil and Apostolos Georgopoulos
PhD, Neuroscience. Advised by Apostolos Georgopoulos

University of Iowa
BA, Psychology. Minors in Philosophy and English. Advised by Isidore Gormezano

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS

2009 - Advanced Neuroimaging Summer School, UCLA
2008 - 2011 - NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award
2005 - High Field MR Imaging and Spectroscopy Workshop, University of Minnesota
2005 & 2002 - Symposium on Emotion, University of Wisconsin
2003 & 2001 - Summer Workshop in fMRI Informatics, Dartmouth College
2002 - APA Advanced Training Institute in fMRI, Harvard - Massachusetts General Hospital
2001 - American Legion and Auxiliary Brain Sciences Scholarship
2001 - Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College
1999 & 2000 - Cognitive Neuroscience and Brain Imaging Fellow, University of Minnesota

PUBLICATIONS

Jerde TA, Ikkai A, Curtis CE (2011). The search for the neural mechanisms of the set size effect. European Journal of Neuroscience 33(11): 2028-2034.

Ikkai A, Jerde TA, Curtis CE (2011). Perception and action selection dissociate human ventral and dorsal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23(6): 1494-1506.

Jerde TA, Childs SK, Handy ST, Nagode JC, Pardo JV (2011). Dissociable systems of working memory for rhythm and melody. NeuroImage 57(4): 1572-1579.

Christova P, Lewis SM, Jerde TA, Lynch JK, Georgopoulos AP (2011). True associations in resting fMRI based on time series innovations. Journal of Neural Engineering 8(4):046025.

Tzagarakis C, Jerde TA, Lewis SM, Uğurbil K, Georgopoulos AP (2009). Cerebral cortical mechanisms of copying geometrical shapes: a multidimensional scaling analysis of fMRI patterns of activation. Experimental Brain Research 194: 369-380.

Lewis SM, Jerde TA, Tzagarakis C, Tsekos N, Amirikian B, Georgopoulos MA, Kim S-G, Uğurbil K, Georgopoulos AP (2005). Logarithmic transformation for high-field BOLD fMRI data. Experimental Brain Research 165: 447-453.

Gourtzelidis P, Tzagarakis C, Lewis SM, Crowe DA, Auerbach E, Jerde TA, Uğurbil K, Georgopoulos AP (2005). Mental maze solving: Directional fMRI tuning and population coding in the superior parietal lobule. Experimental Brain Research 165: 273-282.

Lewis SM, Jerde TA, Tzagarakis C, Tsekos N, Amirikian B, Georgopoulos MA, Kim S-G, Uğurbil K, Georgopoulos AP (2003). Cerebellar activity during copying geometrical shapes. Journal of Neurophysiology 90(6): 3874-3887.

Papers submitted or in preparation

Jerde TA, Merriam EP, Riggall AC, Curtis CE. Correspondence of eye fields and topographic maps in human cortex.

Jerde TA, Riggall AC, Curtis CE. Multivariate decoding dissociates attention and intention.

Jerde TA, Lewis SM, Tzagarakis C, Uğurbil K, Georgopoulos AP. Peri-Rolandic activity during shape perception and construction.