E-mail: trenton.jerde@nyu.edu

My primary research interests are the neuroscience of cognitive motor control (arm, hand, and eye movements) and spatial cognition (e.g., visual-spatial attention).

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

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

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

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

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS

2008 - NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award
2005 - Symposium on Emotion, University of Wisconsin
2003 - Summer Workshop in fMRI Informatics, Dartmouth College
2002 - APA Advanced Training Institute in fMRI, Harvard-MGH  
2002 - Symposium on Emotion, University of Wisconsin
2001 - American Legion & Auxiliary Brain Sciences Scholarship                                                   
2001 - Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College
2001 - Summer Workshop in fMRI Informatics, Dartmouth College
2000 - Cognitive Neuroscience and Brain Imaging, University of Minnesota
1999 - Cognitive Neuroscience and Brain Imaging, University of Minnesota

PUBLICATIONS

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): 3874-87.

In preparation:

Jerde TA, Tzagarakis C, Lewis SM, Uğurbil K, Georgopoulos AP. Peri-Rolandic fMRI activation during shape copying.

Jerde TA, Krejcarek S, Handy ST, Nagode JC, Pardo JV. Neural substrates of working memory for rhythm and melody.

Ikkai A, Jerde TA, Curtis CE. Perception and action selection dissociate human ventral and dorsal cortex.