Hickok receives grant to grow his brain research team
Hickok receives grant to grow his brain research team
- October 5, 2011
- Postdoctoral researcher Kayoko Okada, cognitive sciences `05, will help map brain lesions and activity linked to language processing using fMRI
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Greg Hickok, cognitive sciences professor and founding director of the Center for
Cognitive Neuroscience, has received a $257,960 grant from the National Institutes
of Health to further his research on the brain’s role in speech and how abnormalities
can inhibit this process. The funding adds to the $9.3 million he has already received
for research in this area, and allows him to add postdoctoral researcher Kayoko Okada, a 2005 graduate of the UCI cognitive sciences doctoral program and specialist in
fMRI and behavioral research, to his team. Using state-of-the-art methods, the researchers
are conducting a large scale mapping study of brain areas involved in language processing.
They’re also mapping areas of the brain that, when damaged, produce language disorders.
The research is being coordinated through a multi-university consortium Hickok created
to quicken the pace and sharing of this type of work, the result of which may lead
to advancements in therapies for persons who have suffered brain damage or exhibit
neural abnormalities.
The supplementary NIH funding for Okada’s postdoctoral work began in August and will run through November 2013.
Learn more about Hickok’s prior conduction aphasia research here.
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