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| Kirk G. Thompson, Ph.D., Investigator |
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Dr. Thompson received his B.S. degree in 1987 from Brigham Young University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1992 where he worked with Audie Leventhal studying form, motion, and color processing from the retina and lateral geniculate nucleus to the visual cortex. During a postdoctoral fellowship with Jeffrey Schall at Vanderbilt University, and as a research assistant professor at Vanderbilt, he investigated how the brain selects targets for attention and eye movements and how visual awareness emerges from neural activity. Dr. Thompson joined the NEI as an Investigator in 2000. His laboratory studies the neural processes in the visuomotor system that convert sensory signals into perceptual experience and behavior.
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Selected Recent Publications:
Murthy A, Ray S, Shorter SM, Schall JD, ThompsonKG (2009) Neural control of visual search by frontal eye field: effects of unexpected target displacement on visual selection and saccade preparation., J. Neurophysiol. [Epub ahead of print].
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Trageser JC, Monosov IE, Zhou Y, Thompson KG (2009) A perceptual representation in the frontal eye field during covert visual search that ismore reliable than the behavioral report., Eur J Neurosci Dec;28(12), 2542-9.
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Monosov IE, Trageser JC, Thompson KG. (2008) Measurements of simultaneously recorded spiking activity and local field potentials suggest that spatial selection emerges in the frontal eye field., Neuron Feb 28;57(4), 614-25.
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Zhou HH, Thompson KG (2008) Cognitively directed spatial selection in the frontal eye field in anticipation of visual stimuli to be discriminated., Vision Res doi:10.1016/j.visres.2008.03.024.
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Contact Information:
Dr. Kirk G. Thompson
Search Section
Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, NEI
Building 49, Room 2A50
49 Convent Drive MSC 4435
Bethesda, MD 20892-4435
Telephone: (301) 594-3238 (office),
(301) 402-0511 (fax)
Email: kgt@lsr.nei.nih.gov
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