Rajeev Raizada

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Paper under revision at NeuroImage: "Linking brain-wide multivoxel activation patterns to behaviour: examples from language and math."

Invited review with Niko Kriegeskorte in preparation for International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology. Special issue on recent developments in neuroimaging, guest edited by Dae-Shik Kim.

Invited review with Mark Kishiyama submitted to Frontiers in Human Neuroscience: "Effects of socioeconomic status on brain development, and how Cognitive Neuroscience may contribute to leveling the playing field."

I am a Research Assistant Professor at the Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth. I am currently seeking a tenure-track faculty position: my job application materials are available here.

The long-term goal of my research is to apply insights from Cognitive Neuroscience towards helping people learn, especially children learning in schools. In particular, I use fMRI and behavioural testing to study how the brain's neural representations change during learning, and how processes of attention and reward can be leveraged to improve learning. I am also very interested in how environmental factors, in particular socio-economic status (SES), affect learning and cognition.

A more detailed description of my research goals and current projects can be found here.

Before coming to Dartmouth I was at the University of Washington's NSF Science of Learning Center, working in Pat Kuhl's lab at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences. Prior to that, I worked with Russ Poldrack at the MGH NMR center, funded by a McDonnell-Pew fellowship. My Ph.D. was in computational neuroscience, working with Stephen Grossberg at the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University. I was born and grew up in England, where I did a B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy at Oxford University, before going on to do an M.Sc. in Cognitive Science at the University of Birmingham. Before starting my Ph.D., I worked for a year in Überlingen, Germany.

Please see the links on the left for more information about my work.

Last updated Sept. 25, 2009.