People in the CCN Lab
Director
Chris McNorgan, PhD
I completed my graduate trainining in the Department of Psychology at
the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. There, I became interested in semantic memory
— your memory for the meaning of things — and in particular how different sources of knowledge
work together to form the thoughts we have. During this time, I was increasingly thinking of my computational modeling
work in terms of how these phenomena might occur in the brain.
In order to be able to answer these questions, I moved to the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Laboratory at Northwestern University. There, I learned how to use functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate
reading as a multisensory process. During my appointment at Lancaster University, I completed the work that directly bridges
neuroimaging and neural network models of the human brain.
My work at UB is a marriage of cutting edge machine learning and functional neuroimaging approaches that has generated novel insight into the nature of knowledge representation and the neural substrates supporting reading and semantic processing.
PhD Students
Greg Smith
Greg Smith is a senior PhD student who has specialized in the development of computational models of semantic processing. His work provides mechanistic accounts of the neural bases of semantic processing.
Anthony Nguyen
Anthony Nguyen is a PhD student who is exploring machine learning approaches for investigating the dependency of the memory system on brain connectivity.