Academic Background:
PhD Candidate, Cognitive Neuroscience Program at City University Of New York (2003)
BA in Psychology Manhattanville College, New York (2002) Departmental Honors
Manuel
Gomez-Ramirez
Graduate Student
Phone : (845) 398-2896
email
: mramirez@nki.rfmh.org
Research Interests:
Mechanisms of Intersensory selective attention (Auditory and Visual Modalities)
Mechanisms of Visuo-Spatial selective attention
Mechanisms
of multisensory integration (auditory, visual and somatosensory modalities)
Publications
Kelly SP, Gomez-Ramirez M, Foxe JJ (2008). Spatial Attention Modulates Initial Afferent Activity in Human Primary Visual Cortex. Cerebral Cortex, In press.
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Kelly SP, Gomez-Ramirez M, Montesi JL, & Foxe JJ (2008). L-theanine and caffeine in combination affect human cognition as evidenced by oscillatory alpha-band activity and attention task performance. Journal of Nutrition. In press.
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| Gomez-Ramirez M, Higgins BA, Rycroft JA, Owen GN,
Mahoney J, Shpaner M, Foxe JJ. The deployment of Intersensory Selective
Attention: A high-density electrical mapping study of the effects of theanine.
Clinical Neuropharmacology. 2007 30 (1): 25 – 38. |
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| Senkowski D,
Gomez-Ramirez M, Lakatos P, Wylie GR, Molholm S, Schroeder CE, Foxe JJ.
Multisensory processing and oscillatory activity: analyzing non-linear
electrophysiological measures in humans and simians. Exp Brain Res. 2006 Oct 19; [Epub ahead of print] |
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| Senkowski D, Molholm
S, Gomez-Ramirez M, Foxe JJ. Oscillatory Beta Activity Predicts Response
Speed during a Multisensory Audiovisual Reaction Time Task: A High-Density
Electrical Mapping Study. Cereb Cortex.
2006 Nov;16(11):1556-65. |
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| Molholm, S., Sehatpour,
P., Mehta, A.D., Shpaner, M., Gomez-Ramirez, M., Ortigue, S., Dyke, J.P.,
Schwartz, T.H., and Foxe, J.J. Audio-visual multisensory integration in
superior parietal lobule revealed by human intracranial recordings. Journal
of Neurophysiology, 2006 Aug;96(2):721-9. |
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| Lilliehook C, Gomez-Ramirez
M, et. al. (2003) Altered A{beta} Formation and Long-Term Potentiation
in a Calsenilin Knock-Out. Journal of Neuroscience 27: 9097-9106 |
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| Santucci
AC, Capodilupo S, Bernstein J, Gomez-Ramirez M, Milefsky R, and Mitchell
H., (2004) Cocaine in adolescent rats produce residual memory impairments
that are reversible with time. Neurotoxicology and Teratology 26(5): 651-661 |
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ABSTRACTS |
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| Spatial-Cueing
Tasks: Have We Really Been Studying “Endogenous” Mechanisms
Of Selective Attention? Gomez-Ramirez M, Wylie GR, Javitt DC, and Foxe
JJ. (April 2004) |
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| Pre attentive
perception of speech like contour patterns: A Mismatch Negativity (MMN)
study. Leitman, D., Javitt, D.C., Wyllie, G.R., Molholm, S., Gomez-Ramirez,
M., Piesco, J., Foxe, J.J. |
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| The Presenilin-Binding
Protein Calsenilin is Involved in Plasticity. Lilliehook C., Zaidi N.F.,
Choi E-K, Miller J., Bozdagi O., Huntley G.W., Haroutunian V., Santucci
A.C., Yao J., Gandy S., Wasco W., Gomez-Ramirez M., Buxbaum J.D. (2002) |
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| Long-Term Residual
Consequences of Cocaine in Adolescent Rats: Effects on Memory and Life-Span.
Santucci A.C, Capodilupo S., Bernstein J., Gomez-Ramirez M., Milefsky
R., and Mitchell H. (2002). |
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AWARDS |
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City University of New York Graduate Student Research Grant. Bridging the Senses II: An fMRI Investigation of the Anatomical Sources Underlying Multisensory Integration Processes. US$3,000.00. (2007)
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Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College Graduate Student Fellowship. (2006)
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International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF) Graduate Student Present (2006)
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City University of New York Graduate Student Research Grant. “Bridging the Senses I: A High-Density Electrical Mapping Study of The Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Early Multisensory Integration”. US$1,500.00 (2006)
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Graduate student presentation award from The Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2005 Meeting, New York
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Summer
(2001): Fellowship -Summer Internship Program at Center for Neuroscience
of University of Pittsburgh- |
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| International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Undergraduate Student Travel Fellowship (2001). | |
INVITED LECTURES |
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| Voluntary deployments
of selective spatial attention. September 4th 2004, Invited Lecture
to the "Hacia Donde Va la Psicologia" Conference of The Univesidad
Catolica de Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. |
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| Voluntary Deployments of Inter-Sensory Attention. Single paper presentation at the annual meeting of the International Multisensory Research Society (IMRF). June 6 2005, Rovereto, Italy. |