14 April 1994 -- 9am
2071 Basic Sciences Building, University of California San Diego
Minor Proposition Committee:
Veronica Roberts (chair)
Mark Geyer
Chris Gillin
Marta Kutas
Neal Swerdlow
Concentrations: anatomy, physiology, behaviour, pharmacology
Rotations:
Courchesne,
Pineda,
Sejnowski
Advisor: Courchesne
Anticipated thesis project: I will construct artificial neural networks to predict behavioural response from single-trial EEG in people with autism performing attentional tasks. The standard method of analysis for evoked potentials, averaging, assumes that the evoked response is phase-locked to the stimulus and invariant across trials. Especially in autistic subjects, in whom some ERP components can vary greatly both in latency and in amplitude, this is a bad assumption. Analyses of the classification strategies and failure modes of these networks partition the data set into sub-classes which may hold useful information on variant cognitive processing, correspondence to anatomy, and, ultimately, ætiology.
Please address comments as follows:
Email: mbelmonte@ucsd.edu
voice: 495-7714
fax: 278-9584
`The brain is my second favorite organ.'
--Woody Allen