Presented by Caterina Gratton
Associate Professor, Psychology
CHP alumna
In her presentation, Dr. Gratton will review the basic methodology used to study human brain organization and function within individuals. She will then discuss some of the insights provided by these studies into how brain organization varies, and why this matters for cognition. We’ll close by discussing recent projects looking into what happens with brain networks as we age.
Caterina Gratton, a CHP alum who is originally from Champaign-Urbana, received her undergraduate degrees from Illinois in Psychology and Neuroscience; while at UI, she received a Goldwater Scholarship, and later was supported in her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley with a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. During her post-doc at Washington University, she researched how brain network interactions varied with both task demands and individual differences; she also taught at Northwestern University and Florida State University, and she retains affiliations with both institutions. Returning to Illinois in Fall 2024, her lab examines how brain networks are organized and vary over time and across the lifespan, and what happens when this organization is disrupted. She looks forward to advancing "precision imaging" work that provides detailed representations of individual brain networks.
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