Keith Schneider
Professor
Director, Center for Biomedical and Brain Imaging
Director, Cognitive Psychology Graduate Program
University of Delaware
77 E. Delaware Ave. Room 233
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-7148
Biography
I study the relationship between the architecture of the human visual system and the functions of attention, perception and awareness, in both normal and clinical populations. I specialize in measuring the visual subcortex—the lateral geniculate nucleus, pulvinar and thalamic reticular nucleus in the thalamus, and the superior colliculus—using structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging. Multiple streams of information arise from distinct ganglion cell populations in the retina; the subcortical nuclei play central roles in the recurrent regulation of visual function, and here, like nowhere else in the brain, these visual streams are spatially disjoint and their activity can be measured with high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging. Abnormalities in these structures may be important in clinical disorders such as dyslexia.
Degrees
Ph.D., Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, 2002
MA, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, 2000
MA, Astronomy, Boston University, 1996
BS, Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1994
Courses Regularly Taught
PSYC653 Introduction to functional magnetic
resonance imaging
Recent and Representative Publications
Schneider KA, Malik I. 2021. A three-response task demonstrates how attention alters decision criteria but not appearance. Journal of Vision 21(5):30, 1–16. doi:10.1167/jov.21.5.30
Schneider KA. 2020. A note on the equality judgment experiment in Itthipuripat, et al. (2019). psyarxiv.com/kbhvg doi:10.31234/osf.io/kbhvg
DeSimone K, Schneider KA. 2019. Distinguishing hemodynamics from function in the human LGN using a temporal response model. Vision 3:27. doi:10.3390/vision3020027
McKetton L, DeSimone K, Schneider KA. 2019. Larger auditory cortical area and broader frequency tuning underlie absolute pitch. Journal of Neuroscience 39: 2930–2937. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1532-18.2019
Schneider KA. 2018. The flash-lag, Fröhlich and related motion illusions are natural consequences of discrete sampling in the visual system. Frontiers in Psychology: Perception Science 9: 1227. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01227
Beck J, Schneider KA. 2017. Attention and mental primer. Mind & Language 32: 463–494. doi:10.1111/mila.12148
DeSimone K, Viviano JD, Schneider KA. 2015. Population receptive field analysis reveals new retinotopic maps in the human subcortex. Journal of Neuroscience 35: 9836–9847. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3840-14.2015
Giraldo-Chica M, Hegarty JP, Schneider KA. 2015. Morphological differences in the lateral geniculate nucleus associated with dyslexia. NeuroImage: Clinical 7: 830–836. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2015.03.011
Viviano JD, Schneider KA. 2015. Interactions of the human thalamic reticular nucleus. Journal of Neuroscience 35: 2026–2032. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2623-14.2015
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