Mme. Joana SANTOS LEITAO
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher
H08-03.162.177 (Campus Biotech)
+41 22 37 90344
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Research statement:
I am interested in understanding how large-scale brain networks dynamically interact to produce behaviour that is adaptive to the current environmental context. To do so, I combine fMRI with continuous behavioural responses, peripheral bodily data and other (neuroimaging) methodologies in order to gain an integrated view on human brain processing.
Research expertise:
1. Methodologies: fMRI, TMS, EMG, Psychophysiology
2. Multimodal data acquisition
3. Experimental Design
3. Stimulus Presentation (using Psychtoolbox) and synchronization with different types of data acquisition (psychophysiology, eye-tracker, fMRI, etc.).
4. fMRI data analysis (analysis software: SPM/Matlab)
5. Pre-processing of psychophysiological (EDA, cardiac, respiration) and EMG data and their inclusion in fMRI analyses
Publications:
Leitão J, Thielscher A, Lee HL, Tuennerhoff J, Noppeney U (2017). Transcranial magnetic stimulation of right inferior parietal cortex causally influences prefrontal activation for visual detection. Eur J Neurosci. doi: 10.1111/ejn.13743.
Leitão J, Thielscher A, Tuennerhoff J, Noppeney U (2017). Comparing TMS perturbations to occipital and parietal cortices in concurrent TMS-fMRI studies-Methodological considerations. PLoS One. 12(8): e0181438
Leitão J, Thielscher A, Tünnerhoff J, Noppeney U (2015). Concurrent TMS-fMRI Reveals Interactions between Dorsal and Ventral Attentional Systems. J Neurosci. 35(32):11445-57
Leitão J, Thielscher A, Werner S, Pohmann R, Noppeney U (2013). Effects of Parietal TMS on Visual and Auditory Processing at the Primary Cortical Level - A Concurrent TMS-fMRI Study. Cereb Cortex. 23:873-884