Principal Investigator
Ideator, creator, and supreme ruler of the MontiLab.
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Postdoctoral Scientists
Evan S. Lutkenhoff, Ph.D.
Vice-ruler of the MontiLab
Working on: Acute-to-chronic structural changes after severe traumatic brain injury
Julia Sophia Crone, Ph.D.
Duchess of the MontiLab
Working on: Exploring alterations in functional network organization underlying impaired consciousness using graph theoretical approaches, dynamic causal modeling, and other fun stuff
Crown Prince of the Electroencephalogram
Working on: 1) Can we use derive biomarkers of consciousness from EEG in patients with disorders of consciousness? 2) Why does the Angelman syndrome EEG look like EEG from coma patients? 3) What is the relationship between brain complexity and complexity in other natural self-organizing systems?
Lord of Chaos
Working on: Using graph theory, information theory, and nonlinear dynamics to characterize what’s happening in the brain whenever it’s unconscious – be it from seizures, anesthesia, or traumatic brain injury.
Graduate Students
John Coetzee
Marquees of the modus tollens (GS in the Cognitive Neuroscience program)
Working on: The role of language in deductive reasoning
Amy Zheng
Countess of the tensors and mistress of the felines [appropriately named bval and bvec..] (GS in the Behavioral Neuroscience program)
Working on: Brain integrity measures in disorders of consciousness
John Dell’Italia
Viscount of the ERGM (GS in the Cognitive Neuroscience program)
Working on: How does consciousness emerge from the interplay of billions of neurons?
Jeff Chiang
Baron of the RSA and of the highlands of Tickhonovia (GS in the Cognitive Psychology [Computational] program)
Working on: Multivariate analysis of syntax and meaning
Micah Johnson
Passepartout (GS in the Cognitive Psychology program)
Working on: Using transcranial magnetic stimulation to causally test the involvement of the inferior frontal gyrus across language, logic, math, and music.
Josh Cain
Ultrasonic the hedgehog (GS in the Cognitive Neuroscience program)
Working on: Using Low Intensity Focused Ultrasound Pulsation (LIFUP) to modulate thalamus and executive functions.
Alessandra Dallavecchia
Static Shock (GS in the Cognitive Neuroscience program)
Working on: Brain complexity measures with different perturbational approaches.
Visiting Graduate Researchers
Federico Micheli
Fonzie (Master student at CIMeC, University of Trento)
Working on: Computational models of brain dynamics in disorders of consciousness.
Research Assistants
Branden Bio
MontiLab RA (Currently a graduate student at Princeton University)
Working on: Effective connectivity in the thalamocortical network
Former Lab Members
Matthew Rosenberg
MontiLab RA (Currently a graduate student at CalTech)
Working on: Executive functions in disorders of consciousness
Shawn M. Callahan
UG student at UCLA
Working on: Structural changes in subcortical structures after severe TBI
Liz Brinson
UG student at UCLA
Working on: Visual processing in disorders of consciousness