Pruitt Family Professor
J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Florida
Biomedical Sciences Building J285
Phone: 352-273-9332
Fax: 352-273-9221
Email: mding@bme.ufl.edu
Education
- B.S., Astrophysics, Peking University, 1982
- Ph.D., Physics, University of Maryland, 1990
Research Topics
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Multivariate signal processing
- Multimodal neural imaging
Research Summary
Areas of current research activity include the following: (1) multimodal neuroimaging, (2) Granger causality and other novel methods of brain signal processing, (3) neuronal oscillations, (4) network analysis, and (5) cognitive functions and impairments in neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Selected Publications
Wen, X., Yao, L., Liu, Y., and Ding, M., “Top-down regulation of default mode activity in spatial visual attention,” Journal of Neuroscience 33(2013)6444-6453
Liu, Y., Huang, H., McGinnis, M., Keil, A., and Ding, M., “Neural substrate of the late positive potential in emotional processing,” Journal of Neuroscience 32(2012)14563–14572
Bollimunta, A., Chen, Y., Schroeder, C.E., and Ding, M., “Neuronal Mechanisms of Cortical Alpha Oscillations in Awake-behaving Macaques,” Journal of Neuroscience 28(2008)9976-9988
Ding, M., Chen, Y., and Bressler, S.L., “Granger Causality: Basic Theory and Application to Neuroscience,” in Handbook of Time Series Analysis, edited by B. Schelter, M. Winderhalder, and J. Timmer, Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim, 2006, pp. 437-460
Brovelli, A., Ding, M., Ledberg, A., Chen, Y., Nakamura, R., and Bressler, S.L., “Beta Oscillations in a Large-Scale Sensorimotor Cortical Network: Directional Influences Revealed by Granger Causality,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101(2004)9849-9854