Alexandria Zakrzewski
Kansas State University, KS·Psychology
Studying how the brain learns and changes requires tools that can both record brain activity and briefly alter it. That second ability lets researchers test whether a brain region actually causes a behavior.
- Fields
Psychology
Neuroscience
- Topics
cognitive neuroscience
electroencephalography
high-density EEG
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through May 2027
What they work on
- Establish a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and repetitive TMS suite combined with EEG, enabling virtual-lesion and neuromodulation experiments that causally test cognitive and neural plasticity.
- Provide researchers access to structural and functional MRI so they can target brain regions for TMS and localize the sources of EEG signals more accurately.
- Expand independent components analysis and neural decoding of EEG, MRI and TMS data into machine-learning tools for modeling brain data, with support from a neuroinformatics core.
More about the research
The only grant listed here does not fund the PI's own research project. It is a shared research facility, the Cognitive Neuroscience (CN) Core, within a Kansas State University research center on cognitive and neural plasticity (CNAP). The PI is listed among the researchers with current or proposed EEG and/or TMS projects who use the core.
Why it matters
The core does not state a specific health application. Its equipment, MRI access and analysis tools give the center's researchers, including this PI, the means to run causal tests of how human brain function and learning change. Those tests could eventually inform understanding of cognitive and neural plasticity.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Jessica Cassidy
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC·Neuroscience
Test whether beta-burst repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), magnetic pulses timed to the brain's 13–30 Hz movement rhythm, increases corticomuscular coherence more at a site inside the brain-muscle circuit than at a decoy site, in adults with chronic stroke.
Desmond Oathes
University of Pennsylvania, PA·Neuroscience
Establish that TMS targeted with resting-state fMRI connectivity modulates the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sgACC), a deep mood-related region, using interleaved TMS/fMRI to record brain responses to stimulation.
John Westbrook
Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ·Neuroscience·Early-career
Test whether the balance of excitatory and inhibitory cortical signaling sets how close the brain operates to a critical state, by combining scalp EEG recordings with transcranial magnetic stimulation in human participants.
The school
Kansas State University: 7 labs on PI Pages, $265M a year on research, 201 research doctorates a year.
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