Marty G. Woldorff
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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Overview
Dr. Woldorff's main research interest is in the cognitive neuroscience of attention. At each and every moment of our lives, we are bombarded by a welter of sensory information coming at us from a myriad of directions and through our various sensory modalities -- much more than we can fully process. We must continuously select and extract the most important information from this welter of sensory inputs. How the human brain accomplishes this is one of the core challenges of modern cognitive neuroscience. Dr. Woldorff uses a combination of electrophysiological (ERP, MEG) and functional neuroimaging (fMRI) methods to study the time course, functional neuroanatomy, and mechanisms of attentional processes. This multimethodological approach is directed along several main lines of research: (1) The influence of attention on sensory and perceptual processing; (2) Cognitive and attentional control mechanisms; (3) The role of attention in multisensory environments; (4) The interactive relationship between attention and reward; and (5) The role of attention in perceptual awareness.
Selected Grants
Neurobiology Training Program awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 2019 to 2024
Elucidating mechanisms underlying fluctuations of sustained attention and their influence on memory awarded by National Institutes of Health (Co-Sponsor). 2020 to 2023
Physical Resiliencies: Indicators and Mechanisms in the Elderly Collaborative (PRIME Collaborative) awarded by National Institutes of Health (Investigator). 2017 to 2021
A Phase II Study of an ApoE mimetic peptide to reduce Postoperative Delirium, Cognitive Dysfunction after Non-Cardiac Surgery in Older Adults awarded by Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (Co Investigator). 2018 to 2021
Cortical tracking of speech-specific temporal structure in familiar vs. foreign awarded by National Institutes of Health (Co Investigator). 2018 to 2021
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Memory Reactivation awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2018 to 2020
The Modulatory Role of Reward on Attentional Brain Processes awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2006 to 2019
Basic predoctoral training in neuroscience awarded by National Institutes of Health (Training Faculty). 1992 to 2018
Path Toward MRI with Direct Sensitivity to Neuro-Electro-Magnetic Oscillations awarded by National Institutes of Health (Co Investigator). 2014 to 2018
A Compute Cluster for Brain Imaging and Analysis awarded by National Institutes of Health (Minor User). 2016 to 2017
Pages
Bachman, Matthew D., et al. “Physical Salience and Value-Driven Salience Operate through Different Neural Mechanisms to Enhance Attentional Selection.” J Neurosci, vol. 40, no. 28, July 2020, pp. 5455–64. Pubmed, doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1198-19.2020. Full Text
Donohue, Sarah E., et al. “Electroencephalography reveals a selective disruption of cognitive control processes in craving cigarette smokers.” Eur J Neurosci, vol. 51, no. 4, Feb. 2020, pp. 1087–105. Pubmed, doi:10.1111/ejn.14622. Full Text
Whitehead, Peter S., et al. “Neural Dynamics of Cognitive Control over Working Memory Capture of Attention.” J Cogn Neurosci, vol. 31, no. 7, July 2019, pp. 1079–90. Pubmed, doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01409. Full Text
Truong, Trong-Kha, et al. “Toward direct MRI of neuro-electro-magnetic oscillations in the human brain.” Magn Reson Med, vol. 81, no. 6, June 2019, pp. 3462–75. Pubmed, doi:10.1002/mrm.27654. Full Text
DeWind, Nicholas K., et al. “Numerical encoding in early visual cortex.” Cortex, vol. 114, May 2019, pp. 76–89. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2018.03.027. Full Text
Berger, Miles, et al. “The INTUIT Study: Investigating Neuroinflammation Underlying Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction.” J Am Geriatr Soc, vol. 67, no. 4, Apr. 2019, pp. 794–98. Pubmed, doi:10.1111/jgs.15770. Full Text Open Access Copy
Bugden, Stephanie, et al. “Shared and distinct neural circuitry for nonsymbolic and symbolic double-digit addition.” Hum Brain Mapp, vol. 40, no. 4, Mar. 2019, pp. 1328–43. Pubmed, doi:10.1002/hbm.24452. Full Text
van den Berg, Berry, et al. “A key role for stimulus-specific updating of the sensory cortices in the learning of stimulus-reward associations.” Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, vol. 14, no. 2, Feb. 2019, pp. 173–87. Pubmed, doi:10.1093/scan/nsy116. Full Text
Giattino, Charles M., et al. “Neural processes underlying the orienting of attention without awareness.” Cortex, vol. 102, May 2018, pp. 14–25. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2017.07.010. Full Text
Park, Joonkoo, et al. “Developmental trajectory of neural specialization for letter and number visual processing.” Dev Sci, vol. 21, no. 3, May 2018, p. e12578. Pubmed, doi:10.1111/desc.12578. Full Text