Thaddeus Polk Ph.D.
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Dr. Polk’s research area is cognitive neuroscience. With support from the NIH, he is using functional MRI to study the neural architecture underlying reading, bilingualism, and number processing. He also works on developing computationally explicit theories of cognitive architecture, particularly, prefrontal control and verbal working memory
Polk, T.A. & Newell, A.: Deduction as verbal reasoning. Psychological Review 102(3), 533-566, 1995.
Polk, T.A. & Farah, M.: Late experience alters vision. Nature 376, 648-49, 1995.
Polk, T.A. & Farah, M.: Brain localization for arbitrary stimulus categories: A simple account based on Hebbian learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 92, 12370-3, 1995.
Polk,T.A. & Farah, M. A simple common contexts explanation for the development of abstract letter identities. Neural Computation 9(6): 1275-1287, 1997.
Polk, T.A. & Farah, M.: The neural development and organization of letter recognition: Evidence from functional neuroimaging, computational modeling, and behavioral studies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 95, 847-852, 1998.
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