aarlenne khan

aarlenne zein khan

postdoctoral fellow

smith-kettlewell eye research institute
2318 fillmore street
san francisco, california
usa 94115

415.345.2145
aarlenne@ski.org

biography

2006 - present	Postdoctoral Fellow Supervisors: Dr. Robert McPeek & Dr. Stephen Heinen Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA
2006	Postdoctoral fellow Supervisor: Dr. Masato Taira Division of Applied System Neuroscience, Advanced Medical Research Center Nihon University Graduate School of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan
2002 - 2006	Ph.D. in Psychology Supervisor: Dr. J. Douglas Crawford York University, Toronto, Canada
2003 - 2006	Ph.D. in Neuroscience Supervisor : Dr. Yves Rossetti Université Claude Bernard , Lyon, France
2000 - 2002	M.A. in Psychology Supervisor: Dr. J. Douglas Crawford York University, Toronto, Canada
1995 - 2000	B.A., Specialized Honours in Psychology York University, Toronto, Canada

funding and awards

2007	Canadian Psychological Association Certificate of Excellence for PhD Dissertation « Spatial representation fo visually-guided movements in intact subjects and neurological patients»
2006 - 2009	Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellowship Award Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canada
2006	Japan Summer Fellowship Award Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan
2006	E. Lynn Kirshner Memorial Scholarship York University, Toronto, Canada
2004 - 2006	Joint PhD Award Province of Rhône-Alpes, France
2004 - 2006	NSERC Postgraduate Doctoral Scholarship Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada
2002 - 2004	CIHR Doctoral Research Scholarship Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canada
2002 - 2003	Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined) Province of Ontario, Canada
2000	Graduate Entrance Scholarship York University, Toronto, Canada
1999	Continuing Student Scholarship (Undergraduate) York University, Toronto, Canada
1998	Continuing Student Scholarship (Undergraduate) York University, Toronto, Canada
1995	Undergraduate Entrance Scholarship York University, Toronto, Canada

publications

refereed publications	2009	Khan AZ, Blangero A, Rossetti Y, Salemme R, Luauté J, Deubel H, Schneider WX, Laverdure N, Rode G, Boisson D, Pisella L Parietal damage dissociates saccade planning from presaccadic perceptual facilitation. Cerebral Cortex, 19(2): 383-387. [get pdf]
	2009	Khan AZ, Blohm G, McPeek RM, Lefevre P Differential influence of attention on gaze and head movements. Journal of Neurophysiology, 101(1):198-202. [get pdf]
	2008	Blohm G, Khan AZ, Ren L, Schreiber KM, Crawford JD. Depth estimation from retinal disparity requires eye and head orientation signals. Journal of Vision, 8(15):3, 1-23. [get pdf]
	2007	Khan AZ, Crawford JD, Blohm G, Uzquizar C, Rossetti Y, Pisella, L Effects of initial hand position on reach errors in optic ataxic and normal subjects. Journal of Vision - Special Issue - Sensorimotor processing of goal-directed movements, 7(5): 4, 1-16. [get pdf]
	2006	Ren L, Khan AZ, Blohm G, Henriques DYP, Sergio LE, Crawford JD Proprioceptive guidance of saccades in eye-hand coordination. Journal of Neurophysiology, 96(3):1464-77. [get pdf]
	2005	Khan AZ, Pisella L, Vighetto A, Cotton F, Luaute J, Boisson D, Salemme R, Crawford JD, Rossetti Y Optic ataxia errors depend on remapped, not viewed, target location. Nature Neuroscience, 8(4):418-420. [get pdf]
	2005	Khan AZ, Pisella L, Rossetti Y, Vighetto A, Crawford JD Impairment of gaze-centered updating of reach targets in bilateral parietal-occipital damaged patients. Cerebral Cortex,15(10):1547-60. [get pdf]
	2003	Crawford JD, Henriques DYP, Medendorp MD, Khan AZ Ocular kinematics and eye-hand coordination. Strabismus, 11(1), 33-47. [get pdf]
	2003	Khan AZ, Crawford, JD Coordinating one hand with two eyes: Optimizing for field of view in a pointing task. Vision Research, 43 (4), 409 417. [get pdf]
	2001	Khan AZ, Crawford JD Ocular dominance reverses as a function of gaze angle. Vision Research, 41, 1743 - 1748. [get pdf]

chapters/ reviews	2008	Khan AZ, Pisella L, Blangero A, Rossetti Y, Crawford JD Sensorimotor aspects of reach deficits in optic ataxia. in Cortical Mechanisms of Vision, Cambridge University Press (in press)
	2008	Blohm G, Khan AZ, Crawford JD Spatial transformations for eye-hand control. in The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Elsevier (in press)
	2002	Henriques DYP, Medendorp WP, Khan AZ, Crawford JD Visuomotor transformations for eye-hand coordination. Progress in Brain Research, 140, 329 - 40. [get pdf]

monographs	2006	Spatial representation for visually-guided movements in intact subjects and neurological patients. PhD dissertation. Defended April 2006
	2002	The role of gaze direction in binocular eye-hand alignment. Master's thesis. Defended April 2002

conference publications	2009	Khan AZ, Blangero A, Rossetti Y, Salemme R, Luaute J, Deubel H, Schneider WX, Laverdure N, Rode G, Pisella L Saccade planning is dissociated from pre-saccadic attentional facilitation after damage to the posterior parietal cortex. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2009. Slide presentation
	2009	Khan AZ, Takahashi N, Heinen SJ, McPeek RM The spatial extent of attentional facilitation and inhibition of return in humans and monkeys. Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) 2009. Poster presentation
	2008	Khan AZ, Heinen SJ, McPeek RM Attention at the motor goal, not the target location, facilitates adapted saccades Society for Neuroscience 2008. Slide presentation
	2008	Khan AZ, Takahashi N, Heinen SJ, McPeek RM The spatial extent of attention for saccades:attentional facilitation compared to inhibtion of return in humans and monkeys. 8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society 2008. Poster presentation
	2008	Khan AZ, Blohm G, McPeek RM, Lefevre P Attentional cues differently affect eye and head latencies in head-unstrained gaze shifts. Neural Control of Movement Society 2008. Poster presentation
	2008	Khan AZ, Heinen SJ, McPeek RM Differentiated visual and motor components of cueing effects on saccades. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2008. Poster presentation
	2007	Khan AZ, Blangero A, Pisella L, Heinen SJ, McPeek RM Differentiated visual and motor components of cueing effects on saccades Society for Neuroscience 2007. Poster presentation
	2007	Khan AZ, Pisella L, Blohm G, Rossetti Y, Crawford JD Reach errors depend on both target and initial hand positions in multiple reference frames in unilateral parietal damaged patients. Centre for Vision Research Meeting 2007. Poster presentation
	2007	Khan AZ, Blohm G, Ren L, Crawford JD Independent gaze-centered representations of reach targets viewed with left vs. right eye 7th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society 2007. Poster presentation
	2007	Blohm G, Khan AZ, Schreiber KM, Ren L, Crawford JD The role of extraretinal signals in egocentric depth estimation. 7th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society 2007. Poster presentation
	2007	Khan AZ, Katsuyama N, Schreiber N, Usui N, Haji T, Taira M Activity in the human parietal cortex is modulated by target location when pointing to targets in depth Neural Control of Movement Society 2007. Poster presentation.
	2006	Khan AZ, Pisella L, Blohm G, Rossetti Y, Crawford JD Hand and target positions in multiple reference frames affect reach errors in unilateral parietal damaged patients. Society for Neuroscience 2006. Slide presentation
	2006	Khan AZ, Pisella L, Rossetti Y, Crawford JD Initial hand position and movement direction affect reaching in a unilateral optic ataxia patient Vision Sciences Society Meeting 2006. Poster presentation
	2005	Khan AZ, Pisella L, Rossetti Y, Crawford JD Target and initial hand position affect gaze-centered reaching in a unilateral optic ataxia patient. Society for Neuroscience 2005. Poster presentation
	2005	Khan AZ, Martinez- Trujillo J, Crawford JD Attention modulates saccade latency but not kinematics. Vision Sciences Society Meeting 2005. Poster presentation
	2004	Khan AZ, Ren L, Crawford, JD The eye-hand coordination system synthesizes a common eye-centered internal representation of space for both arms. Society for Neuroscience 2004. Poster presentation
	2004	Khan AZ, Pisella L, Crawford JD, Rossetti Y Errors in optic ataxia result from a damaged internal eye-centred representation. 4th Forum for European Neurosciences 2004. Poster presentation
	2003	Khan AZ, Pisella L, Crawford JD, Rossetti Y Errors in reaching in unilateral optic ataxia reflect a faulty eye-centred spatial representation. Society of Neuroscience 2003. Slide presentation
	2003	Khan AZ, Rossetti Y, Crawford JD Eye-centered remapping in patients with bilateral parietal lobe lesions. Vision Sciences Society Meeting 2003. Poster presentation
	2002	Khan AZ, Crawford JD, Rossetti Y Updating of visual information across a delay in normals and optic ataxia patients. Society of Neuroscience 2002. Poster presentation
	2002	Khan AZ, Crawford JD Eye-hand alignment in a pointing task varies with gaze direction. 3rd Forum for European Neurosciences 2002. Poster presentation
	2002	Khan AZ, Crawford JD Gaze angle dependency of ocular dominance in a pointing task. Annual Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology Meeting 2002. Poster presentation
	2001	Khan AZ, Crawford JD Coordinating one hand with two eyes: gaze-dependent reversal of ocular dominance in a pointing task. Society of Neuroscience 2001. Poster presentation
	2000	Khan AZ, Crawford JD Eye position dependence of ocular dominance in a reaching/grasping task. Society of Neuroscience 2000. Poster presentation

invited talks

2008	Interactions between attention and visually-guided movements Toronto, Canada Centre for Vision Research, York University, August 2008
2008	Interactions between attention and visually-guided movements Kingston, Canada Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University,August 2008
2008	IAttention and visually-guided actions London, Canada Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, August 2008
2008	Interactions between attention and visually-guided actions Victoria, Canada Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, March 2008
2007	Representations of reach space in parietal damaged patients Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Center for Systems Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Graduate Colleges in Neurosciences, Université catholique de Louvain, April 2007
2007	Spatial representations for visually-guided movements in parietal damaged patients Bron, France Inserm 864, April 2007
2006	Imaging of brain areas involved in pointing movements to objects in 3D space Tokyo, Japan Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Summer Program Annual Meeting, August 2006
2006	Spatial representations for visually-guided movements in intact and neurological patients Tokyo, Japan Applied Systems Neuroscience Division, Nihon University Graduate Medical School, June 2006
2006	Representations of space for visually-guided movements in parietal damaged patients. Toronto, Canada HSF Centre for Stroke Recovery, Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre. March 2006
2006	Representations of space for visually-guided movements in parietal damaged patients. San Francisco, California, USA Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, January 2006
2004	Eye-hand coordination in parietal patients. Toronto, Canada Centre for Vision Research, January 2004.
2003	Eye-hand coordination in parietal damaged patients. Toronto, Canada University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus, March 2003.
2002	The role of gaze direction in binocular eye hand alignment. Lyon, France Espace et Action, Inserm 534, January 2002

last updated: Jan 27, 2009