Lora Likova
Likova Lab Director
Degrees: Ph.D.
My goal is to integrate multiple brain imaging techniques including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional MRI (fMRI) coupled with a unique motion-capture system, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), tensor-based brain morphometry (TBM), and electroencephalography (EEG) to study neuroplasticity, brain mechanisms of art and learning, rehabilitation of blindness, memory and spatial cognition, vision deficits in TBI, and multimodal sensorimotor processing across levels of visual impairment.
Tabs
Contact Information
2318 Fillmore St.
San Francisco, CA 94115
Room #
312328
Email:
lora@ski.org
Office Phone:
(415) 345-2066
External Links
. (2018). Comparative tensor-based morphometry of human brainstem in traumatic photophobia. Nature: Scientific Reports, (6256). Date Published 04/2018. Retrieved from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-24386-z
. (2018). Haptic aesthetics in the blind: A behavioral and fMRI investigation. IS&T: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging.
. (2018). Brain reorganization in adulthood underlying a rapid switch in handedness induced by training in memory-guided drawing. In Open Access Peer-Reviewed Chapter In “Neuroplasticity”. Ed. Chaban V.. Neuroplasticity. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.76317
. (2017). Memory-guided drawing training increases Granger causal influences from the perirhinal cortex to V1 in the blind. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 141. Date Published May 31/2017. doi:10.1016/j.nlm.2017.03.013
. (2017). Studying the Retinal Source of Photophobia by Facial Electroretinography. Optometry and Vision Science, 94(4). doi:10.1097/OPX.0001064
. (2017). Addressing long-standing controversies in conceptual knowledge representation in the temporal pole: A cross-modal paradigm. Electronic Imaging: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, pp. 268-272(5). doi:https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2017.14.HVEI-155
. (2016). The Cortical Network for Braille Writing in the Blind. Electronic Imaging, 2016, 1–6. doi:https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2016.16.HVEI-095
. (2016). Anticlockwise or Clockwise? A Dynamic Perception-Action-Laterality Model for Directionality Bias in Visuospatial Functioning. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.06.032
. (2016). Tactile object familiarity in the blind brain reveals the supramodal perceptual-mnemonic nature of the perirhinal cortex. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10, 92. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00092
. (2016). Editorial:“Neural signal estimation in the human brain”. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 10, 185. doi:https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2016.00185
. (2015). Effect of familiarity on Braille writing and reading in the blind: From graphemes to comprehension. Journal of vision, 15, 920–920. doi:10.1167/15.12.920
. (2015). Temporal evolution of brain reorganization under cross-modal training: insights into the functional architecture of encoding and retrieval networks. In IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging. International Society for Optics and Photonics. doi: 10.1117/12.2178069
. (2015). Deficits in the activation of human oculomotor nuclei in chronic traumatic brain injury. Frontiers in Neurology, 6(173), 9. doi:doi: 10.3389/fneur.2015.00173
. (2015). Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury for Human Vergence Dynamics. Frontiers in Neurology, 5. doi:10.3389/fneur.2014.00282
. (2015). Analysis of Neural-BOLD Coupling Through Four Models of the Neural Metabolic Demand. Frontiers in neuroscience, 9. doi:doi: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00419.
. (2014). Learning-Based Cross-Modal Plasticity in the Human Brain: Insights from Visual Deprivation fMRI. Advanced Brain Neuroimaging Topics in Health and Disease-Methods and Applications, 327–358. doi:10.5772/58263
. (2014). The neurometabolic underpinnings of fMRI BOLD dynamics. In Advanced Brain Neuroimaging Topics in Health and Disease-Methods and Applications:. InTech. doi:10.5772/58274
. (Jan 2013). A cross-modal perspective on the relationships between imagery and working memory. Frontier in Psyhology , 3. Date Published Jan 2013. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00561
. (2012). The spatiotopic'visual'cortex of the blind. In IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging. International Society for Optics and Photonics. doi:10.1117/12.912257
. (2012). Drawing enhances cross-modal memory plasticity in the human brain: a case study in a totally blind adult. Front. Hum. Neurosci, 6, 3389. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00044
. (2012). Analysis of human vergence dynamics. Journal of Vision, 12(11)(21), 1-19. doi:10.1167/12.11.21
. (2012). 3D discomfort from vertical and torsional disparities in natural images. In IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging. International Society for Optics and Photonics. doi:10.1117/12.915466
. (2012). The role of the visual arts in enhancing the learning process. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 6. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00008
. (2011). Estimating neural signal dynamics in the human brain. Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 5. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2011.00033
. (2010). The primary visual cortex as a modality-independent ‘screen’ for working memory. Journal of vision, 10(7). Date Published 2010. doi:10.1167/10.7.776
. (2010). Drawing in the blind and the sighted as a probe of cortical reorganization. In IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging XV. Date Published 02/2010, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging. doi:10.1117/12.849116
. (2010). An Algebra for the Analysis of Object Encoding. NeuroImage, 50, 1243–1250. doi:doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.10.091
. (2008). Occipital network for figure/ground organization. Experimental Brain Research, 189, 257–267. doi: 10.1007/s00221-008-1417-6
. (2007). Instantaneous stimulus paradigm: cortical network and dynamics of figure-ground organization. In Electronic Imaging XII, 64921E. Date Published 03/2007, International Society for Optics and Photonics. doi:10.1117/12.707556
. (2007). Crowding: A neuro-analytic approach. Journal of Vision, http:// journalofvision.org/7/2/16/ , 7(2)(16). doi:10.1167/7.2.16
. (2007). Stereomotion processing in the human occipital cortex. Neuroimage, 38, 293–305. doi:org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.06.039
. (2006). The specificity of cortical region KO to depth structure. Neuroimage, 30, 228–238. doi:doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.09.067
. (2005). Transient-based image segmentation: top-down surround suppression in human V1. In Electronic Imaging 2005. Date Published March 18/2005, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging. doi:10.1117/12.610865
. (2005). Extended concepts of occipital retinotopy. Current Medical Imaging Reviews, 1, 319–329. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/157340505774574772
. (2004). Is the hMT+/V5 complex in the human brain involved in stereomotion perception? An fMRI study. Electronic Imaging 2004. Date Published June 7/2004. doi:10.1117/12.568026
. (2004). Predominantly extra-retinotopic cortical response to pattern symmetry. Neuroimage, 24, 306–314. doi:doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.09.018
. (2003). Failure of stereomotion capture in an object disappearance paradigm. In Human Vision and Electronic Imaging. doi:10.1117/12.485517
. (2003). Spatiotemporal relationships in a dynamic scene: stereomotion induction and suppression. Journal of vision, 3. doi:10.1167/3.4.5
. (2003). Peak localization of sparsely sampled luminance patterns is based on interpolated 3D surface representation. Vision research, 43, 2649–2657. doi:org/10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00575-8
. (2000). The discrimination of abrupt changes in speed and direction of visual motion. Vision research, 40, 409–415. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00185-6
. (2000). EEG frequency dynamics during movements imagery. Acta physiologica et pharmacologica Bulgarica, 26, 115–118.
. (1988). Visual pattern recognition based on neural network models. Methodology of the Mathematical Modeling; 23: 97-102.
Likova Lab: Brain Plasticity, Learning & Neurorehabilitation
The main areas of my research are learning and brain plasticity of multimodal sensorimotor processing in the blind and the sighted.
Brain Imaging Center (BIC)
The Center is continuously implementing advanced brain imaging software options for both MRI and EEG platforms