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Giorgio Ganis Dr Giorgio Ganis
Professional membership Teaching interests Research interests
For my research I have been using the following cognitive neuroscience techniques:
Other research Selected
Conference Proceedings, Presentations and Abstracts Ganis,
Rosenfeld, J.P., & Meixner, J. (2010). Covert countermeasures
disrupt fMRI-based deception detection. Poster presented at the
Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society,
Chicago, Ill. Ganis, G.,
& Schendan, H.E. (2009). Does mental rotation recruit motion area
MT+? A multi-voxel pattern analysis. Poster presented at the Seventeenth
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco,
CA. Ganis, G.,
Maher, S., Lucia, L., & Schendan, H.E. (2008). Visual mental
imagery affects neural processes of face perception indexed by the
P150/N170 complex. Poster presented at the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of
the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA. Ganis, G.,
& Kosslyn, S. M. (2007). FMRI studies of different types of
deception. Talk given at the Forty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Society
for Psychophysiological Research, Savannah, GA. Ganis, G.,
Schendan, H. E., & Kosslyn, S. M. (2007). Role of prefrontal
control in visual object categorization: Behavioral and fMRI evidence
for object model verification theory. Poster presented at the Fifteenth
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York City, NY.
Ganis, G.,
Schendan, H. E., & Kosslyn, S. M. (2006). Neuroimaging evidence for
object model verification theory: Role of prefrontal control in visual
object categorization. Poster presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of
the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Vancouver, Canada. Ganis, G.,
& Kosslyn, S. M. (2006). FMRI studies of different types of
deception. Talk given at the Thirteenth World Congress of
Psychophysiology, Istanbul, Turkey. Ganis, G.,
Thompson, W. L., & Kosslyn, S. M. (2005). Understanding the effects
of task-specific practice in the brain: insights from individual
differences analyses. Poster presented at the Thirty-fifth Annual
Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Ganis, G.,
Kosslyn, S. M., Stose, S., Thompson, W. L., & Yurgelun-Todd, D. A.
(2003). Neural correlates of different types of deception: an fMRI
investigation. Poster presented at the Thirty-third Annual Meeting of
the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA. Amick, M. M., Schendan, H. E., Ganis, G.,
Neargarder, S. A., & Cronin-Golomb, A. (2003). Frontostriatal
circuits are involved in visuomotor transformation: evidence from mental
rotation in Parkinson's disease. Poster presented at the Thirty-third
Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA. Theoret, H., Kobayashi, M., Ganis, G.,
& Pascual-Leone, A. (2001). Repetitive stimulation of areas MT/V5
disrupts storage of the motion aftereffect. Poster presented at the
Thirty-first Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego,
CA. Sparing, R., Ganis, G.,
Thompson, W. L., Kosslyn, S. M., & Pascual-Leone, A. (2001). Visual
cortex excitability increases during visual imagery – a TMS study.
Poster presented at the Human Brain Mapping Conference, Brighton, UK. Ganis, G.,
Thompson, W. L., & Kosslyn, S. M. (2001). An fMRI investigation of
striate cortex activation during visual imagery and perception. Poster
presented at the Thirty-first Annual Meeting of the Society for
Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Ganis, G.,
& Kutas, M. (2001). Visual scene effects on object identification:
an electrophysiological investigation. Poster presented at the Eight
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY. Keenan, J. P., Ganis, G.,
Hamilton, R., & Pascual-Leone, A. (2000). Poster presented at the
Seventh Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San
Francisco, CA. Ganis, G.,
Keenan, J. P., Pascual-Leone, A., & Kosslyn, S. M. (1999).
Transcranial magnetic stimulation of primary motor cortex affects mental
rotation, Poster presented at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society Washington, DC. Zhang, K., Ganis, G.,
& Sereno, M. I. (1997). Antihebbian synapses as a linear equation
solver. Poster presented at the International Conference on Neural
Networks, Houston, TX. Ganis, G.,
Kutas, M., Schendan, H. E., & Dale, A. M. (1997). DOC: a direct
method for temporal overlap correction of ERP and fMRI responses. Poster
presented at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience
Society, Boston, MA. Ganis, G.,
Schendan, H. E., & Kutas, M. (1996). Using ERPs to Look in the Face
of Words. Poster presented at the Third Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA. Ganis, G.,
Schendan, H. E., & Kutas, M. (1996). What do faces and
letterstrings have in common? Early ERPs evidence. Poster presented at
the Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience,
Washington, DC. Schendan, H. E., Ganis, G.,
& Kutas, M. (1995). Reading pictures viewing text: an electrifying
view. Poster presented at the Second Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA. Ganis, G.,
Schendan, H. E., & Kutas, M. (1995). Reading Pictures, Viewing
Text: An Event Related Potential Study. Poster presented at the
Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego,
CA. Ganis, G.,
Kutas, M., & Sereno, M. I. (1995). Freeing the ERPs: freeware for
high quality spatial map construction and presentation. Poster presented
at the Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for
Psychophysiological Research, Toronto, Canada. Ganis, G.,
Sereno, M. I., & Kutas, M. (1994). The search for common sense: An
electrophysiological investigations of the semantic analysis of words
and pictures in sentences. Poster presented at the First Annual Meeting
of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA. Casco, C., & Ganis, G. (1993).
Perception of the Conjunction of Features in Static and Moving
Displays. Poster presented at the Sixteenth European Conference on
Visual Perception, Edinburgh, UK. Schendan, H. E., & Ganis, G. (1992).
Hebbian learning of artificial grammars. Poster presented at the
Fourteenth Annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society,
Bloomington, IN. Ganis, G.,
& Zhang, K. (1992). A competitive Learning Model for the Neurons in
area 7a. Poster presented at the Twenty-second Annual Meeting of the
Society for Neuroscience, Anaheim, CA. Ganis, G.,
Bressan, P., & Vallortigara, G. (1992). Stratification and the
Aperture Problem. Poster presented at the Fifteenth European Conference
on Visual Perception, Pisa, Italy Schendan, H. E., & Ganis, G. (1992). Hebbian learning of artificial grammars. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 838-843. Gruen, D., Ganis, G., & Gobbel, R. (1991). The microgenetic analysis of an origami task. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 739-743. Ganis, G., & Chater, N. (1991). Can double dissociations uncover the modularity of cognitive processes? Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 714-718. Chater, N., & Ganis, G. (1991). Double dissociations and isolable cognitive systems. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 668-672. Gruen, D., Ganis, G.,
& Gobbel, R. (1991). The microgenetic analysis of an origami task.
Poster presented at the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society, Chicago, IL. Ganis, G., & Chater, N. (1991). Can double dissociations uncover the modularity of cognitive processes? Poster presented at the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, IL. Chater, N., & Ganis, G. (1991).
Double dissociations and isolable cognitive systems. Poster presented
at the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,
Chicago, IL. Ganis, G.,
& Casco, C. (1990). Rigidity and Non-Rigidity in the Kinetic Depth
Effect. Poster presented at the Thirteenth European Conference on Visual
Perception, Paris. Grants & contracts Publications Peer-reviewed publications and book chapters Ganis, G., Rosenfeld, J.P., Meixner, J., Kievit, R.A., Schendan, H.E. (2011). Lying in the scanner: Covert countermeasures disrupt deception detection by functional magnetic resonance imaging. NeuroImage, 55(1), 312-319. Ganis, G., Rosenfeld, J.P. (Accepted). Neural correlates of deception. In J. Illes & B.J. Sahakian (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics. Ganis, G., Schendan, H. E.. (2011). Visual imagery. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2(3), 239-252. Ganis, G., Kosslyn, S. M. (in press). Imagery, neurobiological approaches. In P. Wilken, T. Bayne & A. Cleeremans (Eds.), Oxford Companion to Consciousness. Oxford University Press. Ganis, G., Patnaik, P. (2009). Detecting concealed knowledge using a novel attentional blink paradigm. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 34(3), 189-196. Ganis, G., Thompson W. L., Kosslyn S. M. (2009). Visual mental imagery: more than just “seeing with the mind’s eye”. In Brockmole J.R. (Ed.), The Visual World in Memory (pp. 215-249). Psychology Press. Kosslyn, S.M., Thompson, W. L., & Ganis, G. (2009). Why the imagery debate won’t go away? In Gazzaniga, M.S. (Ed.), The Cognitive Neurosciences IV (pp. 1241-1246). MIT Press. Ganis, G., Keenan, J. P. (2009). The cognitive neuroscience of deception. Social Neuroscience, 4(6), 465-472. Ganis, G., Morris, R. R., Kosslyn, S. M. (2009). Neural processes underlying self-and other-related lies: An individual difference approach using fMRI. Social Neuroscience, 4(6), 539-553. Kelly, J. K., Murray, E., Barrios, V., Gorman, J., Ganis, G., Keenan, J. P. (2009). The effect of deception on motor cortex excitability. Social Neuroscience, 4(6), 570-574. Ganis, G. & Kosslyn, S. M. (2009). Detection of deception and brain imaging. In: A. Jamieson & A. Moenssens (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Forensic Science. Wiley. Zhang, Q, Strangman, G. E., #Ganis, G. (2009). Adaptive filtering to reduce global interference in noninvasive NIRS measures of brain activation: How well and when does it work? Neuroimage, 45(3), 788-794. *Wright, W., *Thompson, W. L., *Ganis, G., Newcombe, N. S., Kosslyn, S. M. (2008). Training generalized spatial skills. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 15(4), 763-771. Ganis, G., Schendan, H. E. (2008). Visual mental imagery and perception produce opposite adaptation effects on early brain potentials. Neuroimage, 42(4), 1714-1727. Barrios, V., Kwan, V. S., Ganis, G., Gorman, J., Romanowski, J., Keenan, J.P. (2008). Elucidating the neural correlates of egoistic and moralistic self-enhancement. Consciousness and Cognition, 17(2), 451-456. Ganis, G., Schendan, H. E., & Kosslyn, S. M. (2007). Neuroimaging evidence for object model verification theory: Role of prefrontal control in visual object categorization. Neuroimage, 34(1), 384-398. Ganis, G., & Kosslyn, S. M. (2007). Multiple mechanisms of top-down processing in vision. In S. Funahashi (Ed.), Representation and Brain. Tokyo: Springer Verlag, 21-45. Kwan, V. S., Barrios, V., Ganis, G., Gorman, J., Lange, C., Kumar. M., Shepard, A., Keenan, J.P. (2007) Assessing the neural correlates of self-enhancement bias: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Experimental Brain Research, 182(3), 379-385. Amick, M. M., Schendan, H. E., Ganis, G., & Cronin-Golomb, A. (2006). Frontostriatal circuits are necessary for visuomotor transformation: mental rotation in Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia, 44(3), 339-349. Ganis, G., Thompson, W. L., & Kosslyn, S. M. (2005). Understanding the effects of task-specific practice in the brain: insights from individual-differences analyses. Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 5(2), 235-245. Kosslyn, S. M., Ganis, G., & Thompson, W. L. (2004). Visual mental imagery. In G. Richard (Ed.), Oxford Companion to the Mind (second edition) (pp. 585-587). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Ganis, G., Thompson, W. L., Mast, F. W., & Kosslyn, S. M. (2004). The brain's mind's images: the cognitive neuroscience of mental imagery. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The cognitive Neurosciences (pp. 931-942). Boston, MA: MIT Press. Ganis, G., Thompson, W. L., & Kosslyn, S. M. (2004). Brain areas underlying visual mental imagery and visual perception: an fMRI study. Brain Research Cognitive Brain Research, 20(2), 226-241. Mast, F. W., Ganis, G., Christie, S., & Kosslyn, S. M. (2003). Four types of visual mental imagery processing in upright and tilted observers. Brain Research Cognitive Brain Research, 17(2), 238-247. Kosslyn, S. M., Ganis, G., & Thompson, W. L. (2003). Mental imagery: against the nihilistic hypothesis. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(3), 109-111. Ganis, G., Thompson, W. L., Mast, F. W., & Kosslyn, S. M. (2003). Visual imagery in cerebral visual dysfunction. Neurologic Clinics, 21(3), 631-646. Ganis, G., & Kutas, M. (2003). An electrophysiological study of scene effects on object identification. Brain Research Cognitive Brain Research, 16(2), 123-144. Ganis, G., Kosslyn, S. M., Stose, S., Thompson, W. L., & Yurgelun-Todd, D. A. (2003). Neural correlates of different types of deception: an fMRI investigation. Cerebral Cortex, 13(8), 830-836. Theoret, H., Kobayashi, M., Ganis, G., Di Capua, P., & Pascual-Leone, A. (2002). Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of human area MT/V5 disrupts perception and storage of the motion aftereffect. Neuropsychologia, 40(13), 2280-2287. Sparing, R., Mottaghy, F. M., Ganis, G., Thompson, W. L., Topper, R., Kosslyn, S. M., et al. (2002). Visual cortex excitability increases during visual mental imagery: a TMS study in healthy human subjects. Brain Research, 938(1-2), 92-97. Kosslyn, S. M., Ganis, G., & Thompson, W. L. (2002). Mental imagery does not work like that. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 198-200. Ganis, G., & Kosslyn, S. M. (2002). Neuroimaging. In V. S. Ramachandran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Human Brain (pp. 493-506). San Diego, CA: Academic Press. Kosslyn, S. M., Ganis, G., & Thompson, W. L. (2001). Neural foundations of imagery. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2(9), 635-642. Keenan, J. P., Ganis, G., Freund, S., & Pascual-Leone, A. (2000). Self-face identification is increased with left hand responses. Laterality, 5(3), 259-268. Keenan, J. P., Freund, S., Hamilton, R. H., Ganis, G., & Pascual-Leone, A. (2000). Hand response differences in a self-face identification task. Neuropsychologia, 38(7), 1047-1053. Ganis, G., Keenan, J. P., Kosslyn, S. M., & Pascual-Leone, A. (2000). Transcranial magnetic stimulation of primary motor cortex affects mental rotation. Cerebral Cortex, 10(2), 175-180. Kosslyn, S. M., Pascual-Leone, A., Felician, O., Camposano, S., Keenan, J. P., Thompson, W. L., Ganis, G., Sukel, K.E. & Alpert, N.M. (1999). The role of area 17 in visual imagery: convergent evidence from PET and rTMS. Science, 284(5411), 167-170. Casco, C., & Ganis, G. (1999). Parallel search for conjunctions with stimuli in apparent motion. Perception, 28(1), 89-108. *Schendan, H. E., *Ganis, G., & Kutas, M. (1998). Neurophysiological evidence for visual perceptual categorization of words and faces within 150 ms. Psychophysiology, 35(3), 240-251. Zhang, K., Ganis, G., & Sereno, M. I. (1997). Antihebbian synapses as a linear equation solver. Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Networks, 387-389. King, J. W., Ganis, G., & Kutas, M. (1997). Potential asymmetries in language comprehension: in search of the electrical right. In M. Beeman & C. Chiarello (Eds.), Right hemisphere language comprehension: perspectives from cognitive neuroscience (pp. 187-214). San Diego, CA: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc. Ganis, G., Sereno, M. I., & Kutas, M. (1996). The search for common sense: An electrophysiological investigation of the semantic analysis of words and pictures in sentences. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 8, 89-106. Ganis, G., Casco, C., & Roncato, S. (1993). Perceived rigidity and nonrigidity in the kinetic depth effect. Perception, 22(1), 23-34. Ganis, G., Casco, C., & Roncato, S. (1993). Rigid and non-rigid kinetic depth effect with rotating discrete helices. Psychological Research, 55(1), 1-9. Bressan, P., Ganis, G., & Vallortigara, G. (1993). The role of depth stratification in the solution of the aperture problem. Perception, 22(2), 215-228. Ganis, G., Casco, C., & Roncato, S. (1990). The effect of spatial factors in the perception of rigid and non-rigid structure-from-motion. Contributi di Psicologia, 1, 69-83. *Authors contributed equally # Corresponding author Books Kosslyn, S.M., Thompson, W.L., Ganis, G. (2006). The case for visual imagery. Oxford University Press. Reports & invited lectures Conferences organised Other academic activities
Ad hoc reviewer (Grants & Contracts)
2006 - Present National Science Foundation 2006 -Present American Association for the Advancement of Science 2005 -2006 Department of Defense Polygraph Institute
Ad-hoc reviewer (Journals)
2009 – Present Applied Cognitive Psychology 2009 – Present International Journal of Psychophysiology 2009 – Present Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 2008 – Present Physiology & Behavior 2008 – Present Visual Cognition 2008 – Present Behavioral Brain Research 2008 – Present The Open Forensic Science Journal 2007 – Present British Journal of Psychology 2007 – Present Journal of Forensic Sciences 2007 – Present Cortex 2007 – Present Learning and Individual Differences 2006 – Present Journal of Vision 2006 – Present Brain and Cognition 2006 -Present Journal of Neuroscience 2006 -Present Experimental Brain Research 2006 -Present Psychological Bulletin and Review 2006 – Present Neuroscience Letters 2005 – Present Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2005 -Present Social Neuroscience 2005 -Present European Journal of Cognitive Psychology 2006 – Present Cognition 2004 -Present Human Brain Mapping 2004 -Present Neuroscience Letters 2003 -Present NeuroImage 2002 -Present Cerebral Cortex 2001 -Present Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2000 -Present Cognitive Brain Research 1998 -Present Psychophysiology |
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