Dr Giorgio Ganis

Professional membership

• Society for Neuroscience
• Cognitive Neuroscience Society
• Society for Psychophysiological Research
• Psychonomic Society

Teaching interests

• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Cognitive Psychology
• Social Neuroscience

Research interests

I'm interested in using behavioral and cognitive neuroscience methods to study:

• Higher level vision and cognition
• Visual mental imagery, visual attention, working memory, semantic memory
• Social cognition and its relationship with spatial cognition
• Deception, veracity assessment, and self-deception
• Practice and training effects and individual differences in the above domains

• Functional magnetic resonance imaging
• Electroencephalography
• Transcranial magnetic stimulation
• Transcranial direct current stimulation
• Functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Research groups

• Brain Research & Imaging Centre (BRIC)
• Neuroscience

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

Conferences organised

Co-organizer of the Spatial Training Conference, Cambridge, MA, May 2010 (sponsored by the National Science Foundation)

Other academic activities