
Profiles
Dr Giorgio Ganis
Associate Professor (Reader) in Cognitive Neuroscience
School of Psychology (Faculty of Health)
- Psychology
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Veracity and deception
- Mental imagery
- Brain-computer interfaces
- Neuromarketing
Email publicrelations@plymouth.ac.uk to enquire.
Biography
Biography
Professional membership
- Society for Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience Society
- Society for Psychophysiological Research
- Psychonomic Society
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Cognitive Psychology
- Social Neuroscience
Research
Research
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
For my research I have been using the following cognitive neuroscience techniques:
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging
- Electroencephalography
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation
- Transcranial direct current stimulation
- Functional near-infrared spectroscopy
Research groups
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
2012-2016: Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (CIG), Giorgio Ganis, PI. Cognitive Neuroscience of Deception (CoND). € 100,000.
2010-2014: US Government, Giorgio Ganis, PI. Neuroimaging investigations of deception. $750,000.
2009-2010: MGHECOR ,Giorgio Ganis, PI. Neural correlates of deception. $57,500.
2009-2010: National Science Foundation (SBE-0823506), Giorgio Ganis, PI.Neural correlates of action videogame training. $156,540.
2004-2008: Na tional Science Foundation (BCS-0322611), Stephen Kosslyn,PI/Giorgio Ganis, Co-PI. A taxonomy of lies: fMRI and DOT investigations of deception. $749,974.
2004-2009: NationalInstitute of Mental Health (2 R01 MH060734-05A1), Stephen Kosslyn, PI/GiorgioGanis, subcontract PI. Cognitive neuroscience of visual imagery: fMRI and TMS Studies. $1,525,812.
2004 -2007: National Institute of Mental Health (1 R21 MH068610-01A1), Giorgio Ganis, PI. DOT and fMRI studies of visual perception and imagery. $309,429.
2005 -2007: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA: FA8750-05-2-0270), Stephen Kosslyn, PI/Giorgio Ganis, Co-PI. High-level vision: top-down processing in neurally inspired architectures. $297,264.
2001 -2004: National Imagery Mapping Agency (NMA201-01-C-0032), Stephen Kosslyn, PI/Giorgio Ganis, Co-PI. Mechanisms of top-down processing: a new theory and initial tests. $230,830.
2000 -2002: McDonnell -Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience (20002039), Giorgio Ganis, PI. Cognitive neuroscience of mental image transformation: fMRI and TMS studies. $100,260.
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
JournalsPersonal
Personal
Conferences organised
Co-organizer of the Spatial Training Conference, Cambridge, MA, May 2010 (sponsored by the National Science Foundation)
Other academic activities
2006 - Present American Association for the Advancement of Science
2005 -2006 Department of Defense Polygraph Institute
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