Here is an overview of my research. These projects are conceptually interconnected, but I categorize them primarily by methodology—determined by the subject populations studied and the specific experimental approaches employed.
SPLIT-BRAIN RESEARCH
Disconnection Syndrome: Examining the behavioral effects of hemispheric severance on perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes.
Functional and Structural Brain Networks: Investigating how the functional and structural brain networks react to hemispheric severance.
Consciousness in Split-Brain Patients: Exploring the implications of interhemispheric disconnection for theories of consciousness and subjective experience.
INTERHEMISPHERIC INTERACTION in COGNITION
Interhemispheric Interaction Guiding Behavior under Uncertainty: Exploring the role of the interhemispheric interaction in task performance as perceptual uncertainty increases, particularly in lateralized cognitive functions like face or word recognition.
Right-Lateralized Networks in Cognitive Control: Disentangling whether right hemisphere contributions to the Go/No-Go task relate specifically to response inhibition or to a broader attentional process like detection.
Unpacking the Visual Field Asymmetries in Lexical Processing: Examining how visual field presentation (left, right, both), display orientation (horizontal vs. vertical), and response hand influence performance in a lexical decision task, using Drift-Diffusion Model (DDM).
SENSE OF AGENCY
Lateralization in Sense of Agency: Modifying existing experimental paradigms (e.g., Intentional Binding and Cognitive Control tasks) to create lateralized versions that probe the sense of agency formation (specifically weighting prospective and retrospective signals) within and across hemispheres.
This project was developed through my participation in the Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) at Duke University, where we were awarded a grant.