Director, Research Imaging Facility
Eleanor Cox Riggs Professor
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Office: PY 144, Dept of Psychological & Brain Sciences,
            1101 E 10th St, Bloomington IN 47405, USA.
(812) 856-0417
ainapuce@indiana.edu

See also: Professor Puce's home page

• Post-doctoral Fellowship (Neurosurgery), Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, 1993-1994
• Ph.D. (Medicine), University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1985-1990
• Master of Applied Science (Physics) Swinburne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 1982-1985
• Bachelor of Applied Science (Biophysics/Instrumental Science), Swinburne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 1978-1981
• Higher School Certificate, The University High School, Melbourne, Australia, 1977

• Honorary Professional Fellow, Florey Neuroscience Institutes, Melbourne, Australia, 2009-present
• Eleanor Cox Riggs Professor tenured), Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University (IU), Bloomington, IN, USA, 2008-present
• Director, Imaging Research Facility, IU (Bloomington), 2008-present
• Adjunct Professor, Radiology, West Virginia University (WVU), Morgantown, WV, USA, 2008-present
• Professor (tenured), Radiology, WVU, 2008
• Professor, Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry, WVU, 2005-2008
• Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomy, WVU, 2002-2008
• Professor, Radiology (WVU) (Tenure track), 2002-2008
• Director of Neuroimaging, Center for Advanced Imaging, WVU, 2002-2008
• Adjunct Professor, Lane Dept of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, WVU, 2002-2008
• Adjunct Professor, Brain Sciences Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2002-present
• Principal Research Fellow (Honorary), National Stroke Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2002-2009
• Deputy Director, Brain Sciences Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2001-2002
• Associate Professor (tenure track), Brain Sciences Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1998-2002
• Research Scientist (Honorary), Brain Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1998-2002
• Associate Research Scientist, Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, 1994-1998
• Research Officer, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1990-1992

My research program focuses on the neural basis of social cognition - the ability to interpret the actions, intentions and emotions of others. Non-verbal communication is a main theme in the laboratory, as is the context in which the action is presented in. We are developing activation tasks that attempt to mimic real-life situations as closely as possible. Our experiments use combinations of different techniques including behavior, functional MRI, event-related potentials, eye tracking and transcranial magnetic stimulation. The final technique or techniques used are determined by the particular scientific question being asked. The laboratory has multimodal integration capability.

Post-doctoral Fellow

• Julie A Brefczynski-Lewis - Ph.D. in neuroscience (Medical College of Wisconsin), first postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Richard Davidson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

Graduate Students

• Francisco J. Parada - PhD student in Cognitive Psychology/Neuroscience at IU.
• Alejandra Rossi - PhD student in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience at IU.

Undergraduate Students

• Lisa Huang - Lisa is completing her Senior Honors Thesis in the laboratory for a BS in Psychology.

Engel, L. R., Frum, C., Puce, A., Walker, N. A. & Lewis, J. W. (2009). Different categories of living and non-living sound-sources activate distinct cortical networks. Neuroimage, 41, 1778-1791.

Petrini, K., Dahl, S., Rocchesso, D., Waadeland, C. H., Avanzini, F., Puce, A. & Pollick, F. (2009). Multisensory integration of drumming actions: musical expertise affects perceived audiovisual asynchrony. Exp Brain Res, Apr 30. [Epub ahead of print].

Brefczynski-Lewis, J., Lowitzsch, Parsons, M. W., Lemieux, S. K. & Puce, A. (2009). Audiovisual non-verbal dynamic faces elicit converging fMRI and ERP responses. Brain Topography, 21, 193-206.

Hardee, J. E., Thompson, J. C. & Puce, A. (2008). The left amygdala knows fear: Laterality in the amygdala response to fearful eyes. Social Cognitive and Affective Neurosci, 3, 47-54.

Schroeder, C. E., Lakatos, P., Kajikawa, Y., Partan, S. & Puce, A. (2008). Opinion: Neuronal oscillations and visual amplification of speech. Trends Cog Sci, 12, 106-113.

Thompson, J. C., Hardee, J. E., Panayiotou, A., Crewther, D. & Puce, A. (2007). Topographic organization of fMRI responses to viewing dynamic sequences of face and hand movements. Neuroimage, 37, 966-973.

Carrick, O. K., Thompson, J. C., Epling, J. A., Puce, A. (2007). It’s all in the eyes: neural responses to the social significance of gaze shifts. NeuroReport, 18, 763-766.

Puce, A., Epling, J. A., Thompson, J. C., Carrick, O. K. (2007). Neural responses elicited to face and vocalization pairings. Neuropsychologia, 45, 93-106.