Jared Medina

Visiting Assistant Research Professor
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania

Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Haverford College
Email: jared DOT medina AT uphs DOT upenn DOT edu



CV (last updated: Oct 1, 2011)

 

Research Interests

  • How we represent the body
    • Behavioral correlates of neural plasticity
    • Interhemispheric inhibition (synchiria)
    • Higher-order body representations
  • How we represent space
    • Neural correlates of egocentric/allocentric processing
    • Reference frames of higher-order body representations
    • Representing space around the body (peripersonal space)
  • The integration of action and body representations
    • How the motor plan contributes to limb localization
    • Imagined movements in neurologically impaired populations
    • Visually-guided reaching after brain damage

 

Research Methods

  • Cognitive experiments with neurologically impaired populations
    • Brain damage (stroke, resection)
    • Peripheral deafferentation
    • Chronic pain
  • Non-invasive brain stimulation
    • Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
    • Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
  • Cognitive experimens with neurologically intact populations

 

Publications

  • Khurshid, S., Trupe, L.A., Newhart, M., Davis, C., Molitoris, J.J., Medina, J., Leigh, R., & Hillis, A.E. (2011). Reperfusion of Specific Cortical Areas is Associated with Improvement in Distinct Forms of Hemispatial Neglect. Cortex, in press. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2011.01.003
  • Medina, J., Jax, S.A., Brown, M.J., & Coslett, H.B. (2010). Contributions of Efference Copy to Limb Localization: Evidence from Deafferentation. Brain Research, 1355, 104-111. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2010.07.063
  • Coslett, H.B., Medina, J., Kliot, D., & Burkey, A. (2010). Mental motor imagery indexes pain: The hand laterality task. European Journal of Pain, 14, 1007-1013. doi:10.1016/j.ejpain.2010.04.001
  • Coslett, H.B., Medina, J., Kliot, D., & Burkey, A. (2010). Mental Motor Imagery and Chronic Pain: The Foot Laterality Task. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 16, 603-612. doi:10.1017/S1355617710000299
  • Medina, J. & Coslett, H.B. (2010). From Maps to Form to Space: Touch and the Body Schema. Neuropsychologia, 48, 645-654. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.08.017
  • Medina, J., Kimberg, D.Y., Chatterjee, A., Coslett, H.B. (2010). Inappropriate usage of the Brunner-Munzel test in recent voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping studies. Neuropsychologia, 48, 341-343. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.09.016
  • Medina, J., Kannan, V., Pawlak, M., Kleinman, J., Newhart, M., Davis, C., Heidler-Gary, J., Herskovits, E., & Hillis, A. (2009). Neural substrates of visuospatial processing in distinct reference frames: Evidence from unilateral spatial neglect. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 21, 2073-2084. doi:10.1162/jocn.2008.21160
  • Medina, J., Jax, S.A., & Coslett, H.B. (2009). Two-Component Models of Reaching: Evidence from Deafferentation in a Fitts’ Law Task. Neuroscience Letters, 451, 222-226. doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2009.01.002
  • Medina, J. & Rapp, B. (2008). Phantom tactile sensations modulated by body position. Current Biology, 18, 1937-1942. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2008.10.068
  • Rapp, B., Hendel, S.K., & Medina, J. (2002). Remodeling of somatosensory hand representations following cerebral lesions in humans. Neuroreport, 13, 207-211.

 

Popular Press

 

Presentations

  • Norise, C., Medina, J., Coslett, H.B., & Hamilton, R.H. (2011). Fostering Fluency: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Improves Fluency in Subjects with Chronic Nonfluent Aphasia. Poster to be presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco.
  • Medina, J., Kliot, D., & Coslett, H.B. (2010). Effects of Perceived Limb Position on a Tactile Simon Effect Task. Poster presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis.
  • Medina, J., Jax, S.A., Prasad, S., & Coslett, H.B. (2010). Role of visual guidance in reaching after right intraparietal sulcus resection. Poster presented at the 10th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples.
  • Medina, J., Benson, J., & Coslett, H.B. (2010). Differential Effects of Magnified Vision of the Arm on Tactile and Motor Tasks. Poster presented at the 17th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal.
  • Rapp, B. & Medina, J. (2010). Somatosensory frames of reference. Invited plenary lecture presented at the European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy.
  • Medina, J. & Rapp, B. (2009). Dynamic shifts in tactile localization following stroke. Talk presented at the Tactile Research Group meeting, Boston.
  • Medina, J., Jax, S.A., & Coslett, H.B. (2009). The neural correlates of kinematic motor learning: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Poster presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago.
  • Jax, S.A., Medina, J., & Coslett, H.B. (2009). Disrupted generalization of visuomotor rotation learning following cerebellar stroke. Poster presented at the 19th meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement, Waikoloa, Hawaii.
  • Kannan, V.C., Pawlak, M.A., Medina, J., Herskovits, E.H., & Hillis, A.E. (2008). Brain Voxels Associated with Distinct Neglect Subtypes. Poster presented at the 133rd Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association, Salt Lake City.
  • Coslett, H.B. & Medina, J. (2007). Reaching with and without vision after deafferentation. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego.
  • Medina, J. & Rapp, B. (2007). Multiple somatosensory frames of reference: Evidence from the Simon effect. Poster presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach.
  • Medina, J., Jax, S.A., & Coslett, H.B. (2007). Reaching to moving targets after deafferentation. Poster presented at Progress in Motor Control VI, Santos, Brazil.
  • Medina, J., Jax, S.A., & Coslett, H.B. (2007). Representing Effector Location: Contributions of Predicted State and Sensory State Information. Poster presented at the 14th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York City.
  • Medina, J., & Rapp, B. (2006). Somatosensory Frames of Reference: A Case of Tactile Synchiria. Talk given at the Tactile Research Group meeting, Houston.
  • Medina, J., & Rapp, B. (2006). Tactile Perception Modulated by Body Position. Poster presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco.
  • Medina, J., & Rapp, B. (2004). A Case of Tactile Synchiria: Preserved Somatotopy? Poster presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Baltimore.
  • Medina, J., & Hillis, A. (2003). Using MR perfusion and diffusion imaging to identify neural substrates of specific types of unilateral spatial neglect. Talk given at the Joint International Conference on Cognitive Science, Sydney.
  • Medina, J., & Hillis, A. (2003). Identifying neural regions for distinct types of unilateral spatial neglect using MR perfusion and diffusion imaging. Talk given at the IGERT Student Research Symposium, Pittsburgh.
  • Medina, J., & Hillis, A. (2003). Neural Substrates of Distinct Patterns of Unilateral Spatial Neglect. Poster presented at the 10th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York City.
  • Medina, J., Barker, P., Jacobs, M., Wityk, R., & Hillis, A. (2003). Neural Substrates of Specific Types of Unilateral Spatial Neglect: Evidence from MR Perfusion and Diffusion Imaging. Talk given by A. Hillis At the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, Honolulu.
  • Medina, J., & Rapp, B. (2002). The plasticity of somatosensory representations following cerebral lesions in adult humans. Poster presented at the 9th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco.

 

Teaching

  • Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience, Haverford College, Fall 2009, Spring 2011

 

Updated: October 7, 2010