Current Members
Mark Wallace
Laboratory Director
Director, Vanderbilt Brain Institute
mark.wallace@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests: Multisensory processing, development and plasticity, developmental disabilities
Has been known to: herd cats... in both the figurative and literal sense.
Matthew Fister
Laboratory Manager
matthew.c.fister@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests: Multisensory integration in the Anterior Ectosylvian Sulcus and Superior Colliculus
Has been known to: think outside and around and between the box.
Vera Blau
Post-doctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Multisensory integration, human development, statistical learning, developmental disabilities.
Has been known to: mix Dutch and German while speaking
Diana Sarko
Post-doctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Multisensory processing, perception, comparative neurobiology, and neuroethology.
Has been known to: study unusual creatures (Florida manatees, rock hyraxes, naked mole-rats, star-nosed moles, etc.)
Ryan Stevenson
Post-doctoral Fellow
ryan.a.stevenson@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests: Multisensory processing and imaging.
Has been known to: go on rants about proper grammatical use of the English language.
Zach Barnett
Research Assistant
Research Interests: Working with electrophysiology equipment
Has been known to: do a little coding.
Walter Lee
Research Assistant
Research Interests: Working with electrophysiology equipment
Has been known to: clean cats from time to time.
Brannon Mangus
Resident Physician
Research Interests: Otology/Neurotology and multisensory integration in cochlear implant patients.
Has been known to: think a Smithsonian magazine and an American president biography are enjoyed best on the beach.
Leslie Dowell
Graduate Student
leslie.e.dowell@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests: Deficits in multisensory processing in developmental disorders such as autism and dyslexia.
Has been known to: remind Mark of how old he is.
Dipanwita Ghose
Graduate Student
dipanwita.ghose@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests: Multisensory integration and its coding in the brain
Has been known to: become impatient and drive herself crazy!!!
Juliane Krueger-Fister
Graduate Student
juliane.krueger@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests:functional connectivity of the anterior ectosylvian sulcus and its effects on behavior and perception
Has been known to: talk too loud.
Aaron Nidiffer
Graduate Student
aaron.r.nidiffer@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests: Multisensory integration in the awake and behaving cat, auditory development and plasticity
Has been known to: have reaction times three standard deviations faster than normal.
Justin Siemann
Graduate Student
justin.k.siemann@Vanderbilt.Edu
Research Interests: Multisensory integration and deficits in developmental disorders
Has been known to: repeatedly win debates about college football with colleagues .