Robert Dougherty, PHD
CNI Director of Research
Stanford Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging (CNI) PublicationsVitaeeMail
Robert Dougherty (bobd@stanford.edu) is the Research Director at the Stanford Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging. Bob is able to advise CNI users regarding research protocol questions, and IRB related questions.
Bob specializes in the measurement of perception (psychophysics) and structural and functional measurements of brains using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). He also writes software that is used for behavioral testing and MRI data analysis. He received his BA from Rutgers University in 1991 and his PhD in experimental psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1996. Bob worked as a postdoc in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of British Columbia and BC's Children's Hospital Visual Neuroscience Lab. It was there that Bob began to investigate the perceptual aspects of reading and reading disabilities. He continues to study reading development as project lead of the NIH-funded SIRL Longitudinal Reading Study.
Bob is also involved in other projects, including studies at the intersection of art and science (Before Recognition), technology development (gaze tracking), and simulation of varieties of perception (Vischeck).
To see Bob's homepage, please go here.
