Serguei Astafiev

Staff Scientist

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I am currently involved in a fMRI project investigating the processes related to the preparation and execution of attentional shifts, saccadic eye movements, and reaching arm movements.

Education:

1996. Master in Psychology. M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia.
1999. Ph.D. in Psychology. M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia.

Professional experience and trainings:

01.1997

Finnish-Russian Winter School on Neurosciences, Tvarminne, Finland.

09.1997-08.1998

Foreign professional experience at the department of clinical neurophysiology, Oulu University Hospital, Finland.

01.1999-05.1999

Course "MR-tomography in psychophysiolo". The center of MR tomography and spectroscopy of Moscow State University, Russia.

07.1999-08.1999

The International Copenhagen Summer School, Copenhagen, Denmark. Theoretical course on Integrative physiology, sensori-motor control (July, 6, 1999 - July, 15, 1999). Practical course "Functional organization of the brain with emphasis on cerebral motor control" in MR-department of Hvidorve hospital (July, 19, 1999 - August, 6, 1999).

10.1999-03.2000

Foreign professional experience at the department of clinical neurophysiology, Oulu University Hospital, Finland.

06.2000-present

Attention and brain recovery lab, Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA. fMRI studies of attention

Extramural Activities:

2003-present Reviewer. Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deiatel'osti Im I P Pavlova (Journal of Higher Nervous Activity named after I P Pavlov) Moscow, Russia.

Memberships:

2003 - Society for Neuroscience
2002 - Society of Cognitive Neuroscience
1997 - Interest group "Psychophysiology in Ergonomics" (PIE)

Publications:

  • Peer-Reviewed original articles.
  • 1) Astafiev SV, Shulman GL, Corbetta M. Visuospatial reorienting signals in the human temporo-parietal junction are independant of response selection. European Journal of neuroscience, 2005 (accepted)
          2) Astafiev SV, Stanley CM, Shulman GL, Corbetta M. Is the extrastriate body area invloved in motor   
        actions? Reply. Nature Neurosciences 8, 125-126 (2005)

        3) Kincade JM, Abrams RA, Astafiev SV, Shulman GL, Corbetta M. an event-related functional
        magnetic resonance imaging study of voluntary and stimulus-driven orienting of attention. J Neurosci.
        2005 May 4;25(18): 4593-604

        4) Corbetta M, Tansy AP, Stanley CM, Astafiev SV, Snyder AZ, Shulman GL. A functional MRI study of
        preparatory signals for spatial location and objects. Neuropsychologia. 2005;43(14):2041-2056

  • 5) Astafiev SV, Shulman GL, Stanley CM, Snyder AZ, Van Essen DC, Corbetta M. Functional organization of human intraparietal and frontal cortex for attending, looking, and pointing. J Neurosci. 2003 Jun 1;23(11):4689-99.

  • 6) Kallio M, Suominen K, Haapaniemi T, Sotaniemi K, Myllyla VV, Astafiev S, Tolonen U. Nocturnal cardiac autonomic regulation in Parkinson's disease. Clin Auton Res. 2004 Apr;14(2):119-24.

  • 7) Shulman GL, McAvoy MP, Cowan MC, Astafiev SV, Tansy AP, D'Avossa G, Corbetta M. A quantitative analysis of attention and detection signals during visual search. J Neurophysiol. 2003 Nov;90(5):3384-97.

  • 8) Kallio M, Suominen K, Bianchi AM, Makikallio T, Haapaniemi T, Astafiev S, Sotaniemi KA, Myllya VV, Tolonen U. Comparison of heart rate variability analysis methods in patients with Parkinson's disease. Med Biol Eng Comput. 2002 Jul;40(4):408-14.

  • 9) Danilova NN, Astaf'ev SV. Human attention as a specific linkage of EEG rhythms with the wave modulators of the cardiac rhythm. Zh Vyssh Nerv Deiat Im I P Pavlova (Journal of Higher Nervous Activity named after I P Pavlov). 2000 Sep-Oct;50(5):791-804. In Russian.

  • 10) Danilova NN, Astaf'ev SV. Changes in heart rate variability under informational loading. Zh Vyssh Nerv Deiat Im I P Pavlova (Journal of Higher Nervous Activity named after I P Pavlov). 1999 Jan-Feb;49(1):28-38. In Russian.

  • 11) Danilova N.N., Astafiev S.V., Strekalova T.V. The display of anti -anxiety effect of Diazepam according to the indices of the heart rhythm in humans. Vestnik of Moscow University, Section 14, Psychology 1997; 2; Pp 87-91 - in Russian.

  • Book chapters:

    Shulman, G.L., Astafiev, S.V., and Corbetta, M. Two cortical systems for the selection of visual stimuli. In Congnitice Neuroscience of Attention, M. I. Posner, ed. Guilford Press, 2004. Pp 114-126. Book Chapter

  • Talks:

    Talk Series "Postdocs in Cognitive Neuroscience present their work" S.V. Astafiev. Mapping the preparation and execution of eye and arm movements: an event-related fMRI study. Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO., USA. March 28, 2002.