Gregory Cogan

Assistant Professor in Neurosurgery

Third Year Mentor - Neurosciences Study Program (NSS)

Campus mail: 200 Trent Drive, Duke South Bl, Box 3807, Durham, NC 27710

Phone: (919) 684-9493

Dr. Cogan's research focuses on speech, language, and cognition. This research uses a variety of analytic techniques (e.g. neural power analysis, connectivity measures, decoding algorithms) and focuses mainly on invasive human recordings (electrocorticography - ECoG) but also uses non-invasive methods such as EEG, MEG, and fMRI. Dr. Cogan is also interested in studying cognitive systems in the context of disease models to help aid recovery and treatment programs.

Education and Training

University of Maryland, College Park, Ph.D. 2011

Publications

A kiss is not a kiss: visually evoked neuromagnetic fields reveal differential sensitivities to brief presentations of kissing couples.

With a few exceptions, the literature on face recognition and its neural basis derives from the presentation of single faces. However, in many ecologically typical situations, we see more than one face, in different communicative contexts.