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Robert Savoy
telephone: (617) 497-4647 & (617) 724-9652
Fax: (617)497-4627 & (617) 726-7422
e-mail: Robert.Savoy@umassmed.edu
Senior Scientist,
Center for Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience
B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. Harvard University
Director, fMRI Education at the MGH-NMR Center, Charlestown, MA
Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Assistant in Experimental Psychology, Dept. of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University
Instructor, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Selected Publications Selected Honors &Awards Previous Appointments Savoy, R.L. (2001). History and Future Directions of Human Brain Mapping and Functional Neuroimaging, Acta Psychologica, 107, 9-42.
Savoy, R.L. (2001). The Scanner as a Psychophysical Laboratory. In P. Matthews, P Jezzard, & S.M. Smith (Eds.), Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain: Methods for Neuroscience, NY, NY: Oxford University Press.
Savoy, R.L. (2001). Functional MRI, in V.S. Ramachandran (Ed.). Encyclopedia of the Brain. San Deigo, CA: Academic Press.
Savoy, R.L., Ravicz, M.E., and Gollub, R. (1999). The psychophysical laboratory in the magnet: Stimulus delivery, response recording, and safety. In C. Moonen & P Bandettini (Eds.). Functional MRI, Springer-Verlag.
Chee, M.W.L, O'Craven, K.M., Bergida, R., Rosen, B.R., Savoy, R.L. (1999). Auditory and Visual Word Processing Studied with fMRI. Human Brain Mapping, 7(1), 15-28.
Chee, M.W.L, Buckner, R.L., Savoy, R.L. (1998). Right hemisphere language in a neurologically normal dextral: a fMRI study. NeuroReport, 6(15), 3499-3502.
Seidman, L.J., Breiter, H.C., Goodman, J.M., Goldstein, J.M., Woodruff, P.W.R., O'Craven, K., Savoy, R.L., Tsuang, M.T. (1998). A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Auditory Vigilance with Low and High Information Processing Demands. Neuropsychology, 12(4), 505-518.
O'Craven, K.M., Rosen, B.R., Kwong, K.K., Treisman, A., Savoy, R.L. (1997). Voluntary attention modulates fMRI activity in human MT/MST. Neuron, 18, 591-598.
Buckner, R.L., Bandettini, P.A., O'Craven, K.M., Savoy, R.L., Petersen, S., Rosen, B.R. (1996). Detection of cortical activation during averaged single trials of a cognitive task using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 93, 14878-14883.
Savoy, R.L. & O'Craven, K.M. A Paradoxically Easy Motor Learning Task. Presented at the Third Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in San Francisco, CA, 1996.
Huang-Hellinger, F.R., Breiter, H.C., McCormack, G., Cohen, M.S., Kwong, K.K., Sutton, J.P., Davis, T.L., Savoy, R.L., Weisskoff, R.M., Belliveau, J.W., Rosen, B.R. (1996). Simultaneous functional magnetic resonance imaging and electrophysiological recording. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in San Francisco, CA, August 1994. Published in Human Brain Mapping, 3(1), 13-23.
Savoy, R.L., Bandettini, P.A., O'Craven, K.M., Kwong, K.K., Davis, T.L., Baker, J.R., Weisskoff, R.M., & Rosen, B.R. Pushing the Temporal Resolution of fMRI: Studies of Very Brief Visual Stimuli, Onset Variability and Asynchrony, and Stimulus-Correlated Changes in Noise. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Nice, France, August 1995.
Savoy, R.L., Tootell, R.B.H., O'Craven, K.M., Reppas, J.R. Cortical localization of fMRI Response to Stereo Disparity. Presented at the First International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain in Paris, France, June, 1995.
Savoy, R.L., O'Craven, K.M., Weisskoff, R.M., Davis, T.L., Baker, J.R., Rosen, B.R. Exploring the temporal boundaries of FMRI: Measuring responses to very brief visual stimuli. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Miami Beach, FL, November 1994.
Davis, T.L., Weisskoff, R.M., Kwong, K.K., Savoy, R.L., Rosen, B.R. Susceptibility contrast undershoot is not matched by inflow contrast undershoot. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in San Francisco, CA, August, 1994.
McCann, J., Savoy, R.L. (1991). Measurements of lightness: Dependence on the position of a white in the field of view. Meeting of the SPIE: Human Vision, Visual Processing, and Digital Display II, San Jose, CA., 1453.
Savoy, R.L., & Gabrieli (1989). Normal McCollough effect in Alzheimer's disease and global amnesia. Presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Toronto, Canada, November 13-18, 1988. Psychology and Psychophysics, 49(5), 449-455.
Savoy, R.L. Tricks of the trade in vision research: Color, cones, and CRTs. Presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Imaging Science and Technology (SPSE), Boston, MA, May 14-18, 1989.
Savoy, R.L. (1987). Contingent aftereffects and isoluminance: Psychophysical evidence for separation of color, orientation, and motion. Invited presentation at the Third Workshop on Human and Machine Vision. Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing. Boston, MA., 37, 3-19.
Savoy, R.L. (1986). Making quantized images appear smooth: Tricks of the trade in vision research. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 18(6), 507-517.
Savoy, R.L. (1984). Modelling the McCollough Effect. Presented at the Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Sarasota, FL.
Savoy, R.L. (1984). Extinction of the McCollough effect does not trasfer interocularly. Presented at the Optical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA., Perception and Psychophysics 36(6), 571-576.
McCann, J.J., Stiehl, A., Savoy, R.L. (1983). Influence of intraocular scattered light on lightness-scaling experiments. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 73, 1143-1148.
Savoy, R.L. (1983). Field of feature detectors or features detected by a field? Commentary in The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 6, 673-674.
Savoy, R.L. (1978). Low spatial frequencies and low number of cycles at low luminances. Photographic Science and Engineering, 22(2).
Savoy, R.L., & McCann, J.J. (1978). Visibility of low-frequencies and low number of cycles at low luminances. Vision Research, 18, 891-894.
Savoy, R.L. (1975). Visibility of low-spatial-frequency sine-wave targets: Dependence on number of cycles. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 65, 343-350.
McCann, J.J., Savoy, R.L., Hall, J.A., Scarpetti, J.J. (1974). Visibility of continuous luminance gradients. Vision Research, 14, 917-927.
- Invited Lecturer on fMRI in Dallas and Helsinki, 2002
- Invited Lecturer on fMRI in San Antonio, 2000
- Invited Lecturer on fMRI in Zagreb and Oslo, 1999
- Invited Lecturer on fMRI in Lihue, Melbourne, Montreal, and Rome, 1998
- Invited Lecturer on fMRI in Perth, Seoul, Copenhagen, Beijing, Oxford, and Caen, 1997
- Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers Journal Honorable Mention Award, 1978
- Graduate Society Prize Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1975
- Sigma Xi, 1971
- Phi Beta Kappa, 1971
- Eloranta Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1970
- NSF Summer Research Fellowship, 1969
2001 - present Instructor, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 1998 - present Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1994 - present Director, fMRI Education at the MGH-NMR Center, Charlestown, MA 1994 - present Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University 1993 - present Assistant in Experimental Psychology, Dept. of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital 1982 - 2001 Scientist, Rowland Institute for Science, Cambridge, MA 1971 - 1981 Vision Research Laboratory, Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA CDCN: Research | People | Getting Involved | Contact Us | Colloquia | Directions | fMRI | Home | Newsletters
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