Student Background/Interests
I am a first-year student in the D.O./Ph.D. Program at Michigan State University, concurrently pursuing a D.O. in the College of Osteopathic Medicine and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience.
Before coming to MSU for combined medical / graduate training, I received a B.S. in Neuroscience from Brandeis University (2005) and conducted research on the behavioral and neural (EEG) correlates of human spatial navigation and memory at the University of Pennsylvania with Dr. Michael Kahana.
My research interests fall within the domains of cognitive and clinical neuroscience and include human memory, cognition, neurophysiology, neuroimaging, neurodegenerative disorders, and neural prosthetics. I plan to pursue a career as a physician-scientist, perhaps with specialization in neurology (although I am keeping an open mind).
I was born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine; my family and I immigrated to the United States in 1994 (when I was 11 years old). My hometown is Brookline, MA.
I enjoy spending time with friends and family, photography, skydiving, mountain biking, playing billiards, traveling, and listening to a variety of music (including techno/trance/trip-hop, rock/alternative, classical, and jazz).
Selected Publications
Newman, E. L., Caplan, J. B., Kirschen, M. P., Korolev, I. O., Sekuler, R., and Kahana, M. J. (2006). Learning your way around town: How virtual taxicab drivers learn to use both layout and landmark information. Cognition, in press.
Mollison, M. V., Jacobs, J., Korolev, I. O., and M. J. Kahana (2006). Event-related potentials to landmarks during ``Yellow Cab'' -- a virtual spatial navigation task. Society for Mathematical Psychology Annual Meeting. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Korolev, I. O., Jacobs, J., Mollison, M. V., and Kahana, M. J. (2005). Human oscillatory activity during virtual navigation: a comparison between scalp and intracranial recordings. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.
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Igor Korolev