Anna Christina NobreFBA, MAE, fNASc (known as Kia Nobre;[1] born 1963) is a Brazilian and British cognitive neuroscientist working at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA.
Nobre is a Wu Tsai Professor at Yale University, where she directs the Center for Neurocognition and Behavior at the Wu Tsai Institute. She is an honorary member of the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford; an honorary fellow of New College, Oxford; and an adjunct professor at the Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Nobre's research contributions are widely recognized. She is a Fellow of the British Academy (elected 2015),[2] a Member of the Academia Europaea (elected 2015),[3] and an international fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (elected 2020).[4] She received the MRC Suffrage Science Award (2016), the Broadbent Prize from the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (2019), the Lifetime Mentor Award from the Association for Psychological Science (APS), and the highly prestigious C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science.[5] Other markers of acclaim include elected membership to the International Neuropsychological Symposium and Memory Disorders Research Society, and fellowship of the American Psychological Society.
Nobre leads the Brain & Cognition Lab. Current research in the group investigates how the brain prioritizes and selects useful information from the sensory stream and from memories at various time scales to generate experience and behavior. In addition to revealing the basic mechanisms of these large-scale proactive and dynamic regulatory mechanisms, they examine how the mechanisms develop over the lifespan and how they are disrupted in psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. The research combines various behavioral methods (psychophysics, eye tracking, virtual reality) with innovative and complementary non-invasive techniques to image and stimulate the human brain (magneto- and electroencephalography, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and brain stimulation).
Research milestones by Nobre and her group include: discovering brain areas specialized for word recognition (1994)[6] and face processing (1994)[7] in the human brain using intracranial recordings; describing the functional neuroanatomy of the network for controlling spatial attention in the human brain and noting its relation to oculomotor control (1997);[8] pioneering the neuroscientific study of temporal expectations (temporal orienting) (1998),[9] demonstrating the ability to orient selective attention within working memory (2003),[10] developing new experimental approaches to investigate how long-term memories guide selective attention (2006),[11] and introducing new somatic markers of attention in memory (2019).[12]
Leadership and serviceedit
Worldwide, Nobre contributes to various advisory bodies to scientific institutions and holds roles on multiple editorial, funding, conference, and jury boards. During her years at Oxford, she served as a Delegate for the Oxford University Press (2005-15), Director of the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA) (2010-23)[13], Head of the Department of Experimental Psychology (2016-21), Head of the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Committee (2016-21), and Non-Executive Director of the Oxford Health Foundation Trust (2021-23).
Life and workedit
Nobre grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and was educated at the Escola Americana do Rio de Janeiro (EARJ). As a young child, she spent two years in New York City, while her father completed a postgraduate degree at NYU (1967–68). She moved to the United States to complete her higher education. She obtained her BA from Williams College in 1985, with a Contract Major in Neuroscience; and obtained her PhD (1993) from Yale University for research on intracranial and non-invasive electrophysiological studies of language and attention in the human brain, supervised by Gregory McCarthy. During her doctoral and then postdoctoral period at Yale, she was part of the first studies[14] to use non-invasive fMRI to investigate cognitive functions in the human brain. In 1993, she joined Marsel Mesulam's group at the Behavioural Neurology Unit at Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School as Instructor.
She moved to Oxford in 1994 to take up a McDonnell Pew Lecturership in Cognitive Neuroscience and the combined Astor and Todd-Bird Junior Research Fellowship at New College (1994-1996). This was the first JRF in the discipline of psychology at Oxford. Between 1996 and 2014 she was a Tutorial Fellow at New College and rose through the ranks from Lecturer to Titular Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology. At New College, she was the first female Tutorial Fellow in a science discipline. In recognition of her contributions and standing, she was made an Honorary Fellow of New College (2016)[15]. In 2014, she became the first Chair in Translational Cognitive Neuroscience, a post held jointly between the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology. Nobre moved to Yale University in 2023. As director of the Centre of Neurocognition and Behavior at the Wu Tsai Institute, Nobre oversees BrainWorks, a collaborative core facility with advanced methods for investigating the human brain, and is planning a new knowledge-sharing program to connect the science of the human brain/mind to other academic disciplines, non-academic sectors, and the public.
Referencesedit
^. Archived from the original on 4 May 2008. Retrieved 28 July 2008. Anna Christina (known as Kia) Nobre
^"Academy of Europe: Acad Main". ae-info.org. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
^"National Academy of Sciences". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
^Kentie, Ward. "Heineken Prizes — Honouring the best in Arts and Sciences". Heineken Prizes. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
^Nobre, AC; Allison, T; McCarthy, G (1994). "Word recognition in the human inferior temporal lobe". Nature. 372 (6503): 260–263. Bibcode:1994Natur.372..260N. doi:10.1038/372260a0. PMID 7969469. S2CID 11167389.
^Allison, T; Ginter, H; McCarthy, G; Nobre, AC; Puce, A; Luby, M; Spencer, DD (1994). "Face recognition in human extrastriate cortex". Journal of Neurophysiology. 71 (2): 821–825. doi:10.1152/jn.1994.71.2.821. PMID 8176446.
^Nobre, AC; Sebestyen, GN; Gitelman, DR; Mesulam, MM; Frackowiak, RS; Frith, CD (1997). "Functional localization of the system for visuospatial attention using positron emission tomography". Brain. 120 (Pt 3): 515–533. doi:10.1093/brain/120.3.515. PMID 9126062.
^Coull, JT; Nobre, AC (1998). "Where and when to pay attention: the neural systems for directing attention to spatial locations and to time intervals as revealed by both PET and fMRI". Journal of Neuroscience. 18 (18): 7426–7435. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.18-18-07426.1998. PMC6793260. PMID 9736662.
^Griffin, IC; Nobre, AC (2003). "Orienting attention to locations in internal representations". Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 15 (8): 1176–1194. doi:10.1162/089892903322598139. PMID 14709235. S2CID 12591329.
^Summerfield, JJ; Lepsien, J; Gitelman, DR; Mesulam, MM; Nobre, AC (2006). "Orienting attention based on long-term memory experience". Neuron. 49 (6): 905–916. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2006.01.021. PMID 16543137. S2CID 10027070.
^van Ede, F; Chekroud, SR; Nobre, AC (2019). "Human gaze tracks attentional focusing in memorised visual space". Nature Human Behaviour. 3 (5): 462–470. doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0549-y. PMC6546593. PMID 31089296. (received Early Career Publication Award for Post-docs from ESCOP in 2020)
^"Kia Nobre". Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging. University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
^McCarthy, G; Blamire, AM; Puce, A; Nobre, AC; Bloch, G; Hyder, F; Goldman-Rakic, P; Shulman, RG (1994). "Functional magnetic resonance imaging of human prefrontal cortex activation during a spatial working memory task". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 91 (18): 8690–8694. Bibcode:1994PNAS...91.8690M. doi:10.1073/pnas.91.18.8690. PMC44672. PMID 8078943.
^"Honorary Fellows | New College". www.new.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
External linksedit
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Anna Christina Nobre FBA MAE fNASc known as Kia Nobre 1 born 1963 is a Brazilian and British cognitive neuroscientist working at Yale University in New Haven CT USA Kia NobreNobre in 2022BornAnna Christina Nobre 1963 02 22 22 February 1963 age 60 Rio de Janeiro BrazilEducationWilliams CollegeYale UniversityScientific careerFieldsNeuroscienceInstitutionsYale UniversityHarvard UniversityUniversity of OxfordDoctoral advisorGregory McCarthyNobre is a Wu Tsai Professor at Yale University where she directs the Center for Neurocognition and Behavior at the Wu Tsai Institute She is an honorary member of the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford an honorary fellow of New College Oxford and an adjunct professor at the Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer s Disease at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Nobre s research contributions are widely recognized She is a Fellow of the British Academy elected 2015 2 a Member of the Academia Europaea elected 2015 3 and an international fellow of the National Academy of Sciences elected 2020 4 She received the MRC Suffrage Science Award 2016 the Broadbent Prize from the European Society for Cognitive Psychology 2019 the Lifetime Mentor Award from the Association for Psychological Science APS and the highly prestigious C L de Carvalho Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science 5 Other markers of acclaim include elected membership to the International Neuropsychological Symposium and Memory Disorders Research Society and fellowship of the American Psychological Society Contents 1 Research 2 Leadership and service 3 Life and work 4 References 5 External linksResearch editNobre leads the Brain amp Cognition Lab Current research in the group investigates how the brain prioritizes and selects useful information from the sensory stream and from memories at various time scales to generate experience and behavior In addition to revealing the basic mechanisms of these large scale proactive and dynamic regulatory mechanisms they examine how the mechanisms develop over the lifespan and how they are disrupted in psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders The research combines various behavioral methods psychophysics eye tracking virtual reality with innovative and complementary non invasive techniques to image and stimulate the human brain magneto and electroencephalography functional magnetic resonance imaging and brain stimulation Research milestones by Nobre and her group include discovering brain areas specialized for word recognition 1994 6 and face processing 1994 7 in the human brain using intracranial recordings describing the functional neuroanatomy of the network for controlling spatial attention in the human brain and noting its relation to oculomotor control 1997 8 pioneering the neuroscientific study of temporal expectations temporal orienting 1998 9 demonstrating the ability to orient selective attention within working memory 2003 10 developing new experimental approaches to investigate how long term memories guide selective attention 2006 11 and introducing new somatic markers of attention in memory 2019 12 Leadership and service editWorldwide Nobre contributes to various advisory bodies to scientific institutions and holds roles on multiple editorial funding conference and jury boards During her years at Oxford she served as a Delegate for the Oxford University Press 2005 15 Director of the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity OHBA 2010 23 13 Head of the Department of Experimental Psychology 2016 21 Head of the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Committee 2016 21 and Non Executive Director of the Oxford Health Foundation Trust 2021 23 Life and work editNobre grew up in Rio de Janeiro Brazil and was educated at the Escola Americana do Rio de Janeiro EARJ As a young child she spent two years in New York City while her father completed a postgraduate degree at NYU 1967 68 She moved to the United States to complete her higher education She obtained her BA from Williams College in 1985 with a Contract Major in Neuroscience and obtained her PhD 1993 from Yale University for research on intracranial and non invasive electrophysiological studies of language and attention in the human brain supervised by Gregory McCarthy During her doctoral and then postdoctoral period at Yale she was part of the first studies 14 to use non invasive fMRI to investigate cognitive functions in the human brain In 1993 she joined Marsel Mesulam s group at the Behavioural Neurology Unit at Beth Israel Hospital Harvard Medical School as Instructor She moved to Oxford in 1994 to take up a McDonnell Pew Lecturership in Cognitive Neuroscience and the combined Astor and Todd Bird Junior Research Fellowship at New College 1994 1996 This was the first JRF in the discipline of psychology at Oxford Between 1996 and 2014 she was a Tutorial Fellow at New College and rose through the ranks from Lecturer to Titular Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology At New College she was the first female Tutorial Fellow in a science discipline In recognition of her contributions and standing she was made an Honorary Fellow of New College 2016 15 In 2014 she became the first Chair in Translational Cognitive Neuroscience a post held jointly between the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology Nobre moved to Yale University in 2023 As director of the Centre of Neurocognition and Behavior at the Wu Tsai Institute Nobre oversees BrainWorks a collaborative core facility with advanced methods for investigating the human brain and is planning a new knowledge sharing program to connect the science of the human brain mind to other academic disciplines non academic sectors and the public References edit Staff Profile Page Dr Anna Nobre MA Ph D Yale Archived from the original on 4 May 2008 Retrieved 28 July 2008 Anna Christina known as Kia Nobre Professor Kia Nobre FBA The British Academy Retrieved 9 January 2023 Academy of Europe Acad Main ae info org Retrieved 9 January 2023 National Academy of Sciences www nasonline org Retrieved 9 January 2023 Kentie Ward Heineken Prizes Honouring the best in Arts and Sciences Heineken Prizes Retrieved 9 January 2023 Nobre AC Allison T McCarthy G 1994 Word recognition in the human inferior temporal lobe Nature 372 6503 260 263 Bibcode 1994Natur 372 260N doi 10 1038 372260a0 PMID 7969469 S2CID 11167389 Allison T Ginter H McCarthy G Nobre AC Puce A Luby M Spencer DD 1994 Face recognition in human extrastriate cortex Journal of Neurophysiology 71 2 821 825 doi 10 1152 jn 1994 71 2 821 PMID 8176446 Nobre AC Sebestyen GN Gitelman DR Mesulam MM Frackowiak RS Frith CD 1997 Functional localization of the system for visuospatial attention using positron emission tomography Brain 120 Pt 3 515 533 doi 10 1093 brain 120 3 515 PMID 9126062 Coull JT Nobre AC 1998 Where and when to pay attention the neural systems for directing attention to spatial locations and to time intervals as revealed by both PET and fMRI Journal of Neuroscience 18 18 7426 7435 doi 10 1523 JNEUROSCI 18 18 07426 1998 PMC 6793260 PMID 9736662 Griffin IC Nobre AC 2003 Orienting attention to locations in internal representations Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 15 8 1176 1194 doi 10 1162 089892903322598139 PMID 14709235 S2CID 12591329 Summerfield JJ Lepsien J Gitelman DR Mesulam MM Nobre AC 2006 Orienting attention based on long term memory experience Neuron 49 6 905 916 doi 10 1016 j neuron 2006 01 021 PMID 16543137 S2CID 10027070 van Ede F Chekroud SR Nobre AC 2019 Human gaze tracks attentional focusing in memorised visual space Nature Human Behaviour 3 5 462 470 doi 10 1038 s41562 019 0549 y PMC 6546593 PMID 31089296 received Early Career Publication Award for Post docs from ESCOP in 2020 Kia Nobre Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division Retrieved 9 January 2023 McCarthy G Blamire AM Puce A Nobre AC Bloch G Hyder F Goldman Rakic P Shulman RG 1994 Functional magnetic resonance imaging of human prefrontal cortex activation during a spatial working memory task Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 91 18 8690 8694 Bibcode 1994PNAS 91 8690M doi 10 1073 pnas 91 18 8690 PMC 44672 PMID 8078943 Honorary Fellows New College www new ox ac uk Retrieved 31 October 2023 External links editThe Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity OHBA NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre OH BRC Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Anna Christina Nobre amp oldid 1182835870, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
