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Scott Grafton

ICB Cognitive Neuroscience Co-Leader
Bedrosian-Coyne Presidential Chair, Neuroscience
Director, Brain Imaging Center
Distinguished Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
UC Santa Barbara
Phone:
+1 805-975-5272
Email:
grafton@psych.ucsb.edu
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Research Focus Areas

Research Interests

Characterize the neural substrates of observed or executed goal-oriented action. Use of fMRI and EEG measures of brain activity to predict and augment motor performance and to accelerate learning.

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ICB Supported Publications

Menstrual cycle-driven hormone concentrations co-fluctuate with white and grey matter architecture changes across the whole brain

Rizor EJ, Babenko V, Dundon NM, Beverly-Aylwin R, Stump A, Hayes M, Herschenfeld-Catalan L, Jacobs EG, Grafton ST
Human Brain Mapping,
10.1002/hbm.26785

Corticospinal premotor fibers facilitate complex motor control after stroke

Paul T, Wiemer VM, Hensel L, Cieslak M, Tscherpel C, Grefkes, Grafton ST, Fink GR, Volz LJ
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology,
10.1002/acn3.52159

A practical evaluation of measures derived from compressed sensing diffusion spectrum imaging

Radhakrishnan H, Chenying Zhao C, Sydnor VJ, Baller EB, Cook PA, Fair D, Giesbrecht B, Larsen B, Murtha K, Roalf DR, Rush-Goebel S, Shinohara R, Shou H, Tisdall MD, Vettel J, Grafton S, Cieslak M, Satterthwaite T. A
Human Brain Mapping,
10.1002/hbm.26580

Active reinforcement learning versus action bias and hysteresis: control with a mixture of experts and nonexperts

Colas J, O'Doherty J, Grafton ST.
PLOS Computational Biology,
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011950

Stress Affects Navigation Strategies in Immersive Virtual Reality

Apurv Varshney, Mitchell Munns, Justin Kasowski, Mantong (mable) zhou, Chuanxiuyue He, Scott Grafton, Barry Giesbrecht, Mary Hegarty, and Michael Beyeler
Scientific Reports,
10.1038/s41598-024-56048-8

Resilience of navigation strategy and efficiency to the impact of acute stress

Alexander P. Boone, Tom Bullock, Mary H. MacLean, Tyler Santander, Jamie Raymer, Alexander Stuber, Liann Jimmons, Gold N. Okafor, Scott T. Grafton, Michael B. Miller, Barry Giesbrecht and Mary Hegarty
Spatial Cognition & Computation,
10.1080/13875868.2024.2321920

Diffusion MRI head motion correction methods are highly accurate but impacted by denoising and sampling scheme

Cieslak M, Cook PA, Tapera TM, Radhakrishnan H, Elliott M, Roalf D, Oathes DJ, Bassett DS, Tisdall D, Rokem A, Grafton ST, Satterthwaite T.
Human Brain Mapping.,
10.1002/hbm.26570

Non-invasive monitoring of cardiac contractility: Trans-radial electrical bioimpedance velocimetry (TREV)

Alexandra Stump, Caitlin Gregory, Viktoriya Babenko, Elizabeth Rizor, Tom Bullock, Alan Macy, Barry Giesbrecht, Scott T. Grafton, Neil M. Dundon
Psychophysiology,
10.1111/psyp.14411

Visual Navigation Under High-Stress Conditions

Apurv Varshney; Mitch Munns; Justin Kasowski; Mantong Zhou; Chuanxiuyue He; Scott Grafton; Barry Giesbrecht; Mary Hegarty; Michael Beyeler
Journal of Vision,
10.1167/jov.23.9.5184

Interhemispheric structural connectivity underlies motor recovery after stroke

Paul T, Wiemer VM, Hensel L, Cieslak M, Tscherpel C, Grefkes C, Grafton ST, Fink GR, Volz LJ.
Annals of Neurology,
10.1002/ana.26737

Decision heuristics in contexts integrating action selection and execution

Dundon, NM, Colas JT, Garrett N, Babenko V, Rizor E, Yang D, MacNamara M, Petzold L, Grafton ST.
Scientific Reports,
10.1038/s41598-023-33008-2

Habituation of the stress response multiplex to repeated cold pressor exposure

Bullock T, MacLean MH, Santander T, Boone AP, Babenko V, Dundon NM, Stuber A, Jimmons L, Raymer J, Okafor GN, Miller MB, Giesbrecht B and Grafton ST
Frontiers in Physiology,
10.3389/fphys.2022.752900

The role of corticospinal and extrapyramidal pathways in motor impairment after stroke

Theresa Paul,  Matthew Cieslak,  Lukas Hensel,  Valerie M Wiemer,  Christian Grefkes, Scott T Grafton,  Gereon R Fink,  Lukas J Volz
Brain Communications,
10.1093/braincomms/fcac301

Reinforcement learning with associative or discriminative generalization across states and actions: fMRI at 3T and 7T

Jaron T. Colas, Neil M. Dundon, Raphael T. Gerraty, Natalie M. Saragosa-Harris, Karol P. Szymula, Koranis Tanwisuth, J. Michael Tyszka, Camilla van Geen, Harang Ju, Arthur W. Toga, Joshua I. Gold, Dani S. Bassett, Catherine A. Hartley, Daphna Shohamy, Scott T. Grafton, John P. O'Doherty
Human Brain Mapping,
10.1002/hbm.25988

M3L: Language-based Video Editing via Multi-Modal Multi-Level Transformers

Tsu-Jui Fu, Xin Eric Wang, Scott Grafton, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang
Proceedings of Thirty-Third IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),
10.48550/arXiv.2104.01122

Trans-Radial Electrical Bioimpedance Velocimetry: A Novel Method for Detecting Cardiac Contractility

Alexandra I. Stump, Neil M. Dundon, Viktoriya Babenko, Alan Macy, Scott T. Grafton
bioRxiv ,
10.1101/2022.06.05.494836

Decision Heuristics in Contexts Exploiting Intrinsic Skill

Neil M. Dundon, Jaron T. Colas, Neil Garrett, Viktoriya Babenko, Elizabeth Rizor, Dengxian Yang, Máirtín MacNamara, Linda Petzold, Scott T. Grafton
bioRxiv,
10.1101/2022.04.01.486746

Crystallinity characterization of white matter in the human brain

Erin G Teich1, Matthew Cieslak, Barry Giesbrecht, Jean M Vettel, Scott T Grafton, Theodore D Satterthwaite and Danielle S Bassett
New Journal of Physics,
10.1088/1367-2630/ac1286

QSIPrep: An integrative platform for preprocessing and reconstructing diffusion MRI

Matthew Cieslak, Philip A. Cook, Xiaosong He, Fang-Cheng Yeh, Thijs Dhollander, Azeez Adebimpe, Geoffrey K. Aguirre, Danielle S. Bassett, Richard F. Betzel, Josiane Bourque, Laura M. Cabral, Christos Davatzikos, John Detre, Eric Earl, Mark A. Elliott, Shreyas Fadnavis, Damien A. Fair, Will Foran, Panagiotis Fotiadis, Eleftherios Garyfallidis, Barry Giesbrecht, Ruben C. Gur, Raquel E. Gur, Max Kelz, Anisha Keshavan, Bart S. Larsen, Beatriz Luna, Allyson P. Mackey, Michael Milham, Desmond J. Oathes, Anders Perrone, Adam R. Pines, David R. Roalf, Adam Richie-Halford, Ariel Rokem, Valerie J. Sydnor, Tinashe M. Tapera, Ursula A. Tooley, Jean M. Vettel, Jason D. Yeatman, Scott T. Grafton, Theodore D. Satterthwaite
Nature Methods,
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01185-5

Motor adaptation via distributional learning

Brian Mitchell, Michelle Marneweck, Scott Grafton and Linda Petzold
Journal of Neural Engineering,
10.1088/1741-2552/aba6d9
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