Thomas Donoghue

I am a cognitive neuroscientists, specializing in work seeking to analyze and understand neuro-electrophysiological signals that can be recorded from the brain.

My research is focused is understanding how patterns of electrical activity in the brain relates to cognition, and how dysruptions in these patterns relates to clinical disorders. The brain is made up of billions of neurons which signal to each other using charged ions, which can be recorded as patterns of electrical activity. By recording these electrical patterns and comparing them to cognitive tasks and/or clinical disorders, work in cognitive and clinical neuroscience seeks to understand how the functioning of the brain gives rise to our cognitive capacities, and how this can be disrupted in clinical disorders. To investigate these questions, my research program combines methods development -including work investigating how to best measure, analyze, and interpret electrical signals - with empirical work investigating how these patterns relate to cognition and disease.

- MEG, EEG, & iEEG recordings from human subjects

- Single-neuron analyses including with neuro-surgical patients

- Digital signal processing (DSP) & time series analyses

- Methods development & data science approaches

PhD in Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, California, USA

BA&Sc in Cognitive Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada