Ned T. Sahin

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	University of California San Diego Department of Radiology 8950 Villa La Jolla Dr., C101 La Jolla, CA, USA 92093	Harvard University, Psychology Cognition, Brain and Behavior William James Hall, room 964 Cambridge, MA, USA 02138
( 10/07/2007 • newest: nedsahin.org/cv/ • PDF )

Education & Training

2007–	Post-Doctoral Fellow		Univ of California San Diego		Department of Radiology (Multi-Modal Imaging Lab)
2003–2007	Ph.D.		Harvard University		Psychology Department (Cognition, Brain & Behavior )
2000–2007	Doctoral Trainee (T32)		MGH (Mass. General Hospital)		Athinoula A. Martinos Neuroimaging Center
2000–2003	M.S.		MIT		Brain & Cognitive Sciences Department
1996–1997	Visiting Scholar		Oxford University		Exeter College (Credited year of B.A. )
1994–1998	B.A.		Williams College		Biology and Neuroscience

Theses

Ph.D. Neural Circuits for Reading, Inflecting and Producing Words: Spatiotemporal Mapping with Human Intracranial Electrophysiology and fMRI.
Harvard. Degree dissertation, Ph.D. Department of Psychology. June, 2007.

M.S. Seeking the Neural Basis of Grammar: English Noun and Verb Morphological Processing Investigated with Rapid Event-Related fMRI and Intra-Cortical Electrophysiology.
MIT. Degree thesis, Masters of Science. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. June, 2003.

B.A. Language and Brain: Effects of Arterial Occlusion on Human Brain Morphometry and Specific Language Abilities.
Williams College. Honors thesis, Bachelor of Arts. Department of Biology. June, 1998.

Papers

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Cash, S.S., Schomer, D., & Halgren, E., “Processing Stages Underlying Grammatical Inflection in the Broca Region: Convergent Evidence from Human Intracranial Electrophysiology and fMRI.” (In preparation)

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Wang, C., Thesen, T., Cash, S.S., Devinsky, O., Kuzniecky, R., Doyle, W., & Halgren, E., “Timing the brain’s language: Neuronal dynamics from perceiving visual input to producing grammatical output, chronicled with intracranially implanted electrodes.” (In preparation)

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Wang, C., Thesen, T., Cash, S.S., Devinsky, O., Kuzniecky, R., Doyle, W., & Halgren, E., “Functional connectivity in the brain’s language network: Intracranially recorded phase locking among Broca's, Wernicke's, Visual Word Form, and Early Visual areas during reading and grammatical processing.” (In preparation)

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., and Halgren, E. “Abstract grammatical processing of nouns and verbs in Broca’s Area: Evidence from fMRI.” Cortex, 42(4): 540-562, 2006. (PDF)

Caviness, V.S., Makris, N., Montinaro, E., Sahin, N.T., Bates, J.F., Schwamm, L., Caplan, D., and Kennedy, D.N. “Anatomy of stroke, Part I: an MRI-based topographic and volumetric System of analysis.” Stroke, 33(11): 2549-56, 2002.

Caviness, V.S., Makris, N., Montinaro, E., Sahin, N.T., Bates, J.F., Schwamm, L., Caplan, D., and Kennedy, D.N. “Anatomy of stroke, Part II: volumetric characteristics with implications for the local architecture of the cerebral perfusion system.” Stroke, 33(11): 2557-64, 2002.

Invited Talks

Date	Organization	Series	Location	Title
2006-06-06	RWTH Aachen University	Psychiatry Neuroimaging Series	Aachen, Germany	fMRI and Human Intracranial EEG Investigations of Noun & Verb Processing
2006-05-31	University of Bonn	Medical Psychology Research Lectures	Bonn, Germany	Chronicling Connectivity Between Broca's & Wernicke's Areas via Human Intracranial Recordings and fMRI