Sara Guediche, PhD 
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Personal Website: https://neurosaillab.wordpress.com/
Dr. Sara Guediche is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Neuroscience program. Using speech and language as a model system, her research focuses on understanding flexibility and plasticity in human perception. She uses a combination of methods including behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments to tap into the brain mechanisms that underlie adaptive behavior. Committed to an interdisciplinary approach to neuroscience research, she is working to incorporate additional behavioral methods (e.g, eye-tracking), and neuroimaging methods (e.g, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) and electrophysiology to deepen our understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms that support the complex processes involved in language. A former chemist by training, she is excited to find new ways to build bridges across traditionally distinct STEM areas such as Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Math and Cognitive Psychology.
The lab focuses on understanding the neural mechanisms that facilitate adaptive behavior in a changing environment. We investigate these questions in the domain of spoken language processing. We use both functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), with computational analysis tools to advance our understanding of the human functional neuroanatomy of language, and will extend to using MRS in vivo, in humans.
Behavioral experiments:
Behavioral experiments will be conducted in the College of Science Math in a sound-attenuated room.
Neuroimaging experiments:
FMRI experiments will be conducted at the Human MRI Imaging Core.
