Publications | Biography

Trenton A. Jerde, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Center for Cognitive Sciences

jerde@umn.edu

Research Interests:

Neural mechanisms of eye and hand movements and spatial cognition.

Functional connectivity and resting state networks of the human brain.

Combining neuroimaging and genetics to study individual differences in cognition.

Philosophy of psychology and mind.

Education

Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Minnesota

B.A., Psychology, minors, Philosophy and English, University of Iowa

Postdoctoral Training

Department of Psychology, New York University

Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota

Selected Publications

• Jerde TA, Merriam EP, Riggall AC, Hedges JH, Curtis CE (2012). Prioritized maps of space in human frontoparietal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 32(48):17382-17390.
• Lewis SM, Christova P, Jerde TA, Georgopoulos AP (2012). A compact and realistic cerebral cortical layout derived from prewhitened resting state fMRI data: Cherniak's adjacency rule, size law, and metamodule grouping upheld. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy 6(36): 1-11.
• Jerde TA (2012). The alien Wittgenstein. Cognitive Critique 5: 111-127.
• Jerde TA, Ikkai A, Curtis CE (2011). The search for the neural mechanisms of the set size effect. European Journal of Neuroscience 33(11): 2028-2034.
• Ikkai A, Jerde TA, Curtis CE (2011). Perception and action selection dissociate human ventral and dorsal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23(6): 1494-1506.
• Jerde TA, Krejcarek S, Handy ST, Nagode JC, Pardo JV (2011). Dissociable systems of working memory for rhythm and melody. NeuroImage 57(4): 1572-1579.
• Christova P, Lewis SM, Jerde TA, Lynch JK, Georgopoulos AP (2011). True associations in resting fMRI based on innovations. Journal of Neural Engineering 8(4): 046025.
• Tzagarakis C, Jerde TA, Lewis SM, Uğurbil K, Georgopoulos AP (2009). Cerebral cortical mechanisms of copying geometrical shapes: a multidimensional scaling analysis of fMRI patterns of activation. Experimental Brain Research 194(3): 369-380.
• Jerde TA, Lewis SM, Goerke U, Gourtzelidis P, Tzagarakis C, Lynch J, Moeller S, Van De Moortele P-F, Adriany G, Trangle J, Uğurbil K, Georgopoulos AP (2008). Ultra-high field parallel imaging of the superior parietal lobule during mental maze solving. Experimental Brain Research 187(4): 551-561.