Hugo MerchantFormer Member of the Brain Sciences CenterBrain Sciences Center (BSC)A research group in collaboration with the Minnesota American Legion, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, and the University of Minnesota.PublicationsMerchant H, Crowe D, Fortes A, & Georgopoulos AP (2014, August) Cognitive modulation of local and callosal neural interactions in decision making Frontiers in Neuroscience 8a245 10.3389/fnins.2014.00245 Merchant H, Crowe D, Robertson MS, Fortes A, & Georgopoulos AP (2011, August) Top-down spatial categorization signal from prefrontal to posterior parietal cortex in the primate Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 10.3389/fnsys.2011.00069 Merchant H, Naselaris T, & Georgopoulos AP (2008, September) Dynamic Sculpting of Directional Tuning in the Primate Motor Cortex during Three-Dimensional Reaching Journal of Neuroscience 28(37) 9164-9172 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1898-08.2008 Georgopoulos AP, Merchant H, Naselaris T, & Amirikian B (2007, June) Mapping of the preferred direction in the motor cortex Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104(26) 11068-11072 10.1073/pnas.0611597104 Naselaris T, Merchant H, Amirikian B, & Georgopoulos AP (2006, December) Large-Scale Organization of Preferred Directions in the Motor Cortex. II. Analysis of Local Distributions Journal of Neurophysiology 96(6) 3237-3247 10.1152/jn.00488.2006 Naselaris T, Merchant H, Amirikian B, & Georgopoulos AP (2006, December) Large-Scale Organization of Preferred Directions in the Motor Cortex. I. Motor Cortical Hyperacuity for Forward Reaching Journal of Neurophysiology 96(6) 3231-3236 10.1152/jn.00487.2006 Georgopoulos AP, Naselaris T, Merchant H, & Amirikian B (2006, June) Reply to Kurtzer and Herter Journal of Neurophysiology 97(6) 4391-4392 10.1152/jn.00140.2007 Merchant H, & Georgopoulos AP (2006, January) Neurophysiology of Perceptual and Motor Aspects of Interception Journal of Neurophysiology 95(1) 1-13 10.1152/jn.00422.2005 Naselaris T, Merchant H, Amirikian B, & Georgopoulos AP (2005, April) Spatial Reconstruction of Trajectories of an Array of Recording Microelectrodes Journal of Neurophysiology 93(4) 2318-2330 10.1152/jn.00581.2004 Merchant H, Battaglia-Mayer A, & Georgopoulos AP (2005, March) Decoding of path-guided apparent motion from neural ensembles in posterior parietal cortex Experimental Brain Research 161(4) 532-540 10.1007/s00221-004-2100-1 Merchant H, Fortes A, & Georgopoulos AP (2004, July) Short-term memory effects on the representation of two-dimensional space in the rhesus monkey Animal Cognition 7(3) 133-143 10.1007/s10071-003-0201-z Fortes A, Merchant H, & Georgopoulos AP (2004, April) Comparative and categorical spatial judgments in the monkey: "high" and "low" Animal Cognition 7(2) 101-108 10.1007/s10071-003-0195-6 Merchant H, Battaglia-Mayer A, & Georgopoulos AP (2004, March) Neural Responses during Interception of Real and Apparent Circularly Moving Stimuli in Motor Cortex and Area 7a Cerebral Cortex 14(3) 314-331 10.1093/cercor/bhg130 Merchant H, Battaglia-Mayer A, & Georgopoulos AP (2004, February) Neural responses in motor cortex and area 7a to real and apparent motion Experimental Brain Research 154(3) 291-307 10.1007/s00221-003-1664-5 Merchant H, Battaglia-Mayer A, & Georgopoulos AP (2003, September) Interception of real and apparent motion targets: psychophysics in humans and monkeys Experimental Brain Research 152(1) 106-112 10.1007/s00221-003-1514-5 Merchant H, Battaglia-Mayer A, & Georgopoulos AP (2003, August) Functional Organization of Parietal Neuronal Responses to Optic-Flow Stimuli Journal of Neurophysiology 90(2) 675-682 10.1152/jn.00331.2003 Merchant H, Battaglia-Mayer A, & Georgopoulos AP (2001, October) Effects of Optic Flow in Motor Cortex and Area 7a Journal of Neurophysiology 86(4) 1937-1954 10.1152/jn.2001.86.4.1937