Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pitt & Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA September 1999 - October 2005 Ph.D. in Neuroscience. Thesis advisor: Carol L. Colby, Ph.D.
Spatial cognition and visual remapping, studied in humans with functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY September 1993 - May 1997 B.A. in Cognitive Science, Thesis advisor: Carol A. Christensen, Ph.D.

Center for Neural Science New York University New York, NY March 2006 - Present Research Scientist (David Heeger lab)
Linking human psychophysics with cortical physiology measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging. High resolution imaging to resolve columnarly organized cortical response properties.

NRSA from the National Institutes of Health (NEI), 2006-2009 [abstract]

R01 from the National Institutes of Health (NINDS) (co-investigator, PI: Christopher R. Genovese), 2004-2008 [abstract]

R01 from the National Institutes of Health (NINDS) (co-investigator, PI: Christopher R. Genovese), 2009-2013 [abstract]

IGERT Fellowship from National Science Foundation, 2004-2005

GSRP Fellowship from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2000-2003

B.A. in Cognitive Science, Vassar College, awarded Cum Laude with Distinction in the major, 1997

Roth Institute Scholars Program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1996

Journal Articles (In progress) Merriam, E. P., Gardner, J. L., Movshon, J. A., Heeger, D. J. (2009) Eye position modulates the gain of visual activity in human occipital cortex. In preparation.

Journal Articles (Published) Gardner, J. L., Merriam, E. P., Movshon, J. A., and Heeger, D.J. (2008) Maps of visual space in human occipital cortex are retinotopic, not spatiotopic. Journal of Neuroscience 28:3988-3999. [abstract] [pdf]
Merriam, E. P., Genovese, C. R., Colby, C. L. (2007) Remapping in human visual cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology 97:1738-1755. [abstract] [pdf]
Merriam, E. P. and Colby, C. L. (2007) Active vision in parietal and extrastriate cortex. The Neuroscientist 11(5):484-493. [abstract] [pdf]
Merriam, E. P., Genovese, C. R., Colby, C. L. (2003) Spatial updating in human parietal cortex. Neuron 39:361-373. [abstract] [pdf]
Merriam, E. P., Colby, C. L., Thulborn, K. R., Luna, B., Olson, C. R., and Sweeney, J. A. (2003) Stimulus-response incompatibility activates cortex proximate to three eye fields. NeuroImage 13(5):794-800. [abstract] [pdf]
Merriam, E. P., Colby, C. L., Thulborn, K. R., Luna, B., Olson, C. R., and Sweeney, J. A. (2003) Stimulus-response incompatibility activates cortex proximate to three eye fields. NeuroImage 13(5):794-800. [abstract] [pdf]
Luna, B., Thulborn, K. R., Munoz, D. P., Merriam, E. P., Garver, K. E., Minshew, N. J., Keshavan, M. S., Genovese, C. R., Eddy, W. F., and Sweeney, J. A. (2001) Maturation of widely distributed brain function subserves cognitive development. NeuroImage 13(5):786-793. [abstract] [pdf]
Merriam, E. P., Thase, M. E., Haas, G. L., Keshavan, M. S. and Sweeney, J. A. (1999) Prefrontal cortical dysfunction in depression determined by Wisconsin card sorting test performance. American Journal of Psychiatry 156(5):780-782. [abstract] [pdf]

Abstracts Merriam, E. P., Gardner, J. L., Movshon, J. A., and Heeger D. J. (2008) Modulation of human visual cortex responses by gaze direction. Society for Neuroscience. Washington DC. [abstract]
Merriam, E. P., Gardner, J. L., Movshon, J. A., and Heeger D. J. (2007) Human area MT is retinotopically, not spatiotopically organized. Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, CA. [abstract]
Merriam, E. P., Genovese, C.R. Lassonde, M. L, and Colby, C. L. (2006) Spatial updating in the absence of the corpus callosum in humans. Society for Neuroscience. Atlanta, GA. [abstract]
Merriam, E. P. and Genovese, C.R. (2005) A Bayesian time course model for fMRI: application to visual remapping. NSF-IGERT Conference, Arlington, VA.
Genovese, C.R. and Merriam, E. P. (2004). New procedures for false discovery control. Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE ISBI Symposium, Arlington, VA. [abstract]
Merriam, E. P., Genovese, C. R., Colby, C. L. (2004) Modulation of visual responses in human striate, extrastriate, and parietal cortex. Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, CA. [abstract]
Merriam, E. P. and Colby, C. L. (2001) Human extrastriate visual cortex remaps spatial locations during eye movements. Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, CA. [abstract]
Merriam, E. P. and Colby, C. L. (2001) Spatial updating in human cortex: An event-related fMRI study at 3T. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Brighton, UK. [abstract]
Merriam, E. P. and Colby, C. L. (2001) fMRI investigation of spatial updating. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. New York, NY. [abstract]
Merriam, E. P., Berman, R. A., Colby, C. L. (2000) Event-related fMRI investigation of spatial updating. Society for Neuroscience. New Orleans, LA. [abstract]
Merriam, E. P., Colby, C. L., Thulborn, K. R., Luna, B., Olson, C. R., Sweeney, J. A. (1999) When "right" means "left": Activation adjacent to three cortical eye fields when responses compete. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. San Francisco, CA. [abstract]
Merriam, E. P., Olson, C. R., Luna, B, Thulborn, K. R., Eddy, W. F., Colby, C. L., Sweeney, J. A. (1999) Suppression of a prepotent response activates cortex anterior to the supplementary eye field. Society for Neuroscience. Miami, FL.
Luna, B, Garver, K. E., Merriam, E. P., Minshew, N. J., Keshavan, M. S., Thulborn, K. R., and Sweeney, J. A. (2000) Developmental fMRI studies of spatial working memory from late childhood to adulthood. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. [abstract]
Sweeney, J. A., Krisky, C. M., Kmiec, J. A., Merriam, E. P., Keshavan, M. S., and Haas, G. L. (1999) Neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenia: f ollowing changes over the early course of illness with neurophysiological and neuropsychological testing. International Congress of Schizophrenia Research 36:267.
Luna, B, Merriam, E. P., Minshew, N. J., Keshavan, M. S., Genovese, C. R., Thulborn, K. R. and Sweeney, J. A. Response inhibition improves from late childhood to adulthood: eye movement and fMRI studies. (1999) Cognitive Neuroscience Society. [abstract]
Luna, B., Merriam, E. P., Minshew, N. J., Keshavan, M. S., Genovese, C. R., Thulborn, K. R, and Sweeney, J. A. (1999) Spatial working memory improves from late childhood to adulthood: Eye movement and fMRI studies. Society for Neuroscience. Miami, FL.
Luna, B., Minshew, N. J., Keshavan, M. S., Merriam, E. P., Boarts, D. A., Genovese, C. R., Thulborn, K. R., and Sweeney, J. A. (1998) fMRI studies of antisaccades in children and adults. Society for Neuroscience. Los Angeles, CA.

Invited talks Reference frames in human visual cortex. Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University. Invited by Bart Krekelberg. Newark, NJ. May, 2009
Remapping of visual space in parietal and extrastriate cortex. Department of Psychology, Queens College. Invited by Josh Brumberg. Queens, NY. April, 2007
Spatial reference frames in human visual cortex. Center for Neural Science, New York University. Invited by Clay Curtis. New York, NY. April, 2005

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, NY June 1996 Student at the 2006 Computational Neuroscience Vision summer course

Dartmouth College Hanover, NH July, 2001 Student at the 2001 Dartmouth Summer Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience