Farshad Moradi

Research Track Resident Physician
Department of Radiology
Univeristy of California, San Diego
 
Visiting Associate in Biology
139-74 Computation and Neural Systems
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
Email: farshad.moradi<at>caltech.edu

Education

2008 - 2009
Univeristy of Massachusett's Medical School, Worcester, MA
Internship, internal medicine
2006 - 2008
New York Univeristy, New York, NY
Postdoctoral Scholar
2002 - 2006
California Institue of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Ph.D. Computation and Neural Systems, minor in Computer Science
1992 - 2000
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
M.D.

Professional Experience

2001 - 2002, Dept. Cognitive Sciences and Epistemology, School of Intelligent Systems, Tehran, Iran
Researcher
Visual Psychophysics, Biological Neural Networks
Lecturer
Biological Neuronal Modeling (Fall 2001)
Introduction to Computational and Cognitive Neurosciences (summer-fall 2001)
2000 - 2001, Lab for Human Brain Dynamics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako-shi, Japan
Researcher
Comparison of MEG and fMRI localization of brain activations to visual stimuli (joint project with Lab Cognitive Brain Mapping).
1998 - 2000, School of Intelligent Systems, Tehran, Iran
Research Assosciate
Effect of thalamic ventro-caudal nucleus stimulation on cognitive somatosensory tasks on patients undergoing stereotactic thalamotomy for Parkinson's disease
Psychophysics of human stereovision

Research Interests

Publications

Tsuchiya N, Moradi F, Felsen C, Yamazaki M, Adolphs R. Intact rapid detection of fearful faces in the absence of the amygdala. Nature Neuroscience. Accepted

Moradi F, Heeger DJ. Inter-ocular contrast normalization in human visual cortex. Journal of Vision 2009; 9(3):13, 1-22

Reddy L, Moradi F, Koch C. Top-down biases win against focal attention in the fusiform face area. Neuroimage 2007; 38(4):730-9

Moradi F, Hipp C, Koch C. Activity in visual cortex is modulated by top-down attention locked to reaction time. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2007; 19(2):331-40.

Moradi F, Koch C, Shimojo S. Face adaptation depends on seeing the face. Neuron 2005; 45(1):169-75. [link]

Kanai R, Moradi F, Shimojo S, Verstraten FAJ. Perceptual Alternation Induced by Visual Transients. Perception 2005; 34(7):803-822. [pdf]

Moradi F, Shimojo S. Perceptual-binding and persistent pre-attentive surface segregation. Vision Research 2004; 44(25):2885-99. [pdf]

Moradi F. Information coding and oscillatory activity in synfire neural networks with and without inhibitory coupling. Biological Cybernetics 2004; 91(5):283-94. [link]

Moradi F, Shimojo S. Suppressive Effect of Sustained Low-Contrast Adaptation followed by Transient High-Contrast on Peripheral Target Detection. Vision Research 2004 Mar;44(5):449-60. [pdf]

Montaser-Kouhsari L, Moradi F, Zandvakili A, Esteky H. Orientation-Selective Adaptation during Motion-Induced Blindness. Perception 2004 Feb; 33(2):249-254. [abstract / pdf]

Moradi F, Liu LC, Cheng K, Waggoner RA, Tanaka K, Ioannides AA. Consistent and precise localization of brain activity in human primary visual cortex by MEG and fMRI. Neuroimage 2003 Mar;18(3):595-609. [full text]

Afraz SR, Montaser-Kouhsari L, Vaziri-Pashkam M, Moradi F. Interhemispheric visual interaction in a patient with posterior callosectomy. Neuropsychologia 2003; 41(5):597-604. [abstract / full text]

Abbassian AH, Shahzadi S, Afraz SR, Fazl A, Moradi F. Tactile discrimination task not disturbed by thalamic stimulation. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2001;76(1):19-28. [abstract]

Moradi F A Psychophysical Approach to the Mechanism of Human Stereovision. International Work-conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks (IWANN'99). Alicante, Spain Jun 1999.

Conference Abstracts, Technical Reports

Moradi, F., Shimojo, S. Face adaptation depends on gaze (overt attention): Dissociation between fMRI adaptation and face aftereffect. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Sarasota, Florida. May 2006.

Moradi, F., Koch, C., Shimojo, S. Sarma G, Gutierrez, J. Adaptation to face identity and emotional expression depends on attention. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Sarasota, Florida. May 2005.

Moradi, F., Shimojo, S. Adaptation to invisible gratings in Troxler Filling-in. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Sarasota, Florida. May 2005.

Moradi, F., Koch, C., Shimojo, S. Face adaptation is reduced by binocular suppression. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Apr 2004.

Moradi, F., Shimojo, S. Surface segregation and the time-course of feature-binding. Vision Sciences Society Fourth Annual Meeting, Sarasota, Florida. May 2004.

Reddy, L., Moradi, F., Koch, C. Neural correlates of preattentive face-gender discrimination. Vision Sciences Society Fourth Annual Meeting, Sarasota, Florida. May 2004.

Moradi, F., Shimojo, S. Multiplicative and Suppressive Effect of Sustained and Transient Edge Adaptation in Peripheral Target Detection. Vision Sciences Society Third Annual Meeting, Sarasota, Florida. May 2003. [abstract/demo/poster]

Moradi, F. Information Coding and Oscillatory Activity in Synfire Neural Networks with and without Inhibitory Coupling. 2nd Joint Symposium on Frontiers In Computational Neuroscience. Asilomar, California. Mar 2002. [pdf]

Moradi, F., Liu, L. C., Cheng, K., Waggoner, R. A., Tanaka, K. and Ioannides, A. A. Consistent and precise localization of brain activity in human primary visual cortex by MEG and fMRI. SFN Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA. September 2001.

Moradi, F. Phase information and Edge operators for Stereo-correlation. International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (SIP'99) 1999.

Moradi, F., Zali, B. Visual Synchrony and Stereovision. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP99), abstract no. B086. 1999.

Nilipour, R., Jarema, G., Kehayia, E., Moradi, F. The role of headedness in the processing of compounds: Evidence from Persian. The 2nd International Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Montreal, Canada. Oct 2000.

Fazl, A., Moradi, F. Hemispheral asymmetry for orientation and shape. TENNET VIII. 1997 (Brain and Cognition 37:1, June 1998).

Afraz, S. R., Fazl, A., Moradi, F., Shahzadi, S., Abbasian, A. The effect of Ventro-Codal Stimulation on Simple Somatosensory Tasks IS-99-20 A4E4, School of Intelligent Systems, 1999.

Skills

Programming languages and Computer Packages: C++, Pascal, Prolog, Lisp, various Assembly languages. NEURON, Matlab, IDL, Delphi, Mathematica, Statistica
Operating Systems: UNIX (Solaris, Linux), Windows, Mac OS
Programming experiences: Multimedia, Computer-synthesized Music, Visual and Auditory Psychophysics (Matlab Psychophysics Toolbox, OpenGL, DMDX), Signal and Image Processing.
Laboratory skills: General animal surgery, Histological staining, EEG/ERP, MEG, fMRI, Psychophysics, Deep electrode stimulation and recording.

http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~farshadm/