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NAME
POSITION TITLE
Noam Roth
PhD Candidate
eRA COMMONS USER NAME
EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION
Washington University in St. Louis
DEGREE
(if applicable)
BA
YEAR(s)
05/11
FIELD OF STUDY
PsychologyNeurosciencePhilosophy,
Mathematics
A. Personal Statement
I completed my undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis with a Bachelor of Arts in
Mathematics and Psychology-Neuroscience-Philosophy (Cognitive Neuroscience track). I have extensive
research experience in both Psychology and Neuroscienceas an Undergraduate I researched in the
Department of Psychology in the Abrams Lab studying human psychophysics and behavior, specifically motor
tasks and how they relate to attention and spatial perception. I participated in an NSF summer undergraduate
research program at Baylor College of Medicine, where under Professor Wei-Ji Ma I studied properties of
encoding and decoding mechanisms in populations of neurons in the primary visual cortex. I continued in my
interest in computational, systems neuroscience by participating in the University of Pennsylvania’s
Computational Neuroscience REU, studying the structure and decoding impact of noise correlations in
populations of neurons in visual area MT under Professor Alan Stocker. I am currently a Doctoral Candidate in
the Neuroscience Graduate Group of the University of Pennsylvania, where I am taking classes and continuing
to pursue research in computational, systems Neuroscience in a research rotation with Professor Yale Cohen.
B. Positions and Honors
Positions and Employment:
2010
Research Intern, University of Pennsylvania Computational Neuroscience REU
2009-2011 Research Assistant, Dept. of Psychology,Washington University in St. Louis
2010-2011 Grader, Dept. of Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis
2010-2011 Tutor, Dept. of Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis
2009
Research Intern, Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine Computational and Theoretical
Neuroscience NSF Internship
2008
Research Assistant, Dept. of Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2008
Research Assistant, Dept. of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Other Experience and Professional Memberships:
2006-2007 Volunteer Teacher and Tutor, Young Judea Year Course in Israel
Honors:
2011 Graduated with College Honors, Washington University in St. Louis
C. Selected Peer-reviewed Publications
None currently in press or publication
D. Research Support
Neuroscience Graduate Group
Fellowship covering tuition and fees
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