Crista Barberini Email:  crista at stanfordalumni dot org	PROFESSIONAL • PERSONAL
PROFESSIONAL Current Focus Neurophysiological mechanisms of value processing during goal-directed behavior reinforcement learning and behavior Education Ph.D., Neuroscience, Stanford University, 2004 Thesis: Chromatic motion processing in area MT GPA: 3.97 B.S., Biology, University of Oregon, 1994 Minor: Philosophy GPA: 4.00 Curriculum Vitae [html]        [pdf]        [doc] Research Experience 2007-present: Post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Daniel Salzman, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University Medical Center Neurophysiology of emotional learning and behavior 2006-2007: Research Assistant with Dr. Bronte-Stewart, Dept. of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine Neurophysiology of the subthalamic nucleus and quantitative movement testing in Parkinson's patients 1997-2004: Graduate research with Dr. Bill Newsome, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine Neural basis of visual motion processing and sensorimotor integration in awake behaving monkeys 1994-1997: Research assistant with Dr. Jane MacPherson, Neurological Sciences Institute, Oregon Health Sciences Institute Posture and balance control in freely behaving cats 1992-1994: Undergraduate research with Dr. Terry Takahashi, Department of Biology and Institute of Neurobiology, University of Oregon Neural mechanisms of auditory localization in the barn owl Publications Barberini, C.L., Cohen, M.R., Wandell, B.A., and Newsome, W.T. (2005). Cone signal interactions direction-selective neurons in the middle temporal visual area (MT). Journal of Vision, 5, 603-621. [PDF] Barberini, C.L., Horwitz, G.D., and Newsome, W.T. (2000). A comparison of spiking statistics in motion sensing neurones of flies and monkeys. In: Motion Vision, J.M. Zanker and J. Zeil (Eds). New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 307-320. Barberini, C.L., and Macpherson, J.M. (1998). Effect of head position on postural orientation and equilibrium. Experimental Brain Research, 122, 175-184. Takahashi, T.T., Barberini, C.L., and Keller, C.H. (1995). An anatomical substrate for the inhibitory gradient in VLVp of the owl. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 358, 294-304. Links PubMed Textpresso: text search of neuroscience literature Society for Neuroscience Neuroscience in the news NeuroTree: field of Neuroscience lineages Macaque brain maps Visual illusions, compiled by Michael Bach David Landrigan San Francisco's Exploratorium