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Staff Scientists and Clinicians Shruti Japee, Ph.D.   Shruti Japee received her Bachelor’s degree in Instrumentation Engineering in 1994 from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India. She went on to receive her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Medical College of Virginia in 1999. As part of her doctoral work she designed and implemented a system for analyzing video images to study microcirculatory oxygen transport. In the Fall of 1999, she entered the field of neuroimaging at NIH as a Research Contractor in the Clinical Brain Disorders Branch. Since March 2002, she has been working as a Staff Scientist in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, Section on Neurocircuitry, National Institute of Mental Health Research Interests Dr. Japee’s major areas of scientific interest are emotion and perception. She is currently using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the role of reward in perceptual decision-making. Representative Selected Recent Publications: Olsen RK, Kippenhan SJ, Japee S, Kohn P, Mervis CB, Saad ZS, Morris CA, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Berman KF: Retinotopically defined primary visual cortex in Williams Syndrome. Brain, in press. Japee S, Crocker L, Carver F, Pessoa L and Ungerleider LG : Individual differences in valence modulation of face-selective M170. Emotion, 9(1): 59-69, 2009. Pessoa L, Rossi A, Japee S, Desimone R, Ungerleider LG: Attentional control during the transient updating of cue information.Brain Research, 1247(C), 149-158. 2009. Mukai I, Kim D, Fukunaga M, Japee S, Marrett, S, & Ungerleider LG: Activations in visual and attention-related areas predict and correlate with the degree of perceptual learning. Journal of Neuroscience, (42), 11401-11, 2007. Pessoa L, Japee S, Sturman D, & Ungerleider LG: Target visibility and visual awareness modulate amygdala responses to fearful faces. Cerebral Cortex, 16(3), 366-375, 2006. Pessoa L, Japee S, & Ungerleider LG: Visual awareness and the detection of fearful faces. Emotion, 5(2), 243-247, 2005. Address:   Phone:   Email: Fax:   Lab Web Site: http://lbcnimh.nih.gov/     Principal Investigators Scientists & Clinicians DIRP Labs and Branches DIRP Research Areas Office of the Scientific Director Site Map Participate in Research Contact Us Careers in Research What’s New Functional MRI Core Magnetic Resonance Core Magnetoencephalography Core Microarray Core Neurophysiology Imaging Facility Scientific and Statistical Computing Core Section on Instrumentation Core Transgenic Core Veterinary Medicine Resources (Staff only) Office of the Scientific Director Office of the Clinical Director Office of Fellowship Training Office of Technology Transfer Administrative Services Branch Administrative Services

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