Amy L. Kryjak Lab Manager Auditory Neurethology Laboratory Department of Psychology University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Contact  Information Degrees,  Positions Research Publications

Contact Information

E-mail:       akryjak@psyc.umd.edu
Telephone:   301-405-0374 (batlab)

Degrees, Positions

BS Psychology	University of Maryland, College Park	1999
Lab Manager	University of Maryland, College Park	1999-present

Research

I am interested in neuroanatomy and neurophysiology and will be investigating the temporal response characteristics of auditory neurons in the mouse CNS. The same sound stimuli used to characterize responses from auditory neurons in the bat will be presented to the mouse. Extracellular recordings in the inferior colliculus, superior colliculus and the auditory cortex of the mouse will then be compared to those of the bat. The results will address the following question: Is two-sound-delay-tuning the exclusive domain of a specialized auditory system that supports echolocation, or is it a more general response characteristic of the auditory systems of many mammals?

Publications

Gaillard, W. D., Grandin, C. G., Pugliese, M., Balsamo, L., Braniecki, S. H., Xu, B., Hunter, K., Papero, P., Spanaki, M. V., Kryjak, A., Petrella, J. R., Weinstein, C., Conry, J. Pearl, P., & Theodore, W. H. (1999). Identification of language dominance in CPS patients using a fMRI reading task. American Epilepsy Society Meeting, Epilepsia, 40, 251.

Xu, B., Grafman, J. Gaillard, W., Ishii, K., Balsamo, L., Spanaki, M., Pugliese, M., Kryjak, A., Liow, K., & Theodore, W. (1999, June). Functional coupling of phonological processes during the activation of word meaning: An fMRI study of visual word perception. Poster presented at the Fifth Annual Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, Germany.