Melissa Saenz, Ph.D.
Maitre d'Enseignement et de Recherche, UNIL
Institute of Bioengineering, EPFL
saenz.melissa@gmail.com
phone: +41 21 314 9593
mailing address:
Service of Neurology
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV)
Rue du Bugnon 46
1011 Lausanne
Switzerland
Research Interests:
I am a neuroscientist with joint appointments at UNIL and EPFL leading a research group within the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) since 2010. Our group is most active in investigating the human auditory cortex using high-resolution functional MRI (fMRI). This brain region is central to human auditory abilities (including language and music) and is a key area for studying the brain's ability to learn and reorganize (brain plasticity).
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More info on Research pages: auditory cortex, synesthesia, visual plasticity.
Teaching
Signal Processing for Functional Brain Imaging (MICRO-513), Master course at EPFL, co-organized with Dimitri Van de Ville.
Publications
Da Costa S, van der Zwaag W, Marques J, Frackowiak R, Clarke S, and Saenz M (2011) "Human Primary Auditory Cortex Follows the Shape of Heschl's Gyrus" Journal of Neuroscience. 31(40), 14067-14075. [pdf] Featured on Journal Cover
Saenz M, Fine I (2010) Topographic Organization of V1 Projections through the Corpus Callosum in Humans, Neuroimage, 52(4), 1124-9. [pdf]
Lewis LB, Saenz M, Fine I (2010) Mechanisms of cross-modal plasticity in early blind subjects, Journal of Neurophysiology, 104(6):2995-3008.
Saenz M, Koch C (2008) The Sound of Change: Visually-induced auditory synesthesia, Current Biology, 18(15), R650-1. [pdf]
Saenz M, Lewis LB, Huth AG, Fine I, Koch C (2008) Visual motion area MT+/V5 responds to auditory motion in human sight-recovery subjects, Journal of Neuroscience, 28(20), 5141-5148. [pdf]
Saenz M, Buracas GT, Boynton GM, (2003) Global feature-based attention for motion and color, Vision Research, 43, 629-637. [pdf]
Kornylo K, Dill N, Saenz M, Krauzlis RJ (2003) Canceling of pursuit and saccadic eye movements in humans and monkeys, Journal of Neurophysiology, 89(6), 2984-99.
Saenz M, Buracas GT, Boynton GM (2002) Global effects of feature-based attention in human visual cortex, Nature Neuroscience, 5(7), 631-2. [pdf]
