Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department of Neurology
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: 3 West Gates Building
Office phone:215-662-3390
Lab phone: 215-614-1972
E-mail: aguirre@mail.med.upenn.edu

Research Interests
My work falls within the broad categories of cognitive neuroscience and behavioral neurology. My lab investigates the neural basis and recovery of higher-level visual function. The primary technique I use is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), although individual projects also employ behavioral, animal, or patient based research. Ongoing projects include: 1) Neural information processing during face discrimination; 2) Characterizing how individual faces are represented within a neural “face space”; 3) fMRI of recovered cortical vision in gene therapy of canine Leber's Congenital Amaurosis and in human patients with retinal disease; 4) Visual perceptual learning studied with perfusion fMRI.

Graduate Groups

• Neuroscience

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Last modified: 5 June, 2006