Dr. Robert O. Duncan

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York College, The City University of New York
Behavioral Sciences
Psychology
Assistant ProfessorAppointed: 2008
University of California, San Diego
School of Medicine
Ophthalmology
Assistant Project ScientistAppointed: 2006
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Mailing Address

York College
Department of Behavioral Sciences
94-20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd.
AC-4D06B
Jamaica, New York 11451
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (718) 262-2693
rduncan@york.cuny.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Psychology, 1999.
B.A., University of California, San Diego, Psychology / Music Humanities, 1993.

Expertise and Research Interests

Primary research interest is cognitive neuroscience, including the study of neurodegeneration and plasticity in response to visual disorders. Expertise in several techniques to investigate visual behavior including psychophysics, extracellular electrophysiology, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), laser interferometry, and various clinical measures of visual performance and optic disk structure.

Other Expertise

Expertise in the physiology of human perception, factors influencing performance in normal and clinical populations, and the physiology of individual differences in performance.
* Innovative experimental design and evaluation.
* Fluent programming of visual stimuli in C++ and MATLAB.
* Extensive experience with MATLAB's Statistics and Optimization toolboxes, SAS, SPSS, BMDP, and Systat.
* Strong leadership/mentorship, communication, and public-speaking abilities.
* Knowledgeable in ergonomic web development and programming.

Future Research

In future research, quantitative comparisons between psychophysical and fMRI data will be applied to a wide variety of ocular and cognitive pathologies. Novel fMRI analysis methods will be developed to study functional and morphological changes associated with tumors, cerebrovascular accidents, and brain trauma.

Industrial Relevance

Aerospace systems, aging, cognitive engineering and decision making, education, environmental design, human performance modeling, individual differences, industrial ergonomics, internet GUI technology, product design, safety, training, tests and evaluations, and virtual environments

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ophthalmology.

Additional Terms:

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Glaucoma.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

Spanish: (Functional, Functional, Functional)

Memberships

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
International Perimetric Society
Society for Neuroscience

Honors and Awards

2008, "The Promise" - Future Impact Award, World Glaucoma Association, World Glaucoma Association
2007-2008, UCSD Heath Sciences Subcommittee Award, University of California, San Diego
2006-2007, Grant In Aid, Glaucoma Research Foundation, Glaucoma Research Foundation
2006, Travel Award, International Perimetric Society, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
2006, Young Investigator's Award, Heidelberg Engineering, Heidelberg Engineering
2005, Travel Award, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
1999-2001, NRSA Postdoctoral Felloship, National Institutes of Health (NIH), University of California, San Diego
1997-1998, Systems and Integrative Neurobiology Training Grant, National Institutes of Health (NIH), University of California, San Diego
1993-1994, Cota-Robles Research Fellowship, Cota-Robles, University of California, San Diego

Previous Positions

2004-2006, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego
2000-2004, Postdoctoral Fellow, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Funding Received

  • University of California, San Diego: UCSD Health Sciences Subcommittee, 2007 to 2008.
  • Glaucoma Research Foundation: Grant in Aid, 2006 to 2007.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1999 to 2003.
  • Systems and Integrative Neurosciences: Graduate student research fellowship, 1997 to 1998.
  • Cota-Robles: Graduate student research fellowship, 1993 to 1994.

Publications

  • Duncan, RO, Sample, PA, Bowd, C, Weinreb, RN, Zangwill, LM (2008) Resting cerebral blood flow in human glaucoma, ARVO, Invest. Ophthamol. and Vis. Sci.
  • Duncan, RO, Sample, PA, Bowd, C, Weinreb, RN, Zangwill, LM (2007) Retinotopic Organization of Primary Visual Cortex in Glaucoma: A Method for Comparing Cortical Function with Damage to the Optic Disk, Invest & Ophthal Vis Sci, 48 (2), 733-744
  • Duncan, RO, Boynton, GM (2007) Cortical Magnification within the Finger Map of Human Primary Somatosensory Cortex (S1) Correlates with Tactile Acuity Thresholds, Cerebral Cortex
  • Lu, K, Perthen, JE, Duncan, RO, Zangwill, LM, Liu, TT (2007) Non-Invasive Measurement of the Cerebral Blood Flow Response in Human Lateral Geniculate Nucleus with Arterial Spin Labeling fMRI, Human Brain Mapping
  • Duncan, RO, Sample, PA, Bowd, C, Weinreb, RN, Zangwill, LM (2007) Retinotopic Organization of Primary Visual Cortex in Glaucoma: Comparing Cortical Function with Visual Field Loss, Progress in Retina and Eye Research, 26 (1), 38-56
  • Duncan, RO, Sample, PA, Weinreb, RN, Bowd, C, Zangwill, LM (2007) Detection of Post-Retinal Neurodegeneration in Human Glaucoma: Association with Optic Disk Damage and Visual Field Loss, ARVO, Invest. Ophthamol. and Vis. Sci.
  • Duncan, RO, Sample, PA, Weinreb, RN, Bowd, C, Zangwill, LM (2007) Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Glaucoma Using Arterial Spin Labeling, Glaucoma Foundation's Fourteenth Annual Think Tank
  • Duncan, RO (2006) Measuring Glaucoma with fMRI, Optometric Glaucoma Society Proceedings 2005: Review of Optometry Supplement (bookchapter)
  • Lu, K, Perthen, JE, Duncan, RO, Zangwill, LM, Liu, TT (2006) Perfusion-based FMRI in human LGN and visual cortex reveals a regional difference in the coupling between blood flow and oxygen metabolism, Annual Meeting for the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • Lu, K, Perthen, JE, Duncan, RO, Zangwill, LM, Liu, TT (2006) Detecting LGN Activation in Human Using Quantitative Perfusion-based FMRI: A Feasibility Study, Annual Meeting for the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • Duncan, RO, Sample, PA, Weinreb, RN, Zangwill, LM (2006) Retinotopic Organization of Primary Visual Cortex Correlates with Visual Function and Optic Nerve Head Structure in the Diagnostic Innovations in Glaucoma Study (DIGS), Annual Meeting for the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
  • Duncan, RO, Sample, PA, Weinreb, RN, Zangwill, LM (2006) Retinotopic Organization of Human Primary Visual Cortex Correlates with the Pattern of Visual Field Thresholds, Annual Meeting for the International Perimetric Society
  • Duncan, RO, Sample, PA, Weinreb, RN, Zangwill, LM (2005) Retinotopic Organization in Glaucoma Measured with FMRI in the Diagnostic Innovations in Glaucoma Study, Annual Meeting for the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
  • Lu, K, Zangwill, LM, Duncan, RO, Wong, EC, Wu, WC, Liu, TT (2005) Functional Perfusion Imaging of Human Retina with Arterial Spin Labeling MRI, Annual Meeting for the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • Duncan, RO, Sample, PA, Weinreb, RN, Zangwill, LM (2005) Retinotopic Organization of Human Primary Visual Cortex Reflects Damage to Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer in Glaucoma, Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
  • Duncan, RO, Boynton, GM (2004) Cortical Magnification within the Finger Map of Human Primary Somatosensory Cortex (SI) Correlates with Tactile Acuity Thresholds, Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
  • Duncan, RO, Boynton, GM (2003) Cortical Magnification within Human Primary Visual Cortex Correlates with Acuity Thresholds, Neuron, 38 (4), 659-671
  • Albright, TD, Croner, LJ, Duncan, RO, Stoner, GR (2003) Neuronal bases of perceptual organization in the primate visual system, The 31st Carnegie Symposium: Perceptual Organization in Vision: Behavioral and Neural Perspectives, New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (bookchapter)
  • Albright, TD, Croner, LJ, Duncan, RO, Stoner, GR (2003) The influence of context on visual motion processing, Modulation of neuronal responses: Implications for Active Vision, Netherlands, IOS Press (bookchapter)
  • Boynton, GM, Duncan, RO (2002) Visual Acuity Correlates with Cortical Magnification Factors in Human V1, Annual Meeting for the Journal of the Optical Society of America
  • Duncan, RO, Boynton, GM (2002) Cortical magnification factor in human primary visual cortex correlates with Vernier acuity thresholds, Annual Meeting for the Vision Sciences Society
  • Duncan, RO, Albright, TD, Stoner, GR (2000) Occlusion and the interpretation of visual motion: Perceptual and neuronal effects of context, J Neurosci, 20 (15), 5885-5897
  • Duncan, RO, Albright, TD, Stoner, GR (1999) Disparity-based surface segmentation influences perceived motion and oculomotor responses, Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
  • Stoner, GR, Duncan, RO, Albright, TD (1998) Area MT Responses to Contrast-Modulated Stimuli May Encode Depth-From-Dynamic Occlusion, Annual Meeting for the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
  • Duncan, RO, Stoner, GR (1997) The influence of stereo-based feature classification on motion processing in area MT, Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
  • Stoner, GR, Duncan, RO (1997) Stereo-based terminator classification affects area MT responses, Annual Meeting for the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
  • Duncan, RO, Stoner, GR, Albright, TD (1995) Gating of perceptual motion coherence by foreground/background interpretation: Neural correlates in area MT, Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
  • Duncan, RO, Stoner, GR, Albright, TD (1994) Perceptual motion coherence and oculomotor responses to transparent plaids, Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
  • Duncan, RO, Boynton, GM, Areal cortical magnification factor in humans predicts Vernier acuity thresholds, Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience

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