aarlenne zein khan
 | centre for neuroscience studies queen's university kingston ontario canada K7L3N6
aarlenne@biomed.queensu.ca |
biography
funding and awards
publications
refereed journal articles
book chapters
conferences
| 2009-present |
Postdoctoral fellow Supervisors: Dr. Randall Flanagan and Dr. Douglas Munoz Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada |
| 2006-2009 | Postdoctoral fellow Supervisors: Dr. Robert McPeek and Dr. Stephen Heinen The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, USA |
| 2006 | Postdoctoral fellow Supervisor: Dr. Masato Taira Nihon University Graduate School of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2002-2006 | Ph.D. in Psychology Supervisor: Dr. J. Douglas Crawford York University, Toronto, Canada |
| 2003-2006 | Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience Supervisor: Dr. Yves Rossetti Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon France |
| 2000-2002 | M.A. in Psychology Supervisor: Dr. J. Douglas Crawford York University, Toronto, Canada |
| 1995-2000 | B.A., Specialized Honours in Psychology York University, Toronto, Canada |
funding and awards
| 2009-2011 |
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Research Fellowship Award Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada |
| 2007 |
Canadian Psychological Association Certificate of Excellence for PhD Dissertation Canadian Psychological Association |
| 2006-2009 | Canadian Institutes of Health Research Post-doctoral Fellowship Award Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canada |
| 2006 | Japan Summer Post-doctoral Fellowship Award Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan |
| 2006 | E.Lynn Kirshner Memorial Doctoral Scholarship York University, Toronto, Canada |
| 2004-2006 |
Joint PhD Award Province of Rhone-Alpes, France |
| 2004-2006 | NSERC Postgraduate Doctoral Fellowship Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada |
| 2002-2004 | CIHR Doctoral Research Scholarship Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canada |
| 2002-2003 | Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined) Province of Ontario, Canada |
| 2000 | Graduate Entrance Scholarship York University, Canada |
publications
refereed journal articles
| 2009 |
Blangero A, Khan AZ, Rossetti Y, Salemme R, Laverdure N, Deubel H, Schneider WX, Luaute J, Rode G, Boisson D, Vighetto A, Pisella L. Pre-saccadic perceptual facilitation can occur without covert orienting of attention. Cortex, July 15: Epub ahead of print. [pdf] |
| 2009 | Khan AZ, Blangero A, Rossetti Y, Salemme R, Luaute J, Deubel H, Schneider WX, Laverdure N, Rode G, Boisson D, Pisella L. Parietal damage dissociates saccade planning from presaccadic perceptual facilitation. Cerebral Cortex, 19(2): 383-387. [pdf] |
| 2009 | Khan AZ, Blohm G, McPeek RM, Lefevre P. Differential influence of attention on gaze and head movements. Journal of Neurophysiology, 101(1): 198-202. [pdf] |
| 2008 | Blohm G, Khan AZ, Ren L, Schreiber KM, Crawford JD Depth estimation from retinal disparity requires eye and head orientation signals. Journal of Vision, 8(15):3,1-23. [pdf] |
| 2007 | Khan AZ, Crawford JD, Blohm G, Uzquizar C, Rossetti Y, Pisella L Effects of initial hand position on reach errors in optic ataxic and normal subjects. Journal of Vision - Special Issue - Sensorimotor processing of goal-directed movements, 7(5):8,1-16. [pdf] |
| 2006 | Ren L, Khan AZ, Blohm G, Henriques DYP, Sergio LE, Crawford JD. Proprioceptive guidance of saccades in eye-hand coordination. Journal of Neurophysiology, 96(3):1464-1477. [pdf] |
| 2005 | Khan AZ, Pisella L, Vighetto A, Cotton F, Luaute J, Boisson D, Salemme R, Crawford JD, Rossetti Y Optic ataxia errors depend on remapped, not viewed, target location. Nature Neuroscience, 8(4):418-420. [pdf] |
| 2005 | Khan AZ, Pisella L, Rossetti Y, Vighetto A, Crawford JD Impairment of gaze-centered updating of reach targets in bilateral parietal-occipital damaged patients Cerebral Cortex, 15(10):1547-1560. [pdf] |
| 2003 |
Crawford JD, Henriques DYP, Medendorp MD, Khan AZ Ocular kinematics and eye-hand coordination Strabismus, 11(1):33-47. [pdf] |
| 2003 | Khan AZ, Crawford JD Coordinating one hand with two eyes: Optimizing for field of view in a pointing task Vision Research, 43(4): 409-417. [pdf] |
| 2001 | Khan AZ, Crawford JD Ocular dominance reverses as a function of gaze angle Vision Research, 41: 1743-1748. [pdf] |
book chapters
| 2009 | Khan AZ, Pisella L, Blanger A, Rossetti Y, Crawford JD Sensorimotor aspects of reach deficits in optic ataxia. in Cortical Mechanisms of Vision, Cambridge University Press (in press). [pdf] |
| 2009 | Blohm G, Khan AZ, Crawford JD Spatial transformations for eye-hand control in Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, vol 9, pp 203-211, ed. L.R.Squire, Elsevier. [pdf] |
| 2002 | Henriques DYP, Medendorp WP, Khan AZ,
Crawford JD Visuomotor transformations for eye-hand coordination. in Progress in Brain Research, 140 : 329-40. [pdf] |
conferences
| 2009 | Khan AZ, Song JH, McPeek RM The eye dominates in guiding attention during simultaneous eye and hand movements. Society for Neuroscience 2009 |
| 2009 | Khan
AZ, Blangero A, Rossetti Y, Salemme R, Luauté J, Deubel H,
Schneider WX, Laverdure N, Rode G, Pisella L Saccade planning is dissociated from pre-saccadic attentional facilitation after damage to the posterior parietal cortex Vision Sciences Society 2009 |
| 2009 | Khan
AZ, Heinen SJ, McPeek RM Attentional cueing at the saccade goal, not at the target location, facilitates adapted saccades Neural Control for Movement Society 2009 |
| 2009 | Khan
AZ, Blangero A, Rossetti Y, Salemme R, Luauté J, Deubel H,
Schneider WX, Laverdure N, Rode G, Pisella L Saccade planning is dissociated from pre-saccadic attentional facilitation after damage to the posterior parietal cortex Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2009 |
| 2009 | Khan
AZ, Takahashi N, Heinen SJ, McPeek RM The spatial extent of attentional facilitation and inhibition of return in humans and monkeys Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2009 |
| 2008 | Khan
AZ, Heinen SJ, McPeek RM Attention at the motor goal, not the target location, facilitates adapted saccades Society for Neuroscience 2008 |
| 2008 | Khan
AZ, Blohm G, McPeek RM, Lefevre P Attentional cues differently affect eye and head latencies in head-unrestrained gaze shifts Neural Control for Movement Society 2008 |
| 2008 | Khan
AZ, Takahashi N, Heinen SJ, McPeek RM The spatial extent of attention for saccades: attentional facilitation compared to inhibition of return in humans and monkeys Vision Sciences Society 2008 |
| 2008 | Khan
AZ, Heinen SJ, McPeek RM Differentiated visual and motor components of cueing effects on anti-saccades Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2008 |
| 2007 | Khan
AZ, Blangero A, Pisella L, Heinen SJ, McPeek RM Differentiated visual and motor components of cueing effects on saccades Society for Neuroscience 2007 |
| 2007 | Khan
AZ, Pisella L, Blohm G, Rossetti Y, Crawford JD Reach errors depend on both target and initial hand positions in multiple reference frames in unilateral parietal damaged patients Centre for Vision Research 2007 |
| 2007 | Khan
AZ, Blohm G, Ren L, Crawford JD Independent gaze-centered representations of reach targets viewed with left vs. right eye Vision Sciences Society 2007 |
| 2007 | Blohm G, Khan AZ, Schreiber KM,
Ren L, Crawford JD The role of extraretinal signals in egocentric depth estimation. Vision Sciences Society 2007 |
| 2007 | Khan
AZ, Katsuyama N, Schreiber N, Usui N, Haji T, Taira M Activity in the human parietal cortex is modulated by target location when pointing to targets in depth. Neural Control of Movement Society 2007 |
| 2006 | Khan
AZ, Pisella L, Blohm G, Rossetti Y, Crawford JD Hand and target positions in multiple reference frames affect reach errors in unilateral parietal damaged patients. Society for Neuroscience 2006 |
| 2006 | Khan
AZ, Pisella L, Rossetti Y, Crawford JD Initial hand position and movement direction affect reaching in a unilateral optic ataxia patient. Vision Sciences Society 2006 |
| 2005 | Khan
AZ, Pisella L, Rossetti Y, Crawford JD Target and initial hand position affect gaze-centered reaching in a unilateral optic ataxia patient. Society for Neuroscience 2005 |
| 2005 | Khan
AZ, Martinez- Trujillo J, Crawford JD Attention modulates saccade latency but not kinematics. Vision Sciences Society 2005 |
| 2004 | Khan
AZ, Ren L, Crawford JD The eye-hand coordination system synthesizes a common eye-centered internal representation of space for both arms. Society for Neuroscience 2004 |
| 2004 | Khan
AZ, Pisella L, Crawford JD, Rossetti Y Errors in optic ataxia result from a damaged internal eye-centred representation. 4th Forum for European Neurosciences 2004 |
| 2003 | Khan
AZ, Pisella L, Crawford JD, Rossetti Y Errors in reaching in unilateral optic ataxia reflect a faulty eye-centred spatial representation. Society for Neuroscience 2003 |
| 2003 | Khan
AZ, Rossetti Y, Crawford JD Eye-centered remapping in patients with bilateral parietal lobe lesions. Vision Sciences Society 2003 |
| 2002 | Khan
AZ, Crawford JD, Rossetti Y Updating of visual information across a delay in normals and optic ataxia patients. Society for Neuroscience 2002 |
| 2002 | Khan
AZ, Crawford JD Eye-hand alignment in a pointing task varies with gaze direction. 3rd Forum for European Neurosciences 2002 |
| 2002 | Khan
AZ, Crawford JD Gaze angle dependency of ocular dominance in a pointing task. Annual Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology 2002 |
| 2001 | Khan
AZ, Crawford JD Coordinating one hand with two eyes: gaze-dependent reversal of ocular dominance in a pointing task. Society for Neuroscience 2001 |
| 2000 | Khan
AZ, Crawford JD Eye position dependence of ocular dominance in a reaching/grasping task. Society for Neuroscience 2000 |