Attention, Cognition, and Perception Scientist
I'm a postdoctoral researcher in Michael Silver’s lab and the Center for the Science of Psychedelics at UC Berkeley.
I study the neural processes that shape sensory information to generate perception and control behavior. In my research I use psychopharmacological, psychophysical, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
PhD in PsychologyCognitive Neuroscience concentrationAdvisor: George R. Mangun Dissertation: The Neural Mechanisms of Visual Attention University of California, Davis |
2017 – 2021 |
Bachelor of Artswith majors in Cognitive Scienceand Molecular and Cellular Biology (Neurobiology concentration) University of California, Berkeley |
2009 – 2013 |
Postdoctoral ResearcherAdvisor: Michael SilverUC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics Department of Neuroscience University of California, Berkeley |
2021 – Present |
LecturerCourse: Cognitive NeuroscienceDepartment of Psychology University of California, Davis | Summer 2023 |
| Zink N, Noah S, Klein S, Reid R, Hinshaw S, McCracken J, Karalunas S, Oliva M, O’Connell S, Betts S, Simpson G, Lenartowicz A. Selective attention dynamics in adults with ADHD: A role for sensory processing asymmetry? Submitted to Biological Psychiatry. |
| Noah S, Meyyappan S, Ding M, Mangun GR. Out-of-Phase Rhythmic Sampling of Internal Visual Target and Distractor Object Representations Correlates with Target Discrimination. Preprint ahead of submission. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/eyd6u |
| Privitera C, Noah S, Carney T, Klein S, Lenartowicz A, Hinshaw S, McCracken J, Nigg J, Karalunas S, Oliva M, Betts S, Simpson G. Pupillary unrest is attenuated in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Submitted to Neuroscience Letters. |
| Noah S, Shen M, Erowid E, Erowid F, Silver M. A Novel Method for Quantitative Analysis of Subjective Experience Reports: Application to Psychedelic Visual Experiences. In press, Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1397064 |
| Privitera C, Noah S, Carney T, Klein S, Lenartowicz A, Hinshaw S, McCracken J, Nigg J, Karalunas S, Oliva M, Betts S, Simpson G. (2024) Pupillary dilations in a Target/Distractor visual task paradigm and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Neuroscience Letters 818. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2023.137556 |
| Noah S, Meyyappan S, Ding M, Mangun GR (2023) Time courses of attended and ignored object representations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 35 (4): 645–658. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01972 |
| Noah S, Meyyappan S, Ding M, Mangun GR (2022) Anticipatory attention is a stable state induced by transient control mechanisms. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16:965689. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.965689 |
| Noah S, Powell T, Khodayari N, Olivan D, Ding M, Mangun GR (2020) Neural Mechanisms of Attentional Control for Objects: Decoding EEG Alpha when Anticipating Faces, Scenes, and Tools. Journal of Neuroscience 40(25) 4913-4924. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2685-19.2020 |
| Povazan M… Noah S… Edden RAE (2020) Comparison of multi-vendor, single-voxel MR spectroscopy data acquired in healthy brain at 26 sites. Radiology 00:1–10. DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2020191037 |
| Noah S, Mangun GR (2020) Recent Evidence that Attention is Necessary, but Not Sufficient, for Conscious Perception. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1464(1):52-63. DOI: 10.1111/nyas.14030 |
| Mikkelsen M… Noah S… Edden RAE (2019) Big GABA II: Water-Referenced Edited MR Spectroscopy at 25 Research Sites. Neuroimage May 1;191:537-548. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.02.059 |
| Mikkelsen M… Noah S… Edden RAE (2017) Big GABA: Edited MR Spectroscopy at 24 Research Sites. Neuroimage 159:32-45. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.07.021 |
| Greenhouse I, King M, Noah S, Maddock RJ, Ivry RB (2017) Individual differences in resting cortico-spinal excitability are correlated with reaction time and GABA content in motor cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 37(10):2686-2696. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3129-16.2017 |
| Greenhouse I, Noah S, Maddock RJ, Ivry RB (2016) Individual differences in GABA content are reliable but are not uniform across the human cortex. Neuroimage 139:1-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.06.007 |
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Neural Mechanisms of Attentional Control for Objects: Decoding EEG Alpha when Anticipating Faces, Scenes, and Tools Neuromatch Online Conference, October 2020 |
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Neural Mechanisms of Object Based Attention UC Davis Center for Vision Science Annual Symposium, January 2020 |
| Noah S, Shen M, Erowid E, Erowid F, Silver M. Quantitative analysis of subjective experience reports indicates systematic differences in visual effects across psychedelic compounds. Bay Area Vision Research Day, September 2023 |
| Noah S, Meyyappan S, Ding M, Mangun GR. Tracking the Fate of Distracting Visual Stimuli from Decoding of Attended and Ignored Visual Information in EEG. Vision Science Society annual conference, May 2022 |
| Noah S, Meyyappan S, Ding M, Mangun GR. Anticipatory Attention is a Stable State Induced by Transient Control Mechanisms. Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual conference, April 2022 |
| Shen M, Noah S, Erowid E, Erowid F, Silver M. Natural Language Processing Analysis of Erowid Drug Experience Reports. California Cognitive Science Conference, April 2022 (Best poster award winner) |
| Noah S, Powell T, Khodayari N, Olivan D, Ding M, Mangun GR. Neural Mechanisms of Attention to Objects. Cognitive Neuroscience Society virtual conference, May 2020 |
| Noah S, Powell T, Khodayari N, Olivan D, Ding M, Mangun GR. Anticipatory object-based attention modulates EEG alpha activity. Vision Science Society annual conference, May 2019 |
| Noah S, Powell T, Khodayari N, Olivan D, Ding M, Mangun GR. Object-based attention modulates EEG alpha activity. Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual conference, March 2019 |
| Povazan M et al. The use of multi-vendor, multi-site 1H-MRS data acquired at 26 sites as a benchmark for MRS standardization: Comparison of quantification software. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine annual meeting, April 2019. |
| Noah S, Powell T, Khodayari N, Olivan D, Mangun GR. Object attention modulates alpha band activity. Annual Mind and Brain Poster Day, Center for Mind and Brain, UC Davis, May 2018 |
| Mikkelsen M et al. Integrative analysis of GABA-edited MRS data acquired at 19 research sites. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine annual meeting, April 2017. |
| Lenartowicz A, Simpson G, O’Connell S, Noah S, Head A, Bilder R, McCracken J, Bookheimer S, Reid R, Cohen M. New EEG measures reveal infra-slow fluctuations in both attending and ignoring in adults with ADHD that provide high accuracy in discriminating ADHD from control. Society for Neuroscience annual conference, October 2015. |
| Greenhouse I, Noah S, Maddock R, Ivry R. Individual Differences in Cortical GABA Concentrations and Motor Excitability. Organization for Human Brain Mapping, June 2015. |
| Noah S, Bayliss J, Vedamurthy I, Nahum M, Levi D, Bavelier D. Comparing dichoptic action video game play to patching in adults with amblyopia. Vision Science Society annual conference, May 2014. |
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National Eye Institute Early Career Scientist Travel Grant Vision Science Society Meeting 2022 | 2022 |
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National Eye Institute Traineeship UC Davis Vision Science Training Program (T32) | 2019 – 2021 |
| UC Davis Graduate Student Travel Award | 2020 |
| Honorable Mention – National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships Program | 2019 |
| Travel, lodging support scholarship for NIH-funded fMRI training course at University of Michigan | 2019 |
| Travel support scholarship to NSF-funded Big Data Neurosciences Workshop 2017 in Bloomington, IN | 2017 |
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Graduate Student Affiliate UC Davis DataLab (formerly UC Davis Data Science Initiative) |
2017 – 2021 |
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Ad Hoc Reviewer: ENeuro Journal of Neuroscience Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Vision Research Journal of Psychopharmacology |
| Laminar fMRI course at MGH in Boston, MA | 2023 |
| Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience | 2022 |
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Neuromatch Academy Computational Neuroscience Interactive Track |
2020 |
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NIH-funded fMRI training course at University of Michigan |
2019 |