Curriculum Vitae. Qian Luo, Ph.D.

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1 Curriculum Vitae Qian Luo, Ph.D. CURRENT AFFLIATION Assistant Research Professor Director of MEG Center Department of Neurosurgery Saint Louis University School of Medicine 1320 South Grand Blvd 1st Floor O'Donnell Hall St Louis, MO Fax: Website: EDUCATION AND TRAINING Postdocotoral (03/2004 6/2011) Unit on Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program National Institute of Mental Health(NIMH) National Institute of Health(NIH) Ph. D. (07/2003), Cognitive Neuroscience National Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Beijing Normal University. Master (04/2000) Applied Linguistics, Northwest Polytechnical University, China. Bachelor (07/1997), English Linguistics and Literature, Southwest University, China. CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS Brain imaging research involving Magnetoencephalography and functional MRI Methodological Magnetoencephalography (MEG) data analysis methodology, esp. MEG source analysis techniques 1

2 Design optimization for MEG experiments Comparison of brain signals obtained from different imaging techniques, eg. MEG and BOLD fmri Comparison of brain oscillatory responses compared across different frequency bands Research/clinical Diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) using multiple imaging techniques (MEG and fmri, PET) Brain connectivity revealed by MEG (part of Human Connectome project) MEG technology applied to brain pre-surgical planning MEG applied to investigating plastic brain change following stroke MEG applied to Imaging Genetics REVIEW ING ROLES Journal Reviewer for NeuroImage Journal Reviewer for Human Brain Mapping Journal Reviewer for Neuroscience Journal Reviewer for The Annual Review of Biomedical Sciences Journal Reviewer for Journal of Neuropsychology Journal Reviewer for Behavioral Neurology Conference Abstract Reviewer, Annual Meeting of Human Brain Mapping, 2007 Conference Abstract Reviewer for the Annual Meeting of Human Brain Mapping, PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Member -- Society for Neuroscience Member -- Cognitive Neuroscience Society HONORS AND AWARDS National Honor Doctoral Thesis, awarded by Department of State and Ministry of Education of China, Beijing, October Outstanding Research Paper on the National Psychology Conference & International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, Beijing, October PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed Journal Papers 1. Luo, Q., Peng, D., Liu, H The spatiotemporal dynamics of emotional processing. Advances in Psychological Science. 19 (8),

3 2. Luo, Q., Cheng X., Holroyd T., Majestic, C., Schechter, J., Blair, J Emotional automaticity is a matter of timing. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(17): (Selected as Hot Science Publications in NIMH Brain Wave NIMH Intramural research news) 3. Xiao, L., Luo, Q., Chen, B., Peng, D The masked repetition priming effect of emotional words with different encoding Tasks. Psychological Science, 32 (1), Cheng, X., Pizarro, R., Tong Y., Zoltick, B., Luo Q., Weinberger, D., Mattay, V., Bio- Swarm-Pipeline (BSP): A light-weight, extensible batch processing system for efficient biomedical data processing. Frontiers Neuroscience, doi: /neuro Mitchell, D., Luo, Q., Avny S., Kasprzycki, T., Gupta, K., Chen, G., Finger, E., and R. J. R. Blair Adapting to dynamic stimulus-response values: Differential contributions of inferior frontal, dorsomedial, and dorsolateral regions of prefrontal cortex to decision making. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(35): Luo, Q., Mitchell D, Cheng X, Mondillo K, Mccaffrey D., Holroyd, T., Carver, F., Coppola, R., Blair RJ Visual Awareness, emotion, and gamma band synchronization. Cerebral Cortex, 19, Mitchell D, Luo, Q., Mondillo K, Vythilingam M, Finger, E., Blair RJ The interference of operant task performance by emotional distracters: An antagonistic relationship between the amygdala and frontoparietal cortices. Neuroimage 40, Luo, Q., Mitchell D, Jones M, Mondillo K, Vythilingam M, Blair RJ Common regions of dorsal anterior cingulate and prefrontal-parietal cortices provide attentional control of distracters varying in emotionality and visibility. Neuroimage. 38, Luo, Q., Holroyd, T., Jones, M., Hendler, T., Blair, J Neural dynamics for facial threat processing as revealed by gamma band synchronization using MEG. NeuroImage 34, Luo, Q., Nakic, M., Wheatly, T., Martin, A., Blair, J The neural basis of implicit moral attitude: an IAT study using event-related fmri. Neuroimage, 30(4): Blair, J., Marsh, A. A., Finger, E., Blair, K. S. & Luo, Q Neuro-cognitive systems involved in morality. Philosophical Explorations, 9, (1): Luo, Q. & Weekes, B Tonal dyslexia in Chinese. Brain and Language, 91, Luo, Q., Peng, D., Jin, Z., Xu, D., Xiao, L. & Ding G Emotional valence of words modulates the subliminal repetition priming effect in the left fusiform gyrus: an event-related fmri study. NeuroImage, 21, Peng, D, Ding, G, Perry, C., Xu, D., Jin, Z., Luo, Q., Zhang, L & Deng, Y fmri 3

4 evidence for the automatic phonological activation of briefly presented words, Cognitive Brain Research, 20(2), Luo, Q., Peng, D., Gao, S A study of discourse coherence and cohesion in Chinese conduction aphasics. Chinese Journal of Clinical Rehabilitation, 34, Luo, Q., Perry, C., Peng, D., Jin, Z., Xu, D., Ding G., Xu, S The neural substrate of analogical reasoning: an fmri study. Cognitive Brain Research, 17 (3): Peng, D., Xu, D., Jin, Z., Luo, Q., Ding, G., Perry, C., Zhang, L., Liu, Y Neural basis of the non-attentional processing of briefly presented words. Human Brain Mapping, 18: Ding, G., Conrad, P., Peng, D., Ma, L., Li, D., Xu, S., Luo, Q., Xu., D., Yang, J Neural mechanisms underlying semantic and orthographic processing in Chinese-English bilinguals. Neuroreport, 14 (12), Luo, Q., & Peng, D., 2001 A linguistic perspective on dementia. Contemporary Linguistics, (3), Luo, Q., & Peng, D A review of linguistic studies of aphasia. Contemporary Linguistics, (4), Manuscripts under Review and in Preparation 1. Luo, Q., Holroyd T., Yu, H., Cheng X., Blair, J. The spatiotemporal dynamics of top-down and bottom-up attention in humans. (Under review; abstract selected as "Hot Topic" for Neuroscience 2010). 2. Luo, Q., Mitchell, D., McCarthy D., Holroyd, T., Carver, F., Blair, J., The effect of stimulus duration and emotionality on face processing dynamics revealed by MEG. (in manuscript ). 3. Luo, Q., Cheng X., Xu D., Holroyd, T., Jones M., Blair, J. Theta-gamma coupling in emotional processing. (in manuscript ). 4. Luo, Q., Holroyd,T., Mitchell, D. Yu, H., Hodgkinson,C., McCaffrey, D., Cheng,X., Xu,D., Jones,M., Goldman,D., Blair, R.J.R. Amygdala timing reveals the underlying neural mechanisms for 5-HTTLPR Polymorphism variation. (in manuscript). 5. Luo, Q., Holroyd T., Yu, H., Cheng X., Blair, J. Gamma band spatiotemporal dynamics of decision making using MEG (in analysis). Dissertations and Theses 4

5 1. Luo, Q., Neuro-cognitive mechanisms of the subliminal priming effect induced by words with different affective meaning: behavioral and functional neuroimaging approaches. Doctorate dissertation, Beijing, China, (National Honor Doctoral Thesis, awarded by Department of State and Ministry of Education). 2. Luo, Q. Discourse analysis of Chinese conduction aphasics: perspectives from linguistics, neuropschology and computer science. Master thesis, Northwest Polytechnical University, Luo, Q. Economy and balance: As language develops. Bachelor thesis, Southwest University, Invited Talks and Oral Presentations at Conferences 1. Luo, Q., Cheng X., Xu D., Holroyd, T., Jones M., Blair, J. Theta-gamma coupling in emotional processing. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, November Luo, Q., Holroyd, T., Mitchell, D., Blair, J. Neural dynamics for conscious and unconscious emotional processing revealed by gamma band synchronization an MEG study. Human Brain Mapping, Chicago, June Luo, Q., Mitchell, D., Vythilingam, M. Blair, J. The effect of distracter emotionality and visibility on top-down attentional control: an event-related fmri study. The 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA, October Luo, Q., Holroyd, T., Jones, M., Hendler, T., Blair, J. Moving From One State to Another: Dynamics of Event-related Desynchronization for Cognitive State Transition. The World Conference on Biomagnetism, Vancouver, Canada, August Luo, Q., Holroyd, T., Jones, M., Hendler, T., Blair, J. Different spatiotemporal profiles for processing faces with fear, anger and neutral expressions a MEG/SAM study. The 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, November Luo, Q., Peng, D. L., Xiao, L. H., Liu, H. Y. Xu, D. Repetition priming effect and emotional valence. International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience. Beijing, China, October (Keynote talk) 7. Luo, Q. The effect of emotionality on repetition priming. Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, March Xu, D. Peng, D. L., Jin, Z., Luo, Q., Ding, G.S. Analyzing bilateral words synchronously: an fmri study. The fmri Experience V Conference, London,

6 9. Luo, Q., Peng, D. L., Xiao, L. H., Liu, H. Y. Xu, D. The neural mechanisms for metaphor processing. Third International Conference for Brain-mind Development, Beijing, October Xu, D. Peng, D. L., Jin, Z., Luo, Q., Ding, G.S. Speed reading and the plastic brain: an fmri study. Third International Conference for Brain-mind Development, Beijing, October Ding, G.S. Peng, D.L., Jin, Z., Ma, L. Luo, Q., & Tan, L.H. Semantic processing and translation in Chinese-English Bilinguals: An fmri study. FMRI Experience IV Conference, Bethesda, MD, May Peng, D. L. Luo, Q., Xiao, L.H. Liu, H.Y. & Xu, D. Differential Responses and Habituation to Emotionally Positive and Negative Words--a study of unconscious repetition priming. The Tenth International Conference on Cognitive Processing of Chinese and Other Related Asian Languages (ICCPCORAL2002). Taipei, Taiwan. November, Ding, G., Peng, D. Jin, Z., Ma, L., Luo, Q. Semantic processing and translation in Chinese - English bilinguals' Brain: An fmri study. The International Symposium on Cognitive Neuroscience. Hong Kong, April Peng, D., Xu, D., Jin, Z., Zhang, L., Ding, G., Luo, Q. Cerebral mechanisms of Chinese phonogram recognition under masking condition. The International Symposium on Cognitive Neuroscience. Hong Kong, April Conference Posters and Abstracts 1. Luo, Q., Holroyd,T., Mitchell, D. Yu, H., Hodgkinson,C., McCaffrey, D., Cheng,X., Xu,D., Jones,M., Goldman,D., Blair, R.J.R. Amygdala timing reveals the underlying neural mechanisms for 5-HTTLPR Polymorphism variation. Washington DC, Society for Neuroscience, November 2011(selected as "Hot Topic" for Neuroscience 2011).. 2. Luo, Q., Holroyd T., Yu, H., Cheng X., Blair, J. Gamma band spatiotemporal properties of top-down and bottom-up (emotion-based) attention in prefrontal, parietal, and anterior cingulate cortices: an MEG study. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA November 2010 (selected as "Hot Topic" for Neuroscience 2010). 3. Luo, Q. Cheng, X., Zha, Xi. The effects of Tai Chi on the Heart and the Brain. Brain-Heart Summit (Satellite meeting of Society for Neuroscience), Chicago, IL Oct Cheng, X., Pizarro, R., Tong Y., Zoltick, B., Luo Q., Weinberger, D., Mattay, V., Bio- Swarm-Pipeline (BSP): A light-weight, extensible batch processing system for efficient biomedical data processing. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, October

7 5. Luo, Q., Cheng X., Holroyd T., Majestic, C., Schechter, J., Blair, J. Emotional automaticity? It is a matter of timing --- spatiotemporal dynamics of the amygdala in the gamma band. Human Brain Mapping, San Francisco, June Luo, Q., Mitchell D, Cheng X, Mondillo K, Mccaffrey D., Holroyd, T., Carver, F., Coppola, R., Blair RJ. Visual Awareness, emotion, and gamma band synchronization. Society for Biological Psychiatry, Vancouver, Canada, May Luo, Q., Cheng X., Mitchell, D., McCaffrey D., Holroyd T., Blair, J. Regional variability of gamma band synchronization in response to stimulus duration. 16th Annual Dynamical Neuroscience Satellite Symposium (Satellite meeting of Society for Neuroscience), Washington DC, November Cheng, X., Luo, Q., Peng, D., Meyer-Lindenberg, A. Extracting cognitive conditions from neuroimaging data with Support Vector Machines. Human Brain Mapping, Chicago, June Luo, Q., Mitchell, D., Mondillo, K., Kamel, N. Vythilingam, M. Blair, J. Top-down attentional control under the influence of distracter emotionality and visibility: an eventrelated fmri study. Annual Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, April Luo, Q., Holroyd, T., Jones, M., Hendler, T., Blair, J. Neural dynamics of OFC in response to facial threat processing as revealed by gamma band synchronization using MEG. Linking Affect to Action: Critical Contributions of the Orbitofrontal Cortex (A New York Academy of Sciences Conference), New York, March Luo, Q., Holroyd, T., Jones, M., Hendler, T., Blair, J. Neural Dynamics Revealed by Sliding Window SAM (Synthetic Aperture Magnetometry) Analysis in MEG Data. Dynamical Neuroscience XIV: Frontiers in Neural Signal Processing (Satellite meeting of Society for Neuroscience). Atlanta, Georgia, October Luo, Q., Mitchell, D., Mondillo, K., Kamel, N. Vythilingam, M. Blair, J. The effect of distracter emotionality and visibility on top-down attentional control: an fmri study. NIH Research Festival, Bethesda, MD. October Luo, Q., Holroyd, T., Jones, M., Hendler, T., Blair, J. Moving from one state to another: dynamics of event-related desynchronization for cognitive state transition. NIMH Scientific Retreat, Getteysburg, PA, September Cheng, X., Luo, Q., Peng, D., Meyer-Lindenberg, A. Comparative study of ROI extraction criteria for fmri data classification. Annual Meeting for Society of Neuroscience, Atlanta, Georgia, October Luo, Q., Holroyd, T., Jones, M., Hendler, T., Blair, J. The fast subcortical route for fear but not for anger evidence from gamma band synchronization using MEG/SAM. Annual 7

8 Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, April Cheng, X., Luo., Q., Peng, D., Meyer-Lindenberg, A. Inferring cognitive condition from neuroimaging data: comparison of classification algorithms. Annual Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, April Luo, Q. Cheng, X., Holroyd, T., Blair, J Moving from one state to another: dynamics of event-related desynchronization for cognitive act transition --- a model based on MEG evidence. Dynamical Neuroscience XIII: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience(Satellite meeting of Society for Neuroscience), Washington DC, November Luo, Q., Holroyd, T., Jones, M., Hendler, T., Blair, J. Quick and dirty route for fear but not for anger evidence from gamma band synchronization using MEG/SAM. NIMH Scientific Retreat, Getteysburg, PA, September D. Mitchell, Q. Luo, E. Finger, M. Vythinlingham, RJR. Blair. Capturing Attention and Modulating Motor Responding with Incidental Emotional Material. NIMH Scientific Retreat, Getteysburg, PA, September Luo, Q., Nakic, M., Blair, J The neural basis of implicit moral attitude. The NIH Research Festival, Bethesda, MD. October Cheng, X., Luo, Q., Peng, D., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Combining data mining with human expertise. The 11th Annual Meeting of the organization of the Human Brain Mapping, June Luo, Q., Nakic, M., Blair, J. The neural basis of implicit moral attitude an fmri study. The 11th Annual Meeting of the organization of the Human Brain Mapping, June Luo, Q., Peng, D., Xiao, Lihui, Xu, D. & Ding, G. The effect of emotional/neutral distracters on the ongoing task with difficulty levels. The 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, October Luo, Q., Liu, H. L., Peng, D.L., Lin, F. & Xu, D. Comprehension of Metaphors in Chinese English Bilinguals: An Event-related fmri Study. FMRI Experience IV, Bethesda, MD, May Xu, D., Peng, D.L, Jin Z, Luo, Q., & Ding, G.S. An fmri Study of Speed Reading. FMRI Experience IV, Bethesda, MD, May Luo, Q., Peng, D.L., Jin, Z., Xu, D., Xiao, L., Ding, G., & Wang, L. The right insular cortex modulates habituation to emotional words in extroverts and introverts: an unconscious priming study. Human Brain Mapping, Japan, June Xu, D., Peng D.L, Jin Z, Luo, Q., & Ding G.S. An fmri Study of Speed Reading. Human Brain Mapping, Japan, June

9 28. Peng, D.L., Li, E. Z., Liu, Y., Xu, S.Y., Luo, Q., & Xu, D. Neural basis of phonology and semantics in processing Chinese characters an fmri study. Third International Conference on Cognitive Science, Beijing, China. August