Assistant Professor 219 McAlester Hall (573) 882–5602 schneiderkei@missouri.edu http://missouri.edu/~schneiderkei Lab: Attention and Perception

My research interest is the relationship between the architecture of the human visual system and the functions of attention, perception and awareness, both in normal and clinical populations. I have been primarily studying the visual subcortex—the lateral geniculate nucleus and pulvinar in the thalamus and the superior colliculus—with retinotopic mapping, spatial and feature-based attention and binocular rivalry experiments. Multiple streams of information arise from distinct ganglion cell populations in the retina; the subcortical nuclei play central roles in the recurrent regulation of visual function, and here, like nowhere else in the brain, these visual streams are spatially disjoint and their activity can be measured with high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging. Abnormalities in these structures may be important in clinical disorders such as dyslexia and congenital stationary night blindness that I am studying.

Schneider KA, Kastner S. 2009. Effects of sustained spatial attention in the human lateral geniculate nucleus and superior colliculus. Journal of Neuroscience 29: 1784–1795.

Schneider KA, Komlos M. 2008. Attention biases decisions but does not alter appearance. Journal of Vision 8(15):3, 1–10.

Schneider KA. 2006. Does attention alter appearance? Perception & Psychophysics 68: 800–814.

Wunderlich K, Schneider KA, Kastner S. 2005. Neural correlates of binocular rivalry in the human LGN. Nature Neuroscience 8: 1595–1602.

Schneider KA, Kastner S. 2005. Visual responses of the human superior colliculus: A high-resolution fMRI study. Journal of Neurophysiology 94: 2491–2503.

Schneider KA, Richter MC, Kastner S. 2004. Retinotopic organization and functional subdivisions of the human lateral geniculate nucleus: A high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Journal of Neuroscience 24: 8975–8985.

Schneider KA, Bavelier D. 2003. Components of visual prior entry. Cognitive Psychology 47: 333–366.