Professional Research Assistant
Rae has been a professional research assistant in the NED Lab since 2023. They obtained their M.Sc. in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh, where their work focused on novel fMRI and EEG analysis methods and best practices for open data in neuroimaging research. Before joining the lab, they worked as a research specialist at the University of Pittsburgh, Purdue University, and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. Rae provides programming and statistics support in the lab and conducts statistical analyses of EEG and behavioral data for several ongoing clinical trials, including the ARBA and PROBI-O-TISME studies. In their free time, Rae enjoys reading and writing horror fiction and spending time with their cats, Mehitabel and Mae Borowski.
Publications and Presentations:
Coutanche, M. N., Sauter, J., Akpan, E., Buckser, R., Vincent, A., & Caulfield, M. K. (2023). Novel approaches to functional lateralization: Assessing information in activity patterns across hemispheres and more accurately identifying structural homologues. Neuropsychologia, 190, 108684. https://doi.org/10.1016/
Coutanche, M.N., Akpan, E., & Buckser, R.R. (2020) Representational connectivity analysis: Identifying networks of shared changes in representational strength through jackknife resampling. Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/103077
Mazur-Lainé, E., Buckser, R., Davoudi, S., Proteau-Lemieux, M., Knoth, I.S., Angnostou, E., Frei, J., Capano, L., & Lippé, S. (2024) Prédicteurs comportementaux de la réponse à l’arbaclofen chez des enfants atteints d’un TSA. Poster presented at Journée scientifique du département de psychologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Buckser, R. R. (2021) A hitchhiker’s guide to open data for novel analysis. Presented at University of Psychology Department Brown Bag Series, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Buckser, R. R. (2021) Identifying brain networks of representational similarity. Presented at University of Psychology Department Brown Bag Series, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Coutanche, M.N., Akpan, E., & Buckser, R.R. (2020). Identifying networks of fluctuations in representational strength through jackknife resampling. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Cognitive Neuroscience, Boston, MA, United States.
