Edward J. Golob, Ph.D., Assistant ProfessorPh.D., 1999, Dartmouth College
Office: 3067 Percival Stern Hall
Telephone: (504) 862-3300
Email: egolob@tulane.edu
Research Interests:
My research interests are in the area of cognitive neuroscience. Topics include the auditory system, spatial cognition, attention and memory,
normal aging and Alzheimer's disease. Techniques include electrical
measures of brain activity (event-related potentials, EEG), transcranial
magnetic stimulation, and MRI.
Selected Publications:
Rader S.K., Holmes, J.L., & Golob E.J. (2008). Auditory event-related potentials during a spatial working memory task. Clinical Neurophysiology, 119: 1176-1189.
Golob E.J., Irimajiri R., Starr A. (2007). Auditory cortical activity in amnestic mild cognitive impairment: relationship to subtype and conversion to dementia. Brain, 130(3): 740-52.
Irimajiri R., Michalewski H.J., E.J. Golob, Starr A. (2007).
Cholinesterase inhibitors affect somatosensory but not visual cortical activities in amnestic mild cognitive impairment. Brain Research, 1145:108-16.
Wang H., Golob E.J., Su MY. (2006). Vascular volume and blood-brain barrier permeability in hippocampus and cerebellum measured with dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI in mild cognitive impairment. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 24(3): 695-700.
Bennett I.J., Golob E.J., Parker E.S., Starr A. (2006). Memory evaluation in mild cognitive impairment using recall and recognition tasks. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 28(8):
1408-1422.
Scalise A., Pittaro-Cadore I., Golob E.J., Gigli G.L. (2006). Cortical excitability and restless legs syndrome: Neurophysiological findings.
Sleep, 29(6): 770-775.
Golob E.J., Ovasapyan V., Starr A. (2005). Event-related potentials accompanying motor preparation and stimulus expectancy in the young, young-old and oldest-old. Neurobiology of Aging, 26(4): 531-542.
Golob E.J., Starr A. (2004). Serial position effects in auditory event-related potentials during working memory retrieval. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16(1): 40-52.
Golob E.J., Starr A. (2004). Visual encoding differentially affects event-related potentials during working memory retrieval.
Psychophysiology, 41(2): 186-192.
Bennett I.J., Golob E.J., Starr A. (2004). Age-related differences in auditory event-related potentials during a cued attention task. Clinical Neurophysiology, 115(11): 2602-2615.
Stackman R.W., Golob E.J., Bassett J. P., Taube J.S. (2003). Passive transport disrupts directional path integration by rat head direction cells. Journal of Neurophysiology, 90(5): 2862-2874.
Golob E.J., Johnson J.K., Starr A. (2002). Auditory event-related potentials during target detection are abnormal in mild cognitive impairment. Clinical Neurophysiology, 113(1): 151-161.
Golob E.J., Stackman R.W., Wong A.C., & Taube J.S. (2001). On the behavioral significance of head direction cells: Neural and behavioral dynamics on spatial reference and working memory tasks. Behavioral Neuroscience, 115(2): 285-304.
Golob E.J., & Taube J.S. (1999). Head direction cells in rats with hippocampal or overlying neocortical lesions: Evidence for impaired angular path integration. Journal of Neuroscience, 19(16): 7198-7211.
Golob E.J., & Taube J.S. (1997). Head direction cells and episodic spatial information in rats without a hippocampus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 94, 7645-7650.