IPM Positions

Adjunct Investigator, School of Cognitive Sciences (2019 - Present )

Past IPM Positions

PostDoctoral Associate, School of Cognitive Sciences (2018 - 2019) Ph.D. Student, School of Cognitive Sciences (2012 - 2017)

Research Activities

I received my PhD from the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran. During my PhD, at Dr. Noudoost lab, I studied the effect of spatial working memory on the processing of visual information using the extracellular recording from cerebral cortex of nonhuman primates. Now as a postdoctoral fellow at IPM, I am working on the causal role of the Frontoparietal network on modulation of visual signals during visual attention and working memory using either pharmacological or cooling deactivation techniques. Auditory perception is also one of my fields of interest. I am using human psychophysics and EEG recording to understand how motor planning modulates the response of neurons in auditory cortex of human brain.

Related Papers

1.	Y. Merrikhi, M. Shams-Ahmar, H. Karimi-Rouzbahani, K. Clark, R. Ebrahimpour and B. Noudoost Dissociable Contribution of Extrastriate Responses to Representational Enhancement of Gaze Targets Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 33 (2021),   [abstract]

2.	Y. Merrikhi, K. Clark and B. Noudoost Concurrent influence of top-down and bottom-up inputs on correlated activity of Macaque extrastriate neurons Nature Communications (2018), 1-12  [abstract]

3.	Y. Merrikhi, R. Ebrahimpour and A. Daliri Perceptual manifestations of auditory modulation during speech planning Experimental Brain Research (2018),   [abstract]

4.	Z. Bahmani, M.R. Daliri, Y. Merrikhi, K. Clark and B. Noudoost Working Memory Enhances Cortical Representations via Spatially Specific Coordination of Spike Times Neuron 97 (2018), 967-979  [abstract]

5.	Z. Bahmani Dehkordi, Y. Merrikhi, K. Clark, M. Daliri and B. Noudoost Maintenance of spatial information enhances visual processing via phase modulation of ongoing brain rhythms ( In: SFN 2017) [abstract]

6.	Y. Merrikhi, R. Ebrahimpour and A. Daliri Perceptual manifestations of auditory modulation during speech planning ( In: SFN 2017) [abstract]

7.	Y. Merrikhi and B. Noudoost Interactions between top-down and bottom-up input alter noise correlations in extrastriate cortex ( In: Session 149 - Spatial and Feature-Based Attention, SFN 2017) [abstract]

8.	Y. Merrikhi, K. Clark, E. Albarran, M. Parsa, M. Zirnsak, T. Moore and B. Noudoost Spatial working memory alters the efficacy of input to visual cortex Nature Communications (Accepted) [abstract]

9.	Z. Bahmani, M.R. Daliri, Y. Merrikhi, M. Parsa and B. Nodoost Maintenance of spatial information modulates beta rhythms within MT cortex ( In: Society for Neuroscience conference (SFN) 2016) [abstract]

10.	Y. Merrikhi, M. Parsa and B. Noudoost Maintenance of spatial information modulates the gain and reliability of neuronal responses in areas V4 and MT ( In: 2016­-S-­9198-­SfN) [abstract]

11.	B. Noudoost, Y. Merrikhi , T. Moore, K. Clark, E. Albarran and M. Parsa Spatial working memory enhances visual cortical representations ( In: 2016-S-12802-SfN) [abstract]

12.	Z. Bahmani Dehkordi, M. Daliri, Y. Merrikhi, M. Parsa and B. Noudoost Maintenance of spatial information modulates beta rhythms within MT cortex ( In: 2016­-S-­8148-­SfN) [abstract]

13.	K. Clark, R. Squire, Y. Merrikhi and B. Noudoost Visual attention: Linking prefrontal sources to neuronal and behavioral correlates Progress in Neurobiology (2015),   [abstract]

14.	Y. Merrikhi, M. Parsa and B. Noudoost Maintenance of spatial information modulates the correlated variability of MT neurons based on their spatial selectivity ( In: SFN 2015) [abstract]

15.	Y. MERRIKHI, M. Parsa, E. ALBARRAN and B. NOUDOOST Maintenance of spatial information gates the processing of incoming visual information in area V4 ( In: SFN 2014) [abstract]