David Crowe

Ph.D. 2001

Thesis Title:

Cortical Maze Processing

Current Position:

Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Augsburg College

Major Advisor:

Apostolos Georgopoulos, M.D., Ph.D.

Selected Publications:

  • Blackman RK, Crowe DA, DeNicola AL, Sakellaridi S, MacDonald AW 3rd, Chafee MV. Monkey prefrontal neurons reflect logical operations for cognitive control in a variant of the AX continuous performance task (AX-CPT). J Neurosci. 2016;36(14):4067-79.
  • Merchant H, Crowe DA, Fortes AF, Georgopoulos AP. Cognitive modulation of local and callosal neural interactions in decision making. Front Neurosci. 2014 Aug 11;8:245.
  • Crowe DA, Goodwin S, Blackman RK, Sakellaridi S, Sponheim SR, MacDonald III AW, Chafee MV. Top-down signals transmitted from prefrontal to parietal neurons reflect executive control of cognition.  Nature Neurosci. 2013;16:1484-91.
  • Chafee MV, Crowe DA. Thinking in spatial terms: decoupling spatial representation from sensorimotor control in monkey posterior parietal areas 7a and LIP.  Front Integr Neurosci. 2013 Jan 25;6:112..
  • Christopoulos VN, Boeff DV, Evans CD, Crowe DA, Amirikian B, Georgopoulos A, Georgopoulos AP. A network analysis of developing brain cultures. J Neural Eng. 2012;9(4):046008.
  • Merchant H, Crowe DA, Robertson MS, Fortes AF, Georgopoulos AP. Top-down spatial categorization signal from prefrontal to posterior parietal cortex in the primate. Front Syst Neurosci. 2011;5:69.
  • Crowe DA, Leuthold AC, Georgopoulos AP. Differential brain activity states during the perception and nonperception of illusory motion as revealed by magnetoencephalography. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2010;107:22677-22681.
  • Crowe DA, Averbeck BB, Chafee MV. Rapid sequences of population activity patterns dynamically encode task-critical spatial information in parietal cortex. J Neurosci. 2010;30:11640-53.
  • Hedgcock WM, Crowe DA, Leuthold AC, Georgopoulos AP. A magnetoencephalography study of choice bias. Exp Brain Res. 2010;202:121-7.
  • Caminiti R, Chafee MV, Battaglia-Mayer A, Averbeck BB, Crowe DA, Georgopoulos AP. Understanding the parietal lobe syndrome from a neurophysiological and evolutionary perspective. Eur J Neurosci. 2010;31(12):2320-40.
  • Averbeck BB, Crowe DA, Chafee MV, Georgopoulos AP. Differential contribution of superior parietal and dorsal-lateral prefrontal cortices in copying. Cortex. 2009;45(3):432-41.
  • Crowe DA, Averbeck BB, Chafee MV. Neural ensemble decoding reveals a correlate of viewer- to object-centered spatial transformation in monkey parietal cortex. J Neurosci. 2008;28:5218-28.
  • Averbeck BB, Crowe DA, Chafee MV, Georgopoulos AP. Differential contribution of superior parietal and dorsal-lateral prefrontal cortices in copying Cortex 2008;45:432-441.
  • Chafee MV, Averbeck BB, Crowe DA. Representing spatial relationships in posterior parietal cortex: single neurons code object-referenced position, Cerebral Cortex 2007;17(12):2914-32.
  • Crowe DA, Averbeck BB, Chafee MV, Georgopoulos AP. Dynamics of parietal neural activity during spatial cognitive processing. Neuron. 2005;47(6):885-91.
  • Gourtzelidis P, Tzagarakis C, Lewis SM, Crowe DA, Auerbach E, Jerde TA, Uğurbil K, Georgopoulos AP. Mental maze solving: directional fMRI tuning and population coding in the superior parietal lobule. Exp Brain Res. 2005;165(3):273-82.
  • Chafee MV, Crowe DA, Averbeck BB, Georgopoulos AP. Neural correlates of spatial judgement during object construction in parietal cortex. Cereb Cortex. 2005;15(9):1393-413.
  • Averbeck BB, Chafee MV, Crowe DA, Georgopoulos AP. Parietal representation of hand velocity in a copy task. J Neurophysiol. 2005;93(1):508-18.
  • Crowe DA, Chafee MV, Averbeck BB, Georgopoulos AP. Participation of primary motor cortical neurons in a distributed network during maze solution: representation of spatial parameters and time-course comparison with parietal area 7a. Exp Brain Res. 2004;158(1):28-34.
  • Crowe DA, Chafee MV, Averbeck BB, Georgopoulos AP. Neural activity in primate parietal area 7a related to spatial analysis of visual mazes. Cereb Cortex. 2004;14(1):23-34.
  • Averbeck BB, Crowe DA, Chafee MV, Georgopoulos AP. Neural activity in prefrontal cortex during copying geometrical shapes. II. Decoding shape segments from neural ensembles. Exp Brain Res. 2003;150(2):142-53.
  • Averbeck BB, Chafee MV, Crowe DA, Georgopoulos AP. Neural activity in prefrontal cortex during copying geometrical shapes. I. Single cells encode shape, sequence, and metric parameters. Exp Brain Res. 2003;150(2):127-41.
  • Averbeck BB, Chafee MV, Crowe DA, Georgopoulos AP. Parallel processing of serial movements in prefrontal cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002;99(20):13172-7.
  • Chafee MV, Averbeck BB, Crowe DA, Georgopoulos AP. Impact of path parameters on maze solution time. Arch Ital Biol. 2002;140(3):247-51.
  • Crowe DA, Averbeck BB, Chafee MV, Anderson JH, Georgopoulos AP.  Mental maze solving. J Cogn Neurosci. 2000;12(5):813-27.
  • Whang KC, Crowe DA, Georgopoulos AP. Multidimensional scaling analyses of two construction-related tasks. Exp Brain Res. 1999;125(3):231-8.
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