Doctoral Candidate in Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience · University of Iowa
Defending April 17th, 2026
I study how the morphology of the frontal cortex shapes cognitive control and large-scale network organization in the aging brain. My dissertation investigates the posterior middle frontal sulci (pmfs), a cortical landmark that varies substantially across individuals, and its relationship to executive function and resting-state network topology in older adults.
My work draws on the EXTEND dataset and combines structural MRI, resting-state fMRI, group ICA, dual regression, and custom connectivity fingerprinting methods.
- Cortical morphology and individual differences in cognition
- Large-scale functional network organization in aging
- Executive function and cognitive control
- Cerebrovascular contributions to brain aging
fMRIPrep XCP-D FSL / MELODIC Dual Regression R / lme4 Python FreeSurfer
Global functional connectivity of cognitive control network predicts task-switching performance in older adults
B. Madero, M. Sodoma, C. Oehler, V. A. Magnotta, J. D. Long, E. Hazeltine, M. W. Voss
bioRxiv · 2023 · doi: 10.1101/2023.11.20.567605
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