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Lizabeth Romanski, Ph.D.

Lizabeth Romanski, Ph.D.

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About Me

Faculty Appointments

Associate Professor - Department of Neuroscience (SMD)

Credentials

Post-doctoral Training & Residency

Post-doctoral Fellow
(Mentor: Dr. Patricia Goldman-Rakic),
Yale University, New Haven, CT. 1992 - 1999

Education

PhD | Cornell Univ Medical College. Neurobiology. 1992

BA | Rutgers State University. Psychology. 1984

Awards

Excellence in Medical Research Incentive Award. 2006

Whitehall Foundation Research Award.. 2000

Cure Autism Now Young Investigator Award.. 1998 - 2000

McDonnell-Pew Postdoctoral Training Grant in Cognitive Neuroscience.. 1993 - 1996

Donald B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neuroscience,. 1992

Vincent DiVigneau Prize. 1991

Vincent DiVigneau Prize. 1990

Henry Rutgers Academic Excellence Undergraduate Research Award. 1984

Henry Rutgers Academic Scholarship. 1980 - 1984

Research

While auditory and visual information are combined in many sites of the human brain, the combining of face and vocal information for effective communication has been shown to occur in specialized regions of the temporal and frontal lobes. Work in my laboratory is focused on how the ventral prefronta...
While auditory and visual information are combined in many sites of the human brain, the combining of face and vocal information for effective communication has been shown to occur in specialized regions of the temporal and frontal lobes. Work in my laboratory is focused on how the ventral prefrontal cortex represents high level auditory information and the neuronal mechanisms which underlie integration of complex auditory and visual information, primarily face and vocal information during communication. Studies in our laboratory have shown that neurons within specific regions of the ventral prefrontal cortex are robustly responsive to complex sounds including species-specific vocalizations, while previous studies have shown that adjacent ventral prefrontal regions are selectively responsive to faces. We have shown that neurons within ventral prefrontal cortex are multisensory and respond to both faces and to the corresponding vocalizations. We are also interested in the factors that affect the integration of dynamic faces and vocalizations in the frontal lobe including temporal coincidence, stimulus congruence, as well as the emotional expression conveyed in the face-vocalization and the identity of the speaker. Collaborations with University of Rochester faculty are aimed at characterizing sensory integration deficits in children with autism and the role the frontal lobe may play in autism spectrum disorders. Further analysis of the neural mechanisms which support face and voice integration in non-human primates may help us to understand the mechanisms underlying social communication and social cognition.

Publications

Journal Articles

Romanski LM

Cerebral cortex.. 2024 October 11 Epub 10/11/2024.

Sharma KK, Diltz MA, Lincoln T, Albuquerque ER, Romanski LM

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.. 2024 February 744 (6)Epub 02/07/2024.

Romanski LM, Sharma KK

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences.. 2023 September 25378 (1886):20220343. Epub 08/07/2023.

Diehl MM, Plakke B, Albuquerque E, Romanski LM

Neuroscience.. 2022 August 1496 :243-260. Epub 05/30/2022.

Khandhadia AP, Murphy AP, Romanski LM, Bizley JK, Leopold DA

Current biology : CB.. 2021 May 1031 (9):1826-1835.e3. Epub 02/25/2021.

Shi S, Xu AG, Rui YY, Zhang X, Romanski LM, Gothard KM, Roe AW

NeuroImage.. 2021 May 1231 :117818. Epub 02/04/2021.

Romanski LM, Chafee MV

Neuron.. 2021 January 6109 (1):6-8. Epub 1900 01 01.

Plakke B, Romanski LM

Brain research.. 2016 June 11640 (Pt B):278-88. Epub 12/02/2015.

Plakke B, Hwang J, Romanski LM

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.. 2015 July 135 (26):9666-75. Epub 1900 01 01.

Hwang J, Romanski LM

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.. 2015 January 2135 (3):960-71. Epub 1900 01 01.

Diehl MM, Romanski LM

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.. 2014 August 2034 (34):11233-43. Epub 1900 01 01.

Plakke B, Romanski LM

Frontiers in neuroscience.. 2014 8 :199. Epub 07/23/2014.

Plakke B, Diltz MD, Romanski LM

Hearing research.. 2013 November 305 :135-43. Epub 07/26/2013.

Polosecki P, Moeller S, Schweers N, Romanski LM, Tsao DY, Freiwald WA

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.. 2013 July 1733 (29):11768-73. Epub 1900 01 01.

Romanski LM, Hwang J

Neuroscience.. 2012 July 12214 :36-48. Epub 04/16/2012.

Romanski LM

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.. 2012 June 26109 Suppl 1 (Suppl 1):10717-24. Epub 06/20/2012.

Romanski LM, Diehl MM

Neuroscience.. 2011 August 25189 :223-35. Epub 05/13/2011.

Society for Neuroscience.

M. M. Diehl, M. D. Diltz, L. M. Romanski.

Effects of congruent and incongruent face and vocalization pairs on neurons in ventral prefrontal cortex. 2011; .

Temporal integration of faces and vocalizations in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex of non-human primates.

Hwang, J. and Romanski, L.M.

Society for Neuroscience. 2011; .

Romanski LM, Averbeck BB

Annual review of neuroscience.. 2009 32 :315-46. Epub 1900 01 01.

Romanski LM

Cerebral cortex.. 2007 September 17 Suppl 1 (Suppl 1):i61-9. Epub 07/18/2007.

Averbeck BB, Romanski LM

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.. 2006 October 2526 (43):11023-33. Epub 1900 01 01.

Sugihara T, Diltz MD, Averbeck BB, Romanski LM

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.. 2006 October 2526 (43):11138-47. Epub 1900 01 01.

Romanski LM, Averbeck BB, Diltz M

Journal of neurophysiology.. 2005 February 93 (2):734-47. Epub 09/15/2004.

Romanski LM

Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience.. 2004 December 4 (4):421-9. Epub 1900 01 01.

Averbeck BB, Romanski LM

Journal of neurophysiology.. 2004 June 91 (6):2897-909. Epub 1900 01 01.

Domain Specificity in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex

Romanski, L. M.

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 2004; : 421-429.

Romanski LM, Goldman-Rakic PS

Nature neuroscience.. 2002 January 5 (1):15-6. Epub 1900 01 01.

Romanski LM, Tian B, Fritz JB, Mishkin M, Goldman-Rakic PS, Rauschecker JP

Nature neuroscience.. 2000 October 3 (10):966. Epub 1900 01 01.

Romanski LM, Tian B, Fritz J, Mishkin M, Goldman-Rakic PS, Rauschecker JP

Nature neuroscience.. 1999 December 2 (12):1131-6. Epub 1900 01 01.

Romanski LM, Bates JF, Goldman-Rakic PS

The Journal of comparative neurology.. 1999 January 11403 (2):141-57. Epub 1900 01 01.

Romanski LM, Giguere M, Bates JF, Goldman-Rakic PS

The Journal of comparative neurology.. 1997 March 17379 (3):313-32. Epub 1900 01 01.

Armony JL, Servan-Schreiber D, Romanski LM, Cohen JD, LeDoux JE

Cerebral cortex.. 1997 March 7 (2):157-65. Epub 1900 01 01.

Morgan MA, Romanski LM, LeDoux JE

Neuroscience letters.. 1993 November 26163 (1):109-13. Epub 1900 01 01.

Romanski LM, Clugnet MC, Bordi F, LeDoux JE

Behavioral neuroscience.. 1993 June 107 (3):444-50. Epub 1900 01 01.

Information cascade from primary auditory cortex to the amygdala: Cortico cortical and cortico amygdaloid projections of temporal cortex in the rat.

Romanski, LM; LeDoux, JE.

Cerebral Cortex. 1993; : 515 532.

Romanski LM, LeDoux JE

Cerebral cortex.. 1993 3 (6):499-514. Epub 1900 01 01.

Romanski LM, LeDoux JE

Cerebral cortex.. 1993 3 (6):515-32. Epub 1900 01 01.

Romanski LM, LeDoux JE

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.. 1992 November 12 (11):4501-9. Epub 1900 01 01.

Romanski LM, LeDoux JE

Neuroscience letters.. 1992 August 17142 (2):228-32. Epub 1900 01 01.

LeDoux JE, Farb CR, Romanski LM

Neuroscience letters.. 1991 December 16134 (1):139-44. Epub 1900 01 01.

LeDoux JE, Cicchetti P, Xagoraris A, Romanski LM

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.. 1990 April 10 (4):1062-9. Epub 1900 01 01.

The indelibility of subcortical emotional memory

LeDoux, JE; Romanski, LM; Xagoraris, AE.

J. Cognitive Neuroscience. 1989; : 238-243.

Jarrell TW, Gentile CG, Romanski LM, McCabe PM, Schneiderman N

Brain research.. 1987 June 2412 (2):285-94. Epub 1900 01 01.

Jarrell TW, Romanski LM, Gentile CG, McCabe PM, Schneiderman N

Brain research.. 1986 September 10382 (1):199-203. Epub 1900 01 01.

Distinct temporal lobe projections to visual and auditory domains in the ventral prefrontal cortex.

Romanski, L.M.; Diehl, M. M.; Bartlow-Kang, J.A.; Goldman-Rakic, P.S.; Sugihara, T.

Single Unit Activity in Ventral Prefrontal Cortex During Audiovisual Discrimination.

Hwang, J and Romanski, LM.

Timing of audiovisual responses in prefrontal neurons and effects of asynchronous face-vocalizations.

Romanski, LM and Hwang, J.

Books

The Cognitive Neurosciences (2004)

Chapter: Domain Specificity in Cognitive Systems

Authors: Davachi, L.; L. M. Romanski; M.V. Chafee; P. S. Goldman-Rakic

Publisher: MIT Press 2004

Primate Audition: Behavior & Neurobiology (2002)

Chapter: Anatomy and Physiology of Auditory-Prefrontal Interactions in Non-human

Authors: Romanski, L.M.

Publisher: CRC 2002

Asperger Syndrome (2000)

Chapter: Neurofunctional Models of Autistic Disorder and Asperger Syndrome

Authors: Schultz, R.T.; L.M. Romanski; K.D. Tsatsanis

Publisher: Guilford Press, New York 2000