Meredith Jane McCarty

Thank you for visiting my website! ⭐ I am looking for postdoc opportunities ! ⭐ I am a Neuroscience researcher with a deep interest in progressing scientific research, not only to gain insight into the natural world, but also to effectively convey these findings clearly and accurately to the general public. To briefly summarize my research interests: • how selective sensory processing is implemented in the brain • rhythmic theories of attention and inter-areal dynamics • thalamo-cortical dynamics • consciousness • neural oscillations as organizing frameworks across signal resolutions and recording scales Throughout my neuroscience research trajectory, I have technical experience across different resolutions: ‣ Optogenetic manupulations in mice → Lacagninas et al., 2019. Nature Neuro. ‣ Tract tracing and circuit level manipulation → McCarty & Brumback, 2021. Sem. Pedr. Neurol. ‣ Intracranial recordings in humans (outlined below) Intracranial research in humans throughout graduate school: ‣ Comparing how electrode scale, inter-electrode distance, referencing scheme, and frequency range of interest impact the correlation of signal across distance → McCarty et al., 2022. eNeuro ‣ A case study on a musician undergoing an awake craniotomy, to try and tease apart cortical regions sensitive to musical and linguistic structure → McCarty et al., 2023. iScience ‣ Thalamo-cortical dynamics of state transitions in humans (in prep) ‣ Local and inter-areal dynamics underlying selective object-based attention (in prep). 🧠 I am passionate about scientific communication, and have volunteered as a writer for Brainpost over the past couple of years to develop this skillset. I believe it a responsibility of scientists to make their research understandable to any individual who is interested in learning, regardless of their knowledge background. email me: meredith.j.mccarty at uth.tmc.edu