Meredith Jane McCarty

Thank you for visiting my website! 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. I am currently a postdoctoral fellow → The Tandon lab 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 / using sEEG, DBS, RNS, scalp EEG recordings (in prep) ‣ Dynamical frontoparietal and fusiform cortex connectivity enables flexible object-based attention (in prep). 🧠 I am currently interested in developing my theoretical neuroscience training, bringing together seemingly disparate fields of experimental, computational, clinical research to address open neuroscience questions. I am passionate about scientific communication, and have volunteered as a writer for Brainpost over the past couple of years to develop this skillset. email me: meredith.j.mccarty at uth.tmc.edu