Fellowships
Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, Childrenís Hospital Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Biology, Caltech, Pasadena, CA

Honors and Awards
Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1969 Princeton National Fellow, 1969

Professional Activities / Editorial Boards

• Assoc. of Neuroscience Departments and Programs (ANDP)
• Cognitive Functional Neuroscience Review Committee (NIMH and IFCN8)
• Advisory Committee of Cerebral Cortex
• National Science Foundation (Panel Member) Reviewer Cerebral Cortex, European J. of Neuroscience, J. of Comparative Neurology, J. Neuroscience, Visual Neuroscience
• Lab Head, Laboratory for Cortical Organization and Systematics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Japan

Professional Affiliations

• Society for Neuroscience

Clinical Interests
Specialty: Neuroanatomy (cerebral cortex; thalamus); visual system

Research Interests

• Cortical areas: specification and specialization
• Cortical microcircuitry and interactions of neuronal assemblages
• Cortical and pulvinar interconnectivity
• Cortical cell types and modules
• Higher cortical functions

Recent Publications / Reviews
Rockland KS, Andresen J, Cowie RJ, and Robinson DL (1998). Single axon analysis of pulvinocortical connections to several visual areas in the macaque. J. Comp. Neurol., 406:221-250.

Rockland KS, (1998). Convergence and branching patterns of round, type 2 corticopulvinar axons. J. Comp. Neurol., 390:515-536.

Rockland KS, (1998). Complex microstructures in sensory cortical connections. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 8 (eds: Hudspeth AJ and Tanaka K), 545-551.

Rockland, K.S. and Van Hoesen, G.W. (1999). Some temporal and parietal cortical connections converge in CA1 of the primate hippocampus. Cereb. Cortex. 9:232-237.

Rockland, K.S. and Knutson, T. (2000). Feedback Connections from Area MT of the Squirrel Monkey to Area V1 and V2. J. Comp. Neurol. in press.

Ding, S.L., Van Hoesen, G.W., and Rockland, K.S. (2000). Inferior Parietal Lobule Projections to the Presubiculum and Neighboring Ventromedial Temporal Cortical Areas. J. Comp. Neurol. in press.

Ding, S.L. and Rockland, K.S. (2001) Modular organization of the monkey presubiculum. Exp. Brain Res. 139:255-265.

Rockland, K.S. and Knutson, T. (2001) Axon Collaterals of Meynert Cells Diverge Over Large Portions of Area V1 in the Macaque Monkey. J. Comp. Neurol., 441:134-147.

Rockland, K.S. (2002) Visual cortical organization at the single axon level: a beginning. Neurosci. Res. 42:155-166.

Ichinohe N., Fujiyama F., Kaneko T. and Rockland K.S. (2003) Honeycomb-like Mosaic at the Border of Layers 1 and 2 in the Cerebral Cortex. J Neurosci, 23:1372-1382.

Rockland K.S. (2004) Feedback connections : Splitting the Arrow, in The Primate Visual System, (C. Collins and J.H. Kaas eds), CRC Press, 387-405.

Address
Office location: Lab for Cortical Organization and Systematics
Laboratory: RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Japan
Phone: +81-48-467-6427
Fax: +81-48-467-6420
E-mail: kathleen-rockland@brain.riken.go.jp
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