Graduate Student (co-advised with J. Schall)
Department of Psychology
Wilson Hall 313
Vanderbilt University
111 21st Ave S.
Nashville, TN 37240
phone: 615-343-6970
email: jacob.a.westerberg[at]vanderbilt.edu
Education
B.A. Cognitive Neuroscience, St. Olaf College, 2016
Awards / Honors
NEI Vision Training Grant Fellowship 2017
Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Travel Award, The Grass Foundation, 2015
Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Undergraduate Travel Award Society for Neuroscience, 2014
CURI Travel Award St. Olaf College Center for Undergraduate Research and Inquiry, 2013
Service Leadership Scholar St. Olaf College, 2012
Publications
Crisp K.M., Sutter E.N. & Westerberg J.A. (2015) Pencil-and-paper neural networks: an undergraduate laboratory exercise in computational neuroscience. Journal for Undergraduate Neuroscience Education. 2015 14(1)A13-A22
Conference Abstracts/Presentations
Westerberg J.A., Cox, M.A., Dougherty, K. and Maier, A. (2017) Pre- vs post-stimulus comparison of correlated spiking variability across V1 laminae. VSS
Dougherty, K., Cox, M.A., Westerberg J.A. and Maier, A. (2017) Interocular interactions in macaque LGN. VSS
Westerberg J.A., Cox, M.A., Dougherty, K. and Maier, A. (2017) Layer-specific differences between spontaneous and visually evoked spiking correlations in V1. Cosyne
Westerberg J.A., Middlebrooks P.G., and Schall J.D. (2016) Effect of choice difficulty on local field potentials in frontal eye field of nonhuman primates. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
Balhorn A.R., Tyshynsky R.S., Westerberg J.A. & Loebach J.L. (2016) A comparison of free-field and headphone based sound localization using SoLoArc. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
Westerberg J.A., Balhorn A.R., Tyshynsky R.S. & Loebach J.L. (2015) SoLoArc: A free-field, multisensory localization tool for scientific inquiry in undergraduate education. Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
Westerberg J.A., Balhorn A.R., Tyshynsky R.S. & Loebach J.L. (2015) A comparison of free-field and headphone based sound localization using SoLoArc: A modular and portable, audiovisual, free-field localization device with high spatial resolution. Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
Westerberg J.A., Sutter E.N., Crisp K.M. (2015) Pencil-and-paper neural networks: an undergraduate laboratory exercise in computational neuroscience. Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
Westerberg J.A., Blackman R.K., Sakellaridi S., and Chafee, M.V. (2014). Modulation of neural synchrony in prefrontal and parietal cortex of monkeys as a function of executive processing demand in a context processing task. 44th Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.
Severson M.B., Thompson A.J., Anderson M.R., Daly S.R., Westerberg J.A., and Muir G.M. (2014) Influence of visual cues on head direction (HD) cell firing following anesthesia. Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Poster Session, Washington, D.C.
Westerberg J.A., Blackman R.K., Sakellaridi S., Crowe, D.A., and Chafee, M.V. (2013). Analysis of LFP data in a nonhuman primate model of the cognitive deficits present in schizophrenia. Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Poster Session, San Diego, CA.