Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Psychology
Wilson Hall 402
Vanderbilt University
111 21st Ave S.
Nashville, TN 37240
phone: 615-322-5527
email: kacie.dougherty[at]vanderbilt.edu
Education
Ph.D. Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University, 2018
B.S. Neuroscience and Biology, Ursinus College, 2012
Awards / Honors
Pat Burns Memorial Graduate Student Research Award, Vanderbilt, 2017
NEI Vision Training Grant Fellowship 2015
Elsevier/Vision Research Travel Award, Vision Sciences Society 2015
FST Student Travel Award, 2014
Lisa M. Quesenberry Foundation Award, 2013
SfN Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience SOMAS-URM Grant 2010
W.W. Smith Scholar
Publications
Dougherty, K., Cox, M.A., Ninomiya, T., Leopold, D.A. & Maier, A. (2015) Ongoing alpha activity in V1 regulates visually driven spiking responses. Cereb Cortex doi:10.1093/cercor/bhv304
Ninomiya, T., Dougherty, K., Godlove, D.C., Schall, J.D. & Maier, A. (2015) Microcircuitry of agranular frontal cortex: contrasting laminar connectivity between occipital and frontal areas. J. Neurophysiol. 113:3242-3255
Maier, A., Cox, M.A., Dougherty, K., Moore, B. & Leopold, D.A. (2014) Anisotropy of ongoing neural activity in primate visual cortex. Eye and Brain 6(10:113-120
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
Dougherty, K., Cox, M.A. & Maier, A. (2016) Interocular gain control in primate LGN. SfN
Cox, M.A., Dougherty, K., Maier, A. (2016) Interocular suppression across the layers of V1. SfN
Dougherty, K., Cox, M.A. & Maier, A. (2016) Binocular modulation of LGN responses in the primate. GRC
Cox, M.A., Dougherty, K., Maier, A. (2016) Interocular suppression in the input layers of V1. GRC
Dougherty, K., Cox, M.A., Leopold, D.A. & Maier, A. "Visual spiking responses in V1 couple to alpha fluctuations in deep layers" Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 2015
Ninomiya, T., Dougherty, K., Godlove, D.C., Schall, J.D. & Maier, A. "Microcircuitry of agranular frontal and granular occipital cortex: Testing the generality of the canonical cortical microcircuit with cross-frequency phase-amplitude coupling during resting-state." Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2014
Moore, B., Cox, M.A., Dougherty, K., Young, M.S. & Maier A. "Resting state correlations in visual cortex reflect fluctuations of cortical arousal." Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2014
Dougherty, K., Cox, M.A., Leopold, D.A. & Maier A. "Spiking responses in primary visual cortex are coupled to the alpha phase of infragranular LFP." Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2014.
Dougherty, K., Cox, M.A., Leopold, D.A. & Maier A. "Visually evoked cross-frequency coupling between deep and superficial layers of macaque V1" Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2013.
Cox, M.A., Moore, B., Dougherty, K., Young, M.S. & Maier A. "LFP coherence as a function of laminar depth and lateral distances in macaque visual cortex" Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2013.
Moore, B., Cox, M.A., Dougherty, K., Young, M.S. & Maier A. "Laminar profile of state-dependent visually evoked responses in primate visual cortex" Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2013.
Ninomiya, T., Godlove, D.C., Dougherty, K., Maier A. & Schall, JD. "Laminar cross-frequency coupling in agranular frontal cortex" Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2013.
Weber J., Dougherty K. & Favero C. "Effects of acute prenatal ethanol exposure on axon tract development." 2011 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2011.
Bish, J., Dougherty K., Meeley L.E., Brenner S., Powers C. & Vaidya A. “An elextroencephalographic investigation of automaticity in grapheme-color synesthesia. Association for Psychological Science Convention, Washington, DC. May 2011.