Dr. Svetlana V. Shinkareva
Assistant Professor
Barnwell, Room 515
(803) 777-6189
shinkareva[at]sc.edu
Dr. Shinkareva has received her Ph.D. in quantitative psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
She completed her post-doctoral training at Carnegie Mellon University working with Drs. Marcel Just and Tom Mitchell.
Dr. Shinkareva’s research focuses on the development and application of quantitative methods to neuroimaging data.
Her current interests include applying machine learning methods to fMRI data to study the neural basis of semantic
knowledge representation.
Please click the Research Showcase link to view a video of Dr. Shinkareva's presentation
Search for meaning: conceptual knowledge representation in the brain.
Representative Publications
Mitchell, T.M., Shinkareva, S.V., Carlson, A., Chang, K.M., Malave, V.L., et al. (2008). Predicting Human Brain Activity Associated with the Meanings of Nouns, Science, 320, 1191-1195.
Shinkareva, S.V., Mason, R.A., Malave, V.L., Wang, W., Mitchell, T.M., et al (2008). Using fMRI brain activation to identify cognitive states associated with
perception of tools and dwellings. PLoS ONE 3(1): e1394. doi10.1371/journal.pone.0001394.
Shinkareva, S.V., Ombao, H.C., Sutton, B.P., Mohanty, A., & Miller, G.A. (2006). Classification of functional brain images with a spatio-temporal dissimilarity map. NeuroImage, 33, 63-71.
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