Russell "Russ" Alan Poldrack was born on 1967 and is an American psychologist and neuroscientist.
15 Facts About Russell Poldrack
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Russell Poldrack is a professor of psychology at Stanford University, associate director of Stanford Data Science, member of the Stanford Neuroscience Institute and director of the Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience and the SDS Center for Open and Reproducible Science.
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Russell Poldrack later showed that learning of classification learning was associated with a tradeoff between activity in the basal ganglia and medial temporal lobe, and proposed that this reflected a competition between declarative and nondeclarative memory systems in learning.
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Russell Poldrack's group has studied the brain systems involved in the inhibition of motor responses.
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Russell Poldrack has been engaged in criticizing the unwarranted use of reverse inference in the media.
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Russell Poldrack's group has developed a formal ontology for cognitive neuroscience, known as the Cognitive Atlas.
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In 2009, Russell Poldrack established the OpenfMRI project which openly shares complete raw fMRI datasets.
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Russell Poldrack has collaborated with Tal Yarkoni on the development of Neurosynth, an online meta-analytic tool for the neuroimaging literature.
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In 2012, Russell Poldrack undertook a project to collect brain imaging, behavior, and biological data on himself for an extended period of time.
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Russell Poldrack is a part of the Science of Behavior Change network.
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Russell Poldrack's research uses brain imaging to understand the brain systems supporting decision making, executive control, and behavior change.
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Russell Poldrack's lab develops informatics tools to help make sense of the growing body of neuroimaging data as well as tools to help improve the reproducibility of neuroimaging research.
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In 2009, Russell Poldrack was elected as Chairperson of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping.
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Russell Poldrack is a founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Brain Imaging Methods, and has served as a member of editorial boards for Psychological Bulletin, Nature Scientific Data, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Cerebral Cortex, Human Brain Mapping, GigaScience, SCAN, Cognitive Science, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, and Neuroimage.
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Russell Poldrack was the chair of the External Advisory Panel of the Human Connectome Project, and member of advisory panels for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study and the Kavli Human Study.