Rob Friedman

How I know Rob

Mentor; coauthor, VSD imaging (2013)

Rob was a mentor during my time as a research assistant in Anna Roe's lab at Vanderbilt, and a coauthor on our voltage-sensitive dye imaging paper. I'm grateful for his mentorship and for all he taught me about optical imaging.

Work highlights

• Optical imaging of a tactile illusion in area 3b of the primary somatosensory cortexChen LM, Friedman RM, Roe AW (2003)
• Modality maps within primate somatosensory cortexFriedman RM, Chen LM, Roe AW (2004)
• Responses of areas 3b and 1 in anesthetized squirrel monkeys to single- and dual-site stimulation of the digitsFriedman RM, Chen LM, Roe AW (2008)
• Optical imaging of digit topography in individual awake and anesthetized squirrel monkeysChen LM, Friedman RM, Roe AW (2009)
• Methods for fine scale functional imaging of tactile motion in human and nonhuman primatesFriedman RM, Dillenburger BC, Wang F, Avison MJ, Gore JC, Roe AW, et al. (2011)
• Study of single and multidigit activation in monkey somatosensory cortex using voltage-sensitive dye imagingRoe AW, Winberry JE, Friedman RM (2017)

More of Rob's work: PubMed ↗

Papers together

• Voltage-sensitive dye imaging reveals shifting spatiotemporal spread of whisker-induced activity in rat barrel cortex