Joseph Dien

Senior Research Scientist, Human Development and Quantitative Methodology

Joseph’s primary topic of interest is the laterality of expectancy processes, guided by his Janus model (Dien, 2008) that the left hemisphere is focused on anticipating the future and the right hemisphere is focused on responding to the (recent) past. He uses both electrophysiological (event-related potentials) and regional cerebral blood flow (functional magnetic resonance imaging) methods. He also has an active line of research advancing the multivariate statistical techniques used to interpret such data, especially how to co-register them. Joseph is the sole developer of the EP Toolkit (Dien, 2010), a full-featured open source Matlab software suite for ERP analysis used by hundreds of users around the world.  Although he is not currently conducting autism research, he would be quite interested in collaborations.