MSTP students in the Sahoo lab
Medical Scientist Training Program
Stephen Mazurchuk

Stephen Mazurchuk

G5 Student

Faculty Advisor

  • Jeffrey Binder, MD, Biophysics

Locations

  • Medical Scientist Training Program

Contact Information

Education

BS, Biomedical Engineering, University of New York - Buffalo, 2017

Research Interests

Concept retrieval, language modelling, neuroimaging, neuroscience of consciousness

Research Experience

Medical College of Wisconsin, 2019-present
Advisor: Jeffrey Binder, MD
Project: Understanding the neurobiology of natural category representation

University of Wisconsin-Madison, summers 2015 and 2016
Advisor: Dr. Peter Schwander
Project: Programming MATLAB scripts for the purpose of image processing, to make it possible to analyze protein structure conformational changes from exceptionally noisy particle projections.

University of New York-Buffalo, summer 2014
Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Lovell
Project: Liposomal synthesis and characterization, in particular loading an MR contrast agent (Gd-DTPA) into novel light sensitive drug carriers and attempting to characterize in-vivo release.

Publications

Tong J, Binder JR, Humphries C, Mazurchuk S, Conant LL, Fernandino L. A Distributed Network for Multimodal Experiential Representation of Concepts. J Neurosci. 2022 Sep 14;42(37):7121-7130. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1243-21.2022. Epub 2022 Aug 8. PMID: 35940877; PMCID: PMC9480893.

Mazurchuk S, Conant LL, Tong J, Binder JR, Fernandino L. Stimulus repetition and sample size considerations in item-level representational similarity analysis. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, July 2023. DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2023.2232903

Meeting Abstracts

Mazurchuk S, Jagtap J, Sharma G, Flister M, Joshi A. Classifying congenic rats from dynamic near infra-red time series images. Poster at: World Molecular Imaging Conference; 2018 Jun 29;

Tong J, Mazurchuk S, Fernandino L, Humphries C, Conant L, Binder J. Temporoparietal Specialization for Event Knowledge Demonstrated by Multivoxel Pattern Classification and Representational Similarity Analysis. Poster at: Society for the Neurobiology of Language; 2020 Oct 1; Virtual

Mazurchuk S, Fernandino L, Tong J, Humphries C, Conant L, Binder J. The Cortical Representation of Body Part Concepts. Poster at: Society for the Neurobiology of Language; 2021; Virtual

Tong J, Binder J, Mazurchuk S, Humphries C, Conant L, Fernandino L. Event associated experiential features are involved in event representation at brain regions preferentially representing event concepts. Poster at: Society for the Neurobiology of Language; 2021 Oct 1; Virtual

Mazurchuk S, Fernandino L, Tong JQ, Conant L, Binder J. An Experiential Basis for Posterior Middle Temporal Gyrus Body Part Concept Representation. Poster at: Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2022 Jun 1; San Francisco, CA

Tong J, Fernandino L, Mazurchuk S, Conant L, Binder J. A Common Neural Mechanism Underlying Object and Event Concept Representation. Poster at: Cognitive Neuroscience Society; 2022 Jun 1; San Francisco, CA.

Fernandino L, Tong J, Mazurchuk S, Conant L, Binder J. A Set of Ten Experiential Features Outperforms Taxonomic and Distributional Models in Predicting Neuroimaging and Behavioral Data. Poster at: Cognitive Neuroscience Society; 2022 Jun 1; San Francisco, CA.

Mazurchuk S, Fernandino L, Tong JQ, Conant L, Binder J. Experiential and Taxonomic Semantic Representations in the Cerebellum. Poster at: MCW Graduate Student Symposium. 2022; Virtual

Tong J, Fernandino L, Mazurchuk S, Conant LL, Binder J. A Shared Representational Code for Object and Event Concepts. Poster at: Society for the Neurobiology of Language; 2022 Oct 8; Philadelphia, PA.

Mazurchuk S, Fernandino L, Tong JQ, Conant L, Binder J. Activation of Speech, Taste, and Visual Scene Experiential Content During Concept Retrieval. Poster at: Society for the Neurobiology of Language; 2022 Oct 8; Philadelphia, PA

Tong J, Fernandino L, Mazurchuk S, Conant L, Binder J. Category-specific representation of animal, food, tool, and vehicle concepts in the brain. Poster at: Society for the Neurobiology of Language; 2022 Oct 8; Philadelphia, PA

General Interests

Reading, learning physics, bicycling, watching the Bills