Dr Leslie Baylis received her D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in the area of the neurophysiology of chemical sensation-perception. Since then she has worked at the University of California, Irvine; University of California, San Diego and Presbyterian College, before joining the faculty at University of South Carolina.

Her research interests center on the brain basis of perception and how it is affected by aging. Her work involves the use of neuropsychological techniques and neurophysiology and functional brain imaging (fMRI) to address a number of themes:

• the neural basis of chemosensation and its integration with other sensory systems
• the effects of aging on chemosensation in normal aged participants and Alzheimer's patients
• the effects of aging and brain damage on attention and consciousness
• he effects of stroke on perception

Recent Publications
Baylis, G.C., Baylis, L.L., and Gore, C.J. (2003). Visual neglect can be object-based or scene-based, depending on task representation. Cortex. In Press

Baylis, G.C., Simon, S.L., Baylis, L.L., Rorden, C. (2002). Visual extinction with double simultaneous stimulation: what is simultaneous? Neuropsychologia, 40, 1027-1034.

Baylis, G.C and Baylis, L.L. (2001) Visually misguided reaching in Balint's Syndrome. Neuropsychologia, 39, 865-875.

Baylis, G.C. and Baylis, L.L. (1997) Deficit in figure-ground segregation following closed head injury. Neuropsychologia, 35, 1133-1138.

Baylis, L. L., Rolls, E. T. and Baylis, G. C. (1995) Afferent connections of the caudolateral orbitofrontal cortex taste area of the primate. Neuroscience, 64, 801-812.

Baylis, G.C., Driver, J., Baylis, L.L. and Rafal, R. (1994) Reading letters and words in a patient with Balint's Syndrome. Neuropsychologia, 10, 1273-1286.

Rolls, E. T. and Baylis, L. L. (1994) Gustatory, olfactory and visual convergence within the primate orbitofrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 14, 5437-5452.

Baylis, L. L. and Gaffan, D. (1991) Amygdalectomy and ventromedial prefrontal ablation produce similar deficits in food choice and in simple object discrimination learning for an unseen reward. Experimental Brain Research, 86, 617-622.

Baylis, L.L. and Rolls, E.T. (1991) Responses of neurons in the primate taste cortex to glutamate. Physiology and Behavior, 49: 973-979.

Wiggins, L.L., (unmarried name), Frank, R.A., & Smith, D.V. (1989) Generalization of learned taste aversions in rabbits: Similarities among gustatory stimuli. Chemical Senses, 14, 103-119.

Frank, R.A., Markou, A. & Wiggins, L.L. (1987) A systematic evaluation of the properties of self-stimulation train duration response functions. Behavioral Neuroscience, 101, 546-559.

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