Mojtaba Chehelcheraghi PhD

Mojtaba Chehelcheraghi is a Ph.D. student at the Mind and Brain Research Unit of the Department of Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven. Mojtaba obtained a Bachelor’s degree (2011) in Electrical/Electronic engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran (cum laude) and a Master’s (2013) in Electrical/Electronic engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering (cum laude), KU Leuven. Mojtaba conducts research on mesoscopic scale dynamics of brain activities. In particular, his current research interests focus on the mechanisms and functions of neural oscillations and the quality and strength of interactions between them, which is known as the cross-frequency coupling (CFC) phenomenon. Mojtaba uses his knowledge of electronics to develop models which can mimic the mesoscale recording of the brain, i.e. electroencephalograms (EEG), electrocorticograms (ECoG), and magnetoencephalography (MEG). Using such models together with experimental studies, Mojtaba tries to explain the possible roles of CFC in cognitive tasks and proposes a causal relationship between oscillatory activities in the brain and overt behavior output.