Research Interests and Publications:

Humans are capable of a remarkably diverse set of manual actions ranging from the fine machinations of the microsurgeon or violinist to the seemingly mundane acts of drinking a glass of wine or shaving one's face. Loss of these abilities due to brain or bodily injury can be devastating. The goal's of Dr. Frey's work are twofold: 1) understand the cognitive, sensory and motor mechanisms that make these uniquely human behaviors possible, and 2) use this knowledge to develop more effective, neurally-motivated, rehabilitation strategies. His strategy is to seek convergence in data gathered through a variety of different techniques including: functional and structural MRI, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and behavioral studies of healthy, brain- or bodily-injured populations. Dr. Frey is the Director of the Lewis Center for Neuroimaging and previously published as "Scott H. Johnson" and "Scott H. Johnson-Frey."

Selected Publications:

Frey, S.H. (2008). Tool Use, Communicative Gesture, and Cerebral Asymmetries in the Modern Human Brain. Phil. Trans. of the Royal Soc. B., 363, 1951-1957.

Frey, S.H., Bogdanov, S., Idlstad, S.T., & Breidenbach, W.C. (2008). Chronically deafferented sensory cortex recovers a grossly typical organization following allogenic hand transplantation. Current Biology, 18, 1530-1534.

Kroliczak. G., Frey, S.H. (2009). A Common Network in the Left Cerebral Hemisphere Represents Planning of Tool Use Pantomimes and Familiar Intransitive Gestures at the Hand-Independent Level. Cereb Cortex. doi:  10.1093/cercor/bhn261