Dr. Sheth joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an assistant professor. Previously, he was a research scientist at the California Institute of Technology. He received a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996. He also received his M.S. in electrical engineering and M.S. and B.S. in computer science from the University of Southern California in 1991 and 1989, respectively. His research focuses on neuroengineering and cognitive neuroscience and he is studying perception, action and the functions of sleep in learning and memory.

 
-• Research Interests

Visual Perception,Multisensory Integration, Functions of Sleep, Autism and Related Developmental Disorders, Neural Basis of Insight

 
-• Selected Publications

B.R. Sheth, “Memory Consolidation during Sleep: A Form of Brain Restitution,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 28, pp. 81–82, 2005.

B.R. Sheth, and S. Shimojo, “Sound Aided Recovery from and Persistence Against Filling-In,” Vision Research, Vol. 44, pp. 1907–1917, 2004.

R. Kanai, B.R. Sheth and S. Shimojo, “Stopping the Motion and Sleuthing the Flash-Lag Effect: Spatial Uncertainty is the Key to Perceptual Mislocalization,” Vision Research, Vol. 44, pp. 2605–2619, 2004.

B.R. Sheth, and S. Shimojo, “Extrinsic Cues Suppress the Encoding of Intrinsic Cues,” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol. 16, pp. 339–350, 2004.