Les Keniston, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Anatomy

  • Office: Coal - Mezzanine 09
  • Telephone: (606) 218-5423
  • E-mail: LesKeniston@upike.edu

OST501 – Gross Anatomy

BS Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

PhD Anatomy, specialization Neural Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

Multisensory-Guided Associative Learning Enhances Multisensory Representation in Primary Auditory Cortex. Han X, Xu J, Chang S, Keniston L, Yu L. Cereb Cortex. 2022 Feb 19;32(5):1040-1054.

Meredith MA, Keniston LP, Prickett EH, Bajwa M, Cojanu A, Clemo HR, Allman BL. (2020) What is a multisensory cortex? A laminar, connectional, and functional study of a ferret temporal cortical multisensory area. J Comp Neurol. Jan 19.

Keniston LP, Henderson SC, Meredith MA (2010) Neuroanatomical identification of crossmodal auditory inputs to interneurons in somatosensory cortex. Experimental Brain Research 202:725‐731.

Allman BL, Keniston LP, Meredith MA (2009) Adult deafness induces somatosensory conversion of ferret auditory cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106:5925-5930.

Mao J, Price DD, Lu J, Keniston L, Mayer DJ (2000) Two distinctive antinociceptive systems in rats with pathological pain. Neuroscience Letters 280:13-16.

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Multisensory integration, Information and Graph theory, Sensorimotor transform, Consciousness and Theory of Mind