CAROL SEGER

Summary

Affiliation: Colorado State University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi The basal ganglia in human learning
    Carol A Seger
    Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
    Neuroscientist 12:285-90. 2006
  2. ncbi Verb generation priming involves conceptual implicit memory
    C A Seger
    Stanford University, USA
    Brain Cogn 41:150-77. 1999
  3. ncbi Dynamics of frontal, striatal, and hippocampal systems during rule learning
    Carol A Seger
    Department of Psychology and Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Neuroscience, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
    Cereb Cortex 16:1546-55. 2006
  4. ncbi The roles of the caudate nucleus in human classification learning
    Carol A Seger
    Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
    J Neurosci 25:2941-51. 2005
  5. ncbi Cortical Activations during judgments about the self and an other person
    Carol A Seger
    Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
    Neuropsychologia 42:1168-77. 2004
  6. ncbi Striatal activity in concept learning
    Carol A Seger
    Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Ft Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
    Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 2:149-61. 2002
  7. ncbi Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence for right-hemisphere involvement in processing unusual semantic relationships
    C A Seger
    Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 80523, USA
    Neuropsychology 14:361-9. 2000
  8. ncbi Hemispheric asymmetries and individual differences in visual concept learning as measured by functional MRI
    C A Seger
    Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, 80523, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
    Neuropsychologia 38:1316-24. 2000
  9. ncbi Dissociation between striatal regions while learning to categorize via feedback and via observation
    Corinna M Cincotta
    Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
    J Cogn Neurosci 19:249-65. 2007
  10. ncbi Neural correlates of metaphor processing: the roles of figurativeness, familiarity and difficulty
    Gwenda L Schmidt
    Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
    Brain Cogn 71:375-86. 2009

Research Grants

  1. Corticostriatal networks in human categorization
    CAROL SEGER; Fiscal Year: 2007
  2. Corticostriatal networks in human categorization
    Carol A Seger; Fiscal Year: 2010

Detail Information

Publications16

  1. ncbi The basal ganglia in human learning
    Carol A Seger
    Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
    Neuroscientist 12:285-90. 2006
    ....
  2. ncbi Verb generation priming involves conceptual implicit memory
    C A Seger
    Stanford University, USA
    Brain Cogn 41:150-77. 1999
    ..These findings provide new insights about the significance of brain imaging and neuropsychological studies involving verb generation priming...
  3. ncbi Dynamics of frontal, striatal, and hippocampal systems during rule learning
    Carol A Seger
    Department of Psychology and Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Neuroscience, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
    Cereb Cortex 16:1546-55. 2006
    ..Activation in the head of the caudate correlated negatively with hippocampal activation, indicating a potential mechanism for hippocampal activity reduction...
  4. ncbi The roles of the caudate nucleus in human classification learning
    Carol A Seger
    Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
    J Neurosci 25:2941-51. 2005
    ..Successful learning correlated positively with activity in the body and tail of the caudate nucleus and negatively with activity in the hippocampus...
  5. ncbi Cortical Activations during judgments about the self and an other person
    Carol A Seger
    Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
    Neuropsychologia 42:1168-77. 2004
    ..These results indicate that the neural networks underlying self processing and other person processing may share common neural substrates, particularly regions associated with representation of the body and mental states...
  6. ncbi Striatal activity in concept learning
    Carol A Seger
    Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Ft Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
    Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 2:149-61. 2002
    ..implicit and novel-implicit). There was left lateral occipital activation when learning was implicit (implicit and novel-implicit), but not when learning was easily verbalized (verbal)...
  7. ncbi Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence for right-hemisphere involvement in processing unusual semantic relationships
    C A Seger
    Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 80523, USA
    Neuropsychology 14:361-9. 2000
    ..Results support theories that the right hemisphere is involved in the processing of distant associations that may be useful in creative thought and problem solving...
  8. ncbi Hemispheric asymmetries and individual differences in visual concept learning as measured by functional MRI
    C A Seger
    Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, 80523, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
    Neuropsychologia 38:1316-24. 2000
    ..Such a progression from initial right-hemisphere processing of specific instances to bilateral activity as left-hemisphere conceptual processes are recruited may underlie the development of many forms of visual knowledge...
  9. ncbi Dissociation between striatal regions while learning to categorize via feedback and via observation
    Corinna M Cincotta
    Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
    J Cogn Neurosci 19:249-65. 2007
    ..The hippocampus was active bilaterally during both feedback and observational learning, indicating potential parallel involvement with the striatum in information integration category learning...
  10. ncbi Neural correlates of metaphor processing: the roles of figurativeness, familiarity and difficulty
    Gwenda L Schmidt
    Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
    Brain Cogn 71:375-86. 2009
    ..We conclude that the right hemisphere is involved in metaphor processing and that the factors of figurativeness, familiarity and difficulty are important in determining neural recruitment of semantic processing...
  11. ncbi Dissociating the contributions of independent corticostriatal systems to visual categorization learning through the use of reinforcement learning modeling and Granger causality modeling
    Carol A Seger
    Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
    Neuroimage 50:644-56. 2010
    ..Across loops, the motor loop exerted directed influence on the executive loop which is consistent with the role of the executive loop in integrating feedback with stimulus-response history...
  12. ncbi How do the basal ganglia contribute to categorization? Their roles in generalization, response selection, and learning via feedback
    Carol A Seger
    Department of Psychology, Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Neuroscience, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
    Neurosci Biobehav Rev 32:265-78. 2008
    ..These projections underlie corticostriatal synaptic plasticity across the basal ganglia, and also serve as input to the executive and motivational corticostriatal loops that play a role in strategic use of feedback...
  13. ncbi Right hemisphere metaphor processing? Characterizing the lateralization of semantic processes
    Gwen L Schmidt
    Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 1876, USA
    Brain Lang 100:127-41. 2007
    ..This pattern of results is consistent with theories postulating predominantly left hemisphere processing of close semantic relationships and predominantly right hemisphere processing of distant semantic relationships...
  14. ncbi Category learning in the brain
    Carol A Seger
    Department of Psychology and Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Neurosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
    Annu Rev Neurosci 33:203-19. 2010
    ..The basal ganglia and medial temporal lobe interact competitively or cooperatively, depending on the demands of the learning task...
  15. ncbi Implicit motor sequence learning is not represented purely in response locations
    Marc V Richard
    Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
    Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 62:1516-22. 2009
    ..Participants with low levels of sequence awareness displayed the same pattern of results...
  16. ncbi Small changes in temporal deviance modulate mismatch negativity amplitude in humans
    Michael A Kisley
    Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, 1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway, Colorado Springs, CO 80933 7150, USA
    Neurosci Lett 358:197-200. 2004
    ..This finding is consistent with the view that the MMN corresponds to pre-attentive neural activity that subsequently allows the conscious perception of time during temporal discrimination tasks...

Research Grants4

  1. Corticostriatal networks in human categorization
    CAROL SEGER; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Behavioral studies have shown that category learning is impaired in all of these disorders. The proposed studies may provide insight into the types of learning problems seen in patients with these diseases. ..
  2. Corticostriatal networks in human categorization
    Carol A Seger; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..Behavioral studies have shown that category learning is impaired in all of these disorders. The proposed studies may provide insight into the types of learning problems seen in patients with these diseases. ..