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Medial prefrontal cortex predicts intertemporal choiceJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Northwest Science Building, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 23:857-66. 2011....- Dissociable neural substrates for agentic versus conceptual representations of selfLindsey J Powell
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 22:2186-97. 2010..These results support views of the "self" as a collection of distinct mental operations distributed throughout the brain, rather than a unitary cognitive system... - A neural mechanism of first impressionsDaniela Schiller
Center for Neural Science, Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, USA
Nat Neurosci 12:508-14. 2009..These findings provide evidence for encoding differences on the basis of subsequent evaluations, suggesting that the amygdala and PCC are important for forming first impressions... 
Dissociable medial prefrontal contributions to judgments of similar and dissimilar othersJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Neuron 50:655-63. 2006....- Separating sustained from transient aspects of cognitive control during thought suppressionJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Psychol Sci 18:292-7. 2007..These data support proposals regarding the different contributions made by the PFC and ACC to executive control and provide initial neuroimaging support for dual-process models of how individuals regulate their thoughts... - Activity in right temporo-parietal junction is not selective for theory-of-mindJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, William James Hall 1320, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Cereb Cortex 18:262-71. 2008..The overlap between theory-of-mind and attentional reorienting suggests the need for new accounts of RTPJ function that integrate across these disparate task comparisons... 
Repetition suppression of ventromedial prefrontal activity during judgments of self and othersAdrianna C Jenkins
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:4507-12. 2008..These results suggest that thinking about the mind of another person may rely importantly on reference to one's own mental characteristics...- Neural correlates of stereotype applicationJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 21:594-604. 2009..Results suggest that stereotype application may draw on cognitive processes that more generally subserve semantic knowledge about categories... - Working memory and the suppression of reflexive saccadesJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 14:95-103. 2002..These findings corroborate the view that working memory operations play a critical role in the suppression of prepotent behavioral responses... - Social psychology as a natural kindJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 13:246-51. 2009.... - Mentalizing under uncertainty: dissociated neural responses to ambiguous and unambiguous mental state inferencesAdrianna C Jenkins
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Cereb Cortex 20:404-10. 2010..These results underscore the emerging consensus that, rather than comprising a single mental operation, social cognition makes flexible use of different processes as a function of the particular demands of the social context... - Inferences about mental statesJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:1309-16. 2009.... - Mis-attribution errors in Alzheimer's disease: the illusory truth effectJason P Mitchell
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuropsychology 20:185-92. 2006..These results help further specify the precise nature of memory impairments in AD... - Mentalizing and Marr: an information processing approach to the study of social cognitionJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Brain Res 1079:66-75. 2006..e., the step-by-step processes that give rise to mental state inferences) can be informed by analysis at the other two... - General and specific contributions of the medial prefrontal cortex to knowledge about mental statesJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuroimage 28:757-62. 2005.... - Directed remembering: subliminal cues alter nonconscious memory strategiesJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Memory 10:381-8. 2002..We consider the implications of these findings for the non-conscious#10; operation of memory processes in everyday life... - Distinct neural systems subserve person and object knowledgeJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, William James Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:15238-43. 2002..Together, these findings support the notion that person knowledge may be functionally dissociable from other classes of semantic knowledge within the brain... - Feeling-of-knowing in episodic memory: an event-related fMRI studyAnat Maril
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuroimage 18:827-36. 2003..These results provide evidence that the phenomenology of graded recall is represented neurally in frontal and parietal cortices, but that activation at encoding may not precipitate the different levels of recall experience... - Gender differences in implicit weight identityVishal P Grover
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Int J Eat Disord 34:125-35. 2003..DISCUSSION: These findings may provide additional insight into why men are underrepresented among those seeking weight loss and why women are at increased risk for developing eating disorders... - Contextual variations in implicit evaluationJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 132:455-69. 2003..Taken together, these experiments support the idea of automatic attitudes being continuous, online constructions that are inherently flexible and contextually appropriate, despite being outside conscious control... - The seven sins of memory: implications for selfDaniel L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1001:226-39. 2003..By describing cognitive, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging studies that illuminate these memory sins, we consider how they might bear on the relation between memory and self... - Encoding-specific effects of social cognition on the neural correlates of subsequent memoryJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
J Neurosci 24:4912-7. 2004.... - Forming impressions of people versus inanimate objects: social-cognitive processing in the medial prefrontal cortexJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Moore Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
Neuroimage 26:251-7. 2005..e., understanding the psychological characteristics of another mental agent). These findings underscore the extent to which social cognition relies on distinct neural mechanisms... - fMRI evidence for the role of recollection in suppressing misattribution errors: the illusory truth effectJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 17:800-10. 2005.... - The link between social cognition and self-referential thought in the medial prefrontal cortexJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 17:1306-15. 2005..These results suggest that self-reflection may be used to infer the mental states of others when they are sufficiently similar to self... - Neural correlates of anchoring-and-adjustment during mentalizingDiana I Tamir
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:10827-32. 2010..These findings suggest both that the self serves as an important starting point from which to understand others and that perceivers customize such inferences by serially adjusting away from this anchor... - Multiple routes to memory: distinct medial temporal lobe processes build item and source memoriesLila Davachi
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:2157-62. 2003..These outcomes suggest that the subregions within the medial temporal lobe subserve distinct, but complementary, learning mechanisms...
Research Grants
- Cognitive and fMRI Studies of Socio-Emotional Processing in Normal AgingJason Mitchell; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Cognitive and fMRI Studies of Socio-Emotional Processing in Normal AgingJason P Mitchell; Fiscal Year: 2010....