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| Jason P MitchellSummaryAffiliation: Harvard University Country: USA Publications
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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...- 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.... - 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... - 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... - 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.... - 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... - 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... - 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.... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - The default network distinguishes construals of proximal versus distal eventsDiana I Tamir
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 23:2945-55. 2011.... - Disclosing information about the self is intrinsically rewardingDiana I Tamir
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:8038-43. 2012..Together, these findings suggest that the human tendency to convey information about personal experience may arise from the intrinsic value associated with self-disclosure... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Social-cognitive deficits in normal agingJoseph M Moran
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
J Neurosci 32:5553-61. 2012..These findings suggest specific task-independent age-related deficits in mentalizing that are localizable to changes in circumscribed subregions of the default network... - 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... - 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.... - Medial prefrontal dissociations during processing of trait diagnostic and nondiagnostic person informationJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 1:49-55. 2006.... - Equitable decision making is associated with neural markers of intrinsic valueJamil Zaki
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:19761-6. 2011..Together, these data suggest that prosocial behavior is not simply a response to external pressure, but instead represents an intrinsic, and intrinsically social, class of reward... - 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... - 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.... - Medial prefrontal cortex subserves diverse forms of self-reflectionAdrianna C Jenkins
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Soc Neurosci 6:211-8. 2011..These results suggest that--although dissociable--diverse forms of self-referential thought draw on a shared cognitive process subserved by MPFC... - 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... - 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.... - 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... - 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... - Social influence modulates the neural computation of valueJamil Zaki
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Psychol Sci 22:894-900. 2011..These findings document the utility of neuroimaging to demonstrate the private acceptance of social norms... - 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... - Special issue: Multiple perspectives on the psychological and neural bases of social cognitionJennifer S Beer
Brain Res 1079:1-3. 2006 - 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.... - Dissociable neural correlates of stereotypes and other forms of semantic knowledgeJuan Manuel Contreras
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Northwest Science Building, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 7:764-70. 2012.... - Response of dorsomedial prefrontal cortex predicts altruistic behaviorAdam Waytz
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
J Neurosci 32:7646-50. 2012..These findings address long-standing questions about the proximate source of human altruism by suggesting that prosocial behavior results, in part, from our broader tendency for social-cognitive thought... - 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... - The false dichotomy between simulation and theory-theory: the argument's errorJason P Mitchell
Trends Cogn Sci 9:363-4; author reply 364. 2005
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- Neural representations of social knowledgeJason Mitchell; Fiscal Year: 2005..Together, these experiments will improve current understanding of autism, a prevalent developmental disorder characterized by pervasive deficits in social cognitive processing, e.g., representing the mental states of other people. ..