Research Topics
Genomes and GenesSpecies | Martha FarahSummaryAffiliation: University of Pennsylvania Country: USA Publications
Research Grants
| Collaborators
|
Detail Information
Publications
Environmental stimulation, parental nurturance and cognitive development in humansMartha J Farah
Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Dev Sci 11:793-801. 2008..On the other hand, there was a selective relation between environmental stimulation and language development. The relevance of these findings to socioeconomic gradients in cognitive ability is discussed...- That little matter of consciousnessMartha Farah
University of Pennsylvania, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Bioeth 8:17-9; discussion W1-3. 2008 
When we enhance cognition with Adderall, do we sacrifice creativity? A preliminary studyMartha J Farah
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 202:541-7. 2009..This raises the possibility that Adderall could decrease creativity in people using it for cognitive enhancement...- Childhood poverty: specific associations with neurocognitive developmentMartha J Farah
Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104, USA
Brain Res 1110:166-74. 2006.... - Neuroethics: the ethical, legal, and societal impact of neuroscienceMartha J Farah
Center for Neuroscience and Society, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 19104, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 63:571-91. 2012..The ethical, legal, and societal effects of these applications are discussed. Less practical, but perhaps ultimately more consequential, is the impact of neuroscience on our worldview and our understanding of the human person... - Personhood and neuroscience: naturalizing or nihilating?Martha J Farah
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Bioeth 7:37-48. 2007..We review the evidence for the existence of an autonomous person network in the brain and discuss its implications for the field of ethics and for the implicit morality of everyday behavior... - Neuroethics: the practical and the philosophicalMartha J Farah
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 9:34-40. 2005..This article reviews key examples of each type of issue, including the relevant advances in science and technology and their accompanying social and philosophical problems... - Brain imaging and brain privacy: a realistic concern?Martha J Farah
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 21:119-27. 2009..By analyzing the published data from 16 studies, we demonstrate that the use of imaging to gather information about an individual's psychological traits is already possible, but to an extremely limited extent... - Neurocognitive enhancement: what can we do and what should we do?Martha J Farah
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 5:421-5. 2004 - Emerging ethical issues in neuroscienceMartha J Farah
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, 3815 Walnut St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6196, USA
Nat Neurosci 5:1123-9. 2002 - Discussing smart pills versus endorsing smart pills: reply to Swanson, Wigal, and Volkow (2011) and Elliott and Elliott (2011)Martha J Farah
Center for Neuroscience and Society, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Psychol Bull 137:751-2. 2011..We take issue only with the suggestion that our article was provocative and submit that the attempt to understand the use of stimulants as smart pills does not imply an endorsement of the practice... - Dissociable elements of human foresight: a role for the ventromedial frontal lobes in framing the future, but not in discounting future rewardsLesley K Fellows
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Neuropsychologia 43:1214-21. 2005..Apathy may deserve more attention in understanding both impaired future thinking and the impaired decision making that may result... - Ventromedial frontal lobe plays a critical role in facial emotion recognitionAndrea S Heberlein
University of Pennsylvania, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 20:721-33. 2008..Taken together, our results indicate that the ventromedial frontal lobe plays a crucial role in facial emotion recognition, and suggest that this deficit may be related to the subjective experience of emotion... 
Executive cognitive functions and impulsivity as correlates of risk taking and problem behavior in preadolescentsDaniel Romer
Adolescent Risk Communication Institute, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Neuropsychologia 47:2916-26. 2009....- Early parental care is important for hippocampal maturation: evidence from brain morphology in humansHengyi Rao
Center for Functional Neuroimaging, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Neuroimage 49:1144-50. 2010..Our results provide neuroimaging evidence supporting the important role of warm parental care during early childhood for brain maturation... - Socioeconomic status and the developing brainDaniel A Hackman
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Room B51, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6241, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 13:65-73. 2009..Implications for basic cognitive neuroscience and for understanding and ameliorating the problems related to childhood poverty are discussed... - Memories affect mood: evidence from covert experimental assignment to positive, neutral, and negative memory recallSeth J Gillihan
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Acta Psychol (Amst) 125:144-54. 2007..These results suggest that valenced memory recall does indeed exert an effect on mood, and may do so even without the individual's awareness... - Contrasting roles for lateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortex in transient and dispositional affective experienceSeth J Gillihan
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 6:128-37. 2011..This study also illustrates the dissociability of different aspects of emotional experience in patients with focal brain injury... - Genetic variation in serotonin transporter alters resting brain function in healthy individualsHengyi Rao
Center for Functional Neuroimaging, Department of Neurology and Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Biol Psychiatry 62:600-6. 2007..Perfusion functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to investigate the effect of genetic variation of the human serotonin transporter (5-HTT) gene (5-HTTLPR, SLC6A4) on resting brain function of healthy individuals... - Neurocognitive correlates of socioeconomic status in kindergarten childrenKimberly G Noble
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, 1300 York Avenue, Box 140, New York, NY 10021, USA
Dev Sci 8:74-87. 2005.... - Ventromedial frontal cortex mediates affective shifting in humans: evidence from a reversal learning paradigmLesley K Fellows
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, 3815 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6196, USA
Brain 126:1830-7. 2003..Neither form of frontal damage affected initial stimulus-reinforcement learning; ventromedial frontal damage selectively impaired reversal learning... - Is self special? A critical review of evidence from experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscienceSeth J Gillihan
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Psychol Bull 131:76-97. 2005.... - Serotonin transporter genotype modulates amygdala activity during mood regulationSeth J Gillihan
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 5:1-10. 2010.... - Different underlying impairments in decision-making following ventromedial and dorsolateral frontal lobe damage in humansLesley K Fellows
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6241, USA
Cereb Cortex 15:58-63. 2005..We found that both VMF and DLF damage leads to impaired IGT performance. The impairment of VMF subjects, but not of DLF subjects, seems to be largely explained by an underlying reversal learning deficit... - Monitoring and manipulating brain function: new neuroscience technologies and their ethical implicationsMartha J Farah
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Hastings Cent Rep 34:35-45. 2004 - Is anterior cingulate cortex necessary for cognitive control?Lesley K Fellows
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Brain 128:788-96. 2005..Thus, cognitive control, as assessed by four different measures in two different tasks, appears to be intact in these subjects, arguing against a necessary role for dACC in this process... - Association between serotonin transporter genotype and extraversionSeth J Gillihan
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104 3403, Pennsylvania, USA
Psychiatr Genet 17:351-4. 2007..4% of the variance in extraversion. These findings provide support for the effect of the 5-HTTLPR, and for the serotonergic system more broadly, on behaviors related to extraversion... - Functional magnetic resonance imaging and working memory in adolescents with gestational cocaine exposureHallam Hurt
Department of Neonatology, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
J Pediatr 152:371-7. 2008..To assess the effect of gestational cocaine exposure on the prefrontal cortex (PFC) with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)... - Children with and without gestational cocaine exposure: a neurocognitive systems analysisHallam Hurt
Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania and The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Neurotoxicol Teratol 31:334-41. 2009..GCE has been shown to affect language, attention and perceptual reasoning skills... - Socioeconomic status and the brain: mechanistic insights from human and animal researchDaniel A Hackman
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Center for Neuroscience and Society, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Room B51, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 6241, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 11:651-9. 2010.... - When does the visual system use viewpoint-invariant representations during recognition?Kevin D Wilson
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3815 Walnut Street, Pennsylvania, PA 19104, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 16:399-415. 2003..Rather, our results suggest that top-down control processes, as well as bottom-up stimulus features, jointly determine the conditions under which the visual system uses viewpoint-invariant representations during visual recognition... - COMT genotype influences prefrontal response to emotional distractionSonia J Bishop
MRC Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, England
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 6:62-70. 2006..These findings provide an initial step toward identifying genetic contributions to interindividual variability in recruitment of mechanisms that regulate affective processing... - Neuroethics: a guide for the perplexedMartha J Farah
Cerebrum 6:29-38. 2004..b>Martha Farah, an early thinker in this new field, proposes that, numerous as they are, the problems actually fall into just .. - Selection ability in Alzheimer's disease: investigation of a component of semantic processingLynette J Tippett
Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Neuropsychology 18:163-73. 2004..Selection deficits on verb generation were evident only relative to nonspeeded controls. Overall results indicate impaired semantic selection abilities in AD, which may contribute to poor performance on some semantic tasks... - Brain-behavior relationships in reading acquisition are modulated by socioeconomic factorsKimberly G Noble
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
Dev Sci 9:642-54. 2006..Socioeconomic background factors are thus found to modulate brain-behavior relationships in reading, indicating that cognitive, social, and neurobiological influences on reading development are fundamentally intertwined... - Visual object and face processing in mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease: from segmentation to imaginationLynette J Tippett
Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
Neuropsychologia 41:453-68. 2003..The latter of these is related to semantic-lexical impairment... - Socioeconomic gradients predict individual differences in neurocognitive abilitiesKimberly G Noble
University of Pennsylvania Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, PA, USA
Dev Sci 10:464-80. 2007..SES explained over 30% of the variance in language, and a smaller but highly significant portion of the variance in most other systems. Statistically mediating factors and possible interventional approaches are discussed... - The influence of sad mood on cognitionLara G Chepenik
Mood Disorders Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Emotion 7:802-11. 2007..These results are consistent with circumscribed effects of sad mood on certain emotion-related cognitive processes, but not on cognition more generally... - The role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex in decision making: judgment under uncertainty or judgment per se?Lesley K Fellows
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Cereb Cortex 17:2669-74. 2007..These results argue that VMF plays a necessary role in certain as well as uncertain decision making in humans... - Neural and behavioral substrates of mood and mood regulationRichard J Davidson
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Biol Psychiatry 52:478-502. 2002..Training interdisciplinary clinical scientists who meaningfully draw upon both behavioral and neuroscientific literatures and methods is critically required for the realization of these goals... - Functional MRI evidence for an abstract, not perceptual, word-form areaThad A Polk
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109 1109, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 131:65-72. 2002..These results suggest that the response of the so-called word-form area is not based on perceptual familiarity but rather on some more abstract feature such as orthographic regularity... - Rationality is a better basis for ethics than repugnanceMartha J Farah
Nature 451:521. 2008 - Distinct patterns of viewpoint-dependent BOLD activity during common-object recognition and mental rotationKevin D Wilson
Department of Psychology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325, USA
Perception 35:1351-66. 2006..The present results are inconsistent with the hypothesis that misoriented object recognition is mediated by structures within the parietal lobe that are known to be involved in mental rotation... - Social, legal, and ethical implications of cognitive neuroscience: "neuroethics" for shortMartha J Farah
J Cogn Neurosci 19:363-4. 2007 - Neural specialization for letter recognitionThad A Polk
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 14:145-59. 2002..These results demonstrate that neural specialization in the human brain can extend to a category of stimuli that is culturally defined and that is acquired many years postnatally...
Research Grants
- SES, Childhood Experience, and The Neural Bases of LearningMartha Farah; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Poverty and the Brain: A Cognitive Neuroscience AnalysisMartha Farah; Fiscal Year: 2007..Neurocognitive systems mediating resilience and successful adolescence will also be sought. ..
- Poverty and the Brain: A Cognitive Neuroscience AnalysisMartha Farah; Fiscal Year: 2005....
- Normal Impulsivity: A Cognitive Neuroscience AnalysisMartha Farah; Fiscal Year: 2005..abstract_text> ..
- SEMANTIC AND VISUAL COGNITION IN ALZHEIMERS DISEASEMartha Farah; Fiscal Year: 2001..In addition, new predictions of the computational hypotheses have been derived and will form the basis of further empirical tests with human subjects. ..
- SES, Childhood Experience, and The Neural Bases of LearningMartha J Farah; Fiscal Year: 2010....