Peter E Wais

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Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi The limited usefulness of models based on recollection and familiarity
    Peter E Wais
    UCSF MC 0444, 675 Nelson Rising Way, San Francisco, CA 94158
    J Neurophysiol 109:1687-9. 2013
  2. ncbi Distractibility during episodic retrieval is exacerbated by perturbation of left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex
    Peter E Wais
    Department of Neurology, W M Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
    Cereb Cortex 22:717-24. 2012
  3. ncbi The impact of visual distraction on episodic retrieval in older adults
    Peter E Wais
    Departments of Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry, W M Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA
    Brain Res 1430:78-85. 2012
  4. ncbi The impact of auditory distraction on retrieval of visual memories
    Peter E Wais
    Department of Neurology, W M Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158 2330, USA
    Psychon Bull Rev 18:1090-7. 2011
  5. ncbi Hippocampal signals for strong memory when associative memory is available and when it is not
    Peter E Wais
    Department of Psychology, University of California San Diego, CA, USA
    Hippocampus 21:9-21. 2011
  6. ncbi In search of recollection and familiarity signals in the hippocampus
    Peter E Wais
    University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
    J Cogn Neurosci 22:109-23. 2010
  7. ncbi FMRI signals associated with memory strength in the medial temporal lobes: a meta-analysis
    Peter E Wais
    Department of Psychology, 9500 Gilman Drive 0109, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0109, USA
    Neuropsychologia 46:3185-96. 2008
  8. ncbi Neural mechanisms underlying the impact of visual distraction on retrieval of long-term memory
    Peter E Wais
    Department of Neurology, W M Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158 2330, USA
    J Neurosci 30:8541-50. 2010
  9. ncbi Strong memories are hard to scale
    Laura Mickes
    Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093 0109 USA
    J Exp Psychol Gen 140:239-57. 2011
  10. ncbi The hippocampus supports both the recollection and the familiarity components of recognition memory
    Peter E Wais
    Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
    Neuron 49:459-66. 2006

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Publications13

  1. ncbi The limited usefulness of models based on recollection and familiarity
    Peter E Wais
    UCSF MC 0444, 675 Nelson Rising Way, San Francisco, CA 94158
    J Neurophysiol 109:1687-9. 2013
    ..The usefulness of interpreting neural data according to psychological models based on recollection and familiarity is discussed...
  2. ncbi Distractibility during episodic retrieval is exacerbated by perturbation of left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex
    Peter E Wais
    Department of Neurology, W M Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
    Cereb Cortex 22:717-24. 2012
    ....
  3. ncbi The impact of visual distraction on episodic retrieval in older adults
    Peter E Wais
    Departments of Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry, W M Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA
    Brain Res 1430:78-85. 2012
    ..More generally, these findings explicate a mechanistic basis for selective impairment of recollection in normal aging...
  4. ncbi The impact of auditory distraction on retrieval of visual memories
    Peter E Wais
    Department of Neurology, W M Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158 2330, USA
    Psychon Bull Rev 18:1090-7. 2011
    ....
  5. ncbi Hippocampal signals for strong memory when associative memory is available and when it is not
    Peter E Wais
    Department of Psychology, University of California San Diego, CA, USA
    Hippocampus 21:9-21. 2011
    ....
  6. ncbi In search of recollection and familiarity signals in the hippocampus
    Peter E Wais
    University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
    J Cogn Neurosci 22:109-23. 2010
    ..Similar results were obtained in the parahippocampal gyrus. Unlike in the medial temporal lobe, activation in prefrontal cortex increased differentially in association with source recollection...
  7. ncbi FMRI signals associated with memory strength in the medial temporal lobes: a meta-analysis
    Peter E Wais
    Department of Psychology, 9500 Gilman Drive 0109, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0109, USA
    Neuropsychologia 46:3185-96. 2008
    ..The fMRI data alone cannot distinguish between these two models, so other methods are needed to resolve the issue...
  8. ncbi Neural mechanisms underlying the impact of visual distraction on retrieval of long-term memory
    Peter E Wais
    Department of Neurology, W M Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158 2330, USA
    J Neurosci 30:8541-50. 2010
    ..We conclude that bottom-up influences from irrelevant visual information interfere with top-down selection of episodic details mediated by a capacity-limited frontal control region, resulting in impaired recollection...
  9. ncbi Strong memories are hard to scale
    Laura Mickes
    Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093 0109 USA
    J Exp Psychol Gen 140:239-57. 2011
    ....
  10. ncbi The hippocampus supports both the recollection and the familiarity components of recognition memory
    Peter E Wais
    Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
    Neuron 49:459-66. 2006
    ..These results suggest that the component processes that determine the shape of the ROC are operative in the absence of the hippocampus, and they argue against the idea that the hippocampus selectively supports the recollection process...
  11. ncbi Recollection is a continuous process: implications for dual-process theories of recognition memory
    Laura Mickes
    Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0109, USA
    Psychol Sci 20:509-15. 2009
    ..Because recollection, like familiarity, is a continuous process, dual-process theory is more compatible with signal detection theory than previously thought...
  12. ncbi A direct test of the unequal-variance signal detection model of recognition memory
    Laura Mickes
    University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
    Psychon Bull Rev 14:858-65. 2007
    ..Moreover, across subjects, the ratio S(lure)/ S(target) correlated highly with the estimate of sigma(lure)/ sigma(target) obtained from ROC analysis, and both estimates were, on average, approximately equal to 0.80...
  13. ncbi Remember/know judgments probe degrees of recollection
    Peter E Wais
    Department of Psychology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    J Cogn Neurosci 20:400-5. 2008
    ..As such, dissociations involving remember/know judgments in fMRI studies and in studies involving amnesic patients should not be construed as dissociations between recollection and familiarity...