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Neuroimaging a single thought: dorsolateral PFC activity associated with refreshing just-activated informationCarol L Raye
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
Neuroimage 15:447-53. 2002....- The cognitive neuroscience of true and false memoriesMarcia K Johnson
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Nebr Symp Motiv 58:15-52. 2012..The chapter also considers how neuroimaging findings, especially from functional magnetic resonance imaging studies, are contributing to our understanding of the relation between memory and reality... 
Medial cortex activity, self-reflection and depressionMarcia K Johnson
Department of Psychology, Yale University, PO Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 4:313-27. 2009....- The relation between source memory and episodic memory: comment on siedlecki et Al. (2005)Marcia K Johnson
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Psychol Aging 20:529-31. 2005..Conversely, source memory tasks are designed to investigate episodic memory. No task is special, but each may be useful, depending on the focus of interest... - Using fMRI to investigate a component process of reflection: prefrontal correlates of refreshing a just-activated representationMarcia K Johnson
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8205, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 5:339-61. 2005..We suggest that refreshing accounts for some neural activity observed in more complex tasks, such as working memory, long-term memory, and problem solving, and that its disruption (e.g., from aging or emotion) could have a broad impact... - Memory and realityMarcia K Johnson
Department of PsychologyYale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Am Psychol 61:760-71. 2006..g., recognition, source memory) and subjective (e.g., ratings of memory characteristics) measures and neuroimaging findings are helping to clarify the complex relation between memory and reality. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)... - Mental rubbernecking to negative information depends on task contextMarcia K Johnson
Department of Psychology, Yale University, P O Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 13:614-8. 2006..How expectations might modulate the impact of emotional distraction is discussed... - Dissociating medial frontal and posterior cingulate activity during self-reflectionMarcia K Johnson
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 1:56-64. 2006..Another, not necessarily mutually exclusive, possibility is that medial prefrontal cortex is associated with a more inward-directed focus, while posterior cingulate is associated with a more outward-directed, social or contextual focus... 
Introduction to the special section on integrative approaches to source memoryMarcia K Johnson
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 205, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 34:727-9. 2008..The investigations in this special section demonstrate the promise of such an integrative approach for advancing theories of source memory...- Second thoughts versus second looks: an age-related deficit in reflectively refreshing just-activated informationMarcia K Johnson
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Psychol Sci 13:64-7. 2002..Impairment in such a process potentially has a wide-ranging impact on all higher-order cognition... - An age-related deficit in prefrontal cortical function associated with refreshing informationMarcia K Johnson
Yale University, USA
Psychol Sci 15:127-32. 2004..Such a refresh deficit could contribute to poorer performance of older than young adults on a wide range of cognitive tasks... - Implicit and explicit evaluation: FMRI correlates of valence, emotional intensity, and control in the processing of attitudesWilliam A Cunningham
Yale University, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 16:1717-29. 2004..These results highlight that evaluations are the consequence of complex circuits that vary depending on task demands... - The relation between race-related implicit associations and scalp-recorded neural activity evoked by faces from different racesYi He
Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
Soc Neurosci 4:426-42. 2009.... - Separable neural components in the processing of black and white facesWilliam A Cunningham
Department of Psychology, Yale University, USA
Psychol Sci 15:806-13. 2004..These results provide evidence for neural distinctions between automatic and more controlled processing of social groups, and suggest that controlled processes may modulate automatic evaluation... - Implicit perceptual anticipation triggered by statistical learningNicholas B Turk-Browne
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
J Neurosci 30:11177-87. 2010..Overall, these findings show that future-oriented processing can arise incidentally during the perception of statistical regularities... - Preserved spatial memory over brief intervals in older adultsIngrid R Olson
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Psychol Aging 19:310-7. 2004..Together, these data suggest that initial encoding of spatial information for relatively small numbers of items is largely preserved in healthy older adults and that representations of spatial information persist over short intervals... - Prefrontal cortex activity associated with source monitoring in a working memory taskKaren J Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 16:921-34. 2004..The findings also provide evidence for the continuity of evaluative processes recruited in WM and LTM... - Neural evidence of statistical learning: efficient detection of visual regularities without awarenessNicholas B Turk-Browne
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 21:1934-45. 2009..Overall, our findings help elucidate the underlying nature of statistical learning... - Refreshing one of several active representations: behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging differences between young and older adultsCarol L Raye
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 20:852-62. 2008.... - Prefrontal activity associated with working memory and episodic long-term memoryCharan Ranganath
Department of Psychology, Center for Neuroscience, University of California, 1544 Newton Ct, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Neuropsychologia 41:378-89. 2003..These results support the view that the same prefrontal regions implement reflective processes that support both WM and LTM... - Neuroimaging evidence for agenda-dependent monitoring of different features during short-term source memory testsKaren J Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 34:780-90. 2008.... - The influence of self-regulatory focus on encoding of, and memory for, emotional wordsSharon R Touryan
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Soc Neurosci 2:14-27. 2007..Such preferential processing may help explain why events are remembered differently by different individuals, which subsequently may influence interpersonal interactions... - Top-down enhancement and suppression of activity in category-selective extrastriate cortex from an act of reflective attentionMatthew R Johnson
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 21:2320-7. 2009..This suggests that different category-selective extrastriate areas preferring the same class of stimuli may contribute differentially to reflective processing of one's internal representations of such stimuli... - The consequence of refreshing for access to nonselected items in young and older adultsJulie A Higgins
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Mem Cognit 37:164-74. 2009..The pattern of findings suggests that the negative impact of refreshing comes from increased competition from the refreshed item, rather than from inhibition of the nonrefreshed items... - Young and older emotional faces: are there age group differences in expression identification and memory?Natalie C Ebner
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Emotion 9:329-39. 2009..There was no evidence of an own age bias in memory, but self-reported frequency of contact with young and older adults and awareness of own emotions played a role in expression identification of and memory for young and older faces... - Age-group differences in medial cortex activity associated with thinking about self-relevant agendasKaren J Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Psychol Aging 24:438-49. 2009..Differences also may be related to an age-associated deficit in controlled cognitive processes that are engaged by complex self-reflection and mediated by prefrontal cortex... - Source monitoring 15 years later: what have we learned from fMRI about the neural mechanisms of source memory?Karen J Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Psychol Bull 135:638-77. 2009..g., feature binding, retrieval, monitoring), prior knowledge (e.g., semantics, schemas), and specific features (e.g., perceptual and emotional information) and of how they combine to create true and false memories... - Similar and dissociable mechanisms for attention to internal versus external informationJennifer K Roth
Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale School of Medicine, 300 Cedar St, New Haven, CT 06520 8043, USA
Neuroimage 48:601-8. 2009..These findings help account for the similarity in areas activated across different cognitive tasks and may help specify the particular executive processes engaged in more complex tasks... - Age differences in brain activity during perceptual versus reflective attentionKaren J Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Yale University, PO Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Neuroreport 21:293-7. 2010..However, older adults showed less deactivation than young adults when cued to refresh the face, providing evidence for greater age-related disruption of reflective than perceptual selective attention... - A brief thought can modulate activity in extrastriate visual areas: Top-down effects of refreshing just-seen visual stimuliMatthew R Johnson
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Neuroimage 37:290-9. 2007.... - Memory for emotional and neutral information: gender and individual differences in emotional sensitivitySuzanne M Bloise
Department of Psychology, Yale University, P O Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Memory 15:192-204. 2007..A measure of emotional sensitivity mediated the gender difference in emotional recall suggesting that memory for emotional information is not solely a function of gender... - Age-related binding deficits and the content of false memoriesKeith B Lyle
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Psychol Aging 21:86-95. 2006..4 s) reduced both location memory for seen objects and congruent attributions for false memories. Thus, binding deficits may influence the specific content of false memories... - Importing perceived features into false memoriesKeith B Lyle
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Memory 14:197-213. 2006..Thus, perception may be even more pernicious than imagination in contributing to false memories... - A functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of short-term source and item memory for negative picturesKaren J Mitchell
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8205, USA
Neuroreport 17:1543-7. 2006..Visual processing areas (middle occipital and lingual gyri) showed greater activity for negative than for neutral trials, especially on picture-only trials... - Neural components of social evaluationWilliam A Cunningham
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 85:639-49. 2003..Whereas automatic processes are sensitive to simple valence, controlled processes are sensitive to attitudinal complexity... - An fMRI investigation of short-term source memory in young and older adultsKaren J Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Yale University, Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Neuroimage 30:627-33. 2006.... - Refreshing: a minimal executive functionCarol L Raye
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Cortex 43:135-45. 2007.... - FMRI evidence for an organization of prefrontal cortex by both type of process and type of informationMarcia K Johnson
Departments of Psychology and Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8205, USA
Cereb Cortex 13:265-73. 2003..Furthermore, the distribution of activation in left or right PFC varied with type of information. Thus, at the component process level, PFC shows functional organization by both process and type of information... - Frontal activations associated with accessing and evaluating information in working memory: an fMRI studyJohn X Zhang
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Neuroimage 20:1531-9. 2003..It is suggested that the multiple frontal areas involved in the test phase of this task may reflect several component processes that underlie more general frontal functions... - A memory-based, Simon-like, spatial congruence effect: evidence for persisting spatial codesJohn X Zhang
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Q J Exp Psychol A 57:419-36. 2004.... - The development of explicit memory for basic perceptual featuresMichelle Gulya
Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020, USA
J Exp Child Psychol 81:276-97. 2002..Because explicit memory typically reflects a composite of different features, age-related changes in explicit memory will not necessarily correspond to the function for any single one... - Long-term memory for the terrorist attack of September 11: flashbulb memories, event memories, and the factors that influence their retentionWilliam Hirst
Department of Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York, NY 10011, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 138:161-76. 2009..The results are discussed in terms of community memory practices... - Assessing a minimal executive operation in schizophreniaMarie-Laure Grillon
INSERM 0117, , , , Paris, France
Psychiatry Res 137:37-48. 2005..These results suggest that although patients may have some difficulty engaging the refresh process, they show significant long-term memory benefits when induced to do so... - Neural correlates of evaluation associated with promotion and prevention regulatory focusWilliam A Cunningham
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 5:202-11. 2005.... - Emotional arousal can impair feature binding in working memoryMara Mather
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 18:614-25. 2006..These findings suggest that arousal (and perhaps negative valence for depressed people) recruits attention to items thereby disrupting working memory processes that help bind features together... - Marcia K. Johnson: 2006 award for distinguished scientific contributionsMarcia K Johnson
Am Psychol 61:757-60. 2006..quot; A brief profile and a selected bibliography, as well as Johnson's award address, entitled Memory and Reality, accompany the citation. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)... - When a thought equals a look: refreshing enhances perceptual memoryDo Joon Yi
Department of Psychology, Yonsei University, Seodaemun gu, Seoul, South Korea
J Cogn Neurosci 20:1371-80. 2008.... - Affective review and schema reliance in memory in older and younger adultsMara Mather
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Am J Psychol 116:169-89. 2003..In addition, when they were induced to focus on their feelings and reactions when reviewing an event, both older and younger adults' later memory of the event was strongly affected by their schematic knowledge... - Prefrontal and parietal contributions to refreshing: an rTMS studyBrian T Miller
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, 132 Barker Hall, MC 3190, Berkeley, CA 94720 3190, USA
Neuroimage 39:436-40. 2008..In contrast, SMG stimulation slowed participants in both refreshing and repeating words, indicating a more general role of SMG in verbal processing... - Source misattributions may increase the accuracy of source judgmentsKeith B Lyle
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA
Mem Cognit 35:1024-33. 2007..Thus, consistent with the source-monitoring framework, imperfect source-attribution processes underlie false and true memories... - Comparing effects of perceptual and reflective repetition on subjective experience during later recognition memoryMarie Laure Grillon
INSERM 796, University Paris Descartes, Faculty of Medecine, Paris Descartes, Sainte Anne Hospital, Paris, France
Conscious Cogn 17:753-64. 2008.... - Impaired performance in a working memory binding task in patients with schizophreniaFranck Burglen
INSERM U. 405, Psychopathologie et Pharmacologie de la Cognition, Department of Psychiatry, , 67091 Strasbourg Cedex, France
Psychiatry Res 125:247-55. 2004..This finding demonstrates that processes that establish coherent and temporary episodic representations in working memory are impaired in schizophrenia... - Remembering chosen and assigned optionsMara Mather
Psychology Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Mem Cognit 31:422-33. 2003..This vividness heuristic leads to systematic misattribution of new features to unassigned alternatives, but not in a manner supportive of the assigned option. Some implications of these findings are discussed...
Research Grants
- EFFECTS OF AGING ON MEMORY FOR SOURCE OF INFORMATIONMarcia Johnson; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract_text> ..
- EFFECTS OF AGING ON MEMORY FOR SOURCE OF INFORMATIONMarcia Johnson; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- fMRI Studies of Age-related Changes in Executive ProcessingMarcia K Johnson; Fiscal Year: 2010....