Readings

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1 Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience - Sue Corkin
2 Neuroimaging Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience - David Salat, MGH/MIT/HMS Martinos Center Aizenstein, H. J., et al. "Regional Brain Activation during Concurrent Implicit and Explicit Sequence Learning." Cerebral Cortex 14 (February 2004): 199-208.

Olesen, P. J., et al. "Combined analysis of DTI and fMRI data reveals a joint maturation of white and grey matter in a fronto-parietal network." Cognitive Brain Research 18 (2003): 48-57.
3 Motor Control - Simon Overduin, BCS Ehrsson, H. H., et al. "Brain Regions Controlling Nonsynergistic versus Synergistic Movement of the Digits: a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study." J Neurosci 22, no. 12 (2002): 5074-5080.

Handy, T. C., et al. "Graspable objects grab attention when the potential for action is recognized." Nature Neuroscience 6, no. 4 (2003): 421-427.

Rizzolatti, G., and G. Luppino. "The Cortical Motor System." Neuron 31 (2001): 889-901.
4 Motor Learning - Simon Overduin, BCS Shadmehr, R., J. Brandt, and S. Corkin. "Time-dependent motor memory processes in amnesic subjects." Journal of Neurophysiology 80 (1998): 1590-1597.

Jackson, P. L., et al. "Functional cerebral reorganization following motor sequence learning through mental practice with motor imagery." NeuroImage 20 (2003): 1171-1180.

Brashers-Krug, T., R. Shadmehr, and E. Bizzi. "Consolidation in human motor memory." Nature 382 (1996): 252-255.

Wolpert, D. M., et al. "Perspectives and problems in motor learning." Trends in Cognitive Sciences 5, no. 11 (2001): 487-494.
5 Navigation - Sue Corkin Maguire, E. A., et al. "Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers." PNAS 97, no. 8 (2000): 4398-4403.

Mellet, E., et al. "Neural Correlates of Topographic Mental Exploration: The Impact of Route versus Survey Perspective Learning." NeuroImage 12 (2000): 588-600.

Smulders, T. V., et al. "Seasonal Variation in Hippocampal Volume in a Food-Storing Bird, the Black-Capped Chickadee." Journal of Neurobiology 27 (1995): 15-25.

Davies, Caroline. "How do homing pigeons navigate? They follow roads." Weekly Telegraph, May 2, 2004.
6 The Oculomotor System - Peter Schiller, BCS Hikosaka, O., and R. H. Wurtz. "Modification of Saccadic Eye Movements by GABA-Related Substances. I. Effect of Muscimol and Bicuculline in Monkey Superior Colliculus." Journal of Neurophysiology 53, no. 1 (1985): 266-291.

The Neural Control of Visually Guided Eye Movements. Schiller Lab, MIT.

Schiller, P. H. "The neural control of visually guided eye movements." Chapter 1 In Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention. Edited by J. Richards. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 1998. ISBN: 080582409X.

Tehovnik, E. J., et al. "Eye fields in the frontal lobes of primates." Brain Research Reviews 32 (2000): 413-448.
7 Attention and Neglect - Sue Corkin Beversdorf, D., and K. M. Heilman. "Prism adaptation treatment of neglect: conflicting results?" Neurology 60 (2003): 1734-1735.

Ferber, S., et al. "Eye movements tell only half the story." Neurology 60 (2003): 1826-1829.

Maravita, A., et al. "Prism adaptation can improve contralesional tactile perception in neglect." Neurology 60 (2003): 1829-1831.

Vuilleumier, P., et al. "Testing Memory for Unseen Visual Stimuli in Patients with Extinction and Spatial Neglect." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 14, no. 6 (2002): 875-886.

Mesulam, M. -M., "A cortical network for directed attention and unilateral neglect." Annals of Neurology 10 (1981): 309-325.

Pessoa, L., et al. "Neuroimaging Studies of Attention: From Modulation of Sensory Processing to Top-Down Control." The Journal of Neuroscience 23, no. 10 (2003): 3990-3998.
8 Object Recognition - Mike Mangini, BCS Logothetis, N. K., et al. "Shape representation in the inferior temporal cortex of monkeys." Current Biology 5 (1995): 552-563.

Tsunoda, K., et al. "Complex objects are represented in macaque inferotemporal cortex by the combination of feature columns." Nature Neuroscience 4, no. 8 (2001): 832-838.

Vuilleumier, P., et al. "Multiple levels of visual object constancy revealed by event-related fMRI of repetition priming." Nature Neuroscience 5, no. 5 (2002): 491-499.

Rodman, H., L. Pessoa, and L. Ungerleider. "Visual perception of objects." In Fundamental Neuroscience. 2nd ed. Edited by L. Squire, F. Bloom, S. McConnell, et al. Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 2002.
9 Mental Imagery - Sue Corkin, BCS Sparing, R., et al. "Visual cortex ecitability icreases dring vsual mental Imagery-a TMS study in healthy human subjects." Brain Research 938 (2002): 92-97.

Wraga, M., et al. "Implicit transfer of motor strategies in mental rotation." Brain and Cognition 52 (2003): 135-143.

Behrmann, M. "The Mind's Eye Mapped Onto the Brain's Matter." Current Directions in Psychological Science 9, no. 2 (2000): 50-54.

Kosslyn, S. M., G. Ganis, and W. L. Thompson. "Neural Foundations of Imagery." Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2 (2001): 635-642.
10 Synesthesia - Sue Corkin Aleman, A., et al. "Activation of striate cortex in the absence of visual stimulation: an fMRI study of synesthesia." NeuroReport 12, no. 13 (2001): 2827-2830.

Smilek, D., et al. "Synaesthetic Photisms Influence Visual Perception." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 13, no. 7 (2001): 930-936.

Rich, A. N., and J. B. Mattingley. "Anomalous Perception in Synaesthesia: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective." Nature Reviews Neuroscience 3 (January 2002): 43-52.
11 Synesthesia (cont.) - Nathan Witthoft Palmeri, T. J., et al. "The perceptual reality of synesthetic colors." PNAS 99, no. 6 (2002): 4127-4131.

Ramachandran, V. S., and E. M. Hubbard. "Psychophysical investigations into the neural basis of synaesthesia." Proc R Soc Lond B 268 (2001): 979-983.

Ramachandran, V. S., and E. M. Hubbard. "Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes." Scientific American (May 2003): 53-59.
12 Frontal Lobe Functions - Sue Corkin Monchi, O., et al. "Wisconsin Card Sorting Revisited: Distinct Neural Circuits Participating in Different Stages of the Task Identified by Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging." The Journal of Neuroscience 21, no. 19 (2001): 7733-7741.

Miller, E. K., and J. D. Cohen. "An Integrative Theory of Prefrontal Cortex Function." Annu Rev Neurosci 24 (2001): 167-202.
13 Working Memory and Executive Functions - Sue Corkin Kübler, A., et al. "Co-ordination within and between verbal and visuospatial working memory: network modulation and anterior frontal recruitment." NeuroImage 20 (2003): 1298-1308.

Wagner, A. D., et al. "Prefrontal Contributions to Executive Control: fMRI Evidence for Functional Distinctions within Lateral Prefrontal Cortex." NeuroImage 14 (2001): 1337-1347.

Smith, E. E., and J. Jonides. "Storage and Executive Processes in the Frontal Lobes." Science 283 (1999): 1657-1661.
14 Anomia and Category-specific Naming Disorders - Sue Corkin Farah, M. J., and C. Rabinowitz. "Genetic and Environmental Influences on the Organisation of Semantic Memory in the Brain: Is 'Living Things' an Innate Category?" Cognitive Neurophychology 20 (2003): 401-408.

Roux, F. E., and M. Trémoulet. "Organization of language areas in bilingual patients: a cortical stimulation study." J Neurosurg 97 (2002): 857-864.

Caramazza, A., and B. Z. Mahon. "The organization of conceptual knowledge: the evidence from category-specific semantic deficits." Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7, no. 8 (2003): 354-361.
15 Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - Adele Diamond, U. Mass. Medical School Diamond A., L. Briand, J. Fossella, and L. Gehlbach. "Genetic and neurochemical modulation of prefrontal cognitive functions in children." Am J Psychiatry 161, no. 1 (January 2004): 125-32.

Diamond, Adele, and Natasha Z. Kirkham. "Not quite as grown-up as we like to think: Parallels between cognition in childhood and adulthood." 2004. (In press)

Diamond A., E. Y. Lee, and M. Hayden. "Early success in using the relation between stimuli and rewards to deduce an abstract rule: perceived physical connection is key." Dev Psychol 39, no. 5 (September 2003): 825-47.
16 Sex Steroids and Cognition - Sue Corkin Hamann S., R. A. Herman, C. L. Nolan, and K. Wallen. "Men and women differ in amygdala response to visual sexual stimuli." Nat Neurosci 7, no. 4 (April 2004): 411-6.

Vikingstad, E. M., K. P. George, A. F. Johnson, and Y. Cao. "Cortical language lateralization in right handed normal subjects using functional magnetic resonance imaging." J Neurol Sci 175, no. 1 (April 1, 2000): 17-27.

Kimura, D. "REVIEW. Sex Hormones Influence Human Cognitive Pattern." Neuro Endocrinol Lett 23, no. 4 (2002): 67-77.
17 Novelty - Sue Corkin Hunkin, N. M., A. R. Mayes, L. J. Gregory, A. K. Nicholas, J. A. Nunn, M. J. Brammer, E. T. Bullmore, and S. C. Williams. "Novelty-related activation within the medial temporal lobes." Neuropsychologia 40, no. 8 (2002): 1456-64.

Strange, B. A., and R. J. Dolan. "Adaptive anterior hippocampal responses to oddball stimuli." Hippocampus 11, no. 6 (2001): 690-8.

Ranganath, C., and G. Rainer. "Neural mechanisms for detecting and remembering novel events." Nat Rev Neurosci 4, no. 3 (March 2003): 193-202.
18 Amusia - Sue Corkin Peretz, I., J. Ayotte, R. J. Zatorre, J. Mehler, P. Ahad, V. B. Penhune, and B. Jutras. "Congenital amusia: a disorder of fine-grained pitch discrimination." Neuron 33, no. 2 (January 17, 2002): 185-91.

Di, Pietro M., M. Laganaro, B. Leemann, and A. Schnider. "Receptive amusia: temporal auditory processing deficit in a professional musician following a left temporo-parietal lesion." Neuropsychologia 42, no. 7 (2004): 868-77.

Peretz, I., and K. L. Hyde. "What is specific to music processing? Insights from congenital amusia." Trends Cogn Sci 7, no. 8 (August 2003): 362-367.

Zatorre, R. J., P. Belin, and V. B. Penhune. "Structure and function of auditory cortex: music and speech." Trends Cogn Sci 6, no. 1 (January 2002): 37-46.
19 Limbic System and Emotion - Elizabeth Kensinger, Harvard Anderson, A. K., and E. A. Phelps. "Lesions of the human amygdala impair enhanced perception of emotionally salient events." Nature 411, no. 6835 (May 17, 2001): 305-9.

Greene, J. D., R. B. Sommerville, L. E. Nystrom, J. M. Darley, and J. D. Cohen. "An fMRI investigation of emotional engagement in moral judgment." Science 293, no. 5537 (September 14, 2001): 2105-8.

Adolphs, Ralph. "Amygdala." In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Edited by Lynn Nadel. London, UK: Nature Publishing Group, 2003, pp. 98-105. ISBN: 0333792610.

Morrone-Strupinsky, and V. Jeannine. "Neural Basis of Emotion." In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Edited by Lynn Nadel. London, UK: Nature Publishing Group, 2003, pp. 1123-1130. ISBN: 0333792610.
20 Emotional Memory - Elizabeth Kensinger, Harvard Kensinger, E. A., B. Brierley, N. Medford, J. H. Growdon, and S. Corkin. "Effects of normal aging and Alzheimer's disease on emotional memory." Emotion 2, no. 2 (June 2002): 118-34.

Strange, B. A., R. Hurlemann, and R. J. Dolan. "An emotion-induced retrograde amnesia in humans is amygdala-and beta-adrenergic-dependent." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100, no. 23 (November 11, 2003): 13626-31.

Cahill, L. "Sex- and hemisphere-related influences on the neurobiology of emotionally influenced memory." Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 27, no. 8 (December 2003): 1235-41.

McGaugh, J. L. "Memory-a century of consolidation." Science 287, no. 5451 (January 2000): 248-51.
21 Parkinson's Disease Case Presentation - Alice Flaherty, Massachusetts General Hospital Addis, D. R., M. Moscovitch, A. P. Crawley, and M. P. McAndrews. "Recollective qalities modulate hippocampal activation during autobiographical memory retrieval." Hippocampus 14, no. 6 (2004): 752-62.

Levine, B., G. R. Turner, D. Tisserand, S. J. Hevenor, S. J. Graham, and A. R. McIntosh. "The functional neuroanatomy of episodic and semantic autobiographical remembering: a prospective functional MRI study." J Cogn Neurosci 16, no. 9 (2004): 1633-46.

Levine, B. "Autobiographical memory and the self in time: brain lesion effects, functional neuroanatomy, and lifespan development." Brain Cogn 55, no. 1 (June 2004): 54-68.

Moscovitch, M., and L. Nadel. "Consolidation and the hippocampal complex revisited: in defense of the multiple-trace model." Curr Opin Neurobiol 8, no. 2 (April 1998): 297-300.
22 Effects of Sleep on Memory - Sue Corkin Stickgold, R., A. Malia, D. Maguire, D. Roddenberry, and M. O'Connor. "Replaying the game: hypnagogic images in normals and amnesics." Science 290, no. 5490 (October 13, 2000): 350-3.

Dave, A. S., and D. Margoliash. "Song replay during sleep and computational rules for sensorimotor vocal learning." Science 290, no. 5492 (October 27, 2000): 812-6.

Walker, Matthew P., and Robert Stickgold. "Sleep-Dependent Learning and Memory Consolidation." (In press)
23 Remote Memory - Sue Corkin Brown, R. G., and C. D. Marsden. "Neuropsychology and cognitive function in Parkinson's disease: an overview." Chapter 8 in Movement Disorders 2. Edited by C. David Marsden, and Stanley Fahn. Boston, MA: Butterworths, 1987, pp. 99-123. ISBN: 0407022996.

Taylor, A. E., J. A. Saint-Cyr, and A. E. Lang. "Frontal lobe dysfunction in Parkinson's disease. The cortical focus of neostriatal outflow." Brain 109, no. 5 (October 1986): 845-83.
24 Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease Case Presentation - John Growdon, Massachusetts General Hospital Gomez-Isla, T., J. L. Price, D. W. McKeel, Jr., J. C. Morris, J. H. Growdon, and B. T. Hyman. "Profound loss of layer II entorhinal cortex neurons occurs in very mild Alzheimer's disease." J Neurosci 16, no. 14 (July 15, 1996): 4491-500.

Locascio, J. J., J. H. Growdon, and S. Corkin. "Cognitive test performance in detecting, staging, and tracking Alzheimer's disease." Arch Neurol 52, no. 11 (November 1995): 1087-99.

Dickerson, B. C., I. Goncharova, M. P. Sullivan, C. Forchetti, R. S. Wilson, D. A. Bennett, L. A. Beckett, and L. deToledo-Morrell. "MRI-derived entorhinal and hippocampal atrophy in incipient and very mild Alzheimer's disease." Neurobiol Aging 22, no. 5 (September-October 2001): 747-54.

Morris, J. C., M. Storandt, J. P. Miller, D. W. McKeel, J. L. Price, E. H. Rubin, and L. Berg. "Mild cognitive impairment represents early-stage Alzheimer disease." Arch Neurol 58, no. 3 (March 2001): 397-405.