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60 Minutes Segment on Thought Identification

Thought Identification Demonstration Video (.mov)

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LIST OF AVAILABLE REPRINTS

CATEGORIES:

Autism

Decision Making

Dyslexia

Language

Modeling

Multi- tasking

Neuro- semantics

Visuo-Spatial

AUTISM

Williams, D. L. Cherkassky, V. L., Mason, R. A., Keller, T. A., Minshew, N. J., & Just, M. A. (2013). Brain function differences in language processing in children and adults with autism. Autism Research. Download .pdf

 

Just, M. A., Keller, T. A., Malave, V. L., Kana, R. K., & Varma, S. (2012).  Autism as a neural systems disorder: A theory of frontal-posterior underconnectivity. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 36, 1292-1313.  Download .pdf

Schipul, S. E., Williams, D. L., Keller, T. A., Minshew, N. J., & Just, M. A. (2012). Distinctive neural processes during learning in autism. Cerebral Cortex, 22, 937-950.  Download .pdf

Mizuno, A., Liu, Y., Williams, D. L., Keller, T. A., Minshew, N. J., & Just, M. A. (2011). The neural basis of deictic shifting in linguistic perspective-taking in high-functioning autism.  Brain, 134, 2422-2435.Download .pdf

Liu, Y., Cherkassky, V. L., Minshew, N. J., & Just, M. A. (2011).  Autonomy of lower-level perception from global processing in autism: Evidence from brain activation and functional connectivity.  Neuropsychologia, 49, 2105-2111.  Download .pdf

Schipul, S.E., Keller, T.A. & Just, M.A. (2011). Inter-regional brain communication and its disturbance in autism. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 5, 1-11.  Download .pdf

Damarla, S. R., Keller, T. A., Kana, R. K., Cherkassky, V. L., Williams, D. L., Minshew, N. J., & Just, M. A. (2010). Cortical underconnectivity coupled with preserved visuospatial cognition in autism: Evidence from an fMRI study of an embedded figures task.  Autism Research, 3, 273-279. Download .pdf

Kana, R. K., Keller, T. A., Cherkassky, V. L., Minshew, N. J., &  Just, M. A. (2009). Atypical frontal-posterior synchronization of Theory of Mind regions in autism during mental state attribution. Social Neuroscience, 4, 135-152.  Download .pdf

Mason, R. A., Williams, D. L., Kana, R. K., Minshew, N. J., & Just, M. A. (2008). Theory of mind disruption and recruitment of the right hemisphere during narrative comprehension in autism.  Neuropsychologia, 46, 269-280.  Download .pdf

Koshino, H., Kana, R. K., Keller, T. A., Cherkassky, V. L., Minshew, N. J., & Just, M. A. (2008). fMRI investigation of working memory for faces in autism: Visual coding and underconnectivity with frontal areas. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 289-300. Download .pdf

Just, M.A., Cherkassky, V.L., Keller, T.A., Kana, R.K., Minshew, N.J. (2007). Functional and anatomical cortical underconnectivity in autism: evidence from an FMRI study of an executive function task and corpus callosum morphometry. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 951-961.Download .pdf

Kana, R. K., Keller, T. A., Minshew, N. J., & Just, M. A. (2007).  Inhibitory control in high functioning autism: Decreased activation and underconnectivity in inhibition networks.  Biological Psychiatry, 62, 198-206.  Download .pdf

Keller, T. A., Kana, R. K., & Just, M. A. (2007). A developmental study of the structural integrity of white matter in autism.  NeuroReport, 18, 23-27.  Download .pdf

Kana, R. K., Keller,T. A., Cherkassky, V. L., Minshew, N. J., & Just, M. A. (2006). Sentence comprehension in autism: Thinking in pictures with decreased functional connectivity.  Brain, 129, 2484-2493.  Download .pdf

Cherkassky, V. L., Kana, R. K., Keller, T. A., & Just, M. A. (2006). Functional connectivity in a baseline resting-state network in autism.  NeuroReport, 17, 1687-1690.  Download .pdf

Koshino, H., Carpenter, P. A., Minshew, N. J., Cherkassky, V. L., Keller, T. A., & Just, M. A. (2005). Functional connectivity in an fMRI working memory task in high-functioning autism.  NeuroImage, 24, 810-821.  Download .pdf

Just, M. A., Cherkassky, V. L., Keller, T. A., Minshew, N. J. (2004). Cortical activation and synchronization during sentence comprehension in high-functioning autism: Evidence of underconnectivity. Brain, 127, 1811-1821.  Download .pdf

Carpenter, P. A., Just, M. A., Keller, T. A., Cherkassky, V., Roth, J. K., & Minshew, N. J.,  (2001).  Dynamic cortical systems subserving cognition: fMRI studies with typical and atypical individuals.  In J. L. McClelland, & R. S. Siegler (Eds.), Mechanisms of cognitive development: Behavioral and neural perspectives (pp. 353-383).  Mahwah , NJ : Erlbaum.  Download .pdf


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DECISION MAKING

Gonzalez, C., Dana, J., Koshino, H., & Just, M. A. (2005). The framing effect and risky decisions: Examining cognitive functions with fMRI.  Journal of Economic Psychology, 26, 1-20.  Download .pdf


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DYSLEXIA

Keller, T. A., & Just, M.A. (2009). Altering cortical connectivity: Remediation-induced changes in the white matter of poor readers. Neuron, 64, 624-631.  Download .pdf

Meyler, A., Keller, T. A., Cherkassky, V. L., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Just, M. A. (2008).  Modifying the brain activation of poor readers during sentence comprehension with extended remedial instruction: A longitudinal study of neuroplasticity.  Neuropsychologia, 46, 2580-2592.  Download .pdf

Meyler, A., Keller, T. A., Cherkassky, V. L., Lee, D., Hoeft, F., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Gabrieli, J. D, E., & Just, M. A. (2007). Brain activation during sentence comprehension among good and poor readers. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 2780-2787.  Download .pdf

Hoeft, F., Ueno, T., Reiss, A. L., Meyler, A., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Glover, G., Keller, T. A., Kobayashi, N., Mazaika, P., Jo, B., Just, M. A., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2007) Prediction of children’s reading skills using behavioral, functional, and structural neuroimaging measures. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, 602-613.  Download .pdf

Hoeft, F., Hernandez, A., McMillon, G., Taylor-Hill, H., Martindale, J. L., Meyler, A., Keller, T. A., Siok, W. T., Deutsch, G., Just, M. A., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2006). Neural basis of dyslexia: A comparison between dyslexic and non-dyslexic children equated for reading ability. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 10700-10708.  Download .pdf ; Download supplemental .pdf

Just, M. A., & Carpenter, P. A. (1987). Dyslexia. In M. A. Just & P. A. Carpenter (Eds.), The Psychology of reading and language comprehension (pp. 361-399).  Newton, MA: Allyn and Bacon. Download .pdf


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LANGUAGE

Mason, R. A., Prat, C. S., & Just, M. A. (2013).  Neurocognitive brain response to transient impairment of Wernicke's area. Cerebral Cortex; doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhs423 Download .pdf

Mason, R. A., & Just, M. A. (2013). Identifying component discourse processes from their fMRI time course signatures.  In M. A. Britt, S. R. Goldman, & J-F Rouet (Eds.), Reading—from works to multiple texts (pp. 147-159).  New York: Routledge. Download .pdf

Prat, C. S., Mason, R. A., & Just, M. A. (2012). An fMRI investigation of analogical mapping in metaphor comprehension:  The influence of context and individual cognitive capacities on processing demands. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38, 282–294.  Download .pdf

Prat, C. S., & Just, M. A. (2011). Exploring the neural dynamics underpinning individual differences in sentence comprehension. Cerebral Cortex, 21, 1747-1760. Download .pdf

Prat, C. S., Mason, R. A., & Just, M. A. (2011). Individual differences in the neural basis of causal inferencing. Brain & Language, 116, 1-13. Download .pdf

Mason, R. A., & Just, M. A. (2011). Differentiable cortical networks for inferences concerning people’s intentions versus physical causality.  Human Brain Mapping, 32, 313-329.  Download .pdf

Buchweitz, A., Mason, R. A., Tomitch, L. M. B., & Just, M. A. (2009). Brain activation for reading and listening comprehension: An fMRI study of modality effects and individual differences in language comprehension.  Psychology & Neuroscience, 2, 111-123.  Download .pdf

Buchweitz, A., Mason, R. A., Hasegawa, M., & Just, M. A. (2009).  Japanese and English sentence reading comprehension and writing systems: An fMRI study of first and second language effects on brain activation.  Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 12, 141-151.  Download .pdf

Mason, R. A., & Just, M. A. (2009). The role of the theory-of-mind cortical network in the comprehension of narratives.  Language and Linguistics Compass, 3, 157-174.  Download .pdf

Prat, C. S., & Just, M. A. (2008).  Brain bases of individual differences in cognition.  Psychological Science Agenda, Volume 22, Issue 5. (Online Newsletter of the American Psychological Association).  Download .pdf

Prat, C., Keller, T. A., & Just, M. A. (2007). Individual differences in sentence comprehension: A functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging investigation of syntactic and lexical processing demands. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1950-1963.Download .pdf

Mason, R., & Just, M. A. (2007). Lexical ambiguity in sentence comprehension.  Brain Research, 1146, 115-127.  Download .pdf

Mason, R. A., & Just, M. A. (2006).  Neuroimaging contributions to the understanding of discourse processes.  In M. Traxler and M. A. Gernsbacher (Eds.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics (pp. 765-799). Amsterdam: Elsevier.  Download .pdf

Eviatar, Z., & Just, M. A. (2006).  Brain correlates of discourse processing: An fMRI investigation of irony and conventional metaphor comprehension.  Neuropsychologia, 44, 2348-2359.  Download .pdf

Newman, S. D., & Just, M. A. (2005).  The neural bases of intelligence: A perspective based on functional neuroimaging. In Robert J. Sternberg & Jean Pretz (Eds.), Cognition and intelligence: Identifying the mechanisms of the mind (pp. 88-103). New York : Cambridge University Press.  Download .pdf

Just, M. A., Newman, S. D., Keller, T. A., McEleney, A., & Carpenter, P. A. (2004). Imagery in sentence comprehension: An fMRI study.  NeuroImage, 21, 112-124.  Download .pdf

Mason, R. A., & Just, M. A. (2004). How the brain processes causal inferences in text: A theoretical account of generation and integration component processes utilizing both cerebral hemispheres. Psychological Science, 15, 1-7.  Download .pdf

Newman, S. D., Just, M. A., Keller, T. A., Roth, J., & Carpenter, P. A. (2003). Differential effects of syntactic and semantic processing on the subregions of Broca's area. Cognitive Brain Research, 4, 297-307.  Download .pdf

Keller, T. A., Carpenter, P. A., & Just, M. A. (2003). Brain imaging of tongue-twister sentence comprehension: Twisting the tongue and the brain.  Brain and Language, 84, 189-203.  Download .pdf

Mason, R. A., Just, M. A., Keller, T. A., & Carpenter, P. A. (2003). Ambiguity in the brain: What brain imaging reveals about the processing of syntactically ambiguous sentences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 1319-1338.  Download .pdf

Just, M. A., Carpenter, P. A., & Miyake, A. (2003). Neuroindices of cognitive workload: Neuroimaging, pupillometric, and event-related potential studies of brain work. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics, 4, 56-88. Special Edition.  Download .pdf

Newman, S. D, Just, M. A., & Carpenter, P. A. (2002). Synchronization of the human cortical working memory network. NeuroImage, 15, 810-822.  Download .pdf

Hasegawa, M., Carpenter, P. A., & Just, M. A. (2002). An fMRI study of bilingual sentence comprehension and workload.  NeuroImage, 15, 647-660.  Download .pdf

Michael, E. B., Keller, T. A., Carpenter, P. A., & Just, M. A. (2001). An fMRI Investigation of sentence comprehension by eye and by ear: Modality fingerprints on cognitive processes.  Human Brain Mapping, 13, 239-252.  Download .pdf

Keller, T. A., Carpenter, P. A., & Just, M. A. (2001). The neural bases of sentence comprehension: An fMRI examination of syntactic and lexical processing.  Cerebral Cortex, 11, 223-237.  Download .pdf

Reichle, E. D., Carpenter, P. A., & Just, M. A. (2000). The neural basis of strategy and skill in sentence-picture verification.  Cognitive Psychology, 40, 261-295.  Download .pdf

Carpenter, P. A., Just, M. A., & Reichle, E. D. (2000). Working memory and executive function: Evidence from neuroimaging.  Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 10, 195-199.  Download .pdf

Carpenter, P. A., Just, M. A., Keller, T. A., Eddy, W. F., & Thulborn, K. R. (1999). Time course of fMRI-activation in language and spatial networks during sentence comprehension. NeuroImage, 10, 216-224.  Download .pdf

Carpenter, P. A., & Just, M. A. (1999). Modeling the mind: Very High-field fMRI-activation during cognition. Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 10, 16-36. K. R. Thulborn (Issue Editor).  Philadelphia , PA : Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins.  Download .pdf

Thulborn, K. R., Carpenter, P. A., & Just, M. A.  (1999). Plasticity of language-related brain function during recovery from stroke.  Stroke, 30, 749-754.  Download .pdf

Just, M. A., Carpenter, P. A., Keller, T. A., Eddy, W. F., & Thulborn, K. R. (1996). Brain activation modulated by sentence comprehension.  Science, 274, 114-116.  Download .pdf

Just, M. A., & Carpenter, P. A.  (1992). A capacity theory of comprehension: Individual differences in working memory.  Psychological Review, 99, 122-149.  Download .pdf

Just, M. A., & Carpenter, P. A. (1987). Speedreading. In M. A. Just & P. A. Carpenter (Eds.), The Psychology of reading and language comprehension (pp. 425-452).  Newton, MA: Allyn and Bacon. Download .pdf


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MODELING

Just, M. A., Keller, T. A., Malave, V. L., Kana, R. K., & Varma, S. (2012).  Autism as a neural systems disorder: A theory of frontal-posterior underconnectivity. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 36, 1292-1313.  Download .pdf

Just, M. A., & Varma, S. (2007). The organization of thinking: What functional brain imaging reveals about the neuroarchitecture of complex cognition. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 7, 153-191. Download .pdf

Newman, S. D., Keller, T. A., & Just, M. A. (2007). Volitional control of attention and brain activation in dual task performance.  Human Brain Mapping, 28, 109-117.  Download .pdf

Newman, S. D., Carpenter, P. A., Varma, S., & Just, M. A. (2003). Frontal and parietal participation in problem solving in the Tower of London : fMRI and computational modeling of planning and high-level perception.  Neuropsychologia, 41, 1668-1682.  Download .pdf

Just, M. A., & Varma, S. (2002). A hybrid architecture for working memory: Reply to MacDonald and Christiansen (2002).  Psychological Review, 109, 55-65.  Download .pdf

Just, M. A., Carpenter, P. A., & Varma, S.  (1999). Computational modeling of high-level cognition and brain function.  Human Brain Mapping, 8, 128-136.  Download .pdf


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MULTITASKING

Buchweitz, A., Keller, T. A., Meyler, A., & Just, M. A. (2012). Brain activation for language dual-tasking: Listening to two people speak at the same time and a change in network timing. Human Brain Mapping, 33, 1868-1882.  Download .pdf

Just, M. A., Keller, T. A., & Cynkar, J. A. (2008).  A decrease in brain activation associated with driving when listening to someone speak.  Brain Research, 1205, 70-80.  Download .pdf

Newman, S. D., Keller, T. A., & Just, M. A. (2007). Volitional control of attention and brain activation in dual task performance.  Human Brain Mapping, 28, 109-117.  Download .pdf

Just, M. A., Carpenter, P. A., Keller, T. A., Emery, L., Zajac, H., & Thulborn, K. R. (2001). Interdependence of non-overlapping cortical systems in dual cognitive tasks. NeuroImage, 14, 417-426.  Download .pdf


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NEUROSEMANTICS

Kassam, K. S., Markey, A. R., Cherkassky, V. L., Loewenstein, G., & Just, M. A. (in press). Identifying emotions on the basis of neural activation.  PLoS ONE.  Download .pdf

Damarla, S. R., & Just, M. A. (in press). Decoding the representation of numerical values from brain activation patterns.  Human Brain Mapping.  Download .pdf

Shinkareva, S. V., Malave, V. L., Just, M. A., &. Mitchell, T. M. (2012). Exploring commonalities across participants in the neural representation of objects. Human Brain Mapping, 33, 1375-1383.  Download .pdf

Buchweitz, A., Shinkareva, S. V., Mason, R. A, Mitchell, T. M., & Just, M. A. (2012).  Identifying bilingual semantic neural representations across languages.  Brain & Language, 120, 282-289.  Download .pdf

Chang, K. K., Mitchell, T., & Just, M. A. (2011). Quantitative modeling of the neural representation of objects: How semantic feature norms can account for fMRI activation.  NeuroImage, 56, 716-727.  Download .pdf

Shinkareva, S. V., Malave, V. L., Mason, R. A., Mitchell, T. M., & Just, M. A. (2011).  Commonality of neural representations of words and pictures.  NeuroImage, 54, 2418-2425.  Download .pdf

Just, M. A., Cherkassky, V. L., Aryal, S., & Mitchell, T. M. (2010). A neurosemantic theory of concrete noun representation based on the underlying brain codes. PLoS ONE, 5, e8622. Download .pdf

Mitchell, T. M., Shinkareva, S. V., Carlson, A., Chang, K-M., Malave, V. L., Mason, R. A., & Just, M. A. (2008).  Predicting human brain activity associated with the meanings of nouns.  Science, 320, 1191-1195. Download .pdf; Download supporting material .pdf

Shinkareva, S. V., Mason, R. A., Malave, V. L., Wang, W., Mitchell, T. M., & Just, M. A. (2008).  Using fMRI brain activation to identify cognitive states associated with perception of tools and dwellings.  PLoS ONE , 3, e1394.  Download .pdf

Mitchell, T., Hutchinson, R., Niculescu, R. S., Pereira, F., Wang, X., Just, M. A., & Newman, S. D (2004). Learning to decode cognitive states from brain images. Machine Learning, 57, 145-175.  Download .pdf

Mitchell, T., Hutchinson, R., Just, M. A., Niculescu, R. S., Pereira, F., & Wang, X. (2003). Classifying instantaneous cognitive states from fMRI data. American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Washington D.C., November 2003. (Received Best Foundational Paper Award).  Download .pdf

Pereira, F., Just, M. A., & Mitchell, T. (2001).  Distinguishing natural language processes on the basis of fMRI-measured brain activation.  In L. De Raedt, & A. Siebes (Eds.), Principles of data mining and knowledge discovery (pp. 374-385).  Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag Berlin.  Download .pdf


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VISUO-SPATIAL

Newman, S. D., Klatzky, R. L., Lederman, S. J., & Just, M. A. (2005). Imagining material versus geometric properties of objects: An fMRI study.  Cognitive Brain Research, 23, 235-246.  Download .pdf

Koshino, H., Carpenter, P. A., Keller, T. A., & Just, M. A. (2005). Interaction between the dorsal and ventral pathways in mental rotation: An fMRI study.  Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 54-66.  Download .pdf

Just, M. A., Carpenter, P. A., Maguire, M., Diwadkar, V., McMains, S. (2001). Mental rotation of objects retrieved from memory: An fMRI study of spatial processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 493-504.  Download .pdf

Diwadkar, V. A., Carpenter, P. A., & Just, M. A. (2000). Collaborative activity between parietal and dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex in dynamic spatial working memory revealed by fMRI.  NeuroImage, 12, 85-99.  Download .pdf

Carpenter, P. A., Just, M. A., Keller, T. A., Eddy, W. F., & Thulborn, K. R. (1999). Graded functional activation in the visuo-spatial system with the amount of task demand.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11, 9-24.  Download .pdf


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