Education

1985-1989: BA in psychology, Baylor University, Waco, TX

1989-1991: MA in cognitive psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

1991-1995: PhD in cognitive psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

 

Employment and professional affiliations

2009-present: Professor of Psychology and Neurobiology, University of Texas at Austin

2009-present: Director, Imaging Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

2008-2009: Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA

2006-2009: Wendell Jeffrey and Bernice Wenzel Term Chair in Behavioral Neuroscience

2006-2008: Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA

2003-2009: Member, UCLA Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program

2003-2009: Fellow, UC Irvine Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

2002-2009: Member, UCLA Brain Research Institute

2002-2006: Assistant Professor of Psychology, UCLA

1999-2002: Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

1999-2002: Assistant Psychologist, MGH-NMR Center, Massachusetts General Hospital

2001-2002: Member, Faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education

1996: Lecturer, Stanford University

1995-1999: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Stanford University

 

Honors and Awards

2010: Visiting Professor, Beijing Normal University, China

2010: Association of American Publishers PROSE Awards for Economics and Excellence in the Social Sciences for Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain

2009: Fellow, Association for Psychological Science

2005: APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology

2005: Wiley Young Investigator Award, Organization for Human Brain Mapping

2004: Brian P. Copenhaver Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology, UCLA

 

Editorial Duties and Reviewing

Associate Editor:

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Contributing Editor: Psychological Bulletin

Editorial boards: Cerebral Cortex, Human Brain Mapping, Cognitive Science, SCAN (Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience), Neuroimage (2005-2008)

Ad hoc reviewer: Nature, Science, Brain, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, Neuroimage, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cerebral Cortex, Human Brain Mapping, Cognitive, Affective,& Behavioral Neuroscience, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, Journal of Memory and Language, Learning & Memory, Cognitive Brain Research, Experimental Brain Research, Cognitive Science, Perception, Neurobiology of Aging, Neuroscience Letters, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Memory & Cognition, Trends in Cognitive Science, Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Abstract Reviewer: NIPS 2010, Human Brain Mapping

Grant review panelist: National Science Foundation Cognitive Neuroscience Panel (2003-2005).

Chair: NIH Special Emphasis Panel ZNS1 SRB-R, 2006

Ad hoc grant reviewer: NIMH, NSF, Wellcome Foundation (UK), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Israeli-US Science Foundation, UCLA Stein-Oppenheimer Grant Program, Hospital for Sick Children Foundation (Canada) Grant Program, Cure Autism Now Foundation Grant Program, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Danish National Research Foundation

 

Professional Societies

Association for Psychological Science, American Psychological Association, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Memory Disorders Research Society, Society for Neuroscience

 

Executive/organizational duties

Chair, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2009-2010

Chief Information Officer, Society for Neuroeconomics, 2007-present

Organizer, UCLA Advanced Neuroimaging Summer School, 2007-2009

Co-Organizer, IPAM Summer School on Mathematics in Brain Imaging, 2004, 2008

Member of Society for Neuroscience Neuroinformatics Committee, 2008-2010

Organizer, OHBM Cognitive Neuroscience Course, 2006-2007

Program Committee, Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2004-2005

Session Chair, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting (2001, 2002, 2004)

Session Chair, Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting (2003)

Executive Committee, Cognitive Neuroscience of Category Learning Conference, 2002-2004

Scientific Advisory Board, Hahn Foundation for Children, 2002-present

 

Grants and contracts

Active:

Principal Investigator, NCRR, "Enhancing an Imaging Core at the University of Texas at Austin", 2010-2012.

Principal Investigator, NIMH, ``The Cognitive Atlas'', 2008-2013.

Principal Investigator, Office of Naval Research, ``Predictive analyses of training-related plasticity using fMRI and pattern classification techniques'', 2006-2009.

Principal Investigator, James S. McDonnell Foundation, 21st Century Science Award, ``Habit, automaticity, and cognitive control'', 2005-2010.

Project PI/Core co-PI (J. McCracken, Center PI), NIMH, ``CIDAR: Translational Research to Enhance Cognitive Control (TRECC)'', 2006-2011.

Co-investigator (R. Bilder, PI), NIH Roadmap/NCRR, ``Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics'', 2007-2012.

Co-investigator (S. Hanson/C. Glymour, PIs), James S. McDonnell Foundation, Collaborative Activity Award, ``Assessing Brain Interactivity: Model Specification, Causality and Dynamics``, 2006-2012.

 

Completed:

Co-investigator (E. London, PI), NIDA, ``Neural Systems, Inhibitory Control, and Methamphetamine Dependence'', 2005-2009.

Co-investigator (E. London, PI), NIDA,``Methamphetamine Abuse, Inhibitory Control: Implications for Treatment'', 2006-2009.

Co-Principal Investigator (with Craig Fox), National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research Grant, ``The neural basis of risky decision making'', 2004-2007.

Principal Investigator, High-Q Foundation, Research Contract, ``Longitudinal assessment of frontostriatal activation in patients with presymptomatic Huntington's disease'', 2006-2008.

Co-investigator (R. Bilder, PI), NIH Roadmap/NCRR, ``Cognitive phenotyping for neuropsychiatric therapeutics'', 2004-2007.

Co-investigator (R. Asarnow, PI), NIHM R24, ``Cortico-striatal dysfunction and vulnerability to schizophrenia'', 2005-2008.

Principal Investigator, Whitehall Foundation, Research Grant, ``Interactive memory systems in the human brain'', 2003-2006.

Co-Principal Investigator (with Mark Gluck), National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research Grant, ``The cognitive neuroscience of category learning'', 2003-2006.

Principal Investigator, National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke, Exploratory/Development Grant (R21 NS43333), ``Cholinergic Enhancement of of Human Cortical Plasticity'', 2002-2004.

Principal Investigator, Janssen Research Foundation, Research Grant, ``Cholinergic enhancement of perceptual learning'', 2002-2003.

Co-investigator, J.S. McDonnell Foundation, Collaborative Activity Award (M. Gluck, PI),``Interdisciplinary Consortium on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Category Learning'', 2002-2005.

Supervisor, Canadian Institute for Health Research, Postdoctoral Fellowship (Laurie Cestnick, Fellow), ``Reading and fMRI'', 2001-2002.

Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, Cognitive Neuroscience Pilot Grant, ``Enhancing human cortical plasticity: Visual psychophysics and fMRI'', 2001-2002.

Principal Investigator, Alafi Family Foundation Grant, ``Multimodal imaging of reading development and dyslexia'', 2000-2002.

Principal Investigator, International Dyslexia Association, ``Magnetic resonance imaging of cross-modal processing in dyslexia'', 2000-2001.

Supervisor, McDonnell-Pew Program for Cognitive Neuroscience, Individual Grant (Rajeev Raizada, Fellow), ``Cross-modal processing and its relations to dyslexia: Psychophysics, fMRI, and neurophysiology'', 2000-2003.

Fellow, McDonnell-Pew Program for Cognitive Neuroscience, Individual Grant, ``The Neural Basis of Skill Learning using fMRI'', 1996-1999.

Fellow, National Institute of Mental Health, National Research Service Award (MH10433), ``Relational Representation in Amnesia'', 1993 - 1995.

 

Teaching

Psychology 262: Human Learning and Memory, 2004 (with R. Bjork), 2007, 2009 (with A. Castel)

Psychology 85: Introduction to Cognitive Science, 2003-2009

Psychology 124: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory, 2003-2007

Psychology 254: Computer Methods for Experimental Psychology, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007

M285, Functional Neuroimaging (with M.Cohen), 2004

Psychology 121: Functional MRI Laboratory (with S. Engel), 2002, 2003, 2006

Lecturer, MGH fMRI Visiting Fellowship, 2001-2002

Lab Lecturer, HST.583 (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Data Acquisition and Analysis), MIT, 2001.

 

Patents

Klingberg, T., Hedehus, M., Gabrieli, J. D. E., Moseley, M.E., & Poldrack, R. A. (October 8, 2002). Analysis of cerebral white matter for prognosis and diagnosis of neurological disorders. US Patent # 6,463,315.

 

Publications

Lenartowicz A, Kalar D, Congdon E., & Poldrack RA (in press). Towards an Ontology of Cognitive Control. Topics in Cognitive Science.

Poldrack, RA (in press) Mapping mental function to brain structure: How can cognitive neuroimaging succeed? Perspectives on Psychological Science.

Poldrack, R.A., Carr, V., & Foerde, K. (in press). Flexibility and generalization in memory systems. To appear in M. Banich (Ed.), Generalization of Knowledge. Erlbaum.

Cho S, Moody TD, Fernandino L, Mumford JA, Poldrack RA, Cannon TD, Knowlton BJ, & Holyoak KJ. (2010). Common and Dissociable Prefrontal Loci Associated with Component Mechanisms of Analogical Reasoning. Cerebral Cortex, 20, 524-533.

Cohen JR, Asarnow RF, Sabb FW, Bilder RM, Bookheimer SY, Knowlton BJ, & Poldrack, RA (2010). A unique adolescent response to reward prediction errors. Nature Neuroscience.

Cohen JR, Asarnow RF, Sabb FW, Bilder RM, Bookheimer SY, Knowlton BJ, & Poldrack, RA (2010). Decoding developmental differences and individual variability in response inhibition through predictive analyses across individuals. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, in press.

Congdon E, Mumford JA, Cohen JR, Galvan A, Aron AR, Xue G, Miller E, Poldrack RA (2010). Engagement of large-scale networks is related to individual differences in inhibitory control. Neuroimage.

Ghahremani DG, Monterosso J, Jentsch JD Bilder RM, Poldrack RA (2010). Neural components underlying behavioral flexibility in human reversal learning. Cerebral Cortex.

Kenner N, Mumford J, Hommer R, Skup M, Leibenluft E, and Poldrack R (2010). Inhibitory motor control in response stopping and response switching. Journal of Neuroscience, in press.

Mumford J, Horvath S, Oldham MC, Langfelder P, Geschwind DH, Poldrack RA (2010). Detecting network modules in fMRI time series: A weighted network analysis approach. Neuroimage, in press.

Poldrack RA (2010). Interpreting developmental changes in neuroimaging signals. Human Brain Mapping.

Poldrack, R.A. (2010). Subtraction and beyond: The logic of experimental designs for neuroimaging. In S. J. Hanson & M. Bunzl (Eds.), Foundational Issues in Human Brain Mapping, pp. 147-160. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Poldrack, R.A. & Mumford, J.A. (2010). On the proper role of non-independent ROI analysis: A commentary on Vul and Kanwisher. In S. J. Hanson & M. Bunzl (Eds.), Foundational Issues in Human Brain Mapping, pp. 93-96. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Ramsey JD, Hanson SJ, Hanson C, Halchenko YO, Poldrack RA, Glymour C (2010). Six problems for causal inference from fMRI. Neuroimage, 49, 1545-1558.

Rizk-Jackson A, Stoffers D, Sheldon S, Kuperman J, Dale A., Goldstein J., Corey-Bloom J, Poldrack RA, Aron AR (2010). Evaluating imaging biomarkers for neurodegeneration in presymptomatic Huntington's Disease using machine learning techniques. Neuroimage.

Scott-Van Zeeland, A.A., Dapretto, M., Ghahremani, D.G., Poldrack, R.A., & Bookheimer S.Y. (2010). Reward processing in autism. Autism Research.

Aron, A.R., Wise, S.P., & Poldrack, R.A. (2009). Role of the basal ganglia in cognition. In Squire, L.R. (Ed.), The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience., volume 2, pp. 1069-1077. Oxford: Academic Press

Barch DM, Braver TS, Carter CS, Poldrack RA, & Robbins TW. (2009). CNTRICS final task selection: executive control. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 35, 115-135.

Bilder, R.M., Poldrack, R.A., Parker, D.S.,, Reise, S.P., Jentsch, J.D., Cannon, T., London, E., Sabb, F.W., Foland, L., Rizk-Jackson, A., Kalar, D., Brown, N., Carstensen, A., & Freimer, N. (2009). Cognitive Phenomics. In S. Wood, N. Allen, & C. Pantelis (Eds.), Handbook of Neuropsychology of Mental Disorders. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bilder, R.M., Sabb, F.W., Parker, D.S., Kalar, D., Chu, W.W., Fox, J., Freimer, N.B., & Poldrack, R.A. (2009). Cognitive Ontologies for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics Research. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 14, 419-50.

Bilder, R.M., Sabb, F.W, Cannon, T.D., London, E.D., Jentsch, J.D., Parker, D.S., Poldrack, R.A., Evans, C, & Freimer, N.B. (2009). Phenomics: The systematic study of phenotypes on a genome-wide scale. Neuroscience, 164, 30-42.

Foerde, K., & Poldrack, R.A. (2009). Procedural learning in humans. In Squire, L.R. (Ed.), The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience., vol. 7, pp. 1083-1091. Oxford: Academic Press

Ghahremani, D.G., & Poldrack, R.A. (2009). Neuroimaging and interactive memory systems. In F. Roesler (Ed.), Neuroimaging in human memory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lee B, London ED, Poldrack RA, Farahi J, Nacca A, Monterosso JR, Mumford JA, Bokarius AV, Dahlbom M, Mukherjee J, Bilder RM, Brody AL, Mandelkern MA (2009). Striatal dopamine d2/d3 receptor availability is reduced in methamphetamine dependence and is linked to impulsivity. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 14734-14740.

Poldrack, R.A. (2009). Neuroimaging: Separating the promise from the pipe dreams. In Cerebrum 2010: Emerging Ideas in Brain Science. New York: Dana Press.

Poldrack, R.A., Halchenko, Y., & Hanson, S.J., (2009). Decoding the large-scale structure of brain function by classifying mental states across individuals. Psychological Science, 20, 1364-1372

Poldrack, R.A. & Mumford, J.A. (2009). Independence in ROI analysis: Where is the voodoo? Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience,4, 208-213.

Sabb FW, Burggren AC, Higier RG, Fox J, He J, Parker DS, Poldrack RA, Chu W, Cannon TD, Freimer NB, Bilder RM (2009). Challenges in Phenotype Definition in the Whole-Genome era: Multivariate Models of Memory and Intelligence. Neuroscience, 164, 88-107.

Thompson PM, Miller MI, Poldrack RA, Nichols TE, Taylor JE, Worsley KJ, & Ratnanather JT (Eds.) (2009). Special issue on Mathematics in Brain Imaging. Neuroimage, 45, Supplement 1.

Van Horn JD, & Poldrack RA. (2009). Functional MRI at the crossroads. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 73, 3-9.

Cohen, J.R. & Poldrack, R.A. (2008). Automaticity in motor sequence learning does not impair response inhibition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 15, 105-115.

Foerde K, Poldrack RA, Knowlton BJ, Sabb FW, Bookheimer SY, Bilder RM, Guthrie D, Granholm E, Nuechterlein KH, Marder SR, & Asarnow RF. (2008). Selective Corticostriatal Dysfunction in Schizophrenia: Examination of Motor and Cognitive Skill Learning. Neuropsychology, 22, 100-9.

Fox, C.R. & Poldrack, R.A. (2008). Prospect theory and the brain. In P. Glimcher, E. Fehr, C. Camerer, & R. Poldrack (Eds.), Handbook of Neuroeconomics. San Diego: Academic Press.

Glimcher, P., Fehr E., Camerer, C., & Poldrack, R. (Eds.) (2008). Handbook of Neuroeconomics. San Diego: Academic Press.

Gluck MA, Poldrack RA, & Keri S. (2008). The cognitive neuroscience of category learning. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 32, 193-6.

Poldrack, R.A. (2008). The role of fMRI in Cognitive Neuroscience: where do we stand? Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 18, 223-7.

Poldrack, R.A., Fletcher, P.C., Henson, R.N., Worsley, K.J., Brett, M. & Nichols, T.E. (2008). Guidelines for reporting an fMRI experiment. NeuroImage, 40, 409-14.

Raizada, R.D.S. & Poldrack, R.A. (2008). Challenge-driven attention: interacting frontal and brainstem system. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Shattuck, D., Mirza, M., Adisetiyo, V., Hojatkashani, C., Salamon, G., Narr, K.L., Poldrack, R.A., Bilder, R.M., & Toga, A.W. (2008). Construction of a 3D Probabilistic Atlas of Human Cortical Structures. Neuroimage, 39, 1064-80.

Tohka J, Foerde K, Aron AR, Tom SM, Toga AW, & Poldrack RA (2008). Automatic independent component labeling for artifact removal in fMRI. Neuroimage, 39, 1227-45.

Xue G, Aron AR, & Poldrack RA. (2008). Common Neural Substrates for Inhibition of Spoken and Manual Responses. Cerebral Cortex, 18,, 1923-1932.

Xue, G., Ghahremani, D., & Poldrack, R.A. (2008). Neural substrates for reversing stimulus-outcome and stimulus-response associations. Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 11196-204.

Aron, A.R., Behrens, T.E., Frank, M., Smith, S., & Poldrack, R.A. (2007). Triangulating a Cognitive Control Network using Diffusion-weighted MRI and Functional MRI. Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 3743-52.

Devlin, J. & Poldrack, R.A. (2007). In praise of tedious anatomy. Neuroimage, 37, 1033-41.

Foerde, K., Poldrack, R.A., & Knowlton, B.J. (2007). Secondary task effects on classification learning. Memory & Cognition, 35, 864-74.

Karlsgodt KH, van Erp TGM, Poldrack RA, Bearden CE, Nuechterlein KH, & Cannon TD (2007). Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Superior Longitudinal Fasciculus and Working Memory in Recent-Onset Schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, 63, 512-8.

Mumford, J.A. & Poldrack, R.A. (2007). Modeling group fMRI data. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 2, 251-257.

Poldrack, R.A. & Devlin, J. (2007). On the fundamental role of anatomy in functional imaging: Reply to commentaries on "In praise of tedious anatomy". Neuroimage, 37, 1066-8.

Poldrack, R.A. (2007). Region of interest analysis for fMRI. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 2, 67-70.

Poldrack, R.A., & Foerde, K. (2007). Category learning and the memory systems debate. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.

Raizada, R.D.S., & Poldrack, R.A. (2007). Selective amplification of stimulus differences during categorical processing of speech. Neuron, 56, 726-740.

Thermenos H.W., Seidman L.J., Poldrack R.A., Peace N.K., Koch J.K., Faraone S.V., Tsuang M.T. (2007). Elaborative Verbal Encoding and Altered Anterior Parahippocampal Activation in Adolescents and Young Adults at Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia Using fMRI. Biological Psychiatry, 61, 564-574.

Tom S.M., Fox C.R., Trepel C., Poldrack R.A. (2007). The neural basis of loss aversion in decision making under risk, Science, 315, 515-8.

Xue, G., & Poldrack, R.A. (2007). The Neural Substrates of Visual Perceptual Learning of Words: Implications for the Visual Word Form Area Hypothesis. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1643-1655

Foerde, L., Knowlton, B.J., & Poldrack, R.A. (2006). Distraction modulates the engagement of competing memory systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 11778-83.

Poldrack, R.A. & Willingham, D.B. (2006). Functional neuroimaging of skill learning. In R. Cabeza & A. Kingstone (Eds.), Handbook of Neuroimaging of Cognition, 2nd Edition. MIT Press., pp. 113-148.

Poldrack, R.A. (2006). Can cognitive processes be inferred from neuroimaging data? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 59-63

Aron, A.R. & Poldrack, R.A. (2006). Cortical and Subcortical Contributions to Stop Signal Response Inhibition: Role of the Subthalamic Nucleus. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 2424 2433

Aron. A.R., Gluck, M.A., & Poldrack, R.A. (2006). Long-term test-retest reliability of fMRI. NeuroImage, 29, 1000-6.

Rodriguez, P., Aron, A. R., & Poldrack, R. A. (2006). Ventral striatal/nucleus-accumbens sensitivity to prediction errors during classification learning. Human Brain Mapping, 27, 306-13.

Seidman LJ, Thermenos HW, Poldrack RA, Peace NK, Koch JK, Faraone SV, Tsuang MT. (2006). Altered brain activation in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in adolescents and young adults at genetic risk for schizophrenia: An fMRI study of working memory. Schizophrenia Research.

Badre, D., Poldrack, R.A., Par-Blagoev, J., Insler, R., & Wagner, A.D. (2005). Dissociable Controlled Retrieval and Generalized Selection Mechanisms in Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex. Neuron, 47,907-18.

Goldstein, J., Jerram, M., Poldrack, R.A., Ahern, T., Kennedy, D., Seidman, L., & Makris, N. (2005). Hormonal cycle modulates arousal circuitry in women using fMRI. Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 9309-16.

Aron, A. R. & Poldrack, R. A. (2005). The cognitive neuroscience of response inhibition: Relevance for genetic research in ADHD. Biological Psychiatry, 57, 1285-92.

Trepel, C., Fox, C.R., & Poldrack, R.A. (2005). Prospect theory on the brain? Toward a cognitive neuroscience of decision under risk. Cognitive Brain Research, 23, 34-50.

Poldrack, R.A., Sabb, F., Foerde, K., Tom, S., Asarnow, R., Bookheimer, S., & Knowlton, B.J. (2005). The neural correlates of motor skill automaticity. Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 5356-5364.

Katzir, T., Misra, M., & Poldrack, R.A. (2005). Imaging phonology without print: Assessing the neural correlates of phonemic awareness using fMRI. NeuroImage, 27, 106-15.

Valera, E.M., Faraone, S.V., Biederman, J., Poldrack, R.A., & Seidman, L.J. (2005). Functional neuroanatomy of working memory in adults with ADHD. Biological Psychiatry, 57, 439-447.

Thermenos, H.W., Goldstein, J.M., Buka, S. L., Poldrack, R. A., Koch, J.K., Tsuang, M.T., & Seidman, L. J. (2005). The effect of working memory performance on functional MRI in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 74,179-94.

Stone WS, Thermenos HW, Tarbox SI, Poldrack RA, Seidman LJ. (2005). Medial temporal and prefrontal lobe activation during verbal encoding following glucose ingestion in schizophrenia: A pilot fMRI study. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 83, :54-64.

Poldrack, R. A., & Rodriguez, P. (2004). How do memory systems interact? Evidence from human classification learning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 82, 324-332.

Poldrack, R. A. & Wagner, A. D. (2004). What can neuroimaging tell us about the mind? Insights from prefrontal cortex. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 177-181

Poldrack, R. A. & Sandak, R. (2004). Introduction to special issue: The cognitive neuroscience of reading. Scientific Studies of Reading, 8, 199-202. (Guest editors for special issue)

Misra, M., Katzir, T., Wolf, M., & Poldrack, R. A. (2004). Neural systems for rapid automatized naming identified using fMRI. Scientific Studies of Reading, 8, 241-256.

Aron, A.R., Shohamy, D., Clark, J., Myers, C., Gluck, M.A., & Poldrack, R.A. (2004). Human midbrain sensitivity to cognitive feedback and uncertainty during classification learning. Journal of Neurophysiology, 92, 1144-1152.

Shohamy, D., Myers, C.E., Grossman, S., Sage, J., Gluck, M.A., & Poldrack, R.A. (2004). Cortico-striatal contributions to feedback-based learning: converging data from neuroimaging and neurophysiology. Brain, 127, 851-9.

Thermenos, H.W., Seidman, L.J., Breiter, H., Goldstein, J.M., Goodman, J.M., Poldrack, R. A., Faraone, S. V., & Tsuang, M. T. (2004). Functional magnetic resonance imaging during auditory verbal working memory in nonpsychotic relatives of persons with schizophrenia: a pilot study. Biological Psychiatry, 55:490-500.

Aron, A.R., Robbins, T.W., & Poldrack, R. A. (2004). Inhibition and the right inferior frontal cortex. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 170-177.

Sperling, R., Chua, E., Cocchiarealla, A., Rand-Giovanetti, E., Poldrack, R. A., Schacter, D. L., & Albert, M. (2003). Putting names to faces: Successful encoding of associative memories activates the anterior hippocampal formation. NeuroImage, 20, 1400-1410.

Jasdzewski, G., Strangman, G., Wagner, J., Kwong, K. K., Poldrack,R. A., & Boas, D. A. (2003). Differences in the early hemodynamic response to event-related motor and visual paradigms as measured using near infrared spectroscopy. NeuroImage, 20, 479-488.

Boas, D.A., Strangman, G., Culver, J.P., Hoge, R.D., Jasdzewski, G., , Poldrack, R. A., Rosen, B.R., & Mandeville, J.B. (2003). Can the cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen be estimated with near-infrared spectroscopy? Physics in Medicine and Biology, 48, 2405-2418.

Poldrack, R.A. & Rodriguez, P. (2003). Sequence learning: What's the hippocampus to do? Neuron, 37, 891-893.

Temple, E., Deutsch, G. K., Poldrack, R. A., Miller, S. L., Tallal, P., Merzenich, M. M., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2003). Neural deficits in children with dyslexia ameliorated by behavioral remediation: Evidence from fMRI. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100, 2860-2865.

Poldrack, R. A. & Packard, M. G. (2003). Competition between memory systems: Converging evidence from animal and human studies. Neuropsychologia, 41,245-251.

Golby, A. J., Poldrack, R. A., Illes, J., Chen, D., Brewer, J. B.,Desmond, J. E., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2002). Memory lateralization in temporal lobe epilepsy assessed by Functional MRI. Epilepsia, 43, 855-863.

Poldrack, R. A. (2002). Neural systems for perceptual skill learning. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 1, 77-83.

Poldrack, R. A., Pare-Blagoev, E. J., & Grant, P. E. (2002). Pediatric fMRI: Progress and Challenges. Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 13, 61-70.

Poldrack, R. A., Clark, J., Pare-Blagoev, J., Shohamy, D., Creso Moyano, J., Myers, C., & Gluck, M. A. (2001). Interactive memory systems in the human brain. Nature, 414, 546-550.

Golby, A. J., Poldrack, R. A., Brewer, J. B., Spencer, D., Desmond, J. E., Aron, A. P., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2001). Material-specific lateralization in the medial temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex during memory encoding. Brain, 124, 1841-1854.

Wagner, A. D., Pare-Blagoev, E. J., Clark, J., & Poldrack, R. A. (2001). Recovering meaning: Left prefrontal cortex guides controlled semantic retrieval. Neuron, 31, 329-338.

Poldrack, R. A. (2001). A structural basis for developmental dyslexia: Evidence from diffusion tensor imaging. In M. Wolf (Ed.), Dyslexia, Fluency, and the Brain, 213-233.

Poldrack, R. A., Temple, E., Protopapas, A., Nagarajan, S.,Tallal, P., Merzenich, M. M., Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2001). Relations between the neural bases of dynamic auditory processing and phonological processing: Evidence from fMRI.Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 687-697.

Vuilleumier, P., Sagiv, N., Hazeltine, E., Poldrack, R. A., Swick, D., Rafal, R. D., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2001). Neural fate of seen and unseen faces in visuospatial neglect: A combined event-related fMRI and ERP study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98, 3495-3500.

Temple, E., Poldrack, R. A., Salidis, J., Deutsch, G. K., Tallal, P.,, Merzenich, M. M., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2001). Disrupted neural responses to phonological and orthographic processing in dyslexic children: an fMRI study.NeuroReport, 12, 299-308.

Poldrack, R. A. & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2001). Characterizing the neural basis of skill learning and repetition priming: Evidence from mirror-reading. Brain, 124, 67-82.

Poldrack, R. A. (2000). Imaging brain plasticity: Conceptual and methodological issues. NeuroImage, 12, 1-13.

Seger, C. A., Prabhakaran, V., Poldrack, R. A., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2000). Neural activity differs between explicit and implicit learning of artificial grammar strings: An fMRI Study. Psychobiology, 28,283-292.
Temple, E., Poldrack, R. A., Protopapas, A., Nagarajan, S., Salz, T., Tallal, P., Merzenich, M. M., Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2000). Disruption of the neural response to rapidly transient acoustic stimuli in dyslexia: Evidence from fMRI. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97, 13907-13912.

Hazeltine, E., Poldrack, R. A., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2000). Neural activation during response competition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Supplement 2:118-129.

Klingberg, T., Hedehus, M., Temple, E., Salz, T., Gabrieli, J. D. E., Moseley, M. E., & Poldrack, R. A. (2000). Microstructure of temporo-parietal white matter as a basis for reading ability: Evidence from Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Neuron, 25, 493-500.

Seger, C. A., Poldrack, R. A., Prabakharan, V., Zhao, Z., Glover, G. H., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2000). Hemispheric asymmetries and individual differences in visual concept learning as measured by functional MRI. Neuropsychologia, 38, 1316-1324.

Poldrack, R. A., Prabakharan, V., Seger, C., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1999). Striatal activation during cognitive skill learning. Neuropsychology, 13, 564-574.

Demb, J. B., Poldrack, R. A., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1999). Functional neuroimaging of word processing in normal and dyslexic readers. In Converging Methods for Understanding Reading and Dyslexia, edited by Ray Klein and Patricia McMullen, pp. 243-304, Cambridge: MIT Press.

Illes, J., Francis, W. S., Desmond, J. E., Glover, G. H., Gabrieli, J. D. E., Poldrack, R. A., Lee, C. J., & Wagner, A. D. (1999). Convergent cortical representation of semantic processing in bilinguals. Brain and Language, 70, 347-363.

Poldrack, R. A., Wagner, A. D., Prull, M., Desmond, J. E., Glover, G. H., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1999). Functional specialization for semantic and phonological processing in the left inferior prefrontal cortex. NeuroImage,10,15-35.

Poldrack, R. A., Selco, S., Field, J., & Cohen, N. J. (1999). The relationship between skill learning and repetition priming: Experimental and computational analyses. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition,25 ,208-235.

Poldrack, R. A., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1998). Memory and the brain: What's right and what's left? Cell,93,1091-1093.

Poldrack, R. A., & Logan, G. D. (1998). What is the mechanism for fluency in successive recognition? Acta Psychologica, 98, 167-181.

Gabrieli, J. D. E., Poldrack, R. A., & Desmond, J. E. (1998). The role of left prefrontal cortex in language and memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95, 906-913.

Gabrieli, J. D. E., Brewer, J. E., & Poldrack, R. A. (1998). Images of medial temporal lobe functions in human learning and memory. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 70,275-283.

Wagner, A. D., Poldrack, R. A., Eldridge, L., Desmond, J. E., Glover, G. H., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1998). Material-specific lateralization of prefrontal activation during episodic encoding and retrieval. NeuroReport, 9, 3711-3717.

Poldrack, R. A., Desmond, J. E., Glover, G. H., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1998). The neural basis of visual skill learning: An fMRI study of mirror reading. Cerebral Cortex, 8, 1-10.

Cohen, N. J., Poldrack, R. A., & Eichenbaum, H. (1997). Memory for items and memory for relations in the procedural/declarative memory framework. Memory, 5, 131-178.

Gabrieli, J. D. E., Keane, M. M., Zarella, M., & Poldrack, R. A. (1997). Preservation of implicit memory for new associations in global amnesia. Psychological Science, 8,,326-329.

Poldrack, R. A., & Cohen, N. J. (1997). Priming of new associations in reading time: What is learned? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 4, 398-402.

Poldrack, R. A., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1997). The functional anatomy of long-term memory. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, 14, 294-310.

Poldrack, R. A., & Logan, G. D. (1997). Fluency and response speed in recognition judgments. Memory & Cognition, 25, 1-10.

Poldrack, R. A. (1996). On testing for stochastic dissociations. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3, 434-448.

Poldrack, R. A., & Cohen, N. J. (1995). The acquisition of higher-order knowledge and timing information in sequence learning. Beckman Institute Technical Report CNS-95-01.

Poldrack, R. A., & Cohen, N. J. (1994). On the representational /computational properties of multiple memory systems. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17, 416-417.

Poldrack, R. A. (1994). Introduction to Learning and Memory: Study Guide. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, Guided Individual Study Division.

 

Presentations and Abstracts

Poldrack, R.A. (2010). Toward a semantic infrastructure for cognitive neuroscience: The Cognitive Atlas Talk presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, April.

Miller E, Seppa C, Kittur A, Sabb F, & Poldrack RA (2010). The Cognitive Atlas: employing interaction design processes to facilitate collaborative ontology creation. Talk presented to the HCLS 2010 Meeting on The Future of the Web for Collaborative Science, Raleigh, NC, April.

Poldrack, R.A. (2010). Inference and Imaging. Talk presented at the Hastings Center Workshop on Interpreting Neuroimages II, Philadelphia, February.

Poldrack, R.A. (2009). Reading mental states from neuroimaging data: From reverse inference to pattern classification. Talk presented at the UC Irvine Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences workshop on Inference and Imaging, November.

Barkley-Levenson, EE, Tom, SM, Mumford, JA, Fox, CR, Poldrack, RA (2009). An fMRI Study of Decision and Experienced Utility in Risky Decision-Making. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #243.

Cohen, JR, Poldrack, RA (2009). The Neural Correlates of Multiple Forms of Self-Control. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #25.

Garrido, MI, Poldrack, RA (2009). Graphical causal search of functional networks engaged in response inhibition. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #369.

Ghahremani, DG, Tabibnia, G, Monterosso,J, Kalar, D, Poldrack, RA, London, ED (2009). Modafinil boosts prediction error-related signals in the mesolimbic dopamine pathway of methamphetamine-dependent and healthy control participants. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #97.

Kenner, NM, Mumford, JA, Lenartowicz, A, Hommer, RE, Skup, M, Leibenluft, E, Poldrack, RA (2009). Comparing networks involved in stopping and changing motor responses.Organization for Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #104.

Mumford, JA, Poldrack, RA, Oldham, MC, Geshwind, DH, Langfelder, P, Horvath, S (2009). Functional Connectivity Using Weighted Voxel Coexpression Network Analysis.Organization for Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #420.

Narayan, VM, Poldrack, RA, Fong, T, Toga, AW (2009). Functional activation associated with the Balloon Analog Risk Task in pathological gamblers. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #93.

Poldrack, R.A. (2009). Reading mental states from neuroimaging data: From reverse inference to pattern classification. Keynote lecture presented at Conceptual Issues in fMRI Interpretation: An Interdisciplinary Workshop, Guelph, Ontario, May.

Poldrack, R.A. (2009). What can we predict from fMRI? Lessons for developmental neuroimaging. Talk presented at the Conference on Methods and Challenges in Developmental Neuroimaging, Amsterdam, May.

Cohen, J.R, Sabb, F.W., Bilder, R.M., Bookheimer, S.Y., Knowlton, B.J., Asarnow, R.F., & Poldrack, R.A. (2008). The behavioral and neural development of reward-motivated learning. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 121.1

Galvan, A., Greene, D.J., Nguyen, P.T., Bookheimer, S.Y., Bilder, R.M., McCracken, J., & Poldrack, R.A. (2008). Neural correlates of response inhibition and symptom severity in children with ADHD. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 121.4

Rizk-Jackson, A.M. Aron, A.R., Mumford, J.A., &Poldrack, R.A. (2008). How powerful are fMRI biomarkers for detecting change over time? Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 497.7

Poldrack, R.A., Mumford, J.A., Oldham, M.C., & Geschwind, D.H. (2008). Detecting voxel coactivation networks in fMRI data using topological overlap measures. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 497.11

Ghahremani, D.G., Tabibnia, G., Monterosso, J., Poldrack, R.A., & London, E.D. (2008). Effects of modafinil on cognitive control in methamphetamine abusers: evidence from human behavioral and neuroimaging studies. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 455.10

Kenner, N.M., Mumford, J.A., Hoommer, R.E., Skup, M., Liebenluft, E., & Poldrack, R.A. (2008). Stopping and changing motor responses engages partially overlapping networks. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 871.4

Poldrack, R.A. (2008). Beyond Phrenology: Neuroimaging and cognitive ontologies. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Melbourne, Australia.

Cohen, J.R., Sabb, F., Bilder, R.M., Bookheimer, S.Y., Knowlton, B.J., Asarnow, R., Poldrack, R.A. (2008). The development of white matter tracts and response inhibition examined using diffusion tensor imaging. Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #64.

Rizk-Jackson, A., Mumford, J., Poldrack, R.A. (2008). Classification analysis of rapid event-related fMRI studies. Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #484.

Sabb, F.W., van Erp, T., Wu, K., Rizk-Jackson, A., Dapretto, M., Caplan, R., Hardt, M., Poldrack, R.A., Cannon, T., Bearden, C. (2008). Classification of fMRI during discourse processing in adolescents at ultra high risk for psychosis. Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #353.

Poldrack, R.A. (2008). Neural systems for learning and controlling skills. Talk presented at the Georgetown CBBC Workshop on The Neurocognition of Language and Memory: Retention, Attrition, and Aging, March.

Poldrack, R.A. & Fox, C.R. (2008). Prospect theory and the brain. Talk presented at the NYU Neuroeconomics conference, January.

Foerde, K., Knowlton, B.J., & Poldrack, R.A. (2007). Overtraining reduces neural responses to feedback in probabilistic classification learning. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 526.7.

Bilder, R., Parker, D.S., Brown, N., Kalar, D., Sabb, F., Glahn, D., Bearden, C.E., Poldrack, R.A., Shattuck, D., Cannon, T., London, E., Freimer, N., & Toga, A. (2007). Cognitive Phenomics: Web-based tools for hypothesis development in neuropsychiatry. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 101.13.

Poldrack, R.A., Halchenko, Y.O., & Hanson, S.J. (2007). Large-scale between-subjects classification of mental states using fMRI data. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 104.9.

Xue, G., Ghahremani, D., & Poldrack, R.A. (2007). Neural mechanisms underlying cognitive and response reversal. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 454.13. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 454.13.

Cohen, J.R., Sabb, F.W., Bilder, R.M., Bookheimer, S.Y., Knowlton, B.J., Asarnow, R.F., & Poldrack, R.A. (2007). Neural development of reward processing across adolescence. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 866.5.

London, E.D., Lee, B., Tabibnia, G., Monterosso, J.R., Farahi, J., Aron, A.R., Poldrack, R.A., Mandelkern, M.A., Dahlbom, M., Bokarius, A., Brody, A.L., & Bilder, R.M. (2007). Association of ventral striatal dopamine D2/D3 receptors with stop-signal reaction time. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 910.13.

Poldrack, R.A. (2007). Memory systems and category learning. Talk presented at the European Conference on Visual Perception, Arezzo, Italy, August.

Poldrack, R.A. (2007). Distinguishing category versus response learning using a reversal paradigm. Talk presented at the Memory Disorders Research Society Annual Meeting, Cambridge, England, September.

Cohen, J.R., Sabb, F.W., Bilder, R.M., Bookheimer, S.Y., Knowlton, B.J., Asarnow, R.F., Poldrack, R.A. (2007). Neural substrates of response inhibition in children examined using fMRI. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #11.

Aron, A.R, Behrens, T.E, Frank, M.J, Smith S, Poldrack, R.A (2007) Triangulating the network for cognitive control: A Combined Diffusion Tractography And Functional Imaging Study. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #1.

Kalar, D., Poldrack, R., Parker, D.S., Torvik, V., Smalheiser, N., Bilder, R.M. (2007) PubBrain: An interactive website for literature visualization and exploration. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #309

Mumford, J., Poldrack, R., Nichols T. (2007). fMRIpower: A Power Calculation Tool for 2-Stage fMRI Models. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #328

Xue, G., Ghahremani, D., Poldrack RA.(2007) Neural dissociations between response and cognitive reversal. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #66

Poldrack, R.A. (2007). What can (and canÕt) fMRI tell us about the brain? Talk presented at the California Science and the Law Institute Conference on Neurobiology and the Courts. Riverside, CA.

Poldrack, R.A. (2006). Balancing risk and reward in decision making: An fmri study of the Balloon Analog Risk Task. Talk presented at the Affect, Motivation, and Decision Making Conference, Ein Boqeq, Israel.

Poldrack, R.A. (2006). Skill acquisition, multiple memory systems, and cognitive control. Talk presented at the Rodin Remediation Academy Annual Meeting, Georgetown University, October.

Poldrack, R.A. (2006). Learning-related changes during skill learning: Evidence for memory system interactions. Talk presented at the at the Marburg Conference on Neuroimaging and Theories of Memory, Marburg, Germany, July.

Poldrack. R.A. (2006). Imaging skill learning using fMRI: Insights and challenges. Talk presented at the John Merck Fund Summer Institute on the Biology of Developmental Disabilities, Princeton, June.

Stover, E.R.S., Fox, C.R., Trepel, C, Poldrack, R.A. (2006). The Neural Correlates of Decision Making Under Risk: an fMRI Study. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #379.

Poldrack, R.A., Smith, S.M., Behrens, T., Todd, M.T., Aron, A.R. (2006). The role of a ÒhyperdirectÓ fronto-subthalamic pathway in response inhibition: Evidence from fMRI-seeded tractography and voxel-based FA analyses. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #567.

Tohka, J., Foerde, K., Toga, A.W., Poldrack, R.A. (2006). Automatic independent component labeling for artifact reduction in fMRI. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #594.

O'Hare, E.D., Lu, L., Bookheimer, S.Y., Kan, E., McCourt, S.T., Poldrack, R.A., Thompson, P.M., Toga, A.W., Sowell, E.R. (2006). Mapping Relationships Between Cortical Thickness and Cortical Activation During Verbal Working Memory in Normally Developing Children and Adolescents. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #418.

Shattuck, D.W., Hojatkashani, C., Mirza, M., Adisetiyo, V., Salamon, G., Narr, K.L., Poldrack, R.A., Bilder, R.M., Toga, A.W. (2006). Construction of a 3D Probabilistic Atlas of Human Brain Structures. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Abstracts, #626.

Tom, S.M., Fox, C.R., Trepel, C., & Poldrack, R.A. (2006). Neural responses to potential monetary gains and losses: An fMRI study of mixed-gamble acceptability. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts, B141

Cohen, J.R., Aron, A.R. & Poldrack, R.A. (2006). Effects of Training on Stop-Signal Inhibition. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts, B124

Aron, A.R. , Robbins, T. W. , & Poldrack, R. A. (2006). When is the striatum engaged by response inhibition? Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts, B125

Stover, E., Fox, C.R., Trepel, C., & Poldrack, R.A. (2006). Balancing Risk and Reward: Functional Neuroimaging of the Balloon Analogue Risk Task. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts, F18

Xue G. & Poldrack, R.A. (2006), The Neural Substrates of Orthographic Learning: an Examination of the VWFA Hypothesis, Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts, G57

R.A.Poldrack; A.R.Aron; D.Shohamy; C.E.Myers; M.A.Gluck (2005). Midbrain And Ventral Striatum Show Opposite Responses To Outcome Uncertainty During Performance Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 192.18

D.G.Ghahremani; R.A.Poldrack (2005) Comparing The Influences Of Informational Feedback And Monetary Reward On Probabilistic Classification Learning: An fMRI Study. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 192.19

J.R.Cohen; R.A.Poldrack (2005) Automaticity Does Not Impair Response Inhibition. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 314.6

A.R.Aron; R.A.Poldrack (2005) The Subcortical Basis Of Stop-Signal Response Inhibition. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 534.3

K.E.Foerde; B.J.Knowlton; R.A.Poldrack (2005) Secondary Task Effects On Classification Learning Examined Using fMRI. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 581.9

Poldrack, R.A., Aron, A.R., & Tom, S. (2005). fMRI artifact removal using independent components analysis: Effects on group-level statistics. Human Brain Mapping, #538.

Aron, A.R., Wu, A., Koski, L., Lin, C.-H., Newman, P., Iacoboni, M., & Poldrack, R.A. (2005). Image-guided single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation of lateral prefrontal cortex during response inhibition. Human Brain Mapping, #1353.

Poldrack, R.A. (2005). Methodological and conceptual challenges for developmental fMRI. Talk presented at the Amsterdam Conference on Developmental Cogntiive Neuroscience, Amsterdam.

Poldrack, R.A. (2005). The development of phonological awareness. Talk presented at the Amsterdam Conference on Developmental Cogntiive Neuroscience, Amsterdam.

Poldrack, R. A. (2005). The organization of cognitive functions in the left inferior prefrontal cortex. Talk presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York.

Aron, A.R., Tom, S.M., Shohamy, D., Myers, C.E., Gluck, M.A., Poldrack, R.A. (2004). Comparing probabilistic and deterministic classification using fMRI: role of basal ganglia and medial temporal lobe. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 201.19.

Cazalis, F., Tom, S.M., Reger, M., Stover, E., Turner, K.L., & Poldrack, R.A. (2004). Event-related fMRI study of mirror reading skill acquisition. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts,369.3.

Engel, S.A., & Poldrack, R.A. (2004). An Undergraduate Laboratory Class in Functional Neuroimaging. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts,29.6. Foerde, K., Knowlton, B.J., & Poldrack, R.A. (2004). Secondary task effects on classification learning examined using fMRI. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 201.20.

Raizada, R. D. & Poldrack, R. A. (2004). Probing the structure of phonetic categories in the human brain. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts, B133.

Foerde, K., Sabb, F., Bookheimer, S. Y., Knowlton, B. J., Asarnow, R., & Poldrack, R. A. (2004). Changes in functional connectivity during motor sequence learning. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts, C52.

Aron, A.R., Rodriguez, P., & Poldrack, R. A. (2004). Ventral striatal activity correlates with prediction error from neural network model. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts, C115.

Shohamy, D., Myers, C. E., Aron, A., Poldrack, R. A., Dindwall, V., El-Shammaa, N., Sage, J., Gluck, M.A. (2004). Probabilistic and deterministic category learning in ParkinsonÕs disease. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts, D98.

Poldrack, R. A. (2003). Neural systems for rapid naming and phonological awareness. Talk presented at the International Dyslexia Association annual meeting, San Diego.

Poldrack, R. A. (2003). Interactive memory systems in humans. Talk presented at the SFN Pre-Symposium on Interactive Memory Systems, New Orleans.

Aron, A.R., Shohamy, D., Rodriguez, P., Clark, J., Myers, C., Gluck, M.A., & Poldrack, R.A. (2003). Activity in human substantia nigra increases with increasing uncertainty of feedback. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 400.27.

Rodriguez, P.F. & Poldrack, R.A. (2003). Path analysis of cortical-subcortical interactions in category learning with fMRI. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 400.28.

Raizada, R.D. & Poldrack, R.A. (2003). Difficult, unpredictable trials coactivate noradrenergic and frontal attentional systems. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 401.4.

Poldrack, R.A., Sabb, F., Foerde, K., Tom, S., O'Hare, E., Bookheimer, S.Y., Knowlton, B.J., & Asarnow, R.F. (2003). Automaticity in motor sequence leanring examined using fMRI. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 443.3.

Lai, I., Hoge, R., Greenberg, J.E., Greve, D., Vangel, M., Poldrack, R., & Gollub, R. (2003). Teaching statistical analysis of fMRI data: an online resource. Human Brain Mapping, 2003.

Misra, M., Katzir, T., Wolf, M., & Poldrack, R. A. (2003). Neural systems specialized for phonological versus orthographic analysis using fMRI. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts, C137.

Shohamy, D., Myers, C. E., Grossman, S., Sage, J., Poldrack, R. A., Gluck, M. A. (2003). Spared or impaired classification learning in Parkinson's disease as a function of the feedback structure of the task. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts, C205.

Foerde, K., Sabb, F., Shohamy, D., Myers, C. E., Gluck, M. A., Bookheimer, S., Asarnow, R., Poldrack, R. A., & Knowlton, B. J. (2003). Effect of secondary task on probabilistic classification task performance. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts, E209.

Lai, I., Gollub, R., Hoge, R., Greve, D., Vangel, M., Poldrack, R. A., & Greenberg, J. E. (2002). Teaching statistical analysis of fMRI data. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Meeting.

Poldrack, R. A. (2002). Functional imaging of of classification learning.. Talk presented at the NIPS Workshop on Foundations and Modeling in Neuroimaging, Whistler, BC.

Poldrack, R. A., Clark, J., Shohamy, D., Myers, C., & Gluck,M.A. (2002). Feedback-related activity during probabilistic classification learning examined using event-related fMRI. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 20.1.

Raizada, R. D., & Poldrack, R. A. (2002). Adaptation-fMRI of categorical processing of speech. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 17.7.

Alvarez, R.P., Jasdzewski, G., & Poldrack, R. A. (2002). Building memories in two languages: An fMRI study of episodic encoding in bilinguals. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 179.12.

Poldrack, R. A. (2002). The neural basis of skill learning. Talk presented at the Memory Disorders Research Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

Poldrack, R. A. (2002). The role of the basal ganglia in category learning.. Talk presented at the First Cognitive Neuroscience of Category Learning Conference, New York.

Poldrack, R. A., Clark, J., Shohamy, D., Myers, C., & Gluck, M. A. (2002). Separating stimulus-related and feedback-related activity during categorization learning using event-related fMRI. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts.

Jasdzewski, G., Strangman, G., Wagner, J., Kwong, K., Boas, D., & Poldrack, R.A. (2002). Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Initial Dip As Seen/Not Seen By Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts.

Alvarez, R.P., Jasdzewski, G., & Poldrack, R.A. (2002). Cross-Language Priming In Left Inferior Prefrontal Cortex: FMRI Support For Decreased Semantic Control And Increased Automaticity Of Semantic Processing. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts.

Pare-Blagoev, E.J., Cestnick, L., Rose, L.T., Clark,J., Misra,M., Katzir-Cohen, T., Hook, P., Jones, S.D., Galaburda, A., Marantz, A., & Poldrack, R.A. (2002). The neural basis of phonological awareness in normal-reading children examined using fMRI. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts.

Boas, D. A., Jasdzewski, G., Strangman, G., Culver, J.P., & Poldrack, R.A., (2002). Hemodynamic modeling for event-related motor and visual stimuli as measured by near-infrared spectroscopy. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

Boas, D. A., Jasdzewski, G., Strangman, G., Culver, J.P., & Poldrack, R.A., (2002). Modeling of the hemodynamic response for event-related motor and visual stimuli as measured by near-infrared spectroscopy. Optical Society of America.

Poldrack, R. A. (2001). Reading and the brain: New directions for diagnosis and treatment. Talk presented at the 17th Annual Learning Differences Conference, Cambridge, MA.

Poldrack, R. A. (2001). The neural basis of reading and dyslexia: Evidence from magnetic resonance imaging. Talk presented at the fourth Annual Japanese-American Frontiers in Science Symposium, Tokyo, Japan.

Poldrack, R. A. (2001). Imaging of perceptual and cognitive skill learning. Talk presented at the Third Annual International Conference on Memory, Valencia, Spain.

Poldrack, R. A., Clark, J., Shohamy, D., Creso Moyano, J., Myers, C. E., & Gluck, M. A. (2001). Learning and reversal of probabilistic classification: An event-related fMRI study. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 347.4.

Raizada, R. D. S., & Poldrack, R. A. (2001). Event-related fMRI of audio-visual simultaneity perception. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 511.14.

O'Kane, G., Badre, D., Pare-Blagoev, J., Poldrack, R. A., & Wagner, A. D. (2001). Left prefrontal processes subserving mnemonic control during semantic retrieval. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 236.3.

Misra, M., Katzir-Cohen, T., Clark, J., Wolf, M., & Poldrack, R. A. (2001). Neural systems for rapid automatized naming identified using fMRI. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 119.10.

E. Temple, R.A. Poldrack, G.K. Deutsch, J. Salidis, P. Tallal, M.M. Merzenich, J.D.E. Gabrieli (2001). Dyslexic children show neural and behavioral effects of remediation: Evidence from fMRI. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 346.4.

Tallal, P., Temple, E., Poldrack, R. A., Deutsch, G. K., Salidis, J., Merzenich, M. M., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2001). Disruption in neural processing of rapid acoustic stimuli in dyslexic children: An fMRI study of developmental dyslexia. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 529.9.

G.T. Stebbins, M.C. Carillo, D. Medina, L. deToledo - Morrell, T. Klingberg, R.A. Poldrack, M. Moseley, O. Karni, R.S. Wilson, D.A. Bennett, & J.D.E. Gabrieli (2001). Frontal white matter integrity in aging and its relation to reasoning performance: a diffusion tensor imaging study Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 456.3.

Poldrack, R. A., Shohamy, D., Clark, J., Pare-Blagoev, J., Creso Moyano, J., Myers, C. E., & Gluck, M. A. (2001). Competition between declarative and nondeclarative memory systems: Evidence from probabilistic classification. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts, 79B.

Wagner, A. D., Pare-Blagoev, J., Badre, D., Clark, J., & Poldrack, R. A. (2001). Functional contributions of left inferior prefrontal cortex: fMRI support for the controlled semantic retrieval hypothesis.Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts, 129A.

Deutsch, G.K., Temple, E., Linn, N., Miller, S.L., Merzenich, M.M., Tallal, P., Poldrack, R.A., Salidis, J., Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2001). Language, reading, phonological processing, and their relationship to fMRI activation in children with dyslexia. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts, 67C.

Jasdzewski, G., Hespos, S., Gaudette, T., Thompson, J., Boas, D., & Poldrack, R. A. (2001). Imaging of prefrontal activation during a linguistic task using near-infrared spectroscopy. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts, 59B.

Stebbins, G.T., Poldrack, R.A., Klingberg, T., Carrillo, M.C., Desmond, J.E., Moseley, M.E., Hedehus, M., Wilson, R.S., Karni, G., Bennett, D.A., deToledo-Morrell, L., Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2001). Aging effects on white matter integrity and processing speed: A diffusion tensor imaging study. Neurology, 56 (Suppl. 3), A374-A375.

Poldrack, R. A. (2000). fMRI studies of striatal and medial temporal lobe activation during category learning. Talk presented at the Memory Disorders Research Society Annual Meeting, Toronto.

Poldrack, R.A., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2000). fMRI evidence for common neural substrates for skill learning and repetition priming. Psychonomic Society Abstracts, submitted.

Poldrack, R. A. (2000). A neural basis for reading skill: Evidence from microstructural brain imaging. Talk presented at the National Dyslexia Research Foundation Annual Conference, Elounda, Greece.

Golby, A.J., Desmond, J. E., Poldrack, R. A., Spencer, D., Brewer, J. B., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2000). Novelty-associated mesial temporal lobe activation during memory encoding in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Society of Neuroscience Abstracts, submitted.

Temple, E., Poldrack, R.A., Salidis, J., Deutsch, G., Thomason, M., Tallal, P., Merzenich, M.M., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2000). Phonological processing in dyslexic children: An fMRI study. Society of Neuroscience Abstracts, submitted.

Wagner, A.D., Pare-Blagoev, E.J., Clark, J., & Poldrack, R. A. (2000). Left prefrontal cortex and executive control: fMRI evidence for prefrontal sensitivity to associative strength and semantic retrieval demands. Society of Neuroscience Abstracts, submitted.

Poldrack, R. A. & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2000). Learning-related changes during acquisition of mirror-reading skill are not typography-specific: Evidence from fMRI. Society of Neuroscience Abstracts, submitted.

Poldrack, R. A. (2000). Brain Structure and Function: The Relation to Reading. Talk presented at the BrainConnection.com Brain Research and Learning Conference, San Francisco.

Temple, E., Poldrack, R. A., Salidis, J., Deutsch, G., Merzenich, M. M., Tallal, P., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2000). Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of developmental dyslexia: Neural response to linguistic and nonlinguistic stimuli in dyslexic children. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

Vuilleumier, P., Hazeltine, E., Poldrack, R. A., Sagiv, N., Rafal, R., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2000). The neural fate of neglected faces: An event-related fMRI study of visual extinction. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

Golby, A. J., Poldrack, R. A., Spencer, D., Brewer, J. B., Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1999). Material-specific lateralization of novelty effects during memory encoding. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts,258.3

Hazeltine, E., Poldrack, R. A., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Ivry, R. (1999). Response competition induces increases in cerebral activation as revealed with fMRI. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts,141.10

Klingberg, T., Hedehus, M., Temple, E., Salz, T., Gabrieli, J. D. E., Moseley, M. E., & Poldrack, R. A. (1999). Reading ability is correlated with myelination of axons in the left temporo-parietal region of the brain. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts,654.7

Temple, E., Poldrack, R. A., Protopapas, A., Nagarajan, S., Tallal, P., Merzenich, M. M., Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1999). Disruption of linguistic and nonlinguistic processing in developmental dyslexia. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts,724.4

Temple, E., Poldrack, R. A., Protopapas, A., Nagarajan, S., Tallal, P., Merzenich, M. M., Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1999). Functional organization for rapid processing disrupted in dyslexics: An FMRI study. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, 1999.

Poldrack, R. A. (1998). Multiple functional roles of the left inferior prefrontal cortex: Evidence from neuroimaging. Talk presented at the Academy of Aphasia Annual Meeting, November 1998, Santa Fe, NM.

R. A. Poldrack, J. C. Hsieh, & J. D. E. Gabrieli (1998). Striatal activation associated with visual skill learning and repetition priming examined using FMRI. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 24, 408.5.

Temple, E. Poldrack, R. A., Protopapas, A., Nagarajan, S., Tallal, P., Merzenich, M. M., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1998). Auditory processing of rapid stimuli and phonological processing of visual stimuli involve common brain areas in the left inferior frontal cortex. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 24, 15.5.

Gabrieli, J. D. E., Poldrack, R. A., & Wagner, A. D. (1998). Material specific and nonspecific prefrontal activations associated with encoding and retrieval of episodic memories. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 24, 302.10.

Spencer, D. C., Poldrack, R. A., Vaidya, C. J., Temple, E., Glover, G. H., Zeifert, P., Thomander, D., Morrell, M. J., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1998). Functional brain organization following hemispherectomy using functional MRI. Poster presented at the American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting, December 1998, San Diego, CA.

Poldrack, R. A., Protopapas, A., Nagarajan, S., Tallal, P., Merzenich, M. M., Temple, E., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1998). Auditory processing of temporally compressed speech: An FMRI study. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, 1998.

Poldrack, R. A., & Church, B. (1997). Auditory priming of new associations. Psychonomic Society Abstracts, 2, 461.

Seger, C. A., Poldrack, R. A., Prabakharan, V., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1997). An fMRI study of visual concept learning. Psychonomic Society Abstracts, 2, 670.

Vaidya, C. J., Poldrack, R. A., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1997). Dissociation between perceptual and conceptual new association priming. Psychonomic Society Abstracts, 2, 63.

Poldrack, R. A., Prabakharan, V., Seger, C., Desmond, J. E., Glover, G. H., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1997). Learning to classify probabilistically: Changes in cortical activity revealed by functional MRI. Society For Neuroscience Abstracts, 23, 413.13.

Wagner, A.D., R. A. Poldrack, J. E. Desmond, G. H. Glover, and J. D. E. Gabrieli. (1997) An FMRI study of prefrontal activation during retrieval of verbal and nonverbal episodic memory. Society For Neuroscience Abstracts, 23, 191.7.

Prull, M., R. A. Poldrack, A. D. Wagner, J. E. Desmond, & G. H. Glover, and J. D. E. Gabrieli (1997). Semantic and phonological processing in prefrontal cortex: An FMRI study. Society For Neuroscience Abstracts, 23, 191.11.

Prabakharan, V., Seger, C. A., Poldrack, R. A., Desmond, J. E., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1997, August). Neural correlates of categorical learning examined using fMRI Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Palo Alto.

Seger, C. A., Prabakharan, V., Poldrack, R. A., Desmond, J. E., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1997, August). Implicit and explicit knowledge in artificial grammar learning: An fMRI study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Palo Alto.

Poldrack, R. A., Vaidya, C. J., Palav, A., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1996). Priming of new conceptual associations. Psychonomic Society Abstracts,1, 293.

Poldrack, R. A., Desmond, J. E., Glover, G. H., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1996). The neural basis of visual skill: An FMRI study of mirror reading. Society For Neuroscience Abstracts,22, 289.8.

Seger, C., Prabakharan, V., Poldrack, R. A., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1996). Judgment processes in artificial grammar learning: An fMRI study. Psychonomic Society Abstracts, 1. (differs from published abstract)

Poldrack, R. A., & Cohen, N. J. (1995, November). Can a single memory system support skill learning and priming? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles.

Poldrack, R. A., & Cohen, N. J. (1995, May). Memory retrieval in sequence learning. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago.

Selco, S. L., Poldrack, R. A., & Cohen, N. J. (1995, May). The nature of the representation supporting learning in a digit entering task. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago.

Vaidya, C.J., Demb, J.B., Keane, M.M., Monti, L.A., Cohen, N.J., Poldrack, R.A., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (1994). The core memory deficit in amnesia is neither one of conceptual processing nor one of explicit retrieval. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 20, 1289.

Poldrack, R. A., Selco, S. L., Field, J. E., & Cohen, N. J. (1994a, November). Repetition effects from novice to expert. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis.

Poldrack, R. A., & Logan, G. D. (1994, May). Fluency and recognition: It's not that easy. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago.

Poldrack, R. A., Selco, S. L., Field, J. E., & Cohen, N. J. (1994, May). Skill learning and repetition effects in a digit entering task. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago.

Vaidya, C.J., Gabrieli, J.D.E., Keane, M.M., Monti, L.A., Cohen, N.J., & Poldrack, R.A. (1994, March). Is amnesia a selective impairment of conceptual processes? Poster presented at the First Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, San Francisco.

Dulany, D. E., & Poldrack, R. A. (1991, November). Learned covariation: Conscious or unconscious representation? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco.

 

Invited addresses and colloquia

2010: Beijing Normal University; Duke-NUS School of Medicine, Singapore; Princeton University; UC Davis; University of Maryland; Auburn University

2009: University of Pennsylvania; UC San Diego; University of Texas at Austin; Baylor College of Medicine

2008: University of Vermont; SUNY Stony Brook; Vanderbilt University; University of Illinois at Chicago; University of Texas at Austin; University of Missouri-Columbia; Washington University-St. Louis; Cal Tech; Neurospin (Orsay, France); Oxford University; University College London

2007: Duke University; New York University; University of Texas; MIT; University College London

2006: Salk Institute; Johns Hopkins University; Ben Gurion University (Beer Sheva, Israel)

2005: University of Arizona; Medical College of Wisconsin; Washington University-St. Louis, Karolinska Institute, Lund University (Sweden), Danish Technical University

2004: Rotman Research Institute, University of Toronto; University of California, San Diego; University of Colorado, Boulder; Colorado State University; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2003: NIMH, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch; Max Planck Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany; University of California at Irvine, Center for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory,

2002: Learning and the Brain conference, Cambridge, MA; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Center for Nonlinear Studies

2001: Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, London; Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, London

2000: University of Connecticut; MIT; Boston University; Boston VA Medical Center

1999: Center for Psychological Studies, Berkeley, CA ; Harvard University

1997: University of California at Berkeley

1996: University of California at Santa Cruz

1994: Rice University