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• Skill acquisition and memory systems
• Executive control and decision making
• Language, reading and dyslexia
• Neuropsychiatric disorders
• Conceptual and methodological papers

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Skill acquisition and memory systems

• Foerde K, Poldrack RA, Knowlton BJ, Sabb FW, Bookheimer SY, Bilder RM, Guthrie D, Granholm E, Nuechterlein KH, Marder SR, and Asarnow RF. (2008). Selective Corticostriatal Dysfunction in Schizophrenia: Examination of Motor and Cognitive Skill Learning. Neuropsychology, 22,100-109.
• Poldrack, R.A., & Foerde, K. (2007). Category learning and the memory systems debate. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 32,197-205.
• 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, K., Knowlton, B.J., & Poldrack, R.A. (2006). Modulation of competing memory systems by distraction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 11778-83.
  
• Aron, A.R, Gluck, M.A & Poldrack, R.A (2005). Long-term test-retest reliability of functional MRI in a classification learning task. Neuroimage, 29, 1000-6.
  
• Rodriguez, P., Aron, A. R., & Poldrack, R. A. (2005). Ventral striatal/nucleus-accumbens sensitivity to prediction errors during classification learning. Human Brain Mapping, 27, 306-13.
  
• Poldrack, R.A., Sabb, F., Foerde, K., Tom, S., Asarnow, R., Bookheimer, S., & Knowlton, B.J. (2005). The neural correlates of automaticity during motor skill learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 5356-5364.
• Poldrack, R. A., & Rodriguez, P. (2004). How do memory systems interact? Evidence from human classification learning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 82, 324-332.
• 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.
• Poldrack, R.A. & Rodriguez, P. (2003). Sequence learning: What's the hippocampus to do? Neuron, 37, 891-893.
• Poldrack, R. A. & Packard, M. G. (2003). Competition between memory systems: Converging evidence from animal and human studies. Neuropsychologia, 41,245-251.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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., 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.
• Poldrack, R. A., & Cohen, N. J. (1997). Priming of new associations in reading time: What is learned? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 4, 398-402.
  

Executive control and decision making

• Xue, G., Aron, A.R., & Poldrack, R.A. (2008). Common Neural Substrates for Inhibition of Spoken and Manual Responses. Cerebral Cortex.
• Tom, S., Fox, C.R., Trepel, C., & Poldrack, R.A. (2007). The neural basis of loss aversion in decision making under risk. Science, 315, 515-8.
• Aron, A.R., Behrens, T.E., Smith, S., Frank, M.J., & Poldrack, R.A. (2007). Triangulating a cognitive control network using diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional MRI. Journal of Neuroscience, 27,3743 - 3752
• 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
• 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.
• Aron, A.R. & Poldrack, R. A. (2005). The Cognitive Neuroscience Of Response Inhibition: Relevance For Genetic Research In ADHD. Biological Psychiatry, 57:1285-1292.
• Badre, D., Poldrack, R.A., Paré-Blagoev, J., Insler, R., & Wagner, A.D. (2005). Dissociable Controlled Retrieval and Generalized Selection Mechanisms in Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex. Neuron, 47, 907-18.
  
• Aron, A.R., Robbins, T.W., & Poldrack, R. A. (2004). Inhibition and the right inferior frontal cortex. Trends in Cognitive Sciences,8:170-177.
• 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.
• Hazeltine, E., Poldrack, R. A., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2000). Neural activation during response competition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Supplement 2:118-129.
  

Language, reading, and dyslexia

• Raizada, R.D.S., & Poldrack, R.A. (2007). Selective amplification of stimulus differences during categorical processing of speech. Neuron, 56, 726-740.
• Katzir, T., Misra, M., & Poldrack, R.A. (2005). Imaging phonology without print: Assessing the neural correlates of phonemic awareness using fMRI. NeuroImage, 27, 106-115.
• 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.
• 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., 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
  

Neuropsychiatric disorders

• Foerde K, Poldrack RA, Knowlton BJ, Sabb FW, Bookheimer SY, Bilder RM, Guthrie D, Granholm E, Nuechterlein KH, Marder SR, and Asarnow RF. (2008). Selective Corticostriatal Dysfunction in Schizophrenia: Examination of Motor and Cognitive Skill Learning. Neuropsychology, 22,100-109.
• 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
• 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.

Conceptual and methodological papers

• 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.
  • Also see www.fmrimethods.org
• Mumford, J.A. & Poldrack, R.A. (2007). Modeling group fMRI data. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 2, 251-257.
• Devlin, J. & Poldrack, R.A. (2007). In praise of tedious anatomy. Neuroimage, 37, 1033-41.
• Poldrack, R.A. (2007). Region of interest analysis for fMRI. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN), 2, 67-70.
  
• Shattuck, D., Mirza, M., Adisetiyo, V., Hojatkashani, C., Salamon, G., Narr, K.L., Poldrack, R.A., Bilder, R.M., Toga, A.W. (2007). 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 (2007). Automatic independent component labeling for artifact removal in fMRI. Neuroimage, 39, 1227-45.
• Poldrack, R.A. (2006). Can cognitive processes be inferred from neuroimaging data? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 59-63.
  
• 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., Pare-Blagoev, E. J., & Grant, P. E. (2002). Pediatric fMRI: Progress and Challenges. Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 13, 61-70.
• Poldrack, R. A. (2000). Imaging brain plasticity: Conceptual and methodological issues. NeuroImage, 12, 1-13.
• Poldrack, R. A. (1996). On testing for stochastic dissociations. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3, 434-448.