Research in Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory

Inside PJR's brain
  • How the brain expresses memory and where memory occurs in the brain
  • Nonconscious perceptual learning of artificial categories
  • Conscious and nonconscious memory

Current projects

  • Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify brain areas involved in cognitive skill learning
  • Examining memory function in Alzheimer's disease and other memory-disordered populations
  • Comparing the operation of conscious and nonconscious memory in the visual system using a category learning task

Rapid preprint/reprint requests (pdf):

  • Nomura E.M., Maddox W.T., Filoteo J.V., Ing A.D., Gitelman D.R., Parrish T.B., Mesulam M.M., Reber P.J. (2007).
    Neural correlates of rule-based and information-integration visual category learning.
    Cereb Cortex. 17(1), 37-43. [pdf 514k]
  • Safron, A., Barch, B., Bailey, J.M., Gitelman, D.R., Parrish, T.B., Reber, P.J. (2007).
    Neural correlates of sexual arousal in heterosexual and homosexual men.
    Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, 237-248. [pdf 532k]
  • Reber, P.J., Gitelman, D.R., Parrish, T.B., & Mesulam, M-M. (2005).
    Priming and the acquisition of visual expertise: Changes in neural activity beyond the second presentation.
    Cerebral Cortex, 15, 787 - 795 [pdf 487k]
  • Gonsalves, B., Reber, P.J., Gitelman, D.R., Parrish, T.B., Mesulam, M.-M. & Paller, K.A. (2004).
    Vivid imagining leads to false memories.
    Psychological Science, 15, 655-660. [pdf 665k]
  • Reber, P.J, Gitelman, D.R., Parrish, T.B. & Mesulam, M.-M. (2003).
    Dissociating explicit and implicit category knowledge with fMRI.
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, 574-685. [pdf 437k]
  • Paller, K.A., Ranganath, C., Gonsalves, B., LaBar, K.S., Parrish, T.B., Gitelman, D.R., Mesulam, M.-M. & Reber, P.J. (2003).
    Neural correlates of person recognition.
    Learning&Memory, 10, 253-260. [pdf 352k]
  • Reber, P.J, Gitelman, D.R., Parrish, T.B. & Mesulam, M.-M. (2003).
    Dissociating explicit and implicit category knowledge with fMRI.
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, 574-685. [pdf]
  • Skosnik, Mirza, Gitelman, Parrish, Mesulam & Reber (2002)
    Neural Correlates of Artificial Grammar Learning
    NeuroImage [pdf]
  • Reber, Siwiec, Gitelman, Parrish, Mesulam& Paller (2002)
    Neural correlates of successful encoding identified using fMRI
    Journal of Neuroscience [pdf]
  • Reber, Buxton & Wong (2002)
    Comparing the brain areas supporting nondeclarative categorization and recognition memory
    Cognitive Brain Research [pdf]
  • Reber (2002)
    Attempting to model dissociations of memory: Comment on Kinder & Shanks (2001)
    Trends in Cognitive Sciences [pdf]
  • Reber, Buxton & Wong (2002)
    Encoding Activity in the Medial Temporal Lobe Examined With Anatomically Constrained fMRI Analysis
    Hippocampus [pdf]
  • Reber, Stark & Squire (1998a)
    Cortical areas supporting category learning identified using functional MRI
    Neurobiology [pdf]
  • Reber, Stark & Squire (1998b)
    Contrasting Cortical Activity Associated with Category Memory and Recognition Memory
    Learning and Memory [pdf]
  • Reber & Squire (1998).
    Encapsulation of Implicit and Explicit Memory in Sequence Learning
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience [pdf]