Recently Completed Projects

  • Reber, P.J., Paller, K.A., Gitelman, D.R., Parrish, T.B., & Mesulam, M-M. Priming Effects in the Fusiform Gyrus: Changes in Neural Activity beyond the Second Presentation. Cerebral Cortex, 09/15/2004.
  • Okado, Y., Gitelman, D.R., Parrish, T.B., Mesulam, M-M., & Reber, P.J. (in preparation). Comparing the neural correlates of memory encoding, recognition and recency judgments.
  • Kim, G.Y.,Gitelman, D.R., Parrish, T.B., Mesulam, M-M., & Reber. P.J. (in preparation). Retinotopic specificity in dot-pattern categorization.

Ongoing projects

  • Neural Correlates of Sexual Arousal in Heterosexual and Homosexual Men
    (J.M. Bailey, Paul J. Reber, Ben Barch, Adam Safron)
  • Development of Expertise of visual categories
    (Fisher & Reber)
  • Ninja Death Stars: Development of Expertise of artifical visual categories
    (Gisbert & Reber)
  • Neural Correlates of Priming of New Associations
    (Murray & Reber)
  • Implicit Learning of Dot Patterns
    (Huang & Reber)
  • Implicit and explicit strategies for visual categorization of complex crystals
    (Fisher & Reber)
  • fMRI of rule-based and information-integration categorization
    (Nomura, Reber, Maddox & Filoteo)
  • Artificial Harmony Learning: a musical analog to artificial grammar learning
    (Levitt & Reber)
  • Using fMRI to examine memory function in patients with Alzheimer's Disease and MCI
    (Siwiec, Fisher & Reber)
  • Interactions between working memory and long term memory
    (Gisbert & Reber)
  • Visual categorization in Alzeheimer's disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment
    (Reber & Weintraub)
  • Artificial grammar learning in patients with Primary Progressive Aphasia
    (Reber, Weintraub & Mesulam)
  • Implicit and explicit learning of perceptual-motor sequence learning
    (Schwarzlose & Reber)

Past Presentations


Cognitive Neuroscience of Category Learning Workshop 2003

  • Nomura EM. Cognitive Neuroscience of Category Learning Workshop (New York, NY, 2003). J.S. McDonnell Summer Student Fellow presentation titled “Neural Correlates of Rule-based and Information-Integration Categorization.”

Society for Neuroscience 2003

  • Fisher, J.A., Gitelman, D.R., Parrish, T.B., Mesulam, M.-M., & Reber, P.J. (2003). Implicit and explicit strategies for visual categorization of complex crystals. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 29.
  • Barch B.E., Reber, P.J., Levitt, M.R., Gitelman, D.R., Parrish, T.B., Mesulam, M. and Bailey, J.M. (2003). Neural correlates of sexual arousal in heterosexual and homosexual males. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 29.

Psychonomics 2003

  • Reber, P.J. (2003). Categorization And Recognition: Integrating Computational Modeling And Neuroscience Data. 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society

Memory Disorders Research Society 2003

  • Meeting organizers: Ken Paller & Paul Reber
  • Symposium: Interactions between working and long-term memory (Organizers, Charan Ranganath & Paul J. Reber).

Human Brain Mapping 2003

  • Fraser, D., Reber, P.J., Parrish, T.B., Gitelman, D.R., Mesulam, M-M. & Houk, J.C. (2003). An fMRI region of interest study of serial spatial working memory decoding in the basal ganglia. Human Brain Mapping.

Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2003

  • Fisher, J.A. & Reber, P.J. (2003). Implicit category learning of crystal images. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 10th Annual meeting.
  • Kim, G-Y. & Reber, P.J. (2003). Retinotopic specificity in dot pattern categorization. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 10th Annual meeting.
  • Reber, P.J., Gisbert, A. & Levitt, M. (2003). Interactions between working and long-term memory. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 10th Annual meeting.
  • Boehm, S. G., Reber, P.J., Florczak, S.M., Gitelman, D.R., Parrish, T.B., Mesulam, M.-M. & Paller. K.A. (2003). Neural manifestations of memory for faces with and without awareness. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 10th Annual meeting.

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Category Learning, a J.S. McDonnell Foundation Sponsored Conference, Sept 20 - Sept 22, 2002.

  • Organizers, Mark A. Gluck, Paul J. Reber, Russ A. Poldrack & Robert Nosofsky)
  • Reber, P.J., Kim, G.Y. and Fisher, J.A. presented

Memory Disorders Research Society Symposium

  • Neural Correlates of Priming and Other Forms of Nondeclarative Memory (Organizers, Alex Martin, Paul J. Reber, Russ A. Poldrack).

Psychonomics, 2002

  • Levitt, M. & Reber, P.J. (2002). Implicit learning and preference acquisition for musical sequences based on artificial rules. 41st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
  • Fisher, J.A., Paller, K.A. & Reber, P.J. (2002). Implicit category learning of 3D objects. 41st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2002

  • Kim, G.-Y., Gitelman, D.R., Parrish, T.B., Mesulam, M. & Reber, P.J. (2002). Retinotopic specificity in dot pattern categorization: fMRI evidence for hemispheric differences in category learning. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 9th Annual meeting.
  • Reber, P.J. (2002). A computational model of dot pattern category learning based on behavioral and neuroimaging results. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 9th Annual meeting.
  • Fraser, D., Reber, P.J., Parrish, T.B., Gitelman, D.R., Mesulam, M. & Houk, J. (2002). A functional MRI study of serial position working memory decoding. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 9th Annual meeting.
  • Gonsalves, B., Reber, P.J., Crawford, M., & Paller, K.A. (2002). Reading the mind's eye using an occipital brain potential that indexes vividness of visual imagery. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 9th Annual meeting.

Society for Neuroscience, November 2001

  • MEMORY ENCODING IN THE MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE: COMPARING IMAGING PARAMETERS P.J. Reber, T.B. Parrish, D.R. Gitelman, & M.-M. Mesulam.
  • THE NEURAL CORRELATES OF ARTIFICIAL GRAMMAR LEARNING: fMRI EVIDENCE FOR AN INTERACTION BETWEEN MEMORY SYSTEMS. Patrick D. Skosnik, Darren R. Gitelman, Todd B. Parrish, M-Marsel Mesulam & Paul J. Reber

Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 2000

  • INVESTIGATING NEURAL CORRELATES OF ENCODING AND DIRECTED FORGETTING USING EVENT-RELATED FMRI. Robert M. Siwiec, Paul J. Reber, Ken A. Paller, Darren R. Gitelman, Todd B. Parrish, and M.-Marsel Mesulam
  • EXAMINING THE NEURAL SUBSTRATE OF ARTIFICIAL GRAMMAR LEARNING UTILIZING EVENT-RELATED FMRI. Patrick D. Skosnik, Paul J. Reber, Darren R. Gitelman, Todd B. Parrish, & M-Marsel Mesulam
  • COMPARING THE NEURAL CORRELATES OF ENCODING, RECOGNITION AND RECENCY DISCRIMINATION.Yoko Okado, Paul J. Reber, Luke Velders, Darren R. Gitelman, Todd B. Parrish & M-Marsel Mesulam
  • QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION OF REPETITION PRIMING EFFECTS IN FMRI. Paul J. Reber, Ken A. Paller, Darren R. Gitelman, Todd B. Parrish, & M-Marsel Mesulam

Psychonomics Abstracts (2000)

  • Intact Artificial Grammar Learning in AD; P.J. Reber, L.A. Martinez, N. Johnson & S. Weintraub (November, 2000)

Society for Neuroscience 2000

  • Neural Correlates of Multiple Forms of Memory ;Contrasting Conscious and Nonconscious Categorization in a Visual Categorization Task (November, 2000)

Memory Disorders Research Society Symposium

  • The Cognitive Neuroscience of Category Learning;The Neural Substrate of Visual Category Learning: Evidence from Neuropsychology and Functional Imaging (October, 2000)