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Autism
Schipul, S. E., & Just, M. A. (2016). Diminished neural adaptation during implicit learning in autism. NeuroImage, 125, 332-341. Download .pdf
Kana, R. K., Maximo, J. O., Williams, D. L., Keller, T. A., Schipul, S. E., Cherkassky, V. L., Minshew, N. J., & Just, M. A. (2015). Aberrant functioning of the Theory-of-Mind network in children and adolescents with autism. Molecular Autism, 6, 1. Download .pdf
Just M. A., Cherkassky V. L., Buchweitz A., Keller T. A., Mitchell T. M. (2014) Identifying autism from neural representations of social interactions: Neurocognitive markers of autism. PLoS ONE 9 e113879. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0113879 Download .pdf
Just, M. A., Keller, T. A., & Kana, R. K. (2013). A theory of autism based on frontal-posterior underconnectivity. In M. A. Just & K. A. Pelphrey (Eds.), Development and brain systems in autism (pp. 35-63). New York: Psychology Press. 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
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, 6, 288-302. 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. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.04.005
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 Supplemental .pdf ; Download .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
Keller, T. A., Mason, R. A., Legg, A. E. & Just, M. A. (2024). The neural and cognitive basis of expository text comprehension. npj Science of Learning. 9:21; DOI: 10.1038/s41539-024-00232-y Download .pdf
Buchweitz, A., Mason, R. A., Meschyan, G., Keller, T. A., & Just, M. A. (2014). Modulation of cortical activity during comprehension of familiar and unfamiliar text topics in speed reading and speed listening. Brain & Language, 139, 49-57. Download .pdf
Mason, R. A., Prat, C. S., & Just, M. A. (2014). Neurocognitive brain response to transient impairment of Wernicke's area. Cerebral Cortex, 24, 1474-1484. 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 words 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
Tomitch, L.M.B., Newman, S.D., Carpenter, P.A. & Just, M.A. (2008). Comprehending the topic of a paragraph: A functional imaging study of a complex language process. DELTA, 24, 175-197. 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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Learning
Keller, T. A., Mason, R. A., Legg, A. E. & Just, M. A. (2024). The neural and cognitive basis of expository text comprehension. npj Science of Learning. 9:21; DOI: 10.1038/s41539-024-00232-y Download .pdf
Mason, R. A., Schumacher, R. A., & Just, M. A. (2021) The neuroscience of advanced scientific concepts. npj: Science of Learning. 6:29; DOI: 10.1038/s41539-021-00107-6 Download .pdf
Just, M. A., & Keller, T. A. (2019). Converging measures of neural change at the microstructural, informational, and cortical network levels in the hippocampus during the learning of the structure of organic compounds.Brain Structure and Function. DOI: 10.1007/s00429-019-01838-4. Download .pdf
Keller, T. A., & Just, M. A. (2016). Structural and functional neuroplasticity in human learning of spatial routes. NeuroImage, 125, 256-266. Download .pdf
Bauer, A. J., & Just, M. A. (2015). Monitoring the growth of the neural representations of new animal concepts. Human Brain Mapping, 36, 3213-3226. Download .pdf DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22842
Mason, R. A. & Just, M. A. (2015). Physics instruction induces changes in neural knowledge representation during successive stages of learning. NeuroImage, 111, 36-48. Download .pdf
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Modeling
Varma, S. (2017). The CAPS family of cognitive architectures. In S.E.F. Chipman (Ed). The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Science (pp. 49-68). Oxford University Press. 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
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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Multi-tasking
Just, M. A., & Buchweitz, A. (2017). What brain imaging reveals about the nature of multitasking. In S. E. F. Chipman (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Science (pp. 265-279). New York: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199842193.013.4 Download .pdf
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
Vargas, R., & Just, M. A. (2022). Similarities and differences in the neural representations of abstract concepts across English and Mandarin. Human Brain Mapping. doi:10.1002/hbm.25844 Download .pdf
Mason, R. A., Schumacher, R. A., & Just, M. A. (2021) The neuroscience of advanced scientific concepts. npj: Science of Learning. 6:29; DOI: 10.1038/s41539-021-00107-6 Download .pdf
Vargas. R., & Just, M. A. (2021). The neural representation of concrete and abstract concepts. In A. K. Barbey, S. Karama, & R. J. Haier (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience, Chapter 23 (pp. 448-468). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108635462.029 Download .pdf
Mason, R. A., & Just, M. A. (2020). Neural representations of procedural knowledge. Psychological Science, 31, 729–740. doi: 10.1177/0956797620916806 Download .pdf
Vargas, R., & Just, M. A. (2019). Neural representations of abstract concepts: Identifying underlying neurosemantic dimensions. Cerebral Cortex. bhz229 doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhz229 Download .pdf
Just, M. A., & Keller, T. A. (2019). Converging measures of neural change at the microstructural, informational, and cortical network levels in the hippocampus during the learning of the structure of organic compounds.Brain Structure and Function. DOI: 10.1007/s00429-019-01838-4 Download .pdf
Bauer, A. J., & Just, M. A. (2019). Brain reading and behavioral methods provide complementary perspectives on the representation of concepts. NeuroImage, 186, 794-805. Download .pdf
Bauer, A. J., & Just, M. A. (2019). Neural representations of concept knowledge. In G. de Zubicaray, & N. Schiller (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Neurolinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190672027.013.21 Download .pdf
Yang, Y., Wang, J., Bailer, C., Cherkassky, V. L., & Just, M. A., (2017). Commonalities and differences in the neural representations of English, Portuguese, and Mandarin sentences: when knowledge of the brain-language mappings for two languages is better than one. Brain and Language, 175, 77-85. Download .pdf
Bauer, A. J., & Just, M. A. (2017). A brain-based account of "basic-level" concepts. NeuroImage, 161, 196-205. Download .pdf
Just, M. A., Wang, J., & Cherkassky, V. L. (2017). Neural representations of the concepts in simple sentences: Concept activation prediction and context effects. NeuroImage, 157, 511-520. Download .pdf
Wang, J., Cherkassky, V. L., & Just, M. A. (2017). Predicting the brain activation pattern associated with the propositional content of a sentence: modeling neural representations of events and states. Human Brain Mapping, 38, 4865–4881. doi: 10.1002/hbm.23692 Download .pdf
Yang, Y., Wang, J., Bailer, C., Cherkassky, V. L., & Just, M. A. (2017). Commonality of neural representations of sentences across languages: predicting brain activation during Portuguese sentence comprehension using an English-based model of brain function. NeuroImage, 146, 658-666. Download .pdf
Wang, J., Cherkassky, V. L., Yang, Y., Chang, K. K., Vargas, R., Diana, N., & Just, M. A. (2016). Identifying thematic roles from neural representations measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Cognitive Neuropsychology. DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2016.1182480 Download .pdf
Mason, R. A., & Just, M. A. (2016). Neural representations of physics concepts. Psychological Science, 27, 904-913. Download .pdf
Damarla, S. R., Cherkassky, V. L., & Just, M. A. (2016). Modality-independent representations of small quantities based on brain activation patterns. Human Brain Mapping, 37 , 1296-1307. Download .pdf
Bauer, A. J., & Just, M. A. (2015). Monitoring the growth of the neural representations of new animal concepts. Human Brain Mapping, 36, 3213-3226. Download .pdf DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22842
Just M. A., Cherkassky V. L., Buchweitz A., Keller T. A., Mitchell T. M. (2014) Identifying autism from neural representations of social interactions: neurocognitive markers of autism. PLoS ONE 9 e113879. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0113879 Download .pdf
Kassam, K. S., Markey, A. R., Cherkassky, V. L., Loewenstein, G., & Just, M. A. (2013). Identifying emotions on the basis of neural activation. PLoS ONE, 8, e66032. Download .pdf
Damarla, S. R., & Just, M. A. (2013). Decoding the representation of numerical values from brain activation patterns. Human Brain Mapping, 34, 2624-2634. 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
Just, M. A. (2008). What brain imaging can tell us about embodied meaning. In M. de Vega, A. Glenberg, & A. Graesser (Eds.), Symbols and Embodiment: Debates on meaning and cognition (pp. 75-84). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 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 .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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Suicide
Segreti, A. M., Chase, H. W., Just, M. A., Brent, D., & Pan, L. (2019). Cortical thickness and volume reductions in young adults with current suicidal ideation. Journal of Affective Disorders, 245, 126-129. Download .pdf
Chase, H. W., Segreti, A., Keller, T. A., Cherkassky, V. L., Just, M. A., Pan, L. A. & Brent, D. A. (2017). Alterations of functional connectivity and intrinsic activity within the cingulate cortex of suicidal ideators. Journal of Affective Disorders, 212, 78-85. Download .pdf
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Visuospatial
Keller, T. A., & Just, M. A. (2016). Structural and functional neuroplasticity in human learning of spatial routes. NeuroImage, 125, 256-266. Download .pdf
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). Interactions 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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