Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

Refereed Journal Articles and Conference Proceedings

Bocincova, A., van Lamsweerde, A.E., Johnson, J.S. (in press). Assessing the evidence for a cue-induced trade-off between capacity and precision in visual working memory using mixture modeling and Bayesian model comparison. Visual Cognition.

van Lamsweerde, A.E., Johnson, J.S. (in press). Assessing the effect of early visual cortex transcranial magnetic stimulation on working memory consolidation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Emrich, S.J., Johnson, J.S., Sutterer, D.W., Postle, B.R. (2017). Comparing the effects of 10-Hz rTMS on tasks of visual short-term memory and attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(2), 298-309.

Johnson, J.S., Spencer, J.P. (2016). Testing a dynamic field account of interactions between spatial attention and spatial working memory. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, .78(4), 1043-63.

van Lamsweerde, A.E., Beck, M.R., Johnson, J.S (2016). Visual working memory organization is subject to top-down control. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23(4), 1181-89.

Stout, D.M., Shackman, A.J., Johnson, J.S., Larson, C.L. (2015). Worry is associated with impaired gating of threat from working memory. Emotion, 15(1), 6-11.

Kundu, B.K., Johnson, J.S., Postle, B.R. (2014). Pre-stimulation phase predicts the TMS-evoked response. Journal of Neurophysiology, 112(8), 1885-1893.

Kundu, B.K., Johnson, J.S., Postle, B.R. (2014). Trait-like differences in underlying oscillatory state predict individual differences in the TMS-evoked response. Brain Stimulation, 7(2), 234-242.

Johnson, J.S., Simmering, V.R., Buss, A.T. (2014). Beyond slots and resources: Grounding cognitive concepts in neural dynamics. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 76(6), 1630-1654.

Johnson, J.S., Kundu, B., Casali, A., Postle, B.R. (2012). Task-dependent changes in cortical excitability and effective connectivity: A combined TMS-EEG study. Journal of Neurophysiology, 107, 2383-2392.

Johnson, J.S., Sutterer, D.W., Acheson, D.J., Lewis-Peacock, J.A., Postle, B.R. (2011). Increased alpha-band power during the retention of shapes and shape-location associations in visual short-term memory. Frontiers in Psychology, 2:128. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00128

*Hamidi, M., *Johnson, J.S., Feredoes, E., & Postle, B.R. (2011). Does high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation produce residual and/or cumulative effects within an experimental session? Brain Topography, 23, 355-67. *co-first authors

Lipinski, J., Simmering, V.R., Johnson, J.S., & Spencer, J.P. (2010). The role of experience in location estimation: Target distributions shift location memory biases. Cognition, 115, 147-153.

Johnson, J.S., Hamidi, M., & Postle, B.R. (2010). Using EEG to explore how rTMS produces its effects on behavior. Brain Topography, 22, 281-293.

Johnson, J.S., Spencer, J.P., & Schöner, G. (2009). A layered neural architecture for the consolidation, maintenance, and updating of representations in visual working memory. Brain Research, 1299, 17-32.

Johnson, J.S., Spencer, J.P., Luck, S.J, & Schöner, G. (2009). A dynamic neural field model of visual working memory and change detection. Psychological Science, 20, 568-577.

Simmering, V.R., Johnson, J.S., Patterson, C.M., Spencer, J.P. (2009).When objects disintegrate: Young children do not bind features in visual working memory. The proceedings of the Thirty-first Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Johnson, J.S., Hollingworth, A., & Luck, S.J. (2008). The role of attention in binding features in visual short-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 41-55.

Johnson, J.S., Spencer, J.P., & Schöner, G. (2008). Moving to higher ground: The dynamic field theory and the dynamics of visual cognition. New Ideas in Psychology, 26, 227-251.

Johnson, J.S., Woodman, G.F., Braun, E., & Luck, S.J. (2007). Implicit memory influences the allocation of attention in visual cortex. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 834-839.

Johnson, J.S., Liu, L., Thomas, G., Spencer, J.P. (2007). Calibration algorithm for eye tracking with unrestricted head movement. Behavior Research Methods, 39, 123-132.

Johnson, J.S., Spencer, J.P., & Schöner, G. (2006) A dynamic neural field theory of multi-item visual working memory and change detection. In R. Sun (Ed.) The proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 399-404): Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Miller, M.D., & Johnson, J.S. (2004). Phonological and lexical-semantic short-term memory and their relationship to sentence production in older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 11, 395-415.

Book Chapters

Johnson, J.S., Simmering, V.R. (in press). Integrating perception and working memory in a three-layer dynamic field architecture. In J.P. Spencer & Schöner, G. (Eds.), Dynamic Thinking: A Primer on Dynamic Field Theory. New York: Oxford University Press.

Zhang, W., Johnson, J. S., Woodman, G. F., & Luck, S. J. (2012). Features and conjunctions in visual working memory. In J. M. Wolfe & L. C. Robertson (Eds.), From Perception to Consciousness: Searching with Anne Treisman. New York: Oxford University Press.

Spencer, J.P., Perone, S., & Johnson, J.S. (2009). The Dynamic Field Theory and embodied cognitive dynamics. In Spencer, J.P., Thomas, M.S., & McClelland, J.L. (Eds.) Toward a New Grand Theory of Development? Connectionism and Dynamic Systems Theory Re-Considered. New York: Oxford University Press.