Cognitive Neuroscience
 
Research Description

The Olson lab does research on memory and high level vision. These two functions are especially intertwined in studies of visual short-term memory. Techniques used: psychophysics, fMRI, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and patient testing.


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Publications

  • Berryhill, M.E., Drowos, D., & Olson, I.R. Parietal cortex damage does not impair
    associative memory. Cognitive Neuropsychology, in press.

  • Berryhill, M.E., & Olson, I.R. The representation of object distance: Evidence from neuroimaging and neuropsychology. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, in press.

  • Drowos, D., Berryhill, M.E., André, J., & Olson, I.R. True memory, false memory and the subjective recollection deficits after focal bilateral parietal lobe lesions. Neuropsychology, in press

  • Olson, I.R, Berryhill, M.E., Drowos, D.B., Brown, L., & Chatterjee, A. Savant syndrome with episodic amnesia. Neurocase, in press.

  • Simons, J., Peers, P., Mazuz, Y., Berryhill, M.E. & Olson, I.R. (2009). Dissociation between memory accuracy and memory confidence following bilateral parietal lesions. Cerebral Cortex. pdf

  • Berryhill, M.E., Fendrich, R. & Olson, I.R. (2009). Impaired Distance Perception and Size Constancy Following Bilateral Occipitoparietal Damage. Experimental Brain Research. pdf

  • Olson, I.R. & Berryhill, M.E. (2008-in press). Some Surprising Findings on the Involvement of the Parietal Lobe in Human Memory. Special issue of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory on the parietal lobe and memory. pdf
  • Olson, I.R. Moore, K., Drowos, D.B.(2008). The contents of visual working memory are only partly under volitional control but are under attentional control. Memory & Cognition, 36, 1360-1369. pdf
  • Cabeza, R., Ciaremelli, E., Olson, I.R., Moscovitch, M.M. (2008). Parietal cortex and episodic memory: an attentional account. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 9, 613-625. pdf
  • Toderov, A. & Olson, I.R. (2008). Robust learning of affective trait associations with faces when the hippocampus is damaged, but not when the amygdala and temporal pole are damaged. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 3. 195-203. pdf
  • Berryhill, M.E. & Olson, I.R. (2008). Is the posterior parietal lobe involved in working memory retrieval? Evidence from patients with bilateral parietal lobe damage.  Neuropsychologia, 46, 1775-1786. pdf
  • Berryhill, M.E., Mazuz, Y.M. & Olson, I.R. (2008). Serial reaction time performance following right parietal lobe damage. Journal of Neuropsychology, 2, 509-514.pdf
  • Berryhill, M.E., & Olson, I.R. (2008). The right parietal lobe is critical for working memory. Neuropsychologia, 46, 1767-1774. Special issue on the parietal lobe and memory. pdf
  • Olson, I.R., Ezzyat, Y. (2008). The medial temporal lobe and visual working memory: comparisons across tasks, delays, and visual similarity . Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. pdf
  • Thomas, A., Lawler, K., Olson, I.R. & Aguirre, G.K. (2008). The Philadelphia face perception battery. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 23: 175-187. pdf
  • Berryhill, M.E., Phuong, L., Picasso, L., Cabeza, R., & Olson, I.R. (2007). Parietal lobe and episodic memory: bilateral damage causes impaired free recall of autobiographical memory. Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 14415-14423.pdf
  • Olson, I.R., Plotzker, A., Ezzyat, Y. (2007). The Enigmatic temporal pole: a review of findings on social and emotional processing. Brain. pdf
  • Olson, I.R., Page, K., Moore, K.S., Chatterjee, A., Verfaellie, M. (2006). Working memory for conjunctions relies on the medial temporal lobe. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(17): 4596-4601. pdf

  • Olson, I.R., Moore, K.S., Stark, M., Chatterjee, A. (2006). Visual working memory is impaired when the medial temporal lobe is damaged. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(7): 1-11. pdf
  • Yi, D., Chun, M.M., Olson, I.R. (2006). Shape-specific perceptual learning in a figure-ground segregation task. Vision Research. pdf
  • Olson, I.R., Rao, H., Moore, K.S., Wang, J.J., Detre, J. & Aguirre, G.K. (2006). Using perfusion fMRI to measure continuous changes in neural activity with learning. Brain and Cognition, 60(3): 262-271. pdf
  • Olson, I.R., Jiang, Y. & Moore, K.S. (2005). Associative learning improves visual working memory performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31(5): 889-900. pdf

  • Olson, I.R. & Marshuetz, C. (2005). Remembering "What" Brings Along "Where" in visual working memory. Perception & Psychophysics, 67(2): 185-194. pdf
  • Olson, I.R. & Marshuetz, C. (2005) Facial attractiveness is appraised in a glance. Emotion, 5(4): 498-502. pdf
  • Olson, I.R. & Jiang, Y. (2004). Visual short-term memory is not improved by training. Memory & Cognition, 32(8): 1326-1332. pdf
  • Hampson, M., Olson, I.R., Leung, H-C. & Gore, J.C. (2004). Changes in functional connectivity of human MT/v5 with visual motion input. Neuroreport, 15(8): 1315-1319. pdf

  • Jiang, Y., Chun, M.M., & Olson, I.R. (2004). Perceptual Grouping in Change Detection. Perception & Psychophysics, 66(3): 446-453. pdf

  • Ross, D.A., Olson, I.R., Marks, L.E., & Gore, J.C. (2004). A nonmusical paradigm for identifying absolute pitch possessors. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116(3): 1793-1799. pdf

  • Olson, I.R., Zhang, J.X., Mitchell, K.J., Johnson, M.K., Bloise, S.M., Higgins, J.A. (2004). Preserved spatial memory over brief intervals in older adults. Psychology and Aging, 19: 310-317. pdf
  • Olson, I.R., Gatenby, J.C., Leung, H-C., Scudlarski, P., & Gore, J.C. (2003). Neuronal representations
    of occluded objects in the human brain. Neuropsychologia, 42: 95-104.pdf
  • Ross, D.A., Olson, I.R., & Gore, J.C. (2003). Absolute pitch does not depend on early training. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 999: 522-526. pdf

  • Ross, D.A., Olson, I.R., & Gore, J.C. (2003). Cortical plasticity in an early blind musician: an fMRI study. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 21(7): 821-828. pdf
  • Donegan, N.H., Stanislow, C.A., Blumberg, H.P, Fulbright, R.K., Lacadie, C., Skudlarski, P, Gore, J.C, Olson, I.R., McGlashan, T.H., Wexler, B.E. (2003). Amygdala hyperreactivity in borderline personality disorder: implications for emotional dysregulation. Biological Psychiatry, 54: 1284-1293. pdf
  • Olson, I.R. & Jiang, Y. (2002). Is visual short term memory object based? Rejection of the "strong-object" hypothesis. Perception & Psychophysics, 64(7): 1055-1067. pdf
  • Olson, I.R., Gatenby, J.C., & Gore, J.C. (2002). A comparison of bound and unbound audio-visual information processing in the human cerebral cortex. Cognitive Brain Research, 14: 129-138. pdf
  • Olson, I.R., & Chun, M.M. (2001). Perceptual constraints on implicit learning of spatial context. Visual Cognition, 9: 273-302. pdf

  • Olson, I.R., Chun, M.M, & Anderson, A.K. (2001) Effects of phonological length on the attentional blink. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27: 1116-1123. pdf
  • Olson, I.R., Chun, M.M, & Allison, T. (2001). Contextual guidance of attention: Human intracranial event-related potential evidence for feedback modulation in anatomically early, temporally late stages of visual processing, Brain, 124: 1417-1425. pdf
  • Olson, I.R., & Chun, M.M. (2001). Perceptual constraints on implicit learning of spatial context. Visual Cognition, 9: 273-302. pdf
  • Olson, I.R. & Chun, M.C. (2001). Temporal contextual cuing of visual attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27: 1299-1313. pdf
  • Jiang, Y., Olson, I.R. & Chun, M.M. (2000). Organization of visual short term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26(3): 683-702. pdf