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Alison R. Preston is a researcher affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their work primarily resides in the field of Neuroscience, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The research topics covered by Alison R. Preston span multiple areas related to brain function and behavior. These topics include:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research

Their publication record contains numerous articles across several respected journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Nature Communications

Among recent papers, Alison R. Preston collaborated on works addressing concept learning, memory reactivation, and semantic knowledge representation. Selected papers are:

  • Ventromedial prefrontal cortex compression during concept learning, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Memory Reactivation during Learning Simultaneously Promotes Dentate Gyrus/CA2,3 Pattern Differentiation and CA1 Memory Integration, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Representations of common event structure in medial temporal lobe and frontoparietal cortex support efficient inference, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Developmental differences in memory reactivation relate to encoding and inference in the human brain, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Semantic Knowledge of Famous People and Places Is Represented in Hippocampus and Distinct Cortical Networks, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience

Alison R. Preston collaborates regularly with several coauthors, highlighting ongoing research partnerships. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Neal W Morton
  • Margaret L. Schlichting
  • Robert J. Molitor
  • Michael L. Mack
  • Hannah E. Roome

The scientist's research integrates multiple subfields of neuroscience and cognitive psychology to explore mechanisms of memory, learning, and brain function across development and adulthood. The body of work reflects consistent contributions to understanding the neural bases of complex cognitive processes associated with memory integration, concept learning, and event representation within key brain regions.

Best Publications

  • Interplay of hippocampus and prefrontal cortex in memory

    Alison R. Preston;Howard Eichenbaum

  • Hippocampal and ventral medial prefrontal activation during retrieval-mediated learning supports novel inference

    Dagmar Zeithamova;April L. Dominick;Alison R. Preston

  • Memory integration: neural mechanisms and implications for behavior

    Margaret L Schlichting;Alison R Preston

  • Learning-related representational changes reveal dissociable integration and separation signatures in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex

    Margaret L. Schlichting;Jeanette A. Mumford;Alison R. Preston

  • Quantitative Comparison of 21 Protocols for Labeling Hippocampal Subfields and Parahippocampal Subregions in In Vivo MRI: Towards a Harmonized Segmentation Protocol

    Paul A. Yushkevich;Robert S C Amaral;Jean C. Augustinack;Andrew R. Bender

  • Hippocampal contribution to the novel use of relational information in declarative memory.

    Alison R. Preston;Yael Shrager;Nicole M. Dudukovic;John D.E. Gabrieli

  • The hippocampus and inferential reasoning: building memories to navigate future decisions

    Dagmar Zeithamova;Margaret L. Schlichting;Alison R. Preston

  • Flexible Memories: Differential Roles for Medial Temporal Lobe and Prefrontal Cortex in Cross-Episode Binding

    Dagmar Zeithamova;Alison R. Preston

  • Decoding the Brain’s Algorithm for Categorization from Its Neural Implementation

    Michael L. Mack;Alison R. Preston;Bradley C. Love

  • Functional Heterogeneity in Posterior Parietal Cortex Across Attention and Episodic Memory Retrieval

    J. Benjamin Hutchinson;Melina R. Uncapher;Kevin S. Weiner;David W. Bressler

  • Dynamic updating of hippocampal object representations reflects new conceptual knowledge.

    Michael L. Mack;Bradley C. Love;Bradley C. Love;Alison R. Preston

  • Reward modulation of hippocampal subfield activation during successful associative encoding and retrieval

    Sasha M. Wolosin;Dagmar Zeithamova;Alison R. Preston

  • CA1 subfield contributions to memory integration and inference.

    Margaret L. Schlichting;Dagmar Zeithamova;Alison R. Preston

  • Dissociation between Explicit Memory and Configural Memory in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe

    Alison R. Preston;John D. E. Gabrieli

  • Associative retrieval processes in the human medial temporal lobe: hippocampal retrieval success and CA1 mismatch detection.

    Janice Chen;Rosanna K. Olsen;Alison R. Preston;Gary H. Glover

  • Learning the Exception to the Rule: Model-Based fMRI Reveals Specialized Representations for Surprising Category Members

    Tyler Davis;Bradley C. Love;Alison R. Preston

  • High-resolution fmri of content-sensitive subsequent memory responses in human medial temporal lobe

    Alison R. Preston;Aaron M. Bornstein;J. Benjamin Hutchinson;Meghan E. Gaare

  • Hippocampal structure predicts statistical learning and associative inference abilities during development

    Margaret L. Schlichting;Katharine F. Guarino;Anna C. Schapiro;Nicholas B. Turk-Browne

  • Building concepts one episode at a time: The hippocampus and concept formation.

    Michael L. Mack;Bradley C. Love;Bradley C. Love;Alison R. Preston

  • Awareness in classical differential eyeblink conditioning in young and aging humans

    M. G. Knuttinen;J. M. Power;A. R. Preston;John F Disterhoft

Frequent Co-Authors

Bradley C. Love
Bradley C. Love University College London
Anthony D. Wagner
Anthony D. Wagner Stanford University
Gary H. Glover
Gary H. Glover Stanford University
Charan Ranganath
Charan Ranganath University of California, Davis
John F. Disterhoft
John F. Disterhoft Northwestern University
Rosanna K. Olsen
Rosanna K. Olsen University of Toronto
Howard Eichenbaum
Howard Eichenbaum Boston University
Lila Davachi
Lila Davachi Columbia University
Diego A. Pizzagalli
Diego A. Pizzagalli Harvard University

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