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Overview

Barbara J. Knowlton is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience and psychology, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these fields, subfields of study that have been central to their work are:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Barbara J. Knowlton's research topics cover a broad range of subjects primarily related to memory and neural mechanisms. These topics include:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Cognitive Functions and Memory
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Their recent papers illustrate the diversity and focus of their research efforts. These include:

  • "Memory and Reward-Based Learning: A Value-Directed Remembering Perspective," 2021, published in Annual Review of Psychology
  • "Stimulation of the right entorhinal white matter enhances visual memory encoding in humans," 2020, published in Brain Stimulation
  • "Dynamic neural representations of memory and space during human ambulatory navigation," 2023, published in Nature Communications
  • "Interleaved practice benefits implicit sequence learning and transfer," 2021, published in Memory & Cognition
  • "Framing effects in value-directed remembering," 2022, published in Memory & Cognition

Their frequent co-authors demonstrate collaborative ties within the academic community and include:

  • Alan D. Castel
  • Julia M. Schorn
  • Dillon H. Murphy
  • Tara K. Patterson
  • Zahra M. Aghajan

Barbara J. Knowlton has published multiple articles in various academic venues. The most common publication venues include:

  • Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition
  • Memory & Cognition
  • Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Annual Review of Psychology

Best Publications

  • The role of the basal ganglia in habit formation

    Henry H. Yin;Barbara J. Knowlton

  • A Neostriatal Habit Learning System in Humans

    Barbara J. Knowlton;Jennifer A. Mangels;Larry R. Squire

  • Learning and memory functions of the Basal Ganglia.

    Mark G. Packard;Barbara J. Knowlton

  • The Structure and Organization of Memory

    Larry R. Squire;B. Knowlton;Gail Musen

  • Lesions of dorsolateral striatum preserve outcome expectancy but disrupt habit formation in instrumental learning.

    Henry H. Yin;Barbara J. Knowlton;Bernard W. Balleine

  • The role of the dorsomedial striatum in instrumental conditioning.

    Henry H. Yin;Sean B. Ostlund;Barbara J. Knowlton;Bernard W. Balleine

  • Remembering episodes: a selective role for the hippocampus during retrieval

    Laura L. Eldridge;Barbara J. Knowlton;Christopher S. Furmanski;Susan Y. Bookheimer

  • Modulation of competing memory systems by distraction

    Karin Foerde;Barbara J. Knowlton;Russell A. Poldrack

  • Probabilistic classification learning in amnesia.

    Barbara J. Knowlton;Larry R. Squire;Mark A. Gluck

  • The Neural Correlates of Motor Skill Automaticity

    Russell A. Poldrack;Fred W. Sabb;Karin Foerde;Sabrina M. Tom

  • A System for Relational Reasoning in Human Prefrontal Cortex

    James A. Waltz;Barbara J. Knowlton;Keith J. Holyoak;Kyle B. Boone

  • The learning of categories: parallel brain systems for item memory and category knowledge

    Barbara J. Knowlton;Larry R. Squire

  • Watching social interactions produces dorsomedial prefrontal and medial parietal BOLD fMRI signal increases compared to a resting baseline

    Marco Iacoboni;Matthew D Lieberman;Barbara J Knowlton;Istvan Molnar-Szakacs

  • Inactivation of dorsolateral striatum enhances sensitivity to changes in the action–outcome contingency in instrumental conditioning

    Henry H. Yin;Barbara J. Knowlton;Bernard W. Balleine

  • Artificial grammar learning depends on implicit acquisition of both abstract and exemplar-specific information.

    Barbara J. Knowlton;Larry R. Squire

  • Step training with body weight support: effect of treadmill speed and practice paradigms on poststroke locomotor recovery.

    Katherine J. Sullivan;Barbara J. Knowlton;Bruce H. Dobkin

  • Memory Enhancement and Deep-Brain Stimulation of the Entorhinal Area

    Nanthia Suthana;Zulfi Haneef;John Stern;Roy Mukamel

  • Blockade of NMDA receptors in the dorsomedial striatum prevents action-outcome learning in instrumental conditioning.

    Henry H. Yin;Barbara J. Knowlton;Bernard W. Balleine

  • Memory, hippocampus, and brain systems.

    Larry R. Squire;Barbara J. Knowlton

  • Intact Artificial Grammar Learning in Amnesia: Dissociation of Classification Learning and Explicit Memory for Specific Instances

    Barbara J. Knowlton;Seth J. Ramus;Larry R. Squire

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Y. Bookheimer
Susan Y. Bookheimer University of California, Los Angeles
Larry R. Squire
Larry R. Squire University of California, San Diego
Keith J. Holyoak
Keith J. Holyoak University of California, Los Angeles
Russell A. Poldrack
Russell A. Poldrack Stanford University
Robert M. Bilder
Robert M. Bilder University of California, Los Angeles
Robert F. Asarnow
Robert F. Asarnow University of California, Los Angeles
Henry H. Yin
Henry H. Yin Duke University
Nanthia Suthana
Nanthia Suthana University of California, Los Angeles
Fred W. Sabb
Fred W. Sabb University of Oregon
Keith H. Nuechterlein
Keith H. Nuechterlein University of California, Los Angeles

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