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Overview

Bradley R. Postle is a researcher affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their primary area of research is Neuroscience, with a strong focus on Cognitive Neuroscience. Over their career, they have contributed extensively to the understanding of neural dynamics, brain function, and cognitive processes related to memory and perception.

The subfields in which Postle has published include:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
  • Social Psychology

Their research touches on a variety of main topics, including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Academic Writing and Publishing

Postle has a significant number of publications in various academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eNeuro
  • PLoS Biology
  • Visual Cognition

Some of Postle's recent papers reflect a focus on visual working memory, neural representations, and metacognition. Selected recent works include:

  • "Gender (Im)balance in Citation Practices in Cognitive Neuroscience," 2020, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • "Different states of priority recruit different neural representations in visual working memory," 2020, PLoS Biology
  • "Perceptual metacognition of human faces is causally supported by function of the lateral prefrontal cortex," 2020, Communications Biology
  • "Priority-based transformations of stimulus representation in visual working memory," 2022, PLoS Computational Biology
  • "Tracking stimulus representation across a 2-back visual working memory task," 2020, Royal Society Open Science

Throughout their research career, Postle has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Jacqueline M. Fulvio
  • Qing Yu
  • Chunyue Teng
  • Jason Samaha
  • Quan Wan

Best Publications

  • The Cognitive Neuroscience of Working Memory

    Mark D'Esposito;Bradley R Postle

  • Working Memory as an Emergent Property of the Mind and Brain

    Bradley R. Postle

  • Prefrontal cortical contributions to working memory: evidence from event-related fMRI studies

    Mark D'Esposito;Bradley R. Postle;Bart Rypma

  • Maintenance versus manipulation of information held in working memory: an event-related fMRI study.

    Mark D'Esposito;B. R. Postle;D. Ballard;J. Lease

  • The neural correlates of dreaming

    Francesca Siclari;Benjamin Baird;Lampros Perogamvros;Lampros Perogamvros;Lampros Perogamvros;Giulio Bernardi;Giulio Bernardi;Giulio Bernardi

  • Superior parietal cortex is critical for the manipulation of information in working memory.

    Michael Koenigs;Aron K. Barbey;Aron K. Barbey;Bradley R. Postle;Jordan Grafman

  • Reactivation of latent working memories with transcranial magnetic stimulation

    Nathan S. Rose;Nathan S. Rose;Joshua J. LaRocque;Adam C. Riggall;Olivia Gosseries;Olivia Gosseries

  • Are the Neural Correlates of Consciousness in the Front or in the Back of the Cerebral Cortex? Clinical and Neuroimaging Evidence.

    Melanie Boly;Marcello Massimini;Naotsugu Tsuchiya;Bradley R. Postle

  • Neural evidence for a distinction between short-term memory and the focus of attention

    Jarrod A. Lewis-Peacock;Andrew T. Drysdale;Klaus Oberauer;Bradley R. Postle

  • Functional neuroanatomical double dissociation of mnemonic and executive control processes contributing to working memory performance.

    Bradley R. Postle;Jeffrey S. Berger;Mark D’Esposito

  • The Speed of Alpha-Band Oscillations Predicts the Temporal Resolution of Visual Perception

    Jason Samaha;Bradley R. Postle

  • The dependence of span and delayed-response performance on prefrontal cortex

    Mark D’Esposito;Bradley R Postle

  • The Relationship between Working Memory Storage and Elevated Activity as Measured with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Adam C. Riggall;Bradley R. Postle

  • The neural substrate and temporal dynamics of interference effects in working memory as revealed by event-related functional MRI

    Mark D’Esposito;Bradley R. Postle;John Jonides;Edward E. Smith

  • Distributed Patterns of Activity in Sensory Cortex Reflect the Precision of Multiple Items Maintained in Visual Short-Term Memory

    Stephen M. Emrich;Adam C. Riggall;Joshua J. LaRocque;Bradley R. Postle

  • ''What''—Then—''Where'' in Visual Working Memory: An Event-Related fMRI Study

    Bradley R. Postle;Mark D'esposito

  • Increased Alpha-Band Power during the Retention of Shapes and Shape-Location Associations in Visual Short-Term Memory.

    Jeffrey S. Johnson;David W. Sutterer;Daniel J. Acheson;Jarrod A. Lewis-Peacock

  • Decoding attended information in short-term memory: An eeg study

    Joshua J. LaRocque;Jarrod A. Lewis-Peacock;Andrew T. Drysdale;Klaus Oberauer

  • Top-down control of the phase of alpha-band oscillations as a mechanism for temporal prediction

    Jason Samaha;Phoebe Bauer;Sawyer Cimaroli;Bradley R. Postle

  • An fMRI investigation of cortical contributions to spatial and nonspatial visual working memory.

    B.R. Postle;C.E. Stern;C.E. Stern;B.R. Rosen;S. Corkin

Frequent Co-Authors

Giulio Tononi
Giulio Tononi University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mark D'Esposito
Mark D'Esposito University of California, Berkeley
Olivia Gosseries
Olivia Gosseries University of Liège
Mélanie Boly
Mélanie Boly University of Wisconsin–Madison
Marcello Massimini
Marcello Massimini University of Milan
Richard J. Davidson
Richard J. Davidson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Fabio Ferrarelli
Fabio Ferrarelli University of Pittsburgh
Aron K. Barbey
Aron K. Barbey University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Maryellen C. MacDonald
Maryellen C. MacDonald University of Wisconsin–Madison

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