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Overview

Cameron S. Carter is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience, Medicine, and Psychology, with a significant focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics including schizophrenia research and treatment, functional brain connectivity studies, and mental health research topics. Additional topics in their portfolio involve neural and behavioral psychology studies, bipolar disorder and treatment, as well as neural dynamics and brain function.

Frequent co-authors in Carter's body of work include:

  • J. Daniel Ragland
  • Deanna M. Barch
  • Angus W. MacDonald
  • Tyler A. Lesh
  • Tara A. Niendam

They have published extensively in several key venues such as:

  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Biological Psychiatry

Selected recent papers exemplify the topics explored and venues chosen for dissemination:

  • Using prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to enhance proactive cognitive control in schizophrenia, 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Using Computational Modeling to Capture Schizophrenia-Specific Reinforcement Learning Differences and Their Implications on Patient Classification, 2021, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Reliability and Replicability of Implicit and Explicit Reinforcement Learning Paradigms in People With Psychotic Disorders, 2020, Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Managing EEG studies: How to prepare and what to do once data collection has begun, 2023, Psychophysiology
  • Both unmedicated and medicated individuals with schizophrenia show impairments across a wide array of cognitive and reinforcement learning tasks, 2020, Psychological Medicine

Best Publications

  • Conflict monitoring and cognitive control.

    Matthew M. Botvinick;Todd S. Braver;Deanna M. Barch;Cameron S. Carter

  • Dissociating the role of the dorsolateral prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex in cognitive control.

    Angus W. MacDonald;Jonathan D. Cohen;V. Andrew Stenger;Cameron S. Carter

  • Conflict monitoring and anterior cingulate cortex: an update

    Matthew M. Botvinick;Jonathan D. Cohen;Cameron S. Carter

  • Anterior cingulate cortex, error detection, and the online monitoring of performance

    Cameron S. Carter;Cameron S. Carter;Todd S. Braver;Todd S. Braver;M Deanna;M Deanna;Matthew M. Botvinick;Matthew M. Botvinick

  • Anterior cingulate conflict monitoring and adjustments in control

    John G. Kerns;John G. Kerns;Jonathan D. Cohen;Jonathan D. Cohen;Angus W. MacDonald;Raymond Y. Cho;Raymond Y. Cho

  • Conflict monitoring versus selection-for-action in anterior cingulate cortex

    Matthew Botvinick;Leigh E. Nystrom;Kate Fissell;Cameron S. Carter

  • Meta-analytic evidence for a superordinate cognitive control network subserving diverse executive functions

    Tara A. Niendam;Angela R. Laird;Kimberly L. Ray;Y. Monica Dean

  • Neurocognitive mechanisms of cognitive control: the role of prefrontal cortex in action selection, response inhibition, performance monitoring, and reward-based learning.

    K. Richard Ridderinkhof;Wery P.M. van den Wildenberg;Wery P.M. van den Wildenberg;Sidney J. Segalowitz;Cameron S. Carter

  • The anterior cingulate as a conflict monitor: fMRI and ERP studies.

    Vincent van Veen;Cameron S. Carter

  • The Timing of Action-Monitoring Processes in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex

    Vincent Van Veen;Cameron S. Carter

  • Cognitive dysfunction in psychiatric disorders: characteristics, causes and the quest for improved therapy

    Mark J. Millan;Yves Agid;Martin Brüne;Edward T. Bullmore

  • Meta-analysis of 41 Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Executive Function in Schizophrenia

    Michael J. Minzenberg;Angela R. Laird;Sarah Thelen;Cameron S. Carter

  • Anterior cingulate cortex and conflict detection: an update of theory and data.

    Cameron S. Carter;Vincent van Veen

  • Parsing executive processes: strategic vs. evaluative functions of the anterior cingulate cortex.

    Cameron S. Carter;Angus M. Macdonald;Matthew Botvinick;Laura L. Ross

  • Can't shake that feeling: event-related fMRI assessment of sustained amygdala activity in response to emotional information in depressed individuals.

    Greg J Siegle;Greg J Siegle;Stuart R Steinhauer;Stuart R Steinhauer;Michael E Thase;V.Andrew Stenger

  • Increased amygdala and decreased dorsolateral prefrontal BOLD responses in unipolar depression: related and independent features.

    Greg J. Siegle;Wesley Thompson;Cameron S. Carter;Stuart R. Steinhauer

  • Cognitive Deficits in Unaffected First-Degree Relatives of Schizophrenia Patients: A Meta-analytic Review of Putative Endophenotypes

    Beth E. Snitz;Angus W. MacDonald;Cameron S. Carter;Cameron S. Carter

  • Modafinil: A Review of Neurochemical Actions and Effects on Cognition

    Michael J Minzenberg;Cameron S Carter

  • Anterior cingulate cortex, conflict monitoring, and levels of processing.

    Vincent van Veen;Jonathan D. Cohen;Jonathan D. Cohen;Matthew M. Botvinick;Matthew M. Botvinick;V.Andrew Stenger

  • Selective Deficits in Prefrontal Cortex Function in Medication-Naive Patients With Schizophrenia

    M Deanna;Cameron S. Carter;Todd S. Braver;Fred W. Sabb

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan D. Cohen
Jonathan D. Cohen Princeton University
J. Daniel Ragland
J. Daniel Ragland University of California, Davis
Angus W. MacDonald
Angus W. MacDonald University of Minnesota
Deanna M. Barch
Deanna M. Barch Washington University in St. Louis
Michael J. Minzenberg
Michael J. Minzenberg University of California, Los Angeles
Steven M. Silverstein
Steven M. Silverstein University of Rochester Medical Center
Marjorie Solomon
Marjorie Solomon University of California, Davis
James M. Gold
James M. Gold University of Maryland, Baltimore
Richard J. Maddock
Richard J. Maddock University of California, Davis
Charan Ranganath
Charan Ranganath University of California, Davis

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