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8683
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3685

Overview

Caterina Gratton is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with a notable focus on cognitive neuroscience. The scientist's work also intersects with radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry, mental health, and neurology.

Gratton's research contributions cover a range of topics including functional brain connectivity studies, neural dynamics and brain function, and advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications. Additional areas of focus include mental health research topics, advanced MRI techniques and applications, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Frequent publication venues for Gratton's work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), NeuroImage, Network Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry, and Nature. These journals reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the scientist's research output.

The scientist has collaborated extensively with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including Ally Dworetsky, Steven E. Petersen, Evan M. Gordon, Derek M. Smith, and Timothy O. Laumann.

Some notable recent papers by Caterina Gratton include:

  • A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex (2023, Nature)
  • Brain-behavior correlations: Two paths toward reliability (2022, Neuron)
  • Default-mode network streams for coupling to language and control systems (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain (2024, Nature)
  • Removal of high frequency contamination from motion estimates in single-band fMRI saves data without biasing functional connectivity (2020, NeuroImage)

Best Publications

  • Precision Functional Mapping of Individual Human Brains

    Evan M. Gordon;Timothy O. Laumann;Adrian W. Gilmore;Adrian W. Gilmore;Dillan J. Newbold

  • Functional Brain Networks Are Dominated by Stable Group and Individual Factors, Not Cognitive or Daily Variation

    Caterina Gratton;Timothy O. Laumann;Ashley N. Nielsen;Deanna J. Greene

  • A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex

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  • On the Stability of BOLD fMRI Correlations

    Timothy O. Laumann;Abraham Z. Snyder;Anish Mitra;Evan M. Gordon

  • Focal brain lesions to critical locations cause widespread disruption of the modular organization of the brain

    Caterina Gratton;Emi M. Nomura;Fernando Pérez;Mark D'Esposito

  • Spatial and Temporal Organization of the Individual Human Cerebellum

    Scott Marek;Joshua S. Siegel;Evan M. Gordon;Evan M. Gordon;Ryan V. Raut

  • Brain-behavior correlations: Two paths toward reliability

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  • Correction of respiratory artifacts in MRI head motion estimates

    Damien A. Fair;Oscar Miranda-Dominguez;Abraham Z. Snyder;Anders Perrone

  • A set of functionally-defined brain regions with improved representation of the subcortex and cerebellum

    Benjamin A. Seitzman;Caterina Gratton;Scott Marek;Ryan V. Raut

  • Trait-like variants in human functional brain networks.

    Benjamin A. Seitzman;Caterina Gratton;Caterina Gratton;Timothy O. Laumann;Evan M. Gordon;Evan M. Gordon

  • Integrative and Network-Specific Connectivity of the Basal Ganglia and Thalamus Defined in Individuals.

    Deanna J. Greene;Scott Marek;Evan M. Gordon;Evan M. Gordon;Joshua S. Siegel

  • Defining Individual-Specific Functional Neuroanatomy for Precision Psychiatry.

    Caterina Gratton;Brian T. Kraus;Deanna J. Greene;Evan M. Gordon

  • Double dissociation of two cognitive control networks in patients with focal brain lesions

    Emi M. Nomura;Caterina Gratton;Renee M. Visser;Andrew Kayser

  • Control networks and hubs

    Caterina Gratton;Haoxin Sun;Steven E. Petersen

  • Default-mode network streams for coupling to language and control systems

    Evan M. Gordon;Evan M. Gordon;Evan M. Gordon;Timothy O. Laumann;Scott Marek;Ryan V. Raut

  • Functional brain network modularity predicts response to cognitive training after brain injury

    Katelyn L. Arnemann;Katelyn L. Arnemann;Katelyn L. Arnemann;Anthony J.-W. Chen;Tatjana Novakovic-Agopian;Caterina Gratton;Caterina Gratton

  • Evidence for Two Independent Factors that Modify Brain Networks to Meet Task Goals

    Caterina Gratton;Timothy O. Laumann;Evan M. Gordon;Babatunde Adeyemo

  • Three Distinct Sets of Connector Hubs Integrate Human Brain Function

    Evan M. Gordon;Evan M. Gordon;Charles J. Lynch;Charles J. Lynch;Caterina Gratton;Timothy O. Laumann

  • The effect of theta-burst TMS on cognitive control networks measured with resting state fMRI.

    Caterina Gratton;Taraz G. Lee;Taraz G. Lee;Emi M. Nomura;Mark D'Esposito

  • Role of frontal and parietal cortices in the control of bottom-up and top-down attention in humans

    Ling Li;Caterina Gratton;Dezhong Yao;Robert T. Knight

  • Age-related frontoparietal changes during the control of bottom-up and top-down attention: an ERP study

    Ling Li;Caterina Gratton;Monica Fabiani;Robert T. Knight

  • The community structure of functional brain networks exhibits scale-specific patterns of inter- and intra-subject variability.

    Richard F. Betzel;Richard F. Betzel;Maxwell A. Bertolero;Evan M. Gordon;Caterina Gratton;Caterina Gratton

Frequent Co-Authors

Bradley L. Schlaggar
Bradley L. Schlaggar Kennedy Krieger Institute
Steven E. Petersen
Steven E. Petersen Washington University in St. Louis
Evan M. Gordon
Evan M. Gordon Washington University in St. Louis
Steven M. Nelson
Steven M. Nelson Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
Nico U.F. Dosenbach
Nico U.F. Dosenbach Washington University in St. Louis
Timothy O. Laumann
Timothy O. Laumann Washington University in St. Louis
Abraham Z. Snyder
Abraham Z. Snyder Washington University in St. Louis
Mark D'Esposito
Mark D'Esposito University of California, Berkeley
Kathleen B. McDermott
Kathleen B. McDermott Washington University in St. Louis
Deanna M. Barch
Deanna M. Barch Washington University in St. Louis

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