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Overview

David A. Balota is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a significant focus on Cognitive Neuroscience as well as Psychiatry and Mental Health. The work also engages with Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The main topics addressed in their research include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Mind Wandering and Attention, Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging, Mental Health Research Topics, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies.

Recent publications by David A. Balota include:

  • Effects of Mindfulness Training and Exercise on Cognitive Function in Older Adults, 2022, JAMA
  • Unsupervised high-frequency smartphone-based cognitive assessments are reliable, valid, and feasible in older adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease, 2022, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
  • A Critical Review of Network-Based and Distributional Approaches to Semantic Memory Structure and Processes, 2021, Topics in Cognitive Science
  • Predicting dysfunctional age-related task activations from resting-state network alterations, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Evaluating the Sensitivity of Resting-State BOLD Variability to Age and Cognition after Controlling for Motion and Cardiovascular Influences: A Network-Based Approach, 2020, Cerebral Cortex

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • John C. Morris
  • Tammie L.S. Benzinger
  • Andrew J. Aschenbrenner
  • Brian A. Gordon
  • Beau M. Ances

Publication venues where David A. Balota has contributed multiple papers include:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Psychology and Aging
  • Neurobiology of Aging
  • Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
  • Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

David A. Balota was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2003.

Best Publications

  • The English Lexicon Project.

    David A Balota;Melvin J Yap;Michael J Cortese;Keith A Hutchison

  • Are lexical decisions a good measure of lexical access? The role of word frequency in the neglected decision stage.

    David A. Balota;James I. Chumbley

  • Visual word recognition of single-syllable words.

    David A. Balota;Michael J. Cortese;Susan D. Sergent-Marshall;Daniel H. Spieler

  • The Relationship Between Working Memory Capacity and Executive Functioning: Evidence for a Common Executive Attention Construct

    David P. McCabe;Henry L. Roediger Iii;Mark A. McDaniel;David A. Balota

  • The Interaction of Contextual Constraints and Parafoveal Visual Information in Reading

    David A Balota;Alexander Pollatsek;Keith Rayner

  • Stroop performance in healthy younger and older adults and in individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer's type.

    Daniel H. Spieler;David A. Balota;Mark E. Faust

  • Moving beyond Coltheart’s N: A new measure of orthographic similarity

    Tal Yarkoni;David Balota;Melvin Yap

  • Individual differences in information-processing rate and amount: implications for group differences in response latency.

    M E Faust;D A Balota;D H Spieler;F R Ferraro

  • The locus of word-frequency effects in the pronunciation task: Lexical access and/or production? ☆

    David A Balota;James I Chumbley

  • Comprehension Processes in Reading

    David A. Balota;Giovanni B. Flores D'Arcais;Keith Rayner

  • Memory changes in healthy young and older adults

    David A. Balota;Patrick O. Dolan;Janet M. Duchek

  • A positron emission tomography study of the short-term maintenance of verbal information

    JA Fiez;EA Raife;DA Balota;JP Schwarz

  • Depth of Automatic Spreading Activation: Mediated Priming Effects in Pronunciation but Not in Lexical Decision

    David A. Balota;Robert F. Lorch

  • Spreading activation and arousal of false memories.

    Henry L. Roediger Iii;David A. Balota;Jason M. Watson

  • Automatic semantic activation and episodic memory encoding

    David A. Balota

  • VERIDICAL AND FALSE MEMORIES IN HEALTHY OLDER ADULTS AND IN DEMENTIA OF THE ALZHEIMER'S TYPE

    David A. Balota;Michael J. Cortese;Janet M. Duchek;David Adams

  • Effects of Lexicality, Frequency, and Spelling-to-Sound Consistency on the Functional Anatomy of Reading

    Julie A. Fiez;David A. Balota;Marcus E. Raichle;Steven E. Petersen

  • Conceptualizing Control in Social Cognition: How Executive Functioning Modulates the Expression of Automatic Stereotyping.

    B. Keith Payne

  • Memory changes in healthy older adults.

    David A. Balota;Patrick O. Dolan;Janet M. Duchek

  • Moving Beyond the Mean in Studies of Mental Chronometry The Power of Response Time Distributional Analyses

    David A. Balota;Melvin J. Yap

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet M. Duchek
Janet M. Duchek Washington University in St. Louis
John C. Morris
John C. Morris Washington University in St. Louis
Tammie L.S. Benzinger
Tammie L.S. Benzinger Washington University in St. Louis
Henry L. Roediger
Henry L. Roediger Washington University in St. Louis
David M. Holtzman
David M. Holtzman Washington University in St. Louis
Beau M. Ances
Beau M. Ances Washington University in St. Louis
Randall J. Bateman
Randall J. Bateman Washington University in St. Louis
Martha Storandt
Martha Storandt Washington University in St. Louis
David P. McCabe
David P. McCabe Colorado State University
Alison Goate
Alison Goate Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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