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70
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2469
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  • 2018 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors

Overview

Don M. Tucker is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States and is active in the field of neuroscience. Their research primarily focuses on neural dynamics and brain function, memory and neural mechanisms, sleep and wakefulness research, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, functional brain connectivity studies, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

Their main fields of study include neuroscience with a strong emphasis on cognitive neuroscience, complemented by work in cellular and molecular neuroscience, signal processing, plant science, and artificial intelligence.

Notable recent publications by Don M. Tucker include:

  • "Adaptive control of functional connectivity: dorsal and ventral limbic divisions regulate the dorsal and ventral neocortical networks" (2023, Cerebral Cortex)
  • "Motive control of unconscious inference: The limbic base of adaptive Bayes" (2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include Phan Luu, Karl Friston, Kyle Morgan, Roman Shusterman, and Mariano Fernández-Corazza. These collaborations reflect a network within cognitive and neural sciences, contributing to a range of interdisciplinary studies.

Their work commonly appears in venues such as Cerebral Cortex, Sleep Medicine, Entropy, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, and Developmental Psychobiology. These publications demonstrate consistent engagement with both fundamental and applied neuroscience topics.

In addition to journal articles, Don M. Tucker has contributed to book literature, notably publishing "Out of the Cave" in 2021 through The MIT Press.

The scientist has been recognized with the title of Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors awarded in 2018, which indicates acknowledgment of contributions in innovation.

Best Publications

  • Localization of a Neural System for Error Detection and Compensation

    Stanislas Dehaene;Michael I Posner;Don M Tucker

  • EEG coherency: I: statistics, reference electrode, volume conduction, Laplacians, cortical imaging, and interpretation at multiple scales

    Paul L. Nunez;Ramesh Srinivasan;Andrew F. Westdorp;Andrew F. Westdorp;Ranjith S. Wijesinghe;Ranjith S. Wijesinghe

  • Asymmetric neural control systems in human self-regulation

    Don M. Tucker;Peter A. Williamson

  • Lateral brain function, emotion, and conceptualization.

    Don M. Tucker

  • Scalp electrode impedance, infection risk, and EEG data quality

    Thomas C Ferree;Phan Luu;Gerald S Russell;Don M Tucker

  • Motivating the focus of attention.

    Douglas Derryberry;Don M. Tucker

  • Spatial sampling of head electrical fields: the geodesic sensor net.

    Don M. Tucker

  • Mood, personality, and self-monitoring: negative affect and emotionality in relation to frontal lobe mechanisms of error monitoring.

    Phan Luu;Paul F Collins;Don M. Tucker

  • Development and self-regulatory structures of the mind

    Dante Cicchetti;Don Tucker

  • Frontal midline theta and the error-related negativity: neurophysiological mechanisms of action regulation.

    Phan Luu;Don M Tucker;Scott Makeig

  • Electrophysiological responses to errors and feedback in the process of action regulation.

    Phan Luu;Don M. Tucker;Douglas Derryberry;Marjorie Reed

  • Statistical control of artifacts in dense array EEG/MEG studies

    Markus Junghöfer;Thomas Elbert;Don M. Tucker;Brigitte Rockstroh

  • Medial Frontal Cortex in Action Monitoring

    Phan Luu;Tobias Flaisch;Don M. Tucker

  • EEG coherency II: Experimental comparisons of multiple measures.

    Paul L Nunez;Paul L Nunez;Richard B Silberstein;Richard B Silberstein;Zhiping Shi;Zhiping Shi;Matthew R Carpenter

  • Are “Generalized” Seizures Truly Generalized? Evidence of Localized Mesial Frontal and Frontopolar Discharges in Absence

    Mark D. Holmes;Micah Brown;Don M. Tucker

  • EEG source localization: Sensor density and head surface coverage.

    Jasmine Song;Colin Davey;Catherine Poulsen;Phan Luu

  • Regulatory considerations for the clinical and research use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS): Review and recommendations from an expert panel

    F. Fregni;M. A. Nitsche;C. K. Loo;A. R. Brunoni

  • Neural mechanisms of emotion.

    Douglas Derryberry;Don M. Tucker

  • Spatial sampling and filtering of EEG with spline laplacians to estimate cortical potentials.

    Ramesh Srinivasan;Paul L. Nunez;Don M. Tucker;Richard B. Silberstein

  • Estimating the spatial Nyquist of the human EEG

    Ramesh Srinivasan;Don M. Tucker;Michael Andrew Murias

  • The polar average reference effect: a bias in estimating the head surface integral in EEG recording

    Markus Junghöfer;Thomas Elbert;Don M. Tucker;Christoph Braun

Frequent Co-Authors

Phan Luu
Phan Luu University of Oregon
Mark D. Holmes
Mark D. Holmes University of Washington
Mattie Tops
Mattie Tops Leiden University
Michael I. Posner
Michael I. Posner University of Oregon
Douglas Derryberry
Douglas Derryberry Oregon State University
Ramesh Srinivasan
Ramesh Srinivasan University of California, Irvine
Jeffrey G. Ojemann
Jeffrey G. Ojemann University of Washington
Maarten A. S. Boksem
Maarten A. S. Boksem Erasmus University Rotterdam
Paul L. Nunez
Paul L. Nunez Tulane University
Richard B. Silberstein
Richard B. Silberstein Swinburne University of Technology

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