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Overview

Jeanne Townsend is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience. Additional areas of study include social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, information systems and management, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their main topics of work encompass functional brain connectivity studies, human-automation interaction and safety, cognitive functions and memory, personal information management and user behavior, optical imaging and spectroscopy techniques, health and environment related to cognitive aging, and spatial neglect and hemispheric dysfunction.

Townsend's recent publications cover various aspects of these topics. Notable papers include:

  • "Distraction 'Hangover': Characterization of the Delayed Return to Baseline Driving Risk After Distracting Behaviors," 2021, published in Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
  • "Aging-Related Differences in Structural and Functional Interhemispheric Connectivity," 2021, published in Cerebral Cortex
  • "Spatial Attention in Children with Perinatal Stroke," 2021, published in Behavioural Brain Research
  • "In-phase and in-antiphase Connectivity in EEG," 2021, published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Examining Autism Spectrum Using the Attention Network Test: A Meta-Analysis," 2024, published in Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Among frequent coauthors, Townsend has collaborated with Leanne Chukoskie, John D. Lewis, Christian O'Reilly, Rebecca J. Theilmann, and Joseph Snider.

Their work has appeared in several publication venues, including:

  • Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Behavioural Brain Research
  • Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Dynamic Brain Sources of Visual Evoked Responses

    S. Makeig;M. Westerfield;T.-P. Jung;S. Enghoff

  • Removal of eye activity artifacts from visual event-related potentials in normal and clinical subjects

    Tzyy-Ping Jung;Scott Makeig;Marissa Westerfield;Marissa Westerfield;Jeanne Townsend;Jeanne Townsend

  • Normal brain development and aging: quantitative analysis at in vivo MR imaging in healthy volunteers

    Eric Courchesne;Heather J. Chisum;Jeanne Townsend;Angilene Cowles

  • Impairment in shifting attention in autistic and cerebellar patients.

    Eric Courchesne;Jeanne Townsend;Natacha A. Akshoomoff;Osamu Saitoh

  • Analysis and visualization of single-trial event-related potentials

    Tzyy Ping Jung;Scott Makeig;Scott Makeig;Marissa Westerfield;Marissa Westerfield;Jeanne Townsend;Jeanne Townsend

  • Imaging human EEG dynamics using independent component analysis.

    Julie Onton;Marissa Westerfield;Jeanne Townsend;Scott Makeig

  • Functionally Independent Components of the Late Positive Event-Related Potential during Visual Spatial Attention

    Scott Makeig;Marissa Westerfield;Marissa Westerfield;Tzyy-Ping Jung;James Covington

  • Electroencephalographic Brain Dynamics Following Manually Responded Visual Targets

    Scott Makeig;Arnaud Delorme;Marissa Westerfield;Tzyy-Ping Jung

  • Atypical Attentional Networks and the Emergence of Autism

    Brandon Keehn;Ralph-Axel Müller;Jeanne Townsend

  • Spatial Attention Deficits in Patients with Acquired or Developmental Cerebellar Abnormality

    Jeanne Townsend;Eric Courchesne;James Covington;Marissa Westerfield;Marissa Westerfield

  • The brain in infantile autism Posterior fossa structures are abnormal

    Eric Courchesne;Jeanne Townsend;Osamu Saitoh

  • Prenatal, Perinatal, and Neonatal Factors in Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified, and the General Population

    Naya Juul-Dam;Naya Juul-Dam;Jeanne Townsend;Jeanne Townsend;Eric Courchesne;Eric Courchesne

  • Event-related brain response abnormalities in autism: evidence for impaired cerebello-frontal spatial attention networks.

    Jeanne Townsend;Jeanne Townsend;Marissa Westerfield;Marissa Westerfield;Echo Leaver;Echo Leaver;Scott Makeig

  • Visual attention abnormalities in autism: Delayed orienting to location

    Jeanne Townsend;Naomi Singer Harris;Eric Courchesne

  • Attention Coordination and Anticipatory Control

    Natacha A. Akshoomoff;Eric Courchesne;Eric Courchesne;Jeanne Townsend;Jeanne Townsend

  • A new finding: Impairment in shifting attention in autistic and cerebellar patients.

    Eric Courchesne;Jeanne P. Townsend;Natacha A. Akshoomoff;Rachel Yeung-Courchesne

  • Slowed orienting of covert visual-spatial attention in autism: Specific deficits associated with cerebellar and parietal abnormality

    Jeanne Townsend;Eric Courchesne;Brian Egaas

  • Functionally independent components of early event-related potentials in a visual spatial attention task.

    Scott Makeig;Marissa Westerfield;Jeanne Townsend;Tzyy-Ping Jung;Tzyy-Ping Jung

  • Outcome Classification of Preschool Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders Using MRI Brain Measures

    Natacha Akshoomoff;Catherine Lord;Alan J. Lincoln;Rachel Y. Courchesne

  • ERPs differentiate syllable and nonphonetic sound processing in children and adults

    Rita Ceponiene;Paavo Alku;Marissa Westerfield;M. Torki

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralph-Axel Müller
Ralph-Axel Müller San Diego State University
Alan J. Lincoln
Alan J. Lincoln Alliant International University
Frederic Dick
Frederic Dick Birkbeck, University of London
Beverly Wulfeck
Beverly Wulfeck San Diego State University
Ayse Pinar Saygin
Ayse Pinar Saygin University of California, San Diego
Laura Schreibman
Laura Schreibman University of California, San Diego
Charles A. Nelson
Charles A. Nelson Boston Children's Hospital
Joan Stiles
Joan Stiles University of California, San Diego
Doris A. Trauner
Doris A. Trauner University of California, San Diego
Catherine Lord
Catherine Lord University of California, Los Angeles

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