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Jennifer D. Ryan

Jennifer D. Ryan

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
47
Citations
8844
World Ranking
6420
National Ranking
377

Psychology

D-Index
47
Citations
8812
World Ranking
6181
National Ranking
421

Overview

Jennifer D. Ryan is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and related subfields. Their work intersects several areas, including psychiatry and mental health, computer vision and pattern recognition, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and epidemiology.

The core topics addressed in their research involve memory and neural mechanisms, visual attention and saliency detection, memory processes and influences, neural and behavioral psychology studies, alcohol consumption and health effects, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and liver disease diagnosis and treatment.

Ryan has published extensively in multiple scientific venues. The most frequent publication platforms include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cognition
  • Journal of Hepatology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Frequent collaborators in Ryan's research include Zhong-Xu Liu, Kelly Shen, Jordana S. Wynn, Natalia Ladyka-Wojcik, and Morgan D. Barense.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Ryan, several notable works are:

  • The eyes are a window into memory (2020), published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Modeling the influence of the hippocampal memory system on the oculomotor system (2020), published in Network Neuroscience
  • Eye movements support behavioral pattern completion (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Vividness of recollection is supported by eye movements in individuals with high, but not low trait autobiographical memory (2020), published in Cognition
  • The structure of prior knowledge enhances memory in experts by reducing interference (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Angry, Disgusted, or Afraid? Studies on the Malleability of Emotion Perception

    Hillel Aviezer;Ran R. Hassin;Jennifer Ryan;Cheryl Grady

  • Executive control in a modified antisaccade task : Effects of aging and bilingualism

    Ellen Bialystok;Fergus I. M. Craik;Jennifer Ryan

  • Amnesia is a Deficit in Relational Memory

    Jennifer D. Ryan;Robert R. Althoff;Stephen Whitlow;Neal J. Cohen

  • Hippocampal system and declarative (relational) memory: Summarizing the data from functional neuroimaging studies

    Neal J. Cohen;Jennifer Ryan;Caroline Hunt;Lorene Romine

  • Worth a Glance: Using Eye Movements to Investigate the Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory

    Deborah E. Hannula;Robert R. Althoff;David E. Warren;Lily Riggs

  • The hippocampus supports multiple cognitive processes through relational binding and comparison.

    Rosanna Kathleen Olsen;Sandra N. Moses;Lily Riggs;Jennifer D Ryan

  • Rapid Onset Relational Memory Effects Are Evident in Eye Movement Behavior, but Not in Hippocampal Amnesia

    Deborah E. Hannula;Jennifer D. Ryan;Daniel Tranel;Neal J. Cohen

  • The obligatory effects of memory on eye movements

    Jennifer D. Ryan;Deborah E. Hannula;Neal J. Cohen

  • Eyes always attract attention but gaze orienting is task-dependent: evidence from eye movement monitoring.

    Roxane J. Itier;Christina Villate;Jennifer D. Ryan

  • A comparison and evaluation of the predictions of relational and conjunctive accounts of hippocampal function.

    Sandra N. Moses;Jennifer D. Ryan

  • Processing and short-term retention of relational information in amnesia.

    Jennifer D. Ryan;Neal J. Cohen

  • The nature of change detection and online representations of scenes.

    Jennifer D. Ryan;Neal J. Cohen;Neal J. Cohen

  • Age-Related Deficits in Face Recognition are Related to Underlying Changes in Scanning Behavior

    Alison Firestone;Nicholas B. Turk-Browne;Jennifer D. Ryan

  • Pilot randomized controlled trial investigating cognitive strategy use to improve goal performance after stroke.

    Helene J Polatajko;Sara E McEwen;Jennifer D Ryan;Carolyn M Baum

  • Eye Movements Actively Reinstate Spatiotemporal Mnemonic Content.

    Jordana S. Wynn;Kelly Shen;Jennifer D. Ryan

  • Visual Sampling Predicts Hippocampal Activity.

    Zhong-Xu Liu;Kelly Shen;Rosanna K. Olsen;Jennifer D. Ryan

  • Recognition memory impairments caused by false recognition of novel objects.

    Lok-Kin Yeung;Jennifer D. Ryan;Rosemary A. Cowell;Morgan D. Barense

  • Human anterolateral entorhinal cortex volumes are associated with cognitive decline in aging prior to clinical diagnosis.

    Rosanna K. Olsen;Lok-Kin Yeung;Alix Noly-Gandon;Maria C. D'Angelo

  • Exploring a cognitive-based treatment approach to improve motor-based skill performance in chronic stroke: Results of three single case experiments.

    Sara E McEwen;Helene J Polatajko;Maria P J Huijbregts;Jennifer D Ryan

  • Rapid Cortical Plasticity Supports Long-Term Memory Formation

    Melissa Hebscher;Erik Wing;Jennifer Ryan;Asaf Gilboa;Asaf Gilboa

  • Assessment of age-related changes in inhibition and binding using eye movement monitoring.

    Jennifer D. Ryan;Grace Leung;Nicholas B. Turk-Browne;Lynn Hasher

Frequent Co-Authors

Rosanna K. Olsen
Rosanna K. Olsen University of Toronto
R. Shayna Rosenbaum
R. Shayna Rosenbaum York University
Bradley R. Buchsbaum
Bradley R. Buchsbaum University of Toronto
Neal J. Cohen
Neal J. Cohen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Morgan D. Barense
Morgan D. Barense University of Toronto
Anthony R. McIntosh
Anthony R. McIntosh Simon Fraser University
Morris Moscovitch
Morris Moscovitch University of Toronto
Cheryl L. Grady
Cheryl L. Grady University of Toronto
Adam K. Anderson
Adam K. Anderson Cornell University
Brian Levine
Brian Levine University of Toronto

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