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Overview

Joan Stiles conducts research primarily in the field of neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience as a subfield. Their academic affiliation is with the University of California, San Diego in the United States.

The main topics covered in their work include hemispheric asymmetry in neuroscience, spatial neglect and hemispheric dysfunction, motor control and adaptation, and face recognition and perception. These topics reflect an interest in understanding brain function lateralization, disorders related to hemispheric damage, as well as processes related to motor behavior and visual cognition.

  • Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
  • Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Face Recognition and Perception

Joan Stiles frequently collaborates with a number of researchers. These frequent co-authors include Natacha Akshoomoff, Frank Haist, Pamela Moses, Alessandra M. Passarotti, and Frederic Dick. The collaboration counts indicate particularly strong ongoing partnerships with Natacha Akshoomoff and Frank Haist.

  • Natacha Akshoomoff
  • Frank Haist
  • Pamela Moses
  • Alessandra M. Passarotti
  • Frederic Dick

Although no specific publication venues or recent papers are highlighted, the scholar's focus on neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience suggests their work is situated within these academic domains.

Best Publications

  • The Basics of Brain Development

    Joan Stiles;Terry L. Jernigan;Terry L. Jernigan

  • Improved memory functioning and frontal lobe maturation between childhood and adolescence: A structural MRI study

    Elizabeth R. Sowell;Dean Delis;Joan Stiles;Terry L. Jernigan

  • Early lexical development in children with focal brain injury

    Donna J. Thal;Virginia A. Marchman;Joan Stiles;Dorothy Aram

  • Neural plasticity and cognitive development.

    Joan Stiles

  • The development of face and location processing: an fMRI study

    Alessandra M. Passarotti;Brianna M. Paul;Joseph R. Bussiere;Richard B. Buxton

  • Hemispheric asymmetries in global and local processing : evidence from fMRI

    A Martinez;P Moses;L Frank;R Buxton

  • Cognitive development following early brain injury: evidence for neural adaptation

    Joan Stiles;Judy Reilly;Judy Reilly;Brianna Paul;Pamela Moses

  • Developmental Trends in Visuospatial Analysis and Planning: I. Copying a Complex Figure

    Natacha A. Akshoomoff;Joan Stiles

  • Postnatal brain development: structural imaging of dynamic neurodevelopmental processes.

    Terry L Jernigan;William F C Baaré;Joan Stiles;Kathrine Skak Madsen

  • Functional MRI of Global and Local Processing in Children

    Pamela Moses;Katherine Roe;Richard B. Buxton;Eric C. Wong

  • Spatial grouping activity in young children with congenital right or left hemisphere brain injury.

    Joan Stiles;Ruth Nass

  • Children's analysis of hierarchical patterns: evidence from a similarity judgment task.

    Dianne Dukette;Joan Stiles

  • Face and place processing in Williams syndrome: evidence for a dorsal-ventral dissociation.

    Brianna M. Paul;Joan Stiles;Alessandra Passarotti;Nasim Bavar

  • The effects of stimulus density on children’s analysis of hierarchical patterns

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  • Developmental change in children's analysis of spatial patterns.

    Wendy L. Tada;Joan Stiles

  • The impact of early unilateral brain injury on perceptual organization and visual memory.

    Natacha A Akshoomoff;Corbin C Feroleto;Rebecca E Doyle;Joan Stiles

  • On Genes, Brains, and Behavior: Why Should Developmental Psychologists Care About Brain Development?

    Joan Stiles

  • How 'generalized' is the 'slowed processing' in SLI? The case of visuospatial attentional orienting.

    Rina Schul;Joan Stiles;Beverly Wulfeck;Jeanne Townsend

  • The development of attentional orienting during the school‐age years

    Rina Schul;Jeanne Townsend;Joan Stiles

  • Brain and Cognitive Development

    Joan Stiles;Timothy T. Brown;Frank Haist;Terry L. Jernigan

  • Regional Size Reduction in the Human Corpus Callosum Following Pre- and Perinatal Brain Injury

    Pamela Moses;Eric Courchesne;Joan Stiles;Doris Trauner

Frequent Co-Authors

Doris A. Trauner
Doris A. Trauner University of California, San Diego
Terry L. Jernigan
Terry L. Jernigan University of California, San Diego
Kang Lee
Kang Lee University of Toronto
Judy Reilly
Judy Reilly San Diego State University
Beverly Wulfeck
Beverly Wulfeck San Diego State University
Jeanne Townsend
Jeanne Townsend University of California, San Diego
Dean C. Delis
Dean C. Delis University of California, San Diego
Virginia A. Marchman
Virginia A. Marchman Stanford University
Susan C. Levine
Susan C. Levine University of Chicago
Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego

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