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Overview

Joshua H. Balsters is affiliated with Royal Holloway University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on neuroscience and psychology, with particular expertise in cognitive neuroscience and related subfields.

Their scholarly output includes contributions to topics such as functional brain connectivity studies, behavioral health and interventions, decision-making and behavioral economics, neural and behavioral psychology studies, motor control and adaptation, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, and neural dynamics and brain function.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Valerio Zerbi, Nicole Wenderoth, Jérôme Sallet, Rogier B. Mars, and Louisa Thomas.

Their work has appeared in a range of academic venues, including:

  • eLife
  • NeuroImage
  • Developmental Science
  • The Neuroscientist
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Joshua H. Balsters include:

  • Primate homologs of mouse cortico-striatal circuits, 2020, eLife
  • Imaging evolution of the primate brain: the next frontier?, 2021, NeuroImage
  • Are adolescents more optimal decision-makers in novel environments? Examining the benefits of heightened exploration in a patch foraging paradigm, 2020, Developmental Science
  • Shedding Light on Social Reward Circuitry: (Un)common Blueprints in Humans and Rodents, 2020, The Neuroscientist
  • Contagion of Temporal Discounting Value Preferences in Neurotypical and Autistic Adults, 2021, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Best Publications

  • A probabilistic MR atlas of the human cerebellum

    Jörn Diedrichsen;Joshua H. Balsters;Jonathan Flavell;Emma Cussans

  • The Dynamics of Functional Brain Networks: Integrated Network States during Cognitive Task Performance

    James M. Shine;James M. Shine;Patrick G. Bissett;Peter T. Bell;Oluwasanmi Oluseye Koyejo

  • Pupil diameter covaries with BOLD activity in human locus coeruleus.

    Peter R. Murphy;Redmond G. O'Connell;Michael O'Sullivan;Ian H. Robertson

  • Enhancing studies of the connectome in autism using the autism brain imaging data exchange II

    Adriana Di Martino;David O'Connor;David O'Connor;Bosi Chen;Kaat Alaerts

  • Pupillometry and P3 index the locus coeruleus–noradrenergic arousal function in humans

    Peter R. Murphy;Ian H. Robertson;Joshua H. Balsters;Redmond G. O'connell

  • Evolution of the cerebellar cortex: the selective expansion of prefrontal-projecting cerebellar lobules.

    Joshua H. Balsters;Emma Cussans;Jörn Diedrichsen;Kimberley A. Phillips

  • Beyond Autism: Introducing the Dialectical Misattunement Hypothesis and a Bayesian Account of Intersubjectivity.

    Dimitris Bolis;Joshua Balsters;Nicole Wenderoth;Cristina Becchio

  • Social and monetary reward processing in autism spectrum disorders

    Sonja Delmonte;Joshua H Balsters;Jane McGrath;Jacqueline Fitzgerald

  • Functional and structural connectivity of frontostriatal circuitry in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

    Sonja Delmonte;Louise Gallagher;Erik O'Hanlon;Jane McGrath

  • Cerebellum and Cognition: Evidence for the Encoding of Higher Order Rules

    Joshua H. Balsters;Christopher D. Whelan;Ian H. Robertson;Narender Ramnani

  • Structural Basis of Large-Scale Functional Connectivity in the Mouse.

    Joanes Grandjean;Joanes Grandjean;Valerio Zerbi;Joshua Henk Balsters;Joshua Henk Balsters;Nicole Wenderoth;Nicole Wenderoth

  • A simultaneous ERP/fMRI investigation of the P300 aging effect

    Redmond G. O'Connell;Joshua H. Balsters;Sophia M. Kilcullen;William Campbell

  • The role of the midcingulate cortex in monitoring others' decisions.

    Matthew A J Apps;Matthew A J Apps;Patricia L Lockwood;Joshua H Balsters;Joshua H Balsters

  • Cerebellar atrophy in Parkinson’s disease and its implication for network connectivity

    Claire O’Callaghan;Claire O’Callaghan;Michael Hornberger;Joshua H. Balsters;Glenda M. Halliday;Glenda M. Halliday

  • Personality modulates the effects of emotional arousal and valence on brain activation

    Elizabeth G. Kehoe;John M. Toomey;Joshua H. Balsters;Arun L. W. Bokde

  • Bridging the gap between functional and anatomical features of cortico-cerebellar circuits using meta-analytic connectivity modeling.

    Joshua H. Balsters;Joshua H. Balsters;Angela R. Laird;Peter T. Fox;Peter T. Fox;Simon B. Eickhoff;Simon B. Eickhoff

  • Cerebellar Plasticity and the Automation of First-Order Rules

    Joshua H Balsters;Narender Ramnani

  • Estimating a neutral reference for electroencephalographic recordings: the importance of using a high-density montage and a realistic head model

    Quanying Liu;Joshua H Balsters;Joshua H Balsters;Marc Baechinger;Onno van der Groen

  • Promises, Pitfalls, and Basic Guidelines for Applying Machine Learning Classifiers to Psychiatric Imaging Data, with Autism as an Example.

    Pegah Kassraian-Fard;Caroline Matthis;Joshua H. Balsters;Marloes H. Maathuis

  • Coupling of respiration and attention via the locus coeruleus: Effects of meditation and pranayama

    Michael Christopher Melnychuk;Paul M. Dockree;Redmond G. O'Connell;Peter R. Murphy

  • Primate homologs of mouse cortico-striatal circuits

    Joshua Henk Balsters;Joshua Henk Balsters;Valerio Zerbi;Jerome Sallet;Nicole Wenderoth

Frequent Co-Authors

Dante Mantini
Dante Mantini KU Leuven
Ian H. Robertson
Ian H. Robertson Trinity College Dublin
Narender Ramnani
Narender Ramnani Royal Holloway University of London
Redmond G O'Connell
Redmond G O'Connell Trinity College Dublin
Rogier B. Mars
Rogier B. Mars University of Oxford
James M. Shine
James M. Shine University of Sydney
Surjo R. Soekadar
Surjo R. Soekadar Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Neil Upton
Neil Upton Transpharmation, UK
Louise Gallagher
Louise Gallagher Trinity College Dublin

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