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Overview

Joy Hirsch is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has a significant research footprint in neuroscience and medicine. Their research predominantly focuses on cognitive neuroscience and related subfields including radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, biomedical engineering, social psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work spans various topics such as functional brain connectivity studies, optical imaging and spectroscopy techniques, neural dynamics and brain function, face recognition and perception, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and autism spectrum disorder research.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Joy Hirsch include:

  • Optical imaging and spectroscopy for the study of the human brain: status report, 2022, Neurophotonics
  • Real-Time Eye-to-Eye Contact Is Associated With Cross-Brain Neural Coupling in Angular Gyrus, 2020, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Quantification of inter-brain coupling: A review of current methods used in haemodynamic and electrophysiological hyperscanning studies, 2023, NeuroImage
  • Interpersonal Agreement and Disagreement During Face-to-Face Dialogue: An fNIRS Investigation, 2021, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Separable processes for live "in-person" and live "zoom-like" faces, 2023, Imaging Neuroscience

Joy Hirsch frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • J. Adam Noah
  • Xian Zhang
  • Ilias Tachtsidis
  • Swethasri Dravida
  • Antonia F. de C. Hamilton

The bulk of their publications appear in journals such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurophotonics
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • NeuroImage
  • Scientific Reports

The research spans over 61 publications in neuroscience and 28 in medicine, with the majority engaging deeply in cognitive neuroscience topics.

Best Publications

  • Distinct cortical areas associated with native and second languages

    Khs Kim;NR Relkin;K-M Lee;J Hirsch

  • Resolving Emotional Conflict: A Role for the Rostral Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Modulating Activity in the Amygdala

    Amit Etkin;Tobias Egner;Daniel M. Peraza;Eric R. Kandel

  • Cognitive control mechanisms resolve conflict through cortical amplification of task-relevant information.

    Tobias Egner;Joy Hirsch

  • The present and future use of functional near‐infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) for cognitive neuroscience

    Paola Pinti;Ilias Tachtsidis;Antonia Hamilton;Joy Hirsch

  • Individual Differences in Trait Anxiety Predict the Response of the Basolateral Amygdala to Unconsciously Processed Fearful Faces

    Amit Etkin;Kristen C. Klemenhagen;Joshua T. Dudman;Michael T. Rogan

  • Predictive Codes for Forthcoming Perception in the Frontal Cortex

    Christopher Summerfield;Christopher Summerfield;Tobias Egner;Tobias Egner;Matthew Greene;Etienne Koechlin

  • Effects of intensive glucose lowering on brain structure and function in people with type 2 diabetes (ACCORD MIND): A randomised open-label substudy

    Lenore J. Launer;Michael E. Miller;Jeff D. Williamson;Ron M. Lazar

  • Dissociable Neural Systems Resolve Conflict from Emotional versus Nonemotional Distracters

    Tobias Egner;Tobias Egner;Amit Etkin;Amit Etkin;Seth Gale;Joy Hirsch

  • The neural correlates and functional integration of cognitive control in a Stroop task.

    Tobias Egner;Joy Hirsch

  • Leptin reverses weight loss–induced changes in regional neural activity responses to visual food stimuli

    Michael Rosenbaum;Melissa Sy;Katherine Pavlovich;Rudolph L. Leibel

  • fMRI reveals large-scale network activation in minimally conscious patients

    N. D. Schiff;D. Rodriguez-Moreno;A. Kamal;K. H.S. Kim

  • Shared and separate systems in bilingual language processing: converging evidence from eyetracking and brain imaging.

    Viorica Marian;Michael Spivey;Joy Hirsch

  • A neural representation of categorization uncertainty in the human brain.

    Jack Grinband;Joy Hirsch;Vincent P. Ferrera

  • Separate conflict-specific cognitive control mechanisms in the human brain

    Tobias Egner;Margaret Delano;Joy Hirsch

  • An integrated functional magnetic resonance imaging procedure for preoperative mapping of cortical areas associated with tactile, motor, language, and visual functions.

    Joy Hirsch;Maximilian I. Ruge;Maximilian I. Ruge;Karl H. S. Kim;Denise D. Correa;Denise D. Correa

  • Sleep restriction leads to increased activation of brain regions sensitive to food stimuli

    Marie-Pierre St-Onge;Andrew McReynolds;Zalak B Trivedi;Amy L Roberts

  • The spatial resolution capacity of human foveal retina

    Joy Hirsch;Christine A. Curcio

  • Neural Dynamics of Rejection Sensitivity

    Ethan Kross;Tobias Egner;Kevin Ochsner;Joy Hirsch

  • Detection of time-varying signals in event-related fMRI designs.

    Jack Grinband;Tor D. Wager;Martin A. Lindquist;Vincent P. Ferrera

  • Intentional false responding shares neural substrates with response conflict and cognitive control.

    Jennifer Maria Nuñez;B. J. Casey;Tobias Egner;Todd A. Hare

Frequent Co-Authors

Tobias Egner
Tobias Egner Duke University
Xian Zhang
Xian Zhang Hefei Institutes of Physical Science
Vincent P. Ferrera
Vincent P. Ferrera Columbia University
Nicholas D. Schiff
Nicholas D. Schiff Cornell University
Jonathan D. Victor
Jonathan D. Victor Cornell University
Ilias Tachtsidis
Ilias Tachtsidis University College London
Tor D. Wager
Tor D. Wager Dartmouth College
Joseph T. Giacino
Joseph T. Giacino Massachusetts General Hospital
Amit Etkin
Amit Etkin Stanford University
Christopher Summerfield
Christopher Summerfield University of Oxford

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