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Overview

Julian Paul Keenan is affiliated with Montclair State University in the United States and focuses primarily on research within neuroscience and psychology. Their work spans various subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, neurology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and clinical psychology. The research output reflects an emphasis on understanding brain function and behavioral correlates through diverse experimental approaches.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as neural and behavioral psychology studies, action observation and synchronization, hemispheric asymmetry in neuroscience, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, functional brain connectivity studies, face recognition and perception, as well as neuroethics, human enhancement, and biomedical innovations.

Julian Paul Keenan's recent papers include:

  • "Are We Right about the Right TPJ? A Review of Brain Stimulation and Social Cognition in the Right Temporal Parietal Junction" (2021, Symmetry)
  • "The Special Brain: Subclinical Grandiose Narcissism and Self-Face Recognition in the Right Prefrontal Cortex" (2020, The American Journal of Psychology)
  • "The medial prefrontal cortex: a potential link between self-deception and affect" (2020, International Journal of Neuroscience)
  • "Self-Conscious Emotions and the Right Fronto-Temporal and Right Temporal Parietal Junction" (2022, Brain Sciences)
  • "Excitatory Dorsal Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Increases Social Anxiety" (2023, Brain Sciences)

Their frequent coauthors include Samantha Zorns, Nathira Ahmad, Janet Brenya, Katherine Chavarria, and Matthew Pardillo. These collaborations have contributed to a breadth of scholarly output and interdisciplinary insights.

Julian Paul Keenan has published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Brain Sciences
  • Preprints.org
  • Journal of Visualized Experiments
  • Symmetry
  • Biology

Overall, the research profile reflects focused investigations into neural mechanisms underlying social cognition, self-recognition, affective processing, and brain stimulation methodologies, integrating both theoretical and experimental perspectives within neuroscience and psychology.

Best Publications

  • Study and modulation of human cortical excitability with transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Jose M. Tormos;Julian Keenan;Francisco Tarazona

  • The role of area 17 in visual imagery: convergent evidence from PET and rTMS.

    S. M. Kosslyn;A. Pascual-Leone;O. Felician;S. Camposano

  • The self and social cognition: the role of cortical midline structures and mirror neurons

    Lucina Q. Uddin;Lucina Q. Uddin;Marco Iacoboni;Claudia Lange;Julian Paul Keenan

  • Modulation of corticospinal excitability by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    Fumiko Maeda;Julian Paul Keenan;Jose Maria Tormos;Helge Topka

  • Parietal cortex and representation of the mental Self

    Hans C. Lou;Hans C. Lou;Hans C. Lou;Bruce Luber;Michael Crupain;Julian P. Keenan

  • Interindividual variability of the modulatory effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on cortical excitability.

    Fumiko Maeda;Julian P. Keenan;Jose M. Tormos;Helge Topka

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation: studying the brain--behaviour relationship by induction of virtual lesions

    A Pascual-Leone;D Bartres-Faz;J P Keenan

  • Self-recognition and the right prefrontal cortex

    Julian Paul Keenan;Mark A. Wheeler;Gordon G. Gallup;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

  • Lesions of the fusiform face area impair perception of facial configuration in prosopagnosia.

    Jason J.S. Barton;Daniel Z. Press;Julian P. Keenan;Margaret O’Connor

  • Self-recognition and the right hemisphere.

    Julian Paul Keenan;Aaron Nelson;Margaret O'Connor;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

  • Absolute pitch and planum temporale

    Julian Paul Keenan;Ven Thangaraj;Andrea R. Halpern;Gottfried Schlaug

  • Where am I? The neurological correlates of self and other.

    Steven M. Platek;Julian Paul Keenan;Gordon G. Gallup;Feroze B. Mohamed

  • The Face in the Mirror: The Search for the Origins of Consciousness

    Julian Paul Keenan;Gordon G. Gallup;Dean Falk

  • Left hand advantage in a self-face recognition task

    Julian Paul Keenan;Bruce McCutcheon;Stefanie Freund;Gordon G Gallup

  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of Primary Motor Cortex Affects Mental Rotation

    Giorgio Ganis;Julian P. Keenan;Stephen M. Kosslyn;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation and neuroplasticity

    Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Francisco Tarazona;Julian Keenan;Jose M Tormos

  • Where in the brain is the self

    Todd E. Feinberg;Julian Paul Keenan

  • Discrimination of spatial relations and features in faces: Effects of inversion and viewing duration.

    Jason J. S. Barton;Julian P. Keenan;Trevor Bass

  • Alexia for Braille following bilateral occipital stroke in an early blind woman.

    Roy Hamilton;Julian Paul Keenan;Maria Catala;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

  • Interhemispheric asymmetry of motor cortical excitability in major depression as measured by transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    Fumiko Maeda;Julian P. Keenan;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

  • Cortical Activations during judgments about the self and an other person

    Carol A Seger;Maria Stone;Maria Stone;Julian P Keenan

Frequent Co-Authors

Giorgio Ganis
Giorgio Ganis Plymouth University
Gordon G. Gallup
Gordon G. Gallup University at Albany, State University of New York
Maryse Lassonde
Maryse Lassonde University of Montreal
Steven M. Platek
Steven M. Platek Georgia Gwinnett College
Todd K. Shackelford
Todd K. Shackelford Oakland University
Jason J. S. Barton
Jason J. S. Barton University of British Columbia
Stephen M. Kosslyn
Stephen M. Kosslyn Harvard University
Irene Daum
Irene Daum Ruhr University Bochum
Andrea R. Halpern
Andrea R. Halpern Bucknell University
Anna Abraham
Anna Abraham University of Georgia

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