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  • 1999 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Julie A. Fiez is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily spans neuroscience and medicine, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, neurology, developmental and educational psychology, education, and statistics and probability.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Julie A. Fiez has published extensively in various venues, with multiple papers in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Other frequent publication venues include Anesthesiology, Neurobiology of Language, the Journal of Neuroscience, and Cerebral Cortex.

Selected recent publications include:

  • Multiple Adjoining Word- and Face-Selective Regions in Ventral Temporal Cortex Exhibit Distinct Dynamics, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Midazolam and Ketamine Produce Distinct Neural Changes in Memory, Pain, and Fear Networks during Pain, 2021, Anesthesiology
  • Articulatory Gain Predicts Motor Cortex and Subthalamic Nucleus Activity During Speech, 2021, Cerebral Cortex
  • Simultaneously recorded subthalamic and cortical LFPs reveal different lexicality effects during reading aloud, 2021, Journal of Neurolinguistics
  • Comparing the Reliability of Virtual and In-Person Post-Stroke Neuropsychological Assessment with Language Tasks, 2022, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • R. Mark Richardson
  • Alan Bush
  • Anna Chrabaszcz
  • Witold Lipski
  • Robert S. Turner

Julie A. Fiez was awarded a fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Common blood flow changes across visual tasks: I. increases in subcortical structures and cerebellum but not in nonvisual cortex

    Gordon L. Shulman;Maurizio Corbetta;Randy L. Buckner;Julie A. Fiez

  • Common blood flow changes across visual tasks: Ii. decreases in cerebral cortex

    Gordon L. Shulman;Julie A. Fiez;Maurizio Corbetta;Randy L. Buckner

  • Practice-related Changes in Human Brain Functional Anatomy during Nonmotor Learning

    Marcus E. Raichle;Julie A. Fiez;Tom O. Videen;Ann mary K. Macleod

  • Cerebellum and Nonmotor Function

    Peter L. Strick;Richard P. Dum;Julie A. Fiez

  • Tracking the Hemodynamic Responses to Reward and Punishment in the Striatum

    M. R. Delgado;L. E. Nystrom;C. Fissell;D. C. Noll

  • Neuroimaging studies of word reading

    Julie A. Fiez;Steven E. Petersen

  • The effects of practice on the functional anatomy of task performance

    S E Petersen;H van Mier;J A Fiez;M E Raichle

  • Impaired non-motor learning and error detection associated with cerebellar damage. A single case study.

    Julie A. Fiez;Steven E. Petersen;Marshall K. Cheney;Marcus E. Raichle

  • Modulation of caudate activity by action contingency.

    Elizabeth M Tricomi;Mauricio R Delgado;Julie A Fiez

  • Phonology, semantics, and the role of the left inferior prefrontal cortex

    Julie A. Fiez

  • A positron emission tomography study of the short-term maintenance of verbal information

    JA Fiez;EA Raife;DA Balota;JP Schwarz

  • Neuroimaging studies of the cerebellum: language, learning and memory

    John E Desmond;Julie A Fiez

  • Neural correlates of recovery from aphasia after damage to left inferior frontal cortex.

    H J Rosen;S E Petersen;M R Linenweber;A Z Snyder

  • Dorsal striatum responses to reward and punishment: effects of valence and magnitude manipulations.

    M. R. Delgado;H. M. Locke;V. A. Stenger;J. A. Fiez

  • Effects of Lexicality, Frequency, and Spelling-to-Sound Consistency on the Functional Anatomy of Reading

    Julie A. Fiez;David A. Balota;Marcus E. Raichle;Steven E. Petersen

  • Prefrontal responses to drug cues: a neurocognitive analysis.

    Stephen J Wilson;Michael A Sayette;Julie A Fiez

  • Top-down modulation of early sensory cortex.

    Gordon L. Shulman;Maurizio Corbetta;Randy L. Buckner;Marcus E. Raichle

  • Cerebellar damage produces selective deficits in verbal working memory.

    Susan M. Ravizza;Cristin A. McCormick;John E. Schlerf;Timothy Justus

  • The processing of single words studied with positron emission tomography

    S E Petersen;J A Fiez

  • Pet studies of auditory and phonological processing: Effects of stimulus characteristics and task demands

    J. A. Fiez;M. E. Raichle;F. M. Miezin;S. E. Petersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Lori L. Holt
Lori L. Holt Carnegie Mellon University
Marcus E. Raichle
Marcus E. Raichle Washington University in St. Louis
Steven E. Petersen
Steven E. Petersen Washington University in St. Louis
R. Mark Richardson
R. Mark Richardson Harvard University
Charles A. Perfetti
Charles A. Perfetti University of Pittsburgh
Mauricio R. Delgado
Mauricio R. Delgado The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Michael A. Sayette
Michael A. Sayette University of Pittsburgh
Randy L. Buckner
Randy L. Buckner Harvard University
Jason Chein
Jason Chein Temple University
Maurizio Corbetta
Maurizio Corbetta University of Padua

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