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Justin A. Harris

Justin A. Harris

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
40
Citations
6854
World Ranking
8069
National Ranking
235

Psychology

D-Index
39
Citations
6762
World Ranking
8549
National Ranking
503

Overview

Justin A. Harris is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, and Clinical Psychology.

The main topics in Harris's work cover Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Motor Control and Adaptation, Neural dynamics and brain function, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Action Observation and Synchronization, and Neuroscience and Music Perception.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Harris include Evan J. Livesey, Dominic Tran, Nicolas A. McNair, Nahian Chowdhury, and Kirsten Barnes.

Harris has published in several venues, most notably in the Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition, Brain Stimulation, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Clinical Neurophysiology, and NeuroImage.

Key publications include:

  • "Pavlovian conditioning under partial reinforcement: The effects of nonreinforced trials versus cumulative conditioned stimulus duration." (2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition)
  • "Expected TMS excites the motor system less effectively than unexpected stimulation" (2020, NeuroImage)
  • "Stop Signal Task Training Strengthens GABA-mediated Neurotransmission within the Primary Motor Cortex" (2020, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience)
  • "Linking cortical and behavioural inhibition: Testing the parameter specificity of a transcranial magnetic stimulation protocol" (2020, Brain Stimulation)
  • "In anticipation of pain: expectancy modulates corticospinal excitability, autonomic response, and pain perception" (2021, Pain)

Best Publications

  • Using c-fos as a Neural Marker of Pain

    Justin A Harris

  • Modelling non-invasive brain stimulation in cognitive neuroscience.

    Carlo Miniussi;Justin A. Harris;Manuela Ruzzoli

  • Transient storage of a tactile memory trace in primary somatosensory cortex.

    Justin A. Harris;Carlo Miniussi;Irina M. Harris;Mathew E. Diamond

  • Contextual control over conditioned responding in an extinction paradigm.

    J A Harris;M L Jones;G K Bailey;R F Westbrook

  • Evidence that GABA transmission mediates context-specific extinction of learned fear

    Harris Ja;Westbrook Rf

  • Elemental Representations of Stimuli in Associative Learning.

    Justin A. Harris

  • Reinstatement of fear to an extinguished conditioned stimulus: two roles for context

    R. Frederick Westbrook;Mihaela Iordanova;Gavan McNally;Rick Richardson

  • The topography of tactile learning in humans.

    Justin A. Harris;Irina M. Harris;Mathew E. Diamond

  • Conditioned fear to context is associated with increased Fos expression in the caudal ventrolateral region of the midbrain periaqueductal gray.

    P Carrive;P Leung;J Harris;G Paxinos

  • The functional effect of transcranial magnetic stimulation: Signal suppression or neural noise generation?

    Justin A. Harris;Colin W. G. Clifford;Carlo Miniussi

  • Distribution of tactile learning and its neural basis

    Justin A. Harris;Rasmus S. Petersen;Mathew E. Diamond

  • UPREGULATION OF SPINAL GLUTAMATE RECEPTORS IN CHRONIC PAIN

    J.A Harris;M Corsi;M Quartaroli;R Arban

  • The Topography of Tactile Working Memory

    Justin A. Harris;Irina M. Harris;Mathew E. Diamond

  • Contextual control over conditioned responding in a latent inhibition paradigm.

    R. Frederick Westbrook;Megan L. Jones;Glynis K. Bailey;Justin A. Harris

  • Pathological Gambling and Motor Impulsivity: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis

    Nahian S. Chowdhury;Evan J. Livesey;Alex Blaszczynski;Justin A. Harris

  • Effects of benzodiazepine microinjection into the amygdala or periaqueductal gray on the expression of conditioned fear and hypoalgesia in rats.

    J A Harris;R F Westbrook

  • Descending antinociceptive mechanisms in the brainstem: Their role in the animal's defensive system

    J.A. Harris

  • Improving Visual Sensitivity with Subthreshold Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

    Arman Abrahamyan;Colin W.G. Clifford;Ehsan Arabzadeh;Justin A Harris

  • Getting technical about awareness

    Colin W.G. Clifford;Ehsan Arabzadeh;Justin A. Harris

  • Motivational state regulates the content of learned flavor preferences.

    Harris Ja;Gorissen Mc;Bailey Gk;Westbrook Rf

  • Object Orientation Agnosia: A Failure to Find the Axis?

    Irina M. Harris;Justin A. Harris;Diana Caine

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin W. G. Clifford
Colin W. G. Clifford University of New South Wales
Mathew E. Diamond
Mathew E. Diamond International School for Advanced Studies
R. Frederick Westbrook
R. Frederick Westbrook University of New South Wales
Carlo Miniussi
Carlo Miniussi University of Trento
Robert A. Boakes
Robert A. Boakes University of Sydney
Alex Blaszczynski
Alex Blaszczynski University of Sydney
Ben Colagiuri
Ben Colagiuri University of Sydney
Michael Breakspear
Michael Breakspear University of Newcastle Australia
Marina Bentivoglio
Marina Bentivoglio University of Verona
Carlo Alberto Marzi
Carlo Alberto Marzi University of Verona

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