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Overview

Kevin M. Spencer is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has an extensive publication record primarily in the field of Neuroscience. Their research contributions focus on neural dynamics, brain function, and related areas, spanning subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their main research topics include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception

Kevin M. Spencer has contributed a total of 54 publications in Neuroscience, with a significant focus on Cognitive Neuroscience (43 publications) and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (9 publications). Their work also intersects with Molecular Biology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Their recent notable papers include:

  • "A roadmap for development of neuro-oscillations as translational biomarkers for treatment development in neuropsychopharmacology" (2020), published in Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Mitochondrial, exosomal miR137-COX6A2 and gamma synchrony as biomarkers of parvalbumin interneurons, psychopathology, and neurocognition in schizophrenia" (2021), published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Neuronal imbalance of excitation and inhibition in schizophrenia: a scoping review of gamma-band ASSR findings" (2022), published in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
  • "Auditory Cortex Volume and Gamma Oscillation Abnormalities in Schizophrenia" (2020), published in Clinical EEG and Neuroscience
  • "Optogenetic manipulation of an ascending arousal system tunes cortical broadband gamma power and reveals functional deficits relevant to schizophrenia" (2020), published in Molecular Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kevin M. Spencer include:

  • Yoji Hirano
  • Naoya Oribe
  • Thomas J. Whitford
  • Margaret Levin
  • Shogo Hirano

Their research appears regularly in well-regarded venues such as:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Clinical EEG and Neuroscience
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
  • Annals of Emergency Medicine

Best Publications

  • The mental prosthesis: assessing the speed of a P300-based brain-computer interface

    E. Donchin;K.M. Spencer;R. Wijesinghe

  • Abnormal Neural Synchrony in Schizophrenia

    Kevin M. Spencer;Paul Gerard Nestor;Margaret A. Niznikiewicz;Dean F. Salisbury

  • Neural synchrony indexes disordered perception and cognition in schizophrenia.

    Kevin M. Spencer;Paul Gerard Nestor;R. Perlmutter;Margaret A. Niznikiewicz

  • Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Late ERP Responses to Deviant Stimuli

    Kevin M. Spencer;Joseph Dien;Emanuel Donchin

  • Neurophysiological biomarkers for drug development in schizophrenia

    Daniel C. Javitt;Kevin M. Spencer;Gunvant K. Thaker;Georg Winterer

  • Parsing the late positive complex: Mental chronometry and the ERP components that inhabit the neighborhood of the P300

    Joseph Dien;Joseph Dien;Kevin M. Spencer;Kevin M. Spencer;Emanuel Donchin;Emanuel Donchin

  • A componential analysis of the ERP elicited by novel events using a dense electrode array

    Kevin M. Spencer;Joseph Dien;Emanuel Donchin

  • Gamma-band auditory steady-state responses are impaired in first episode psychosis.

    Kevin M. Spencer;Dean F. Salisbury;Martha Elizabeth Shenton;Martha Elizabeth Shenton;Robert William McCarley

  • Localization of the event-related potential novelty response as defined by principal components analysis

    Joseph Dien;Kevin M. Spencer;Kevin M. Spencer;Emanuel Donchin;Emanuel Donchin

  • Left auditory cortex gamma synchronization and auditory hallucination symptoms in schizophrenia

    Kevin M. Spencer;Margaret A. Niznikiewicz;Paul Gerard Nestor;Paul Gerard Nestor;Martha E. Shenton;Martha E. Shenton

  • The influence of stimulus deviance and novelty on the P300 and novelty P3.

    Abraham Goldstein;Kevin M. Spencer;Emanuel Donchin

  • Spontaneous Gamma Activity in Schizophrenia.

    Yoji Hirano;Naoya Oribe;Naoya Oribe;Naoya Oribe;Shigenobu Kanba;Toshiaki Onitsuka

  • A roadmap for the development and validation of event-related potential biomarkers in schizophrenia research.

    Steven J. Luck;Daniel H. Mathalon;Brian F. O'Donnell;Matti S. Hämäläinen

  • Syntactic Parsing Preferences and their On-Line Revisions: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Event-Related Brain Potentials

    Angela D. Friederici;Axel Mecklinger;Kevin M. Spencer;Karsten Steinhauer

  • Sensory-evoked gamma oscillations in chronic schizophrenia.

    Kevin M. Spencer;Margaret A. Niznikiewicz;Martha Elizabeth Shenton;Martha Elizabeth Shenton;Robert William McCarley

  • Long-range synchrony of gamma oscillations and auditory hallucination symptoms in schizophrenia

    C. Mulert;V. Kirsch;V. Kirsch;Roberto Pascual-Marqui;Robert W. McCarley

  • Poststimulus EEG spectral analysis and P300: attention, task, and probability.

    Kevin M. Spencer;John Polich

  • Baseline gamma power during auditory steady-state stimulation in schizophrenia

    Kevin M Spencer

  • Functional and structural deficits in brain regions subserving face perception in schizophrenia.

    Toshiaki Onitsuka;Margaret A. Niznikiewicz;Kevin M. Spencer;Melissa Frumin

  • Attentional networks and cingulum bundle in chronic schizophrenia.

    Paul Gerard Nestor;Paul Gerard Nestor;Marek R. Kubicki;Marek R. Kubicki;Kevin M. Spencer;Margaret A. Niznikiewicz

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert W. McCarley
Robert W. McCarley Harvard Medical School
Martha E. Shenton
Martha E. Shenton Harvard University
Margaret A. Niznikiewicz
Margaret A. Niznikiewicz Harvard University
Paul G. Nestor
Paul G. Nestor University of Massachusetts Boston
Emanuel Donchin
Emanuel Donchin University of South Florida
Toshiaki Onitsuka
Toshiaki Onitsuka Kyushu University
Marek Kubicki
Marek Kubicki Brigham and Women's Hospital
Mihály Hajós
Mihály Hajós Yale University
Daniel C. Javitt
Daniel C. Javitt Columbia University
Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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