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Scott D. Slotnick

Scott D. Slotnick

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Neuroscience

D-Index
38
Citations
6929
World Ranking
8511
National Ranking
3627

Psychology

D-Index
38
Citations
6877
World Ranking
8817
National Ranking
4689

Overview

Scott D. Slotnick is affiliated with Boston College in the United States and specializes primarily in Neuroscience, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience. Their research encompasses several subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics related to memory and brain function, particularly emphasizing Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Memory Processes and Influences, and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies. Additional research interests include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neural dynamics and brain function, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms.

Scott D. Slotnick's recent publications include the following papers:

  • "Are there sex differences in brain activity during long-term memory? A systematic review and fMRI activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis" (2020, Cognitive Neuroscience)
  • "Functional connectivity with the anterior and posterior hippocampus during spatial memory" (2020, Hippocampus)
  • "The anterior hippocampus is associated with spatial memory encoding" (2020, Brain Research)
  • "The hippocampus and long-term memory" (2022, Cognitive Neuroscience)
  • "Thalamic Functional Connectivity during Spatial Long-Term Memory and the Role of Sex" (2020, Brain Sciences)

This researcher collaborates frequently with peers including Dylan S. Spets, Haley A. Fritch, Preston P. Thakral, Brittany M. Jeye, and Robert S. Ross. These partnerships have contributed to the development and dissemination of research particularly within the areas of hippocampal function and memory.

Publication venues where Scott D. Slotnick has frequently appeared include:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience (11 publications)
  • Hippocampus (5 publications)
  • Brain Sciences (2 publications)
  • Memory (2 publications)
  • Brain Research (1 publication)

In addition to journal articles, Scott D. Slotnick has contributed to book literature with a publication titled Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory, scheduled for release by Cambridge University Press in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Distinct prefrontal cortex activity associated with item memory and source memory for visual shapes.

    Scott D. Slotnick;Lauren R. Moo;Jessica B. Segal;John Hart

  • A sensory signature that distinguishes true from false memories.

    Scott D Slotnick;Daniel L Schacter

  • Visual Mental Imagery Induces Retinotopically Organized Activation of Early Visual Areas

    Scott D. Slotnick;William L. Thompson;Stephen M. Kosslyn

  • The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory Distortion

    Daniel L. Schacter;Scott D. Slotnick

  • Cortical mechanisms of feature-based attentional control

    Taosheng Liu;Scott D. Slotnick;John T. Serences;Steven Yantis

  • Support for a continuous (single-process) model of recognition memory and source memory.

    Scott D. Slotnick;Chad S. Dodson

  • Attentional inhibition of visual processing in human striate and extrastriate cortex.

    Scott D Slotnick;Jens Schwarzbach;Steven Yantis

  • The neural origins of specific and general memory: the role of the fusiform cortex.

    Rachel J. Garoff;Scott D. Slotnick;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Cluster success: fMRI inferences for spatial extent have acceptable false-positive rates.

    Scott D. Slotnick

  • The nature of memory related activity in early visual areas

    Scott D. Slotnick;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Visual memory and visual perception recruit common neural substrates.

    Scott D. Slotnick

  • Visual memory and visual mental imagery recruit common control and sensory regions of the brain

    Scott D. Slotnick;William L. Thompson;Stephen M. Kosslyn

  • An analysis of signal detection and threshold models of source memory.

    Scott D. Slotnick;Stanley A. Klein;Chad S. Dodson;Arthur P. Shimamura

  • Using multi-stimulus VEP source localization to obtain a retinotopic map of human primary visual cortex.

    Scott D. Slotnick;Stanley A. Klein;Thom Carney;Erich Sutter

  • Prefrontal cortex hemispheric specialization for categorical and coordinate visual spatial memory

    Scott D. Slotnick;Lauren R. Moo

  • Interactions between thalamic and cortical rhythms during semantic memory recall in human

    Scott D. Slotnick;Lauren R. Moo;Michael A. Kraut;Ronald P. Lesser

  • Not All False Memories Are Created Equal: The Neural Basis of False Recognition

    Rachel J. Garoff-Eaton;Scott D. Slotnick;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Aging, source memory, and misrecollections.

    Chad S. Dodson;Sameer Bawa;Scott D. Slotnick

  • Electrophysiological estimate of human cortical magnification

    Scott D. Slotnick;Stanley A. Klein;Thom Carney;Erich E. Sutter

  • The hippocampus is preferentially associated with memory for spatial context

    Robert S. Ross;Scott D. Slotnick

  • The Visual Word Form Area

    Scott Slotnick

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven Yantis
Steven Yantis Johns Hopkins University
Daniel L. Schacter
Daniel L. Schacter Harvard University
Stephen M. Kosslyn
Stephen M. Kosslyn Harvard University
William L. Thompson
William L. Thompson Harvard University
Gregory Krauss
Gregory Krauss Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Morris Moscovitch
Morris Moscovitch University of Toronto
Philip David Zelazo
Philip David Zelazo University of Minnesota
Arthur P. Shimamura
Arthur P. Shimamura University of California, Berkeley
Evan Thompson
Evan Thompson University of British Columbia

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