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Sharon L. Thompson-Schill

Sharon L. Thompson-Schill

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Neuroscience

D-Index
70
Citations
20518
World Ranking
2490
National Ranking
1182

Psychology

D-Index
70
Citations
20521
World Ranking
2263
National Ranking
1318

Overview

Sharon L. Thompson-Schill is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of neuroscience and psychology with extensive work in cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence. Their research interests extend to multiple main topics such as memory and neural mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, memory processes and influences, functional brain connectivity studies, child and animal learning development, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and action observation and synchronization.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognition, Journal of Vision, and Nature Communications. They have published the most papers in bioRxiv, with six publications catalogued there.

Sharon L. Thompson-Schill has collaborated with several frequent co-authors including Alexa Tompary, Anna C. Schapiro, Danielle S. Bassett, Maxwell A. Bertolero, and Azeez Adebimpe.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by this scientist include:

  • Dissociable multi-scale patterns of development in personalized brain networks, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Semantic influences on episodic memory distortions, 2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Tracking the relation between gist and item memory over the course of long-term memory consolidation, 2021, eLife
  • Feature Uncertainty Predicts Behavioral and Neural Responses to Combined Concepts, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • The modulation of brain network integration and arousal during exploration, 2021, NeuroImage

Best Publications

  • Role of left inferior prefrontal cortex in retrieval of semantic knowledge: A reevaluation

    Sharon L. Thompson-Schill;Mark D’Esposito;Geoffrey K. Aguirre;Martha J. Farah

  • Cognitive control and parsing: reexamining the role of Broca's area in sentence comprehension

    Jared M. Novick;John C. Trueswell;Sharon L. Thompson-Schill

  • Neuroimaging studies of semantic memory: inferring "how" from "where".

    Sharon L Thompson-Schill

  • Reworking the language network

    Evelina Fedorenko;Sharon L. Thompson-Schill

  • EFFECTS OF REPETITION AND COMPETITION ON ACTIVITY IN LEFT PREFRONTAL CORTEX DURING WORD GENERATION

    Sharon L. Thompson-Schill;Mark D'Esposito;Irene P. Kan

  • Verb generation in patients with focal frontal lesions: A neuropsychological test of neuroimaging findings

    Sharon L. Thompson-Schill;Diane Swick;Martha J. Farah;Mark D’Esposito

  • Interfering with Theories of Sleep and Memory: Sleep, Declarative Memory, and Associative Interference

    Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen;Justin C. Hulbert;Robert Stickgold;David F. Dinges

  • Modulation of Amygdalar Activity by the Conscious Regulation of Negative Emotion

    Stacey M. Schaefer;Daren C. Jackson;Richard J. Davidson;Geoffrey K. Aguirre

  • The frontal lobes and the regulation of mental activity

    Sharon L Thompson-Schill;Marina Bedny;Robert F Goldberg

  • Localizing interference during naming: Convergent neuroimaging and neuropsychological evidence for the function of Broca's area

    Tatiana T. Schnur;Myrna F. Schwartz;Daniel Y. Kimberg;Elizabeth Hirshorn

  • Effects of frontal lobe damage on interference effects in working memory.

    Sharon L. Thompson-Schill;John Jonides;Christy Marshuetz;Edward E. Smith

  • A neural basis for category and modality specificity of semantic knowledge.

    S L Thompson-Schill;G K Aguirre;M D'Esposito;M J Farah

  • Role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in covert word retrieval: neural correlates of switching during verbal fluency.

    Elizabeth A. Hirshorn;Sharon L. Thompson-Schill

  • Cognition Without Control When a Little Frontal Lobe Goes a Long Way

    Sharon L. Thompson-Schill;Michael Ramscar;Evangelia G. Chrysikou

  • Putting concepts into context

    Eiling Yee;Sharon L. Thompson-Schill

  • ROLE OF MENTAL IMAGERY IN A PROPERTY VERIFICATION TASK: FMRI EVIDENCE FOR PERCEPTUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE

    Irene P. Kan;Lawrence W. Barsalou;Karen Olseth Solomon;Jeris K. Minor

  • A case for conflict across multiple domains: Memory and language impairments following damage to ventrolateral prefrontal cortex

    Jared M. Novick;Irene P. Kan;John C. Trueswell;Sharon L. Thompson-Schill

  • Effect of name agreement on prefrontal activity during overt and covert picture naming.

    Irene P. Kan;Sharonl L. Thompson-Schill

  • Co-localization of stroop and syntactic ambiguity resolution in broca's area: Implications for the neural basis of sentence processing

    David January;John C. Trueswell;Sharon L. Thompson-Schill

  • Conceptual Representations of Action in the Lateral Temporal Cortex

    Joseph W. Kable;Irene P. Kan;Ashley Wilson;Sharon L. Thompson-schill

Frequent Co-Authors

Danielle S. Bassett
Danielle S. Bassett University of Pennsylvania
Geoffrey K. Aguirre
Geoffrey K. Aguirre University of Pennsylvania
John C. Trueswell
John C. Trueswell University of Pennsylvania
Roy H. Hamilton
Roy H. Hamilton University of Pennsylvania
Myrna F. Schwartz
Myrna F. Schwartz Temple University
Yoed N. Kenett
Yoed N. Kenett Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Mark D'Esposito
Mark D'Esposito University of California, Berkeley
Gary Lupyan
Gary Lupyan University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael Cole
Michael Cole University of East London
Martha J. Farah
Martha J. Farah University of Pennsylvania

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