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Silvia A. Bunge is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields of study, primarily focusing on psychology and neuroscience. Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and education.

The main topics that Silvia A. Bunge investigates include:

  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Cognitive and Developmental Aspects of Mathematical Skills
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

Their frequent co-authors include Heather Bortfeld, Kevin S. Weiner, Willa I. Voorhies, Jewelia K. Yao, and Jacob A. Miller. Collaborative work often appears in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Brain Structure and Function, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, The FASEB Journal, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Recent notable publications by Silvia A. Bunge include:

  • "The Future of Women in Psychological Science," published in 2020 in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Sulcal depth in prefrontal cortex: a novel predictor of working memory performance," 2022, Cerebral Cortex
  • "Contribution of sustained attention abilities to real-world academic skills in children," 2023, Scientific Reports
  • "Presence or absence of a prefrontal sulcus is linked to reasoning performance during child development," 2022, Brain Structure and Function
  • "Labeling lateral prefrontal sulci using spherical data augmentation and context-aware training," 2021, NeuroImage

Silvia A. Bunge has also contributed to academic literature with a book published by Cambridge University Press titled Fundamentals of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, released in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Rethinking Feelings: An fMRI Study of the Cognitive Regulation of Emotion

    Kevin N. Ochsner;Silvia A. Bunge;James J. Gross;John D. E. Gabrieli

  • Immature frontal lobe contributions to cognitive control in children: evidence from fMRI.

    Silvia A. Bunge;Nicole M. Dudukovic;Moriah E. Thomason;Chandan J. Vaidya

  • Automatic emotion regulation

    Iris B. Mauss;Silvia A. Bunge;James J. Gross

  • Beyond eye gaze: What else can eyetracking reveal about cognition and cognitive development?

    Maria K. Eckstein;Belén Guerra-Carrillo;Alison T. Miller Singley;Silvia A. Bunge

  • Prefrontal regions involved in keeping information in and out of mind.

    Silvia A. Bunge;Kevin N. Ochsner;John E. Desmond;Gary H. Glover

  • Dissociable contributions of prefrontal and parietal cortices to response selection.

    Silvia A. Bunge;Eliot Hazeltine;Michael D. Scanlon;Allyson C. Rosen

  • Neurocognitive development of the ability to manipulate information in working memory

    Eveline A. Crone;Carter Wendelken;Sarah Donohue;Linda van Leijenhorst

  • How we use rules to select actions: A review of evidence from cognitive neuroscience

    Silvia A. Bunge

  • A Brain-Based Account of the Development of Rule Use in Childhood

    Silvia A. Bunge;Philip David Zelazo

  • Neurodevelopmental changes in working memory and cognitive control

    Silvia A Bunge;Silvia A Bunge;Samantha B Wright

  • Analogical Reasoning and Prefrontal Cortex: Evidence for Separable Retrieval and Integration Mechanisms

    Silvia A. Bunge;Carter Wendelken;David Badre;Anthony D. Wagner

  • Attachment-style differences in the ability to suppress negative thoughts: exploring the neural correlates.

    Omri Gillath;Silvia A. Bunge;Phillip R. Shaver;Carter Wendelken

  • Neural Evidence for Dissociable Components of Task-switching

    Eveline A. Crone;Carter Wendelken;Sarah E. Donohue;Silvia A. Bunge

  • Neural circuits subserving the retrieval and maintenance of abstract rules.

    Silvia A. Bunge;Itamar Kahn;Jonathan D. Wallis;Earl K. Miller

  • Altered Neural Substrates of Cognitive Control in Childhood ADHD: Evidence From Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Chandan J. Vaidya;Silvia A. Bunge;Nicole M. Dudukovic;Christine A. Zalecki

  • A resource model of the neural basis of executive working memory

    Silvia A. Bunge;Torkel Klingberg;Richard B. Jacobsen;John D. E. Gabrieli

  • Neural changes underlying the development of episodic memory during middle childhood.

    Simona Ghetti;Silvia A. Bunge

  • Differential effects of reasoning and speed training in children.

    Allyson P. Mackey;Susanna S. Hill;Susan I. Stone;Silvia A. Bunge

  • Age-related changes in memory: A cognitive neuroscience perspective.

    Matthew W. Prull;John D. E. Gabrieli;Silvia A. Bunge

  • Brain Regions Mediating Flexible Rule Use during Development

    Eveline A Crone;Sarah E Donohue;Ryan Honomichl;Carter Wendelken

Frequent Co-Authors

Simona Ghetti
Simona Ghetti University of California, Davis
Eveline A. Crone
Eveline A. Crone Erasmus University Rotterdam
Emilio Ferrer
Emilio Ferrer University of California, Davis
Kevin S. Weiner
Kevin S. Weiner University of California, Berkeley
Yee Lee Shing
Yee Lee Shing Goethe University Frankfurt
Anthony D. Wagner
Anthony D. Wagner Stanford University
Maurits W. van der Molen
Maurits W. van der Molen University of Amsterdam
Michael C. Anderson
Michael C. Anderson University of Cambridge
James J. Gross
James J. Gross Stanford University

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