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Overview

Tim Curran is a researcher affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on the field of Neuroscience, with particular emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience. Their research encompasses several subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Neurology, and Pharmacology.

The scientist's contributions to understanding brain function are reflected across various topics, notably:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Visual Perception and Processing Mechanisms
  • Neural Dynamics and Brain Function
  • Cognitive Functions and Memory

Tim Curran has coauthored publications with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Dietmar Cordes
  • Zhengshi Yang
  • Xiaowei Zhuang
  • Rajesh Nandy
  • Mark J. Lowe

Their most frequent publication venues include:

  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Journal of Cannabis Research
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin

Among their recent papers, Tim Curran authored a 2020 study titled "Acute effects of naturalistic THC vs. CBD use on recognition memory: a preliminary study" published in the Journal of Cannabis Research. Other notable papers involving related research topics include:

  • A meta-analysis of event-related potential correlates of recognition memory, 2023, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Energy-Period Profiles of Brain Networks in Group fMRI Resting-State Data: A Comparison of Empirical Mode Decomposition With the Short-Time Fourier Transform and the Discrete Wavelet Transform, 2021, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • An Event-Related Potential Investigation of Early Visual Processing Deficits During Face Perception in Youth at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis, 2021, Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • The bimodality of saccade duration during the exploration of visual scenes, 2020, Visual Cognition

Tim Curran's work contributes to advancing understanding of neural mechanisms underlying recognition memory, visual processing, and the effects of substances on cognition, integrating methodologies from electrophysiology and neuroimaging.

Best Publications

  • Event-related potentials and recognition memory

    Michael D. Rugg;Tim Curran

  • Brain potentials of recollection and familiarity

    Tim Curran

  • Attentional and Nonattentional Forms of Sequence Learning

    Tim Curran;Steven W. Keele

  • Genetic triple dissociation reveals multiple roles for dopamine in reinforcement learning

    Michael J. Frank;Ahmed A. Moustafa;Heather M. Haughey;Tim Curran

  • Functional role of gamma and theta oscillations in episodic memory

    Erika Nyhus;Tim Curran

  • A Neural Basis for Expert Object Recognition

    James W. Tanaka;Tim Curran

  • Prefrontal Regions Orchestrate Suppression of Emotional Memories via a Two-Phase Process

    Brendan E. Depue;Tim Curran;Marie T. Banich

  • Retrieval dynamics of recognition and frequency judgments: Evidence for separate processes of familiarity and recall.

    Douglas L. Hintzman;Tim Curran

  • Perceptual interference supports a non-modular account of face processing

    Isabel Gauthier;Tim Curran;Kim M. Curby;Daniel Collins

  • Error-Related Negativity Predicts Reinforcement Learning and Conflict Biases

    Michael J. Frank;Brion S. Woroch;Tim Curran

  • Activation of Preexisting and Acquired Face Representations: The N250 Event-related Potential as an Index of Face Familiarity

    James W. Tanaka;Tim Curran;Albert L. Porterfield;Daniel Collins

  • Striatal Recruitment During an Implicit Sequence Learning Task as Measured by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Scott L. Rauch;Paul J. Whalen;Cary R. Savage;Tim Curran

  • Using ERPs to dissociate recollection from familiarity in picture recognition.

    Tim Curran;Anne M Cleary

  • Neuroanatomical Correlates of Veridical and Illusory Recognition Memory: Evidence from Positron Emission Tomography

    Daniel L. Schacter;Eric Reiman;Tim Curran;Lang Sheng Yun

  • EEG oscillations and recognition memory: theta correlates of memory retrieval and decision making.

    Joshua Jacobs;Grace Hwang;Tim Curran;Michael J. Kahana

  • Violations of the independence assumption in process dissociation.

    Tim Curran;Douglas L. Hintzman

  • False recognition and the right frontal lobe: A case study

    Daniel L. Schacter;Tim Curran;Lissa Galluccio;William P. Milberg

  • Effects of attention and confidence on the hypothesized ERP correlates of recollection and familiarity.

    Tim Curran

  • Probing striatal function in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a PET study of implicit sequence learning.

    Rauch Sl;Savage Cr;Alpert Nm;Dougherty D

  • Memory strength and repetition suppression: multimodal imaging of medial temporal cortical contributions to recognition.

    Brian D. Gonsalves;Itamar Kahn;Itamar Kahn;Tim Curran;Kenneth A. Norman

Frequent Co-Authors

James W. Tanaka
James W. Tanaka University of Victoria
Daniel L. Schacter
Daniel L. Schacter Harvard University
Scott L. Rauch
Scott L. Rauch McLean Hospital
Cary R. Savage
Cary R. Savage University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Randall C. O'Reilly
Randall C. O'Reilly University of California, Davis
Douglas L. Hintzman
Douglas L. Hintzman University of Oregon
Marie T. Banich
Marie T. Banich University of Colorado Boulder
Michael J. Frank
Michael J. Frank Brown University
Yuko Munakata
Yuko Munakata University of California, Davis
Nathaniel M. Alpert
Nathaniel M. Alpert Harvard University

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