Thompson-Schill Lab :: Publications

Research Publications

  1. Novick, J.M., Kan, I.P., Trueswell, J.C. & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (in press). A case for conflict across multiple domains: Memory and language impairments following damage to ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. Cognitive Neuropsychology.
  2. Thompson-Schill, S.L., Ramscar, M., & Chrysikou, E.G. (2009). Cognition Without Control: When a Little Frontal Lobe Goes a Long Way. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18(3), 259-263.
  3. Hindy, N.C., Hamilton, R., Houghtling, A.S., Coslett, H.B., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (in press). Computer-mouse tracking reveals TMS disruptions of prefrontal function during semantic retrieval. Journal of Neurophysiology.
  4. Yee, E., Overton, E., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2009). Looking for meaning: Eye movements are sensitive to overlapping semantic features, not association. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16(5), 869-874.
  5. Kraemer, D.J.M., Rosenberg, L.M., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2009). The Neural Correlates of Visual and Verbal Cognitive Styles. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(12), 3792-3798.
  6. Schnur, T.T., Schwartz, M.F., Kimberg, D.Y., Hirshorn, E., Coslett, H.B., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2009). Localizing interference during naming: Convergent neuroimaging and neuropsychological evidence for the function of Broca’s area. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(1), 322-327.
  7. January, D., Trueswell, J.C., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2009). Co-localization of Stroop and Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution in Broca’s Area: Implications for the Neural Basis of Sentence Processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(12), 2434-2444.
  8. Novick, J. M., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Trueswell, J. C. (2008). Putting lexical constraints in context into the visual world paradigm. Cognition, 107, 850-903.
  9. Spalek, K. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (in press). Task-dependent semantic interference in language production: An fMRI study. Brain and Language.
  10. Oliver, R. T., Geiger, E. J., Lewandowski, B. C., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2009). Remembrance of things touched: How sensorimotor experience affects the neural instantiation of object form. Neuropsychologia, 47, 239-247.
  11. Bedny, M., Hulbert, J. C., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2007). Understanding words in context: The role of Broca's area in word comprehension. Brain Research, 1146, 101-114.
  12. Bedny, M., McGill, M., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2008). Semantic adaptation and competition during word comprehension. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 2574-2585.
  13. Connolly, A. C., Gleitman, L. R., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2007). The effect of congenital blindness on the semantic representation of some everyday concepts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(20) 8241-8246.
  14. Bedny, M., Aguirre, G. K., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2007). Item analysis in functional magnetic resonance imaging. Neuroimage, 35(3), 1093-1102.
  15. Snyder, H. R., Feigenson, K., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2007). The role of cognitive control demands in left inferior frontal gyrus activation during semantic and phonological tasks. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(5), 761-775.
  16. Kan, I. P., Biran, I., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Chatterjee, A. (2006). Letter selection and letter assembly in acquired dysgraphia. Cognitive & Behavioral Neurology, 19(4), 225-236.
  17. Hirshorn E. A. & Thompson-Schill S. L. (2006). Role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in covert word retrieval: Neural correlates of switching during verbal fluency. Neuropsychologia, 44, 2547-2557.
  18. Thompson-Schill, S. L. & Botvinick, M. M. (2006). Resolving conflict: A response to Martin and Cheng (2006). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13(3), 402-408.
  19. Bedny, M. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2006). Neuroanatomically separable effects of imageability and grammatical class during single word comprehension. Brain and Language, 98, 127-139.
  20. Ellenbogen J. M., Hulbert J. C., Stickgold R., Dinges D. F., Thompson-Schill S. L. (2006). Interfering with theories of sleep and memory: Sleep, declarative memory and associative interference. Current Biology, 16, 1290-1294.
  21. Kan, I.P., Kable, J.W., Van Scoyoc, A., Chatterjee, A., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2006). Fractionating the left frontal response to tools: Dissociable effects of motor experience and lexical competition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 267-277.
  22. Kable, J. W., Kan, I. P., Wilson, A. Thompson-Schill, S. L. & Chatterjee, A. (2005). Conceptual representations of action in lateral temporal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 1855-1870.
  23. Schnur, T.T., Lee E., Coslett, H.B., Schwartz, M.F. & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2005). When lexical selection gets tough, the LIFG gets going: A lesion analysis study of interference during word production. Brain and Language.
  24. Thompson-Schill, S. L., Bedney, M., & Goldberg, R.F. (2005). The frontal lobes and the regulation of mental activity. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 15, 219-224.
  25. Novick, J.M., Trueswell, J.C. & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2005). Cognitive Control and Parsing: Reexamining the Role of Broca's Area in Sentence Comprehension. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 263-281.
  26. Epstein, R.A., Higgins, J.S. & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2004). Learning Places from Views: Variation in Scene Processing as a Function of Experience and Navigational Ability. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 73-83.
  27. Kan, I. P. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). Selection from perceptual and conceptual representations. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 466-482.
  28. Shivde, G. S. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). Dissociating semantic and phonological maintenance using fMRI. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience.
  29. Tippett, L. J., Gendall, A., Farah, M. J., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). Selection Ability in Alzheimer's Disease: Investigation of a Component of Semantic Processing. Neuropsychology. 18(1), 163-173.
  30. Kan, I. P. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). Effect of name agreement on prefrontal activity during overt and covert picture naming. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 4(1), 43-57.
  31. Oliver, R. T. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2003). Dorsal stream activation during the retrieval of object size and shape. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 3(4), 309-322.
  32. Kan, I. P., Barsalou, L. W., Solomon, K. O., Minor, J. K. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2003). Role of mental imagery in a property verification task: fMRI evidence for perceptual semantic representations. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 20, 525-540.
  33. Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2003). Neuroimaging studies of semantic memory: inferring "how" from "where". Neuropsychologia, 41, 280-292.
  34. Thompson-Schill, S. L., Jonides, J., Marshuetz, C., Smith, E. E., D'Esposito, M., Kan, I. P., Knight, R. T., & Swick, D. (2002). Effects of frontal lobe damage on interference effects in working memory. Journal of Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2, 109-120.
  35. Schaefer, S.M., Jackson, D.C., Davidson, R.J., Kimberg, D.Y., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2002). Modulation of amygdala activity by conscious maintenance of negative emotion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14, 913-921.
  36. Barde, L. H. F. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2002). Models of functional organization of lateral prefrontal cortex in verbal working memory: Evidence in favor of the process model. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14, 1054-1063.
  37. Thompson-Schill, S. L. & Kan, I. P. (2001). Perceptual and conceptual sources of priming on a word generation task. Memory and Cognition, 29, 698-706.
  38. Gabrieli, J. D. E., Vaidya, C. J., Stone, M. V., Francis, W. S., Thompson-Schill, S. L., Fleischman, D. A., Tinklenberg, J. R., Yesavage, J. A., & Wilson, R. S. (2000). Convergent behavioral and neurospychological evidence for a distinction between identification and production forms of repetition priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 128, 479-498.
  39. Thompson-Schill, S. L., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Fleischman, D. A. (2000). Effects of structural similarity and name frequency on picture naming in Alzheimer's disease. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 5, 659-667.
  40. Thompson-Schill, S. L., D'Esposito, M., & Kan, I. P. (1999). Effects of repetition and competition on prefrontal activity during word generation. Neuron, 23, 513-522.
  41. Thompson-Schill, S. L., Aguirre, G. K., D'Esposito, M., & Farah, M. J. (1999). A neural basis for category and modality specificity of semantic knowledge. Neuropsychologia, 37, 671-676.
  42. Thompson-Schill, S. L. & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1999). Priming of visual and functional knowledge on a semantic classification task. Journal of Experimental Psychology:Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25, 41-53.
  43. Thompson-Schill, S. L., Swick, D., Farah, M. J., D'Esposito, M., Kan, I. P., & Knight, R. T. (1998). Verb generation in patients with focal frontal lesions: A neuropsychological test of neuroimaging findings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 95, 15855-15860.
  44. Thompson-Schill, S. L., Kurtz, K. J., Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1998). Effects of semantic and associative relatedness on automatic priming. Journal of Memory and Language, 38, 440-458.
  45. Thompson-Schill, S. L., D'Esposito, M., Aguirre, G. K., & Farah, M. J. (1997). Role of left prefrontal cortex in retrieval of semantic knowledge: A re-evaluation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 94, 14792-14797.
    Additional Materials: Verb generation stimuli
  46. Bower, G. H., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Tulving, E. (1994). On reducing retroactive interference: An interference analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition , 20, 51-66.
  47. Illes, J., Gabrieli, J., Rumelhart, D., Stone, M. V., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Glover, G. H. (1993). Use of a skip-echo Hadamard sequence for localizing cortical activation to visual words. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 3, 142.
  48. Lorscheid, T. & Thompson, S. L. (1991). Intrusion errors in patients with degenerative or vascular dementia: The cholinergic connection? Dementia, 1, 202-207.

Publications

Although adults perform better than children in situations that require goal-directed actions, inhibition of irrelevant information, and contextually-appropriate modification of behavior, children have a clear advantage when it comes to certain types of learning. These differences highlight inherent tradeoffs between learning and performance that give rise to both costs and benefits of cognition without control. Viewed this way, the extended period of hypofrontality in young children can be understood as a functional adaptation for human learning (Thompson-Schill, Ramscar, & Chrysikou, 2009).