Recent publications

M. Bar, E. Aminoff and D.L. Schacter (In press) Scenes unseen: The parahippocampal cortex intrinsically subserves contextual associations, not scenes or places per se Journal of Neuroscience

E. Aminoff, D.L. Schacter and M. Bar. (In press) The cortical underpinnings of context-based memory distortion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

M.F. Mason, M. Bar and C.N. Macrae. (In press) Exploring the past and impending future in the here and now: Mind-wandering in the default state. Cognitive Sciences

J.Y. Chiao, T. Iidaka, H.L. Gordon, J. Nogawa, M. Bar, E. Aminoff, N. Sadato and N. Ambady. (In press) Cultural specificity in amygdala response to fear faces. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

M. Bar and M. Neta (2008) The proactive brain: Using rudimentary information to make predictive judgments. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 7(4-5), 319-330.

A. Ghuman, M. Bar, I.G. Dobbins and D. Schnyer (2008) The effects of priming on frontal-temporal communication Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 105(24), 8405-8409.

M. Bar, E. Aminoff and A. Ishai. (2008) Famous Faces activate contextual associations in the parahippocampal cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 18(6), 1233-1238.

N. Gronau, M. Neta, & M. Bar (2008). Integrated contextual representation for objects' identities and their locations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(3), 371-388.

M. Bar (2007). The Proactive Brain: Using analogies and associations to generate predictions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11(7), 280-289.

K. Kveraga, J. Boshyan and M. Bar. (2007) Magnocellular projections as the trigger of top-down facilitation in recognition. Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 13232-13240.

M. Bar. (2007) The continuum of "looking forward," and paradoxical requirements from memory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30(3), 315-316.

K. Kveraga, A.S. Ghuman and M. Bar. (2007) Top-down predictions in the cognitive brain. Brain and Cognition, 65, 145-168.

M. Bar, E. Aminoff, M. Mason and M. Fenske (2007). The units of thought. Hippocampus, 17(6), 420-428.

M. Bar and M. Neta (2007). Visual elements of subjective preference modulate amygdala activation. Neuropsychologia, 45, 2191-2200.

E. Aminoff, N. Gronau and M. Bar (2007). The parahippocampal cortex mediates spatial and non-spatial associations. Cerebral Cortex, 27, 1493-1503.

Research in our laboratory is supported by the NIH-NINDS,
and by the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
Design by KS Kassam and J Boshyan.