Recent publications

M. Bar. (2009) The proactive brain: memory for predictions. Theme issue: Predictions in the brain: Using our past to generate a future (M. Bar Ed.) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 1235-1243.

M. Bar. (2009) Predictions: A universal principle in the operation of the human brain (Introduction). Theme issue: Predictions in the brain: Using our past to generate a future (M. Bar Ed.) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 1181-1182.

L. Feldman Barrett and M. Bar (2009) See it with feeling: Affective predictions during object perception. Theme issue: Predictions in the brain: Using our past to generate a future (M. Bar Ed.) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 1325-1334.

M.F. Mason, M. Bar and C.N. Macrae. (2009) Exploring the past and impending future in the here and now: Mind-wandering in the default state. Cognitive Sciences, 3(2), 143-162.

K. Kveraga, J. Boshyan and M. Bar (In press) The proactive brain: Using memory-based predictions in visual recognition. In S. Dickinson, M. Tarr, A. Leonardis and B. Schiele (Eds.) Object Categorization: Computer and Human Vision Perspectives. Cambridge University Press 2008.

J.Y. Chiao, T. Iidaka, H.L. Gordon, J. Nogawa, M. Bar, E. Aminoff, N. Sadato and N. Ambady. (2008) Cultural specificity in amygdala response to fear faces. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(12), 2167-2174.

E. Aminoff, D.L. Schacter and M. Bar. (2008) The cortical underpinnings of context-based memory distortion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(12), 2226-2237.

M. Bar, E. Aminoff and D.L. Schacter (2008) Scenes unseen: The parahippocampal cortex intrinsically subserves contextual associations, not scenes or places per se Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 8539-8544.

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.