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Selected Publications from the Geriatric Neuropsychology Laboratory

Neglect and Stroke

• McGlinchey-Berroth R, Milberg WP, Verfaellie M, Alexander M, Kilduff PT. Semantic processing in the neglected visual field: evidence from a lexical decision task. Cognitive Neuropsychology 1993, 10(1): 79-108.
• McGlinchey-Berroth R, Milberg WP, Verfaellie M, Grande L, D'Esposito M, Alexander M. Semantic processing and orthrographic specificity in hemispatial neglect. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 1996, 8: 291-304.
• McGlinchey-Berroth R, Bullis DP, Milberg WP, Verfaellie M, Alexander M, D'Esposito, M. Assessment of neglect reveals dissociable behavioral but not neuroanatomical subtypes. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 1996, 2: 441-451
• McGlinchey-Berroth R. Visual information processing in hemispatial neglect. Trends in Cognitive Science 1997, 1: 91-97.
• Esterman M, McGlinchey R, Milberg WP. Parallel and Serial Search in Hemispatial Neglect: Evidence for Preserved Preattentive but Impaired Attentive Processing. Neuropsychology 2000, 14: 599-611
• Esterman M, McGlinchey-Berroth R, Alexander MP, Milberg W. Triangular background shifts line bisection performance in hemispatial neglect: The critical point. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 2002, 8(5): 721-726.
• Esterman M, McGlinchey-Berroth R, Verfaellie M, Grande L, Kilduff P, Milberg W. Aware and Unaware Perception in Hemispatial Neglect: Evidence from a stem completion priming task. Cortex 2002, 38: 233-246.
• Wilkinson DT, Ko PC, Milberg WP, McGlinchey R. Impaired search for orientation but not color in hemi-spatial neglect. Submitted to Cortex.
• Wilkinson DT, Ko PC, Kilduff P, McGlinchey R, Milberg WP. A case of prosopagnosia without object agnosia. Submitted to Cognitive Neuropsychology.

Visual Cognition

• Wilkinson DT, Ko PC, McGlinchey R, Milberg WP. Spread attention for color but not orientation features. To be submitted to Perception and Psychophysics.
• Wilkinson DT, Ko PC, McGlinchey R, Milberg WP. Visual closure prevents the subitization of local contours, but grouping via common ground does not. To be submitted to Visual Cognition.

Dementia

• McGlinchey-Berroth R, Milberg WP, Charness N. Learning of a complex arithmetic skill in dementia: further evidence for a dissociation between compilation and production. Cortex 1989, 25: 697-705.
• McGlinchey-Berroth R, Milberg WP. Preserved semantic memory structure in Alzheimer's disease. Adult Information Processing: Limits on Loss. 1993.
• Milberg WP. Issues in the assessment of cognitive function in dementia. Brain and Cognition 1996, 31: 114-132.
• Grande L, McGlinchey-Berroth R, Milberg WP, D'Esposito M. Facilitation of unattended semantic information in Alzheimer's disease: Evidence from a selective attention task. Neuropsychology 1996, 10: 475-484.
• Milberg WP, McGlinchey-Berroth R, Duncan KM, Higgins J. Alterations in the dynamics of semantic activation in alzheimer's disease: Evidence for the Gain/Decay Hypothesis of a Disorder of Semantic Memory. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 1999,5 (7): 641-658
• Milberg W, McGlinchey R. Taking the thumbs off the multidimensional scales in the debate on semantic memory and Alzheimer's disease: a comment on Storms et al. (2003). Neuropsychology 2003, 17(2): 312-4.
• Ko PC, Higgins JA, Kilduff PT, Milberg WP, McGlinchey R. Evidence for intact selective attention in Alzheimer's disease patients using a location priming task. Neuropsychology 2005, 19(3): xx-x.
• Ko PC, Kilduff PT, Milberg WP, McGlinchey R. Alzheimer's disease impairs selective inhibition in Stroop color-word priming. Submitted to Neuropsychologia.

Aphasia

• Milberg WP and Blumstein SE. Back to the Future: Reclaiming Aphasia from Cognitive Neuroscience. Brain and Language 2000, 71 (11): 160-163.
• Blumstein W and Milberg WP. Neural Systems and Language Processing: Towards a Synthetic Approach. Brain and Language 2000, 71 (1): 26-29.
• Milberg W, Blumstein S, Giovanello KS, Misiurski C. Summation priming in aphasia: evidence for alterations in semantic integration and activation. Brain and Cognition. 2003, 51(1): 31-47.

Amnesia

• McGlinchey-Berroth R, Carrillo M, Gabrieli JDE, Brawn CM, Disterhoft J. Impaired Trace Eyeblink Conditioning in Bilateral Medial Temporal Lobe Amnesia. Behavioral Neuroscience 1997; 111: 873-88.
• McGlinchey-Berroth R, Brawn CM, Disterhoft JF. Temporal discrimination learning in severe amnesics reveals a deficit in the timing of eyeblink conditioned responses. Behavioral Neuroscience 1999; 113: 1-9.
• Fortier CM, McGlinchey-Berroth R, Disterhoft JF. Cerebellar cortical degeneration disrupts discrimination learning but not delay or trace classical eyeblink conditioning. Neuropsychology 2000; 14: 537-550.
• Myers CE, McGlinchey-Berroth R, Warren S, Monti L, Brawn CM, Gluck MA. Latent learning in medial temporal amnesia: evidence for disrupted representational but preserved attentional processes. Neuropsychology 2000, 14(1): 3-15.
• McGlinchey-Berroth R, Fortier CB, Cermak LS, Disterhoft JF. Temporal discrimination learning in abstinent chronic alcoholics. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experiment Research 2002, 26(6): 804-811.
• Fortier C, Disterhoft, JF, Capozzi S, McGlinchey R. Conditional discrimination learning in patients with bilateral medial temporal lobe amnesia. Behavioral Neuroscience 2003, 117(6): 1181-95.
• McGlinchey R, Fortier CB, Capozzi S, Disterhoft JF. Trace eyeblink conditioning in abstinent alcoholics: Effects of complex task demands and prior conditioning. Neuropsychology 2005, 19(2): 159-170.