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  Townsend, J., Adamo, M., Haist, F. (2006). Changing channels: An FMRI study of aging and cross-modalattention shifts. Neuroimage, 31, 1682-1692.
 

Ceponiene , R., Alku, P., Westerfield, M., Torki, M., Townsend , J. (2005). Event-related potentials differentiate syllable and non-phonetic correlate processing in children and adults. Psychophysiology, 42, 391-406.

 

Haist, F., Adamo, M., Westerfield, M., Courchesne, E., Townsend , J. (2005). The functional neuroanatomy of spatial attention in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Developmental Neuropsychology, 27(3), 425-458.

Makeig, S., Delorme, A., Westerfield, M., Jung, T-P., Townsend, J., Courchesne, E., Sejnowski, TJ. (2004). Electroencephalographic brain dynamics following manually responded visual targets. Public Library of Science, Biology , 2(6), 747-762, http://biology.plosjournals.org .

Akshoomoff, N, Courchesne, E, Lord, C, Lincoln, AJ, Courchesne, RY, Carper, RA, Townsend, J. (2004). Identification of a neuroanatomical profile in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorders. The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , 43(3), 349-357.

Schul, R., Stiles, J., Wulfeck, B., and Townsend, J. (2004). How ‘generalized' is the ‘slowed processing' in SLI?: The case of visuospatial attentional orienting. Neuropsychologia, 42, 661-671.

Schul, R., Townsend, J. & Stiles, J. (2003). The development of attention orienting during the school-age years. Developmental Science , 6(3), 262-272.

Makeig, S., Westerfield, M., Jung, T-P., Enghoff, S., Townsend, J., Courchesne, E., Sejnowski, TJ. (2002). Brain dynamic sources of visual evoked responses. Science , 295(5555), 690-694.

Tunney, N., Taylor, L. F., Higbie, E. J., and Haist, F. (2002). Declarative memory and motor learning in the older adult. Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics , 20, 21-42 .

Haist, F., Bowden Gore, J., and Mao, H. (2001). Consolidation of human memory over decades revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Nature Neuroscience , 4, 1139-1145.

Jung, T-P., Makeig, S., Westerfield, M., Townsend, J., Courchesne, E. & Sejnowski, TJ. Analysis and visualization of single-trial event-related potentials. (2001). Human Brain Mapping , 14, 166-185.

Townsend, J., Westerfield, M., Leaver, E., Makeig, S., Jung, T-P., Pierce, K. & Courchesne, E. (2001). Event-related brain response abnormalities in autism: Evidence for impaired cerebello-frontal spatial attention networks. Cognitive Brain Research, 11(1), 127-145.

Juul-Dam, N., Townsend, J. & Courchesne, E. (2001). Pre-, peri- and neonatal factors in autism, PDD-NOS, and the general population. Pediatrics , 107(4), e63.

Courchesne, E., Chisum, H.J., Townsend, J., Cowles, A., Covington , J., Egaas, B., Harwood, M., Hinds, S & Press , GA. (2000). Normal brain development and aging: Quantitative analysis at in vivo MR imaging in healthy volunteers. Radiology , 216, 672-682.

Haist, F . , Song, A. W., Wild, K., Faber, T., Popp , C.A. , and Morris, R.D. (2000). Linking sight and sound: fMRI evidence of primary auditory cortex activation during visual word recognition. Brain and Language , 76, 340-350.

Jung, T-P, Makeig, S., Westerfield, M., Townsend, J., Courchesne, E. and Sejnowski, TJ. (2000). Removal of eye activity artifacts from visual event-related potentials in normal and clinical subjects. Clinical Neurophysiology , 111:10, 1745-58.

Townsend, J., Courchesne, E., Covington , J., Westerfield, M., Harris , N.S. , Lyden, P., Lowry, T.P. & Press, G. (1999). Spatial attention deficits in patients with acquired or developmental cerebellar abnormality. Journal of Neuroscience , 19(13), 5632-5643.

Makeig, S., Westerfield, M., Tzyy-Ping, J., Covington , J., Townsend, J., Sejnowski, T.J. & Courchesne, E. (1999). Functionally independent components of the late positive event-related potential during visual spatial attention. Journal of Neuroscience , 19(7), 2665-2680.

Song, A. W., Mao, H., Muthupillai, R., Haist, F., and Dixon , W. T. (1999). Segmented spin echo to increase capillary fMRI signal: Repeated intrinsic diffusion enhancement (RIDE). Magnetic Resonance in Medicine , 42, 631-635.

Makeig, S., Westerfield, M., Townsend, J., Jung, T.-P., Courchsne,E. and Sejnowski, T. J. (1999). Functionally independent components of early event-related potentials in a visual spatial attention task Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences , 354(1387), 1135-1144.

Harris , N.S. , Courchesne, E., Townsend, J., Carper, R.A. & Lord, C. (1999). Neuroanatomic contributions to slowed orienting of attention in children with autism. Cognitive Brain Research , 8, 61-71.

Akshoomoff, N.A., Courchesne, E. & Townsend, J. (1997). Attention coordination and anticipatory control. In J.D. Schmahmann (Ed.), The Cerebellum and cognition, ( International Review of Neurobiology , vol. 41), pp. 575-598. San Diego : Academic Press.

Townsend, J., Singer-Harris, N. & Courchesne, E. (1996). Visual attention abnormalities in autism: Delayed orienting to a location. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , 2 , 1-10.

Townsend, J., Courchesne, E. & Egaas, B. (1996) Slowed orienting of covert visual-spatial attention in autism: Specific deficits associated with cerebellar and parietal abnormality. Development and Psychopathology , 8 (3), 563-584.

Haas, R.H., Townsend, J., Courchesne, E., Lincoln , A.J., Schreibman, L. & Yeung-Courchesne, R. (1996). Neurological abnormalities in infantile autism. Journal of Child Neurology , 11 (2), 84-92.

Belmonte, M., Egaas, B., Townsend, J. & Courchesne, E. (1995). NMR intensity of corpus callosum differs with age but not with diagnosis of autism. Neuroreport , 6 (9), 1253-1256.

Townsend, J. & Courchesne, E. (1994). Parietal damage and narrow "spotlight" spatial attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience , 6 (3), 220-232.

Courchesne, E., Townsend, J. & Saitoh, O. (1994). The brain in infantile autism: Posterior fossa structures are abnormal. Neurology , 44 , 214-223.

Courchesne, E., Townsend, J., Akshoomoff, N., Saitoh, O., Yeung-Courchesne, R., Lincoln , A., James, H., Haas, R., Schreibman, L. & Lau, L. (1994). Impairment in shifting attention in autistic and cerebellar patients. Behavioral Neuroscience , 108 (5), 848-865.

 
Presentations and Abstracts

Westerfield, M., Schroeder, S., Lee, K., Adamo, M., Ceponiene, R., Townsend, J. (2003). Cross-modal Shifting Attention in Healthy Aging: An ERP Study. [Abstract] Society For Neuroscience Abstracts.

Adamo, M., Westerfield, M., Haist, F., Townsend, J. (2003). Cross-modal Shifting Attention in Healthy Aging: An fMRI Study. [Abstract] Society For Neuroscience Abstracts.

Townsend, J., Haist, F., Adamo, M., Stiles, J. (2003). Developmental Changes in the brain substrate for Spatial Attention. [Abstract] Society For Neuroscience Abstracts.

Haist, F., Adamo, M., Courchesne, E. (2003). Adaptive reorganization of brain systems in autism: an event - related fMRI study of source memory. [Absrtact] Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.

Ceponiene, R., Trauner, D., Llamas, T., Torki, M., Townsend, J., Bates, E. (2003). Auditory Processing and Object Naming in Children With Epileptic Aphasia. [Abstract] Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.

Lee, K., Westerfield, M., Schroeder, S., Steiner, D., Ceponiene, R., Townsend, J. (2004). Effects of Aging on Rapid Attention Shifts. [Abstract] Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts.