Tim Curran's PDF Papers

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D'Lauro, C., Tanaka, J. W., & Curran, T. (2008). The preferred level of face categorization depends on discriminability. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 623-629. PDF

Scott, L. S., Tanaka, J. W., Sheinberg, D. L., & Curran, T. (2008). The role of category learning in the acquisition and retention of perceptual expertise: A behavioral and neurophysiological study. Brain Research, 1210, 204-215. PDF

Norman, K. A., Tepe, K., Nyhus, E., & Curran, T. (2008). Event-related potential correlates of interference effects on recognition memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 36-43. PDF

Frank, M.J., D'Lauro, C. & Curran, T. (2007). Cross-task individual differences in error processing: Neural, electrophysiological and genetic components. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 7, 297-308. PDF

Speer, N. K., & Curran, T. (2007). ERP correlates of familiarity and recollection processes in visual associative recognition. Brain Research, 1174, 97-109. PDF

Rossion, B., Collins, D., Goffaux, V., & Curran, T. (2007). Long-term visual expertise with artificial objects increases visual competition with early face categorization processes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19 , 543-555. PDF

Rugg, M. D., & Curran, T. (2007). Event-related potentials and recognition memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11 , 251-257. PDF

Curran, T., & Hancock, J. (2007). The FN400 indexes familiarity-based recognition of faces. NeuroImage, 36, 464-471.
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Curran, T., Debuse, C., & Leynes, P. A. (2007). Conflict and criterion setting in recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 33, 2-17.
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Curran, T., Tepe, K. L., & Piatt, C. (2006). ERP explorations of dual processes in recognition memory. In H. D. Zimmer, A. Mecklinger & U. Lindenberger (Eds.), Binding in human memory: A neurocognitive approach (pp. 467-492). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Curran, T., DeBuse, C., Woroch, B., & Hirshman, E. (2006). Combined pharmacological and electrophysiological dissociation of familiarity and recollection. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 1979-1985.
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Jacobs, J., Hwang, G., Curran, T., & Kahana, M. J. (2006). EEG oscillations and recognition memory: Theta correlates of memory retrieval and decision making. Neuroimage, 32, 978-987.
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Scott, L. S., Tanaka, J. W., Sheinberg, D. L., & Curran, T. (2006). A reevaluation of the electrophysiological correlates of expert object processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1453-1465.
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Tanaka, J. W., Curran, T., Porterfield, A. L., & Collins, D. (2006). Acquisition of pre-existing and acquired face representations: The N250 ERP as an index of face familiarity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1488-1497.
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Wong, A. C., Gauthier, I., Woroch, B., DeBuse, C., & Curran, T. (2005). An early electrophysiological response associated with expertise in letter perception. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 306-318.
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Frank, M. J., Woroch, B., & Curran, T. (2005). Error-related negativity predicts reinforcement learning and conflict biases. Neuron, 47, 495-501.
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Tanaka, J. W., Curran, T., & Sheinberg, D. (2005). The training and transfer of real-world, perceptual expertise. Psychological Science, 16, 145-151.
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Curran, T. (2004). Effects of attention and confidence on the hypothesized ERP correlates of recollection and familiarity. Neuropsychologia, 42, 1088-1106.
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Curran, T., & Friedman, W. J. (2004). ERP old/new effects at different retention intervals in recency discrimination tasks. Cognitive Brain Research, 18, 107-120.
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Curran & Cleary (2003). Using ERPs to Dissociate Recollection from Familiarity in Picture Recognition. Cognitive Brain Research, 15, 191-205.
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Curran, T., & Dien, J. (2003). Differentiating amodal familiarity from modality-specific memory processes: An ERP study. Psychophysiology, 40, 979-988.
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Curran & Friedman (2003). Differentiating location- and distance-based processes in memory for time: An ERP study. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 711-717.
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Gauthier, I., Curran, T., Curby, K. M., & Collins, D. (2003). Perceptual interference supports a non-modular account of face processing. Nature Neuroscience, 6, 428-432. .
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Curran, T., Tanaka, J. W., and Weiskopf, D. M. (2002). An electrophysiological comparison of visual categorization and recognition memory. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2, 1-18.
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Rossion, B., Curran, T., & Gauthier, I. (2002). A defense of the subordinate-level expertise account for the N170 component. Cognition, 85, 189-196.
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Curran, T. (2001). Implicit learning revealed by the method of opposition. Trends in Cognitive Science, 5, 503-504.
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Curran, T., Schacter, D. L., Johnson, M. K., & Spinks, R. (2001). Brain potentials reflect behavioral differences in true and false recognition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 201-216.
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Curran, T., Hills, A., Patterson, M. B., & Strauss, M. E. (2001). Effects of aging on visuospatial attention: An ERP study. Neuropsychologia, 39, 288-301.
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Tanaka, J. W., & Curran, T. (2001). A neural basis for expert object recognition. Psychological Science, 12, 43-47.
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Curran, T. (2000). Brain potentials of recollection and familiarity Memory & Cognition, 28, 923-938.
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Curran, T. (1999). The electrophysiology of incidental and intentional retrieval: ERP old/new effects in lexical decision and recognition memory. Neuropsychologia, 35, 1035-1049.
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Curran, T., Schacter, D. L., & Galluccio, L. (1999). Cross-modal priming and explicit memory in patients with verbal production deficits. Brain and Cognition, 39, 133-146.
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Schacter, D. L., Curran, T., Reiman, E. M., Chen, K., Bandy, D. J., & Frost, J. T. (1999). Medial temporal lobe activation during episodic encoding and retrieval: A PET study. Hippocampus, 9, 575-581.
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Curran, T., Schacter, D. L., Norman, K. A., & Galluccio, L. (1997). False recognition after a right frontal lobe infarction: Memory for general and specific information. Neuropsychologia, 35, 1035-1049.
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Rauch, S. L., Whalen, P. J., Savage, C. R., Curran, T., Kendrick, A., Brown, H. D., Bush, G., Breiter, H. C., & Rosen, B. R. (1997). Striatal recruitment during an implicit sequence learning task as measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Human Brain Mapping, 5, 124-132.
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Schacter, D. L., Curran, T., Galluccio, L., Milberg, W., & Bates, J. (1996). False recognition and the right frontal lobe: A case study. Neuropsychologia, 34, 793-808.
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Curran, T., Tucker, D. M., Kutas, M., & Posner, M. I. (1993). Topography of the N400: Brain electrical activity reflecting semantic expectation. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 88, 188-209.
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