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Research Papers
Gershman, S. J., Schapiro, A. C., Hupbach A., Norman, K. A. (2013). Neural Context Reinstatement Predicts Memory Misattribution. Journal of Neuroscience. PDF
Detre, G. J., Natarajan, A., Gershman, S. J., & Norman, K. A. (2013). Moderate levels of activation lead to forgetting in the think/no-think paradigm. Neuropsychologia. PDF | Supplementary Material | P-CIT Toolbox
Johnson M. R., Higgins J. A., Norman K. A., Sederberg P. B., Smith T. A., & Johnson M. K. (2013). Foraging For Thought: An Inhibition-of-Return-Like Effect Resulting From Directing Attention Within Working Memory. Psychological Science. PDF
Poppenk, J., & Norman, K. A. (2012). Mechanisms supporting superior source memory for familiar items: A multi-voxel pattern analysis study. Neuropsychologia. PDF
Gershman, S. J., Moore, C. D., Todd, M. T., Norman, K. A., Sederberg, P. B. (2012). The successor representation and temporal context. Neural Computation, 24, 1553-1568. PDF
Gershman, S. J., Blei, D. M., Pereira, F., & Norman, K. A. (2011). A topographic latent source model for fMRI data. NeuroImage, 57, 89-100. PDF
Sederberg, P. B., Gershman, S. J., Polyn, S. M., & Norman, K. A. (2011). Human memory reconsolidation can be explained using the Temporal Context Model. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 455-468. PDF
Norman, K. A. (2010). How hippocampus and cortex contribute to recognition memory: revisiting the Complementary Learning Systems model. Hippocampus, doi: 10.1002/hipo.20855 PDF
Quamme, J. R., Weiss, D. J., & Norman, K. A. (2010). Listening for recollection: a multi-voxel pattern analysis of recognition memory retrieval strategies. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00061 PDF | Supplementary material
Newman, E. L., and Norman, K. A. (2010). Moderate excitation leads to weakening of perceptual representations. Cerebral Cortex, doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhq021. PDF | Supplementary material
Said, C. P., Moore, C. D., Norman, K. A., Haxby, J. V., & Todorov, A. (2010). Graded representations of emotional expressions in the left superior temporal sulcus. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2010.00006 PDF
Socher, R., Gershman, S. J., Perotte, A. J., Sederberg, P. B., Blei, D. M., & Norman, K. A. (2009). A Bayesian analysis of dynamics in free recall. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22. PDF
Johnson, J. D., McDuff, S. G. R., Rugg, M. D., & Norman, K. A. (2009). Recollection, familiarity, and cortical reinstatement: A multivoxel pattern analysis. Neuron, 63, 697-708 PDF | Supplementary material
Polyn S. M., Norman K. A., and Kahana M. J. (2009) Task context and organization in free recall. Neuropsychologia, 47, 2158-63. PDF
Migo, E., Montaldi, D., Norman, K. A., Quamme, J., & Mayes, A. R. (2009). The contribution of familiarity to recognition memory is a function of test format when using similar foils. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1198-1215. PDF
Polyn, S. M., Norman, K. A., & Kahana, M. J. (2009). A context maintenance and retrieval model of organizational processes in free recall. Psychological Review, 116(1), 129-156. PDF
McDuff, S. G. R., Frankel, H. C., & Norman, K. A. (2009). Multivoxel pattern analysis reveals increased memory targeting and reduced use of retrieved details during single-agenda source monitoring. Journal of Neuroscience 29(2), 508-516. 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 (1), 36-43. PDF
Norman, K.A., Newman, E.L. & Detre, G.J. (2007). A neural network model of retrieval-induced forgetting. Psychological Review 114 (4), 887-953. PDF - Wiki
Howard, M. W., Venkatadass, V., Norman, K. A., and Kahana, M. J. (2007). Associative processes in immediate recency. Memory & Cognition, 35 (7), 1700-1711. PDF
Quamme, J. R., Yonelinas, A. P. & Norman, K. A. (2007). Effect of unitization on associative recognition in amnesia. Hippocampus, 17:192-200. PDF
Norman, K. A., Newman, E. L., Detre, G. J., & Polyn, S. M. (2006). How inhibitory oscillations can train neural networks and punish competitors. Neural Computation, 18:1577-1610 PDF
Polyn, S. M., Natu, V. S., Cohen, J. D., & Norman, K. A. (2005). Category-specific cortical activity precedes recall during memory search. Science, 310, 1963-1966. Abstract | Full text
Norman, K. A., Newman E. L. & Perotte, A. J. (2005). Methods for reducing interference in the Complementary Learning Systems model: Oscillating inhibition and autonomous memory rehearsal. Neural Networks 18 (9), 1212-1228. PDF
Mayes, A. R., Holdstock, J. S., Isaac, C. L., Montaldi, D., Grigor, J., Gummer, A., Cariga, P., Downes, J. J., Tsivilis, D., Gaffan, D., Gong, Q., & Norman, K. A. (2004). Associative recognition in a patient with selective hippocampal lesions and relatively normal item recognition. Hippocampus, 14, 763-784. PDF
Atri, A., Sherman, S. J., Norman, K. A., Kirchhoff, B. A., Nicolas, M. M., Greicius, M. D., Cramer, S., Breiter, H.C., Hasselmo, M. E., & Stern, C. E. (2004). Blockade of central cholinergic receptors impairs new learning and increases proactive interference in a word paired-associate memory task. Behavioral Neuroscience, 118, 223-236. PDF
Norman, K. A. & O'Reilly, R. C. (2003). Modeling hippocampal and neocortical contributions to recognition memory: A complementary learning systems approach. Psychological Review. Abstract | PDF | projects as compressed tar file | documentation for projects | blog
Norman, K. A. (2002). Differential effects of list strength on recollection and familiarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 28(6), 1083-1094. Abstract | PDF
Holdstock, J. S., Mayes, A. R., Roberts, N., Cezayirli, E., Isaac, C. L., O'Reilly, R. C., & Norman, K. A. (2002). Under what conditions is recognition spared relative to recall after selective hippocampal damage in humans? Hippocampus, 12, 341-351. Abstract | PDF
O'Reilly, R. C., Norman, K. A., & McClelland, J. L. (1998). A hippocampal model of recognition memory. In M. I. Jordan, M. J. Kearns, & S. A. Solla (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 10. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Abstract | PDF
Norman, K. A., & Schacter, D. L. (1997). False recognition in younger and older adults: Exploring the characteristics of illusory memories. Memory & Cognition, 25, 838-848. Abstract
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. Abstract
Review Papers
Norman, K.A., Polyn, S.M., Detre, G.J. and Haxby, J.V. (2006). Beyond mind-reading: multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI data. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(3). PDF
Norman, K.A. (2006). Declarative memory: sleep protects new memories from interference. Current Biology , 16(15). PDF
O'Reilly, R. C., & Norman, K. A. (2002). Hippocampal and neocortical contributions to memory: Advances in the complementary learning systems framework. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6(12), 505-510. Abstract | PDF
Schacter, D. L., Norman, K. A., & Koutstaal, W. (1998). The cognitive neuroscience of constructive memory. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 289-318. PDF
Schacter, D. L., Koutstaal, W., & Norman, K. A. (1997). False memories and aging. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1, 229-236. Abstract
Schacter, D. L., Koutstaal, W., & Norman, K. A. (1996). Can cognitive neuroscience illuminate the nature of traumatic childhood memories? Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 6, 207-214. Abstract
Book Chapters
Sederberg, P. B. & Norman, K. A. (2010). Learning and memory: Computational models. In G. F. Koob, M. Le Moal, & R. F. Thompson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience, volume 2. Oxford: Academic Press. PDF
Norman, K. A., Quamme, J. R., & Newman, E. L. (2009). Multivariate methods for tracking cognitive states. In F. Rosler, C. Ranganath, B. Roder, & R. H. Kluwe (Eds.), Neuroimaging of Human Memory: Linking Cognitive Processes to Neural Systems. New York: Oxford University Press. PDF
Norman, K. A., Detre, G. J. & Polyn, S. M. (2008). Computational models of episodic memory. In R. Sun (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology. PDF
Norman, K. A. (2002). Computational models of episodic memory. In L. Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London: Macmillan. Abstract | PDF
Schacter, D. L., Norman, K. A., & Koutstaal, W. (1997). The recovered memories debate: A cognitive neuroscience perspective. In M. A. Conway (Ed.), Recovered Memories and False Memories. New York: Oxford University Press. Abstract
Norman, K. A., & Schacter, D. L. (1996). Implicit memory, explicit memory, and false recollection: A cognitive neuroscience perspective. In L. M. Reder (Ed.), Implicit Memory and Metacognition. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Technical Reports
The following two technical reports have been superseded by Norman, Newman & Detre (2007, Psychological Review - PDF - wiki )
Norman, K. A., Newman, E. L., & Detre, G. J. (2007) A neural network model of retrieval-induced forgetting (Tech. Rep. No. 07-1). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, & Behavior. PDF
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Norman, K. A., Newman, E. L., & Detre, G. J. (2006) A neural network model of retrieval-induced forgetting (Tech. Rep. No. 06-1). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, & Behavior. PDF
Conference Presentations
deBettencourt, M.T., Lee R.T., Cohen J.D., Norman K.A., & Turk-Browne N.B. (2012). Decoding and Training Sustained Attention with Real-Time fMRI. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (October, 2012). PDF
Gershman, S.J., Schapiro, A.C., Hupbach, A., & Norman, K.A. (2012). Neural context reinstatement predicts memory misattribution. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (October, 2012). PDF
Manning J.R., Blei, D., & Norman, K.A. (2012). Decoding topic vectors during memory encoding and retrieval. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (October, 2012). PDF
Schapiro, A.C., Norman, K.A., & Rogers, T.T. (2012). The role of sleep in consolidating semantic knowledge. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (October, 2012). PDF
Kim, G., Lewis-Peacock, J.A., Norman, K.A. & Turk-Browne, N.B. (2012). Context-based prediction and memory suppression. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (October, 2012). PDF
Poppenk, J., & Norman, K.A. (2012). Moderate reactivation of cued associates leads to forgetting in an RSVP task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. New Orleans, L.A (October, 2012). PDF
Cohen, J.D., Lewis-Peacock, J.A., & Norman, K.A. (2012). Neural evidence for the flexible use of working memory and episodic memory in prospective remembering. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (October, 2012). PDF
Lewis-Peacock, J.A. & Norman, K.A. (2012). Deactivation of items in working memory can weaken long-term memory. Poster presented at the Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Bloomington, IN (May, 2012). PDF
Manning, J.R., Blei, D.M. & Norman, K.A. (2012). Tracking item representations during free recall. Poster presented at the Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Bloomington, IN (May, 2012). PDF
Lewis-Peacock, J.A. & Norman, K.A. (2012). Deactivation of items in working memory can weaken long-term memory. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting, Chicago, IL (Apr, 2012). PDF
Poppenk, J. & Norman, K.A. (2011). Familiarization helps contextual features stick to item features: A multi-voxel pattern analysis study. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC (Nov, 2011). PDF
Lewis-Peacock, J.A., Salesi, M.R., Cohen, J.D. & Norman, K.A. (2011). Decoding the use of working memory & episodic memory in prospective remembering. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC (Nov, 2011). PDF
Detre, G.J., Natarajan, A. & Norman, K.A. (2010). Moderate Memory Activation Leads to Forgetting in the Think-No Think Paradigm. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego (Nov, 2010). PDF
McDuff, S.G.R., Frankel, H.C. & Norman, K.A. (2008). Multi-voxel pattern analysis reveals increased memory targeting and reduced use of retrieved details during single-agenda source monitoring. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC (Nov, 2008). PDF
Newman, E.L. & Norman, K.A. (2008). Weakening perceptual representations through moderate excitation. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC (Nov, 2008). PDF
Sederberg, P.B. & Norman, K.A. (2008). The dynamics of semantic and temporal cuing during episodic memory retrieval. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, Il (Nov, 2008). PDF
Quamme,J.R., Weiss, D.J., & Norman, K.A. (2007). Pattern classification of fMRI retrieval states in recognition memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychnonomic Society, Long Beach, CA (Nov, 2007). PDF
Detre,G.J., Polyn, S.M., Bannert, M.M., & Norman, K.A. (2007). Context in free recall - multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA (Nov, 2007). PDF
Sederberg,P.B. & Norman, K.A. (2007). Tracking Episodic and Semantic Retrieval with fMRI Pattern Classification. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA (Nov, 2007). PDF
Newman,E.L. & Norman, K.A. (2007). Reading minds: using EEG pattern classification to predict behavior in negative priming. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA (Nov, 2007). PDF
Newman, E.L. & Norman, K.A. (2007). Using EEG pattern classification to track competition in negative priming. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting, New York, NY (May, 2007). PDF
Frankel, H.C., Robison, S.G., & Norman, K.A. (2006). fMRI Correlates of Retrieval Orientation: Tracking Contextual Reinstatement Using Pattern Classification. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta GA (Oct 2006) PDF
Newman, E.L. & Norman, K.A. (2006). Tracking the sub-trial dynamics of cognitive competition. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA (Oct 2006). PDF
Quamme, J.R. & Norman, K.A. (2006). Using fMRI pattern classification of recollection and familiarity to predict false alarms in recognition memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Oct 2006) PDF
Robison, S.G., Osherson, D.N., Norman, K.A. & Cohen, J.D. (2006). Pattern Classification of Attentional Control States. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta GA (Oct 2006). PPT
Carroll, M.K., Norman, K.A., Haxby, J.V., Schapire, R.E. (2006). Exploiting spatial information to improve fMRI pattern classification. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (Jun 2006) PDF
Detre, G., Polyn, S.M., Moore, C.D., Natu, V.S., Singer, B.D., Cohen, J.D., Haxby, J.V., Norman, K.A. (2006). The Multi-Voxel Pattern Analysis (MVPA) toolbox. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (Jun 2006) PDF
Detre, G., Natu, V.S., Schneider, K., DeSimone, K., Kastner, S, Norman, K.A. (2005). Reading out the location being stored in spatial working memory with fMRI. Poster presented at the Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC (Nov 2005). PDF
Quamme, J.R., Yonelinas, A.P., Norman, K.A. (2005) Associative recognition in amnesia: spared performance is related to unitization and familiarity capacity. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC (Nov 2005). PDF
Robison, S.G. & Norman, K.A. (2005). Pattern classification of memory encoding tasks. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC (Nov 2005). PDF
Polyn, S., Detre, G., Takerkart, S., Natu, V., Benharrosh, M., Singer, B., Cohen, J., Haxby, J., Norman, K., (2005). A Matlab-based toolbox to facilitate multi-voxel pattern classification of fMRI data. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, Canada, (June 2005). PDF
Lenartowicz, A., Detre, G., Polyn, S., Chein, J., Yeung, N., Nystrom, L., Norman, K. A., Cohen, J. D. (2005). Characterization of brain states during task-switching using a neural network classifier. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting, New York, NY. PDF
Norman, K., Newman, E., & Detre, G. (2004, November). Further predictions from a neural network model of retrieval induced forgetting. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Minneapolis, MN. PDF
Polyn S.M., Cohen J.D., Norman K.A. (2004) Detecting distributed patterns in an fMRI study of free recall. Society for Neuroscience conference, San Diego, CA. PDF
Polyn, S. M., Nystrom, L. E., Norman, K. A., Haxby, J. V., Gobbini, M. I., & Cohen, J. D. (2004). Using neural network algorithms to investigate distributed patterns of brain activity in fMRI. Human Brain Mapping conference, Budapest, Hungary. PDF
Norman, K. A., Newman, E. L., Detre, G. J., & Polyn, S.M. (2004). How theta oscillations can train neural networks and punish competitors. Cognitive Neuroscience, San Francisco, CA. PDF
Norman, K. A., Newman, E. L., Detre, G. J., & Polyn, S.M. (2004). How inhibitory oscillations can train neural networks and punish competitors. Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor. PDF
Newman, E. L. & Norman, K. A. (2003) Oscillations Drive Learning in Retrieval Induced Forgetting. Abstracts for Society for Neuroscience annual meeting. PDF
Polyn, S.M., Norman, K.A., & Cohen, J.D. (2003, March). Modeling prefrontal and medial temporal contributions to episodic memory. Cognitive Neuroscience Convention, NYC. PDF
Newman, E. & Norman, K.A. (2003). A Neural Network Model of Retrieval-Induced Forgetting. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, NYC. PDF
Polyn, S.M., Norman, K.A., & Cohen, J.D. (2002, November). Connectionist modeling of source memory phenomena. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience convention, Orlando, FL. PDF
Norman, K. A., Curran, T., & Tepe, K. (2002, April). Event-related potential correlates of interference effects on recognition memory. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA. PDF
Norman, K. A. (2000, November). Differential effects of list strength on recollection and familiarity. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. PDF
Kirchhoff, B. A., Norman, K. A., Nicolas, M. M., Greicius, M., Breiter, H. C., Hasselmo, M. E., & Stern, C. E. (2000, November). Effect of cholinergic blockade on paired-associate learning in humans. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.
Huber, D. E., O'Reilly, R. C., & Norman, K. A. (2000, May). Understanding memory strengthening in a model of neocortex: The deepening and sharpening of item attractors. Fourth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Norman, K. A., O'Reilly, R. C., & Huber, D. E. (2000, April). Modeling hippocampal and neocortical contributions to recognition memory. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA. PDF
Savage, C. R., Schacter, D. L., Norman, K. A., Fisler, R. E., Rauch, S. L., Benson R. L., & Albert, M. S. (1997, March). A functional MRI study of episodic memory retrieval. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.