Princeton Computational Memory Lab: Publications

Publications
Last updated: 9/12/09

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Research Papers

Socher, R., Gershman, S. J., Perotte, A. J., Sederberg, P. B., Blei, D. M., & Norman, K. A. (in press). 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. Supplemental materials

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. Abstract

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

Norman, K. A., Quamme, J.R., & Newman, E.L. (in press). Multivariate methods for tracking cognitive states. In F. Rösler, C. Ranganath, B. Röder, & R. H. Kluwe (Eds.), Neuroimaging and Psychological Theories of Human Memory. New York: Oxford University Press. PDF

Norman, K. A., Detre, G. J. & Polyn, S. M. (in press). Computational models of episodic memory. To appear in R. Sun (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Cognitive Modeling. 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. Submitted to Psychological Review. PDF

Previous version of the same paper:

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

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.

Contact Professor Ken Norman: knorman@princeton.edu