Publications

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Publications by Topic Area:

Core fMRI papers investigating neural systems underlying category learning

Li, Y., Seger, C., Chen, Q., & Mo, L. (2020). Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus Integrates Multisensory Information in Category Learning. Cerebral Cortex, 30, 4410-4423.

Liu, Z., Lu, W., & Seger, C. A. (2019). Perceptual and categorical processing and representation in color categorization. Brain and Cognition, 136, 103617.

Braunlich, K, Liu, Z., & Seger, C. A. (2017) . Occipitotemporal Category Representations Are Sensitive to Abstract Category Boundaries Defined by Generalization Demands. The Journal of Neuroscience,37, 7631-7642.

Braunlich, K., Seger, C.A. (2016). Categorical evidence, confidence, and urgency during probabilistic categorization. Neuroimage 125: 941-952.

Seger, C. A., Braunlich, K., Wehe, H. S., & Liu, Z. (2015). Generalization in category learning: The roles of representational and decisional uncertainty. The Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 8802-8812

Liu, Z., Braunlich, K., Wehe, H. S., & Seger, C. A. (2015). Neural networks supporting switching, hypothesis testing, and rule application. Neuropsychologia, 77, 19-3

Braunlich, K., Gomez-Lavin, J., Seger, C.A. (2015). Frontoparietal networks involved in categorization and item working memory. Neuroimage 107:146-162

Peterson, E. J. & Seger, C. A. (2013). Many hats: Intra-Trial and Reward-Level Dependent BOLD Activity in the Striatum and Premotor Cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology 110, 1689-1702.

Lopez-Paniagua, D. & Seger, C. A. (2011) Interactions within and between corticostriatal loops during component processes of category learning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 3068-83.

Seger, C. A., Dennison, C. S., Lopez-Paniagua, D., Peterson, E. J., & Roark A. (2011). Dissociating hippocampal and basal ganglia contributions to category learning using stimulus novelty and subjective judgments. NeuroImage, 55, 1739-1753.

Seger, C. A., Peterson, E. J., Cincotta, C. M., Lopez-Paniagua, D., & Anderson, C. W. (2010). Dissociating the contributions of independent corticostriatal systems to visual categorization learning through the use of reinforcement learning modeling and Granger causality modeling. Neuroimage, 50(2), 644-56.

Cincotta, C. M & Seger, C. A. (2007) Dissociation between striatal regions while learning to categorize via observation and via feedback. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 249-265.

Seger, C. A. & Cincotta, C. M. (2006). Dynamics of frontal, striatal, and hippocampal systems in rule learning. Cerebral Cortex,16, 1546-1555

Seger, C. A. & Cincotta, C. M. (2005). The roles of the caudate nucleus in human classification learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 2541-2551.

Seger, C.A., & Cincotta, C. M. (2002). Striatal activation in concept learning. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2, 149-161.

Seger, C. A., Poldrack, R. A., Prabhakaran. V., Zhao, M., Glover, G., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2000). Hemispheric asymmetries and individual differences in visual concept learning as measured by functional MRI. Neuropsychologia, 38, 1316-1324.

Poldrack, R. A., Prabhakaran, V., Seger, C. A., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1999). Striatal activation during cognitive skill learning. Neuropsychology, 13, 564-574.

Behavioral Studies of Categorization and Category Learning

Liu, Z., Zhang, Y., Ma, D., Xu, Q., & Seger, C. A. (2020). Differing effects of gain and loss feedback on rule-based and information-integration category learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Wang, J., Liu, Z., Xing, Q., & Seger, C. A. (2020). The benefit of interleaved presentation in category learning is independent of working memory. Memory, 28, 285-292.

Categorization, Category Learning, and Decision Making Theory and Reviews

Zeithamova, D., Mack, M. L., Braunlich, K., Davis, T., Seger, C. A., van Kesteren, M. T., & Wutz, A. (2019). Brain Mechanisms of Concept Learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 39, 8259–8266.

Seger, C. A. & Peterson, E. J. (2013) Categorization = Decision Making + Generalization. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 37, 1187-1200.

Seger, C A. & Miller, E. K. (2010) Category learning in the brain. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 33, 203-219.

Seger, C. A. (2008). How do the basal ganglia contribute to categorization? Their roles in generalization, response selection, and learning via feedback. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 32, 265-278.

Basal Ganglia: Clinical Research in OCD and Parkinson disease

Wu, X., Yang, Q., Xu, C., Huo, H., Seger, C. A., Peng, Z., & Chen, Q. (2022). Connectome-based predictive modeling of compulsion in obsessive–compulsive disorder. Cerebral Cortex, bhac145.

Zhang, S., Wang, Y., Zheng, S., Seger, C., Zhong, S., Huang, H., Hu, H., Chen, G., Chen, L., Jia, Y., Huang, L., & Huang, R. (2022). Multimodal MRI reveals alterations of the anterior insula and posterior cingulate cortex in bipolar II disorders: A surface-based approach. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 116, 110533.

Chen, Q., Liu, M., Wen, R., Xu, C., Wei, Z., Zhang, W., Seger, C. A., & Peng, Z. (2022). Dysfunction of goal-directed control in patients with depression and nonsuicidal self-injury. Brain and Behavior, 12(6), e2607.

Peng, Z., Guo, Y., Wu, X., Yang, Q., Wei, Z., Seger, C. A., & Chen, Q. (2021). Abnormal brain functional network dynamics in obsessive–compulsive disorder patients and their unaffected first-degree relatives. Human Brain Mapping, 42(13), 4387–4398.

Dong, C., Yang, Q., Liang, J., Seger, C. A., Han, H., Ning, Y., … Peng, Z. (2020). Impairment in the goal-directed corticostriatal learning system as a biomarker for obsessive–compulsive disorder. Psychological Medicine, 50, 1490-1500.

Braunlich, K., Seger, C. A., Jentink, K. G., Buard, I., Kluger, B. M., & Thaut, M. H. (2019). Rhythmic auditory cues shape neural network recruitment in Parkinson’s disease during repetitive motor behavior. European Journal of Neuroscience, 49, 849–858.

Ma, Q., Huang, B., Wang, J., Seger, C., Yang, W., Li, C., et al. (2016). Altered modular organization of intrinsic brain functional networks in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Brain Imaging and Behavior

Basal Ganglia: Theory and Reviews

Seger, C.A. (2018). Corticostriatal Foundations of Habits. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 20, 153-160.

Braunlich, K. & Seger. C. A. (2013). Basal Ganglia. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science. 4:135–148

Seger, C. A. (2013). The visual corticostriatal loop: Circuitry and function. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 7, 104.

Seger, C. A. & Spiering, B. A. (2011). A critical review of habit learning and the basal ganglia. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 5 (66), 1-6.

Seger, C. A. (2009). The involvement of corticostriatal loops in learning across tasks, species, and methodologies. Basal Ganglia IX: Proceedings of the International Basal Ganglia Society. Advances in Behavioral Biology series; Springer Publishers.

Seger, C. A. (2008). How do the basal ganglia contribute to categorization? Their roles in generalization, response selection, and learning via feedback. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 32, 265-278.

Seger, C. A. (2006). The basal ganglia in human learning. The Neuroscientist. 12, 285-290.

Individual Differences

Huo, H., Seger, C. A., Zhou, D., Chen, Z., Xu, T., Zhang, R., Feng, T., & Chen, Q. (2020). The assessment dimension of regulatory mode mediates the relation between frontoparietal connectivity and risk-taking: Evidence from voxel-base morphometry and functional connectivity analysis. Brain and Cognition, 140, 105533.

Huo, H., Zhang, R., Seger, C. A., Feng, T., & Chen, Q. (2020). The effect of trait anxiety on risk‐taking: Functional coupling between right hippocampus and left insula. Psychophysiology, 57, e13629.

Dong, W., Luo, J., Huo, H., Seger, C. A., & Chen, Q. (2022). Frontostriatal Functional Connectivity Underlies the Association between Punishment Sensitivity and Procrastination. Brain Sciences, 12(9), 1163.

Music

Seger, C. A , Spiering, B. J., Sares, A., Alpeter, C. Quraini, S., David, J.,& Thaut, M. (2013). Corticostriatal contributions to musical expectancy perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25, 1062–1077.

Declarative Memory and the Medial Temporal Lobe

Wehe, H. S., Rhodes, M. G., & Seger., C. A. (2015). Evidence for the negative impact of reward on self-regulated learning. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68 (11), 2125-2130.

Ryals, A. J., Cleary, A. M., & Seger, C. A. (2013). Recall versus familiarity when recall fails for words and scenes: The differential roles of the hippocampus, perirhinal cortex, and category-specific cortical regions. Brain Research, 1492, 72-91.

Seger, C. A., Dennison, C. S., Lopez-Paniagua, D., Peterson, E. J., & Roark A. (2011). Dissociating hippocampal and basal ganglia contributions to category learning using stimulus novelty and subjective judgments. NeuroImage, 55, 1739-1753.

Seger, C. A. & Cincotta, C. M. (2006). Dynamics of frontal, striatal, and hippocampal systems in rule learning. Cerebral Cortex,16, 1546-1555

Implicit learning and Implicit Memory

Richard, M. V., Clegg, B. A., & Seger, C. A. (2009). Implicit motor sequence learning is not represented purely in response locations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 62(8), 1516-1522.

Seger, C. A., Prabhakaran. V., Poldrack, R. A., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2000). Neural activity differs between explicit and implicit learning of artificial grammar strings: An fMRI Study. Psychobiology, 28, 283-292.

Seger, C. A. (1998). Independent judgment-linked and motor-linked mechanisms in artificial grammar learning. Consciousness and Cognition, 7, 259-284.

Seger, C.A., Rabin, L. A., Desmond, J. E., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1999). Verb generation priming involves conceptual implicit memory. Brain and Cognition, 41, 150-177.

Seger, C. A., Rabin, L. A., Zarella, M., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1997). Preserved verb generation priming in global amnesia. Neuropsychologia,35, 1069-1074

Seger, C. A. (1997). Multiple forms of learning in implicit learning. In M. Stadler & P. Frensch (Eds.) Handbook of Implicit Learning. New York: Sage.

Seger, C. A. (1997). Two forms of sequential implicit learning. Consciousness and Cognition, 6, 108-131.

Seger, C. A. (1994). Implicit learning. Psychological Bulletin, 115, 163-196.

Language, Neuroeconomics, and Social Neuroscience

Mo, C., Yu, M., Seger., C. A., & Mo, L. (2015). Holistic neural coding of Chinese character forms in bilateral ventral visual system. Brain and Language 141, 28-34

Lopez-Paniagua, D. & Seger, C. A. (2013). Coding of level of ambiguity within neural systems mediating choice. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7, 229.

Schmidt, G. & Seger, C. A. (2009) Neural correlates of metaphor processing: The roles of figurativeness, familiarity and difficulty. Brain and Cognition, 71, 375-386.

Schmidt, G. L., DeBuse, C. J. & Seger, C. A. (2007). Right hemisphere metaphor processing? Characterizing the lateralization of semantic processes. Brain and Language, 100, 127-141.

Seger, C. A., Stone, M., & Keenan, J. P. (2004). Cortical activations during judgments about the self and an other person. Neuropsychologia, 42, 1168-1177.

Seger, C. A., Desmond, J. E., Glover, G. H, & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2000). FMRI evidence for right hemisphere involvement in processing unusual semantic relationships.Neuropsychology, 14, 361-369.