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Susan M. Courtney
Researcher at Johns Hopkins University
Publications - 84
Citations - 8419
Susan M. Courtney is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Working memory & Prefrontal cortex. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 81 publications receiving 7944 citations. Previous affiliations of Susan M. Courtney include National Institutes of Health & University of Pennsylvania.
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Dissociable functional cortical topographies for working memory maintenance of voice identity and location.
Pia Rämä,Amy Poremba,Joseph B. Sala,Lydia T. S. Yee,Megan Malloy,Mortimer Mishkin,Susan M. Courtney +6 more
TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging and a single set of auditory stimuli suggest that, during auditory working memory, maintenance of spatial and nonspatial information modulates activity preferentially in a dorsal and a ventral auditory pathway, respectively.
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Binding of what and where during working memory maintenance.
TL;DR: A model is presented, extending the principles of "biased competition" to the PFC and the dynamic maintenance of information in WM, that accounts for current and seemingly contradictory previous results from both imaging and physiological studies.
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Neural system for controlling the contents of object working memory in humans
Jennifer K. Roth,John T. Serences,John T. Serences,Susan M. Courtney,Susan M. Courtney,Susan M. Courtney +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used functional magnetic resonance imaging to show that when WM contents were updated, regardless of stimulus type (faces or houses), a frontoparietal network showed transient increases in activation.
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Increased Neural Efficiency with Repeated Performance of a Working Memory Task is Information-type Dependent
TL;DR: FMRI activation decreases in both spatial and object-selective areas after spatial WM task repetition indicate that spatial task repetition leads to increased efficiency of maintaining task-relevant information and improved ability to filter out task-irrelevant information.
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The Role of Dopamine in Value-Based Attentional Orienting
Brian A. Anderson,Hiroto Kuwabara,Dean F. Wong,Emily Gean,Arman Rahmim,James Robert Brašić,Noble George,Boris Frolov,Susan M. Courtney,Susan M. Courtney,Susan M. Courtney,Steven Yantis +11 more
TL;DR: The present study provides direct evidence linking dopamine signaling within the striatum to the involuntary orienting of attention, and specifically to the attention-grabbing quality of learned reward cues, and shed light on the neurochemical basis of individual susceptibility to value-driven attentional capture.