Here are some recent abstracts presented by members of the lab and collaborators


XVII World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (ISPG), San Diego, USA, November 4-8, 2009.

  • Blokland, G., Wright, M., McMahon, K., de Zubicaray, G., Thompson, P., & Martin, N. Heritability of fMRI response in young adult twins. Symposium “Understanding normal variation in brain structure and function will inform psychiatric genetics”.


Neurobiology of Language Conference (NLC), Chicago, USA, October 15-16, 2009.

  • de Zubicaray, G.I., Rose, S.E., & McMahon, K.L. The anatomy of semantic memory.


15th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), San Francisco, USA, June, 2009.

  • Blokland, G.A.M., McMahon, K.L., Thompson, P.M., & de Zubicaray, G.I., Wright, M.J. Mapping genetic influences on brain activation during the N-Back working memory task: An fMRI study of 315 twins. Poster
  • Chiang, M.C., Barysheva, M., Shattuck, D.W., Lee, A.D., Madsen, S.K., Avedissian, C., Klunder, A.D., Arthur W. Toga, A.W., McMahon, K.L., de Zubicaray, G.I., Wright, M.J., Srivastava, A., Balov, N., & Thompson, P.M. Mapping genetic influences on brain fiber architecture and intellectual performance - A high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) Study.
  • Chou, Y-Y., Leporé, N., Brun, C., Barysheva, M., McMahon, K., de Zubicaray, G.I., Wright, M.J., Toga, A.W., & Thompson, P.M. Can tissue segmentation improve registration? A study on 92 twins.
  • Hageman, N.S., Thompson, P.M., Shattuck, D.W., Avedissian, C., Barysheva, M., McMahon, K.L., de Zubicaray, G.I., Wright, M.J., & Toga, A.W. Genetic influences on white matter architecture in twins: A diffusion tensor tractography study.
  • Hocking, J. & McMahon, K. Environmental sound processing: Distinct cortical regions for knowledge about furry, noisy Australian animals. Poster
  • Jahanshad, N., Lee, A.D., Lepore, N., Brun, C., Barysheva, M., Chou, Y-Y., Toga, A.W., McMahon, K.L., de Zubicaray, G.I., Wright, M.J., & Thompson, P.M. Novel measure of fiber integrity based on Q-Ball imaging and the tensor distribution function avoids problems with fractional anisotropy measures.
  • Kelly, A.M.C., de Zubicaray, G., Di Martino, A., Copland, D., Reiss, P., Klein, D.F., Castellanos, F.X., Milham, M.P., McMahon, K. L-dopa modulates functional connectivity in striatal cognitive and motor networks: A double-blind placebo-controlled study.
  • Kelly, A.M.C., de Zubicaray, G., Gee, D.G., Shehzad, Z., Gotimer, K., Di Martino, A., Copland, D., Klein, D.F., Adler, L.A., Rotrosen, J., Castellanos, F.X., McMahon, K., & Milham, M.P. Is there an inverted U-shaped relationship between dopamine levels and resting state functional connectivity?
  • Lenglet, C., Jahanshad, N., Haro, G., Sapiro, G., McMahon, K.L., de Zubicaray, G.I., Wright, M.J., & Thompson, P.M. White matter complexity for population studies using Q-Ball imaging: Application to brain asymmetry.
  • Leow, A.D., Zhan, L., Zhu, S., Hageman, N., Chiang, M.C., Barysheva, M., Toga, A.W., McMahon, K.L., de Zubicaray, G.I., Wright, M.J., & Thompson, P.M. Genetics of white matter asymmetry mapped using diffusion tensor anisotropy measures in 100 twins.
  • Stein, J.L., DeGiorgio, A., Madsen, S.K., Avedissian, C., Chou, Y-Y., Morra, J.H., Toga, A.W., McMahon, K.L., de Zubicaray, G.I., Wright, M.J., & Thompson, P.M. Genetic influences on hippocampal structure mapped in 288 twins.
  • Zhan, L., Leow, A.D., Zhu, S., Chiang, M.C., Barysheva, M., Toga, A.W., McMahon, K.L., de Zubicaray, G.I., Wright, M.J., & Thompson, P.M. Analysis of fiber reconstruction accuracy in high angular resolution diffusion images (HARDI).


New Horizons in Human Brain Imaging: A Focus on the Pacific Rim, Hawaii, USA, April, 2009.

  • de Zubicaray, G.I., Chiang, M-C, McMahon, K.L., Shattuck, D.W., Toga, A.W., Martin, N.G., Wright, M.,J. & Thompson, P.M. Meeting the challenges of neuroimaging genetics.


16th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), San Francisco, California, USA, March, 2009.

  • de Zubicaray, G., & McMahon, K. Auditory context effects in picture naming investigated with event related fMRI. Poster
  • Hocking, J., McMahon, K., & de Zubicaray, G. Semantic interference in the postcue naming paradigm is a postlexical effect: Evidence from fMRI. Poster


29th Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society (ANS), Canberra, January, 2009.

  • de Zubicaray, G. Mechanisms of cognitive control in language production: evidence from fMRI.


2008


48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), Austin, Texas, USA, October, 2008.

  • Wright, M., Blokland, G., Chiang, M-C., McMahon, K., Martin, N., Toga, A., de Zubicaray, G., & Thompson, P. An imaging study of Australian twins: Quantifying genetic and environmental influences on fMRI and HARDI phenotypes.


14th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Melbourne, Australia, June, 2008.

  • Copland, D., McMahon, K., Silburn, P., & de Zubicaray, G. Effects of Levodopa on the neural mechanisms of meaning suppression: A 4T fMRI study.
  • Hocking, J., McMahon, K., & Meredith, M. & de Zubicaray, G. Semantic context and visual feature effects on verbal self-monitoring measured with Arterial Spin Labelling. Poster
  • Strudwick, M., McMahon, K., Wilson, S., & de Zubicaray, G. Acupuncture Mediated Brain Activity Demonstrated with fMRI at 4 Tesla. Poster
  • Brun, C., Lepore, N., Pennec, X., Chou, Y.Y., Lee, A.D., Barysheva, M., McMahon, K., de Zubicaray, G.I., Wright, M., Toga, A.W., & Thompson, P.M. (2008). Volumetric Differences in Brain Structure in Identical and Fraternal Twins Computed using Riemannian Tensor-Based Morphometry.
  • Chou, Y.Y., Lepore, N., Barysheva, M., Chiang, M.C., McMahon, K.L., de Zubicaray, G.I., Meredith, M., Wright, M.J., Toga, A.W., Thompson, P.M. (2008). Mapping Genetic Influences on the Lateral Ventricles using Multi-Atlas Fluid Image Alignment in Twins.
  • Chiang, M.C., Barysheva, M., Lee, A.D., Madsen, S.K., Klunder, A.D., Toga, A.W., McMahon, K.L., de Zubicaray, G.I., Meredith, M., Wright, M.J., Srivastava, A., Balov, N., & Thompson, P.M. (2008). Mapping Genetic Influences on Brain Fiber Architecture with High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI).
  • Zhan, L., Chiang, M.C., Barysheva, M., Toga, A.W., McMahon, K.L., de Zubicaray, G.I., Meredith, M., Wright, M.J., & Thompson, P.M. (2008). How Many Gradients are Sufficient in High-Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI)?


15th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), San Francisco, California, USA, April, 2008.

  • de Zubicaray, G.I., Postle, N.N., McMahon, K.L., Meredith, M., & Ashton, R. The human mirror neuron system and action word meaning representations: an fMRI study. Poster


2007


37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SFN), San Diego, California, USA, September, 2007.

  • Postle, N.N., Ashton, R., McMahon, K.L., de Zubicaray, G.I. Does reading words associated with body parts somatotopically activate the motor cortex? Poster


13th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Chicago, USA, June, 2007.

  • de Zubicaray, G., McMahon, K., Eastburn, M., Pringle, A. Negative priming in naming of categorically related objects: An fMRI study. Poster
  • Hocking, J., Holdstock, J., Price, C. Cross-modal object processing in three different anterior temporal regions. Poster


14th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2007), New York, USA, May, 2007.

  • Weekes, B., de Zubicaray, G., Hutton, S., McMahon, K., Wang, D., Zhang, Q. A 4T er-fMRI study of orthographic effects on picture naming in Chinese.


2006


4th International Conference on Memory (ICOM4), Sydney, Australia, July, 2006.

  • de Zubicaray, G., McMahon, K., Eastburn, M., Humphreys, M. Support for an auto-associative model of cued recall: Evidence from fMRI.


12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Florence, Italy, June, 2006.

  • de Zubicaray, G., McMahon, K., Eastburn, M., Pringle, A., Lorenz, L. Identity negative priming involves accessing semantic representations in the left anterior temporal cortex: a 4T fMRI study. Poster
  • McMahon, K., Copland, D., de Zubicaray, G. and Bryant, M. Effects of levodopa administration on cerebral functional connectivity. Poster


13th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), San Francisco, USA, April, 2006.

  • Copland, D., McMahon, K.M., Eastburn, M., de Zubicaray, G. Functional MRI evidence for dopaminergic neuromodulation of semantic priming in healthy individuals. Poster


2005


Dynamic Neuroscience XIII: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN), Washington, DC, USA, November, 2005.

  • Hockey, A., Wiles, J., de Zubicaray, G. Interactivity, conflict and cognitive control: computational modelling of the language production system.


“Methods in Mind” 7th fMRI Experience and Annual Meeting of the British Psychophysiology Society, Birmingham, UK, September, 2005.

  • de Zubicaray, G., McMahon, K., Eastburn, M., Pringle, A. Refractory effects in picture naming: an fMRI investigation of semantic competitor priming.


5th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Florida, USA, May 2005.

  • Mullen, K.T., Dumoulin, S.O., McMahon, K.L., Bryant, M., de Zubicaray, G.I., Hess, R.F. A comparison of the BOLD fMRI response to achromatic, L/M opponent and S-cone opponent cardinal stimuli in human visual cortex: I. Perceptually matched vs contrast matched stimuli.
  • Dumoulin, S.O., Mullen, K.T., McMahon, K.L., Bryant, M., de Zubicaray, G.I., Hess, R.F. A comparison of the BOLD fMRI response to achromatic, L/M opponent and S-cone opponent cardinal stimuli in human visual cortex: II. Chromatic vs achromatic stimuli.


11th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Toronto, Canada, June 2005.

  • Lipp, O.V., McMahon, K., de Zubicaray, G., Purkis, H.M., Eastburn, M., Bryant, M. Delineating the neural basis of aversive and non-aversive Pavlovian learning in humans: A 4T fMRI study. Poster