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Language production and comprehension

• de Zubicaray, G.I., & McMahon, K.L. (2009). Auditory context effects in picture naming investigated with event-related fMRI. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 9, 260-269.
• de Zubicaray, G.I., Postle, N., McMahon, K.L., Meredith, M., & Ashton, R. (in press). Mirror neurons, the representation of word meaning, and the foot of the third left frontal convolution. Brain & Language - Special Issue: Mirror Neurons: Prospects and Problems for the Neurobiology of Language. (Accepted 29 September)
• Hocking, J., McMahon, K., & de Zubicaray, G. (2009). Semantic context and visual feature effects in object naming: an fMRI study using arterial spin labelling. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 1571-1583.
• Postle, N., McMahon, K., Ashton, R., Meredith, M., & de Zubicaray, G. (2008). Action word meaning representations in cytoarchitectonically defined primary and premotor cortices. NeuroImage, 43, 634-644.
• de Zubicaray, G.I., McMahon, K.L., Eastburn, M.M., & Pringle, A. (2008). Negative priming in naming of categorically related objects: An fMRI study. Cortex 44, 881-889.
• Copland, D.A., de Zubicaray, G.I., McMahon, K. L., Eastburn, M.M. (2007). Neural correlates of semantic priming for ambiguous words: An event-related fMRI study. Brain Research, 1131, 163-172.
• de Zubicaray, G.I., McMahon, K.L., Eastburn, M.M., & Pringle, A. (2006). Top-down influences on lexical selection during spoken word production: A 4T fMRI investigation of refractory effects in picture naming. Human Brain Mapping, 27, 864-873.
• de Zubicaray, G.I., McMahon, K.L., Eastburn, M.M. (2006). Classic negative priming involves accessing semantic representations in the left anterior temporal cortex. NeuroImage, 33, 383-390.
• Weekes, B., McMahon, K., Eastburn, M., Bryant, D., Wang, D-M., & de Zubicaray, G. (2005). Orthographic effects on picture naming in Chinese: A 4T erfMRI Study. Brain and Language, 95, 14-15.
• Copland, D.A., de Zubicaray, G.I., McMahon, K.L., Eastburn, M.M., Wilson, S. J., and Chenery, H.J. (2003). Brain activity during automatic semantic priming revealed by event-related fMRI. Neuroimage, 20, 302-310.
• de Zubicaray, G.I., McMahon, K.L., Eastburn, M.M., Wilson, S.J. (2002). Orthographic/phonological facilitation of naming responses in the picture-word task: an event-related fMRI study using overt vocal responding. Neuroimage, 16, 1084-1093.
• de Zubicaray, G.I., Wilson, S. J., McMahon, K. L., & Muthiah, S. (2001). The semantic interference effect in the picture-word paradigm: an event-related fMRI study employing overt responses. Human Brain Mapping, 14, 218-227.
• de Zubicaray, G.I., Zelaya, F.O., Andrew, C., Williams, S.C.R., & Bullmore, E.T. (2000). Cerebral regions associated with verbal response initiation, suppression and strategy use. Neuropsychologia, 38, 1292-1304.

Episodic and semantic memory

• Hocking, J. & Price, C.J. (2009). Dissociating verbal and nonverbal audiovisual object processing. Brain and Language, 108, 89-96.
• Hocking, J., & Price, C.J. (2008). The influence of color and sound on neuronal activation during visual object naming. Brain Research, 1241, 92-102.
• Hocking, J., & Price, C.J. (2008). The role of the posterior superior temporal cortex in audiovisual processing. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 2439-49.
• de Zubicaray, G.I., McMahon, K.L., Eastburn, M.M, Pringle, A., Lorenz, L., & Humphreys, M.S. (2007). Support for an auto-associative model of spoken cued recall: Evidence from fMRI. Neuropsychologia, 45, 824-835.
• de Zubicaray, G.I., McMahon, K.L., Eastburn, M.M., Finnigan, S., & Humphreys, M.S. (2005). fMRI evidence of word frequency and strength effects in recognition memory. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 587-598.
• de Zubicaray, G.I., McMahon, K.L., Eastburn, M.M., Finnigan, S., & Humphreys, M.S. (2005). fMRI evidence of word frequency and strength effects during episodic memory encoding. Cognitive Brain Research, 22, 439-450.
• de Zubicaray, G.I., McMahon, K. L., Wilson, S. J., & Muthiah, S. (2001). Brain activity during the encoding, retention and retrieval of stimulus representations. Learning and Memory, 8, 243-251.

Sensory/perceptual

• Mullen, K., Dumoulin, S., McMahon, K., de Zubicaray, G., Hess, R. (2007). Selectivity of human retinotopic visual cortex to S cone opponent, L/M cone opponent, and achromatic stimulation. European Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 491-502.
• Ng, V.W.K., Bullmore, E.T., de Zubicaray, G.I., Cooper, A., Suckling, J., & Williams, S.C.R. (2001). Identifying rate-limiting nodes in large-scale cortical networks for visuospatial processing: an illustration using fMRI. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 537-545.

Genetics

• Brun, C. Lepore, N., Pennec, X., Lee, A.D., Barysheva, M., Madsen, S.K., Avedissian, C., Chou, Y-Y., de Zubicaray, G.I., McMahon, K., Wright, M., Toga, A.W., & Thompson, P.M. (2009). Mapping the regional influence of genetics on brain structure variability: A tensor-based morphometry study. NeuroImage, 48, 37-49.
• Chiang, M.C., Barysheva, M., Shattuck, D.W., Lee, A.D., Madsen, S.K., Avedissian, C., Klunder, A.D., Toga, A.W., McMahon, K.L., de Zubicaray, G.I., Wright, M.J., Srivastava, A., Balov, N., & Thompson, P.M. (2009). Genetics of brain fiber architecture and intellectual performance. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 2212-2224.
• de Zubicaray, G.I., Chiang, M-C., McMahon, K. L., Shattuck, D., Toga, A., Martin, N.G., Wright, M.J., & Thompson, P.M. (2008). Meeting the challenges of neuroimaging genetics. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2, 258–263, Special Issue, New Horizons in Human Brain Imaging: A Focus on the Pacific Rim.
• Blokland, G., A., McMahon, K. L., Hoffman, J., Zhu, G., Meredith, M., Martin, N.G., Thompson, P.M., de Zubicaray, G.I., & Wright, M.J. (2008). Quantifying the heritability of task-related brain activation and performance during the N-back working memory task: a twin fMRI study. Biological Psychology, 79, 70–79, Special Issue, Genetics and Imaging in Neuroscience.

Attention and control processes

• de Zubicaray, G.I., Andrew, C., Zelaya, F.O., Williams, S.C.R., & Dumanoir, C. (2000). Motor response suppression and the prepotent tendency to respond: a parametric fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 38, 1280-1291.

Psychopharmacology

• Kelly, A.M.C., de Zubicaray, G., Di Martino, A., Copland, D., Reiss, P.T., Klein, D.F., Castellanos, F.X., Milham, M.P., McMahon, K. (2009). L-dopa modulates functional connectivity in striatal cognitive and motor networks: a double blind, placebo-controlled study. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 7364 –7378.
• Copland, D., McMahon, K., Silburn, P., & de Zubicaray, G. (2009). Dopaminergic neuromodulation of semantic processing: a 4T functional MRI study with levodopa. Cerebral Cortex, 19, 2651-2658.
• Rose, S.E., Janke, A.L., Strudwick, M.W., McMahon, K.L., Chalk, J.B., Snyder, P. & de Zubicaray, G.I. (2006). Assessment of dynamic susceptibility contrast cerebral blood flow response to amphetamine challenge: A human pharmacological MRI (phMRI) study at 1.5 and 4T. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 55, 9-15.

Neuroimaging and the mind

• de Zubicaray, G.I. (2006). Cognitive neuroimaging: cognitive science out of the armchair. Brain and Cognition, 60, 272-281.

Animal imaging

• Toftegaard C.L., McMahon K.L., Galloway G., & Bradley A.J. (2002). Urinary Pheremone processing in the brown antechinus, Antechinus stuartii (Marsupialia: Dasyudridae): Functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain. Journal of Mammology, 83, 71-80.

Book chapters

• de Zubicaray, G. (2005). Neuroimaging for Clinical Neuropsychologists. In P. J. Snyder, P. D. Nussbaum, & D. Robins (Eds), Clinical Neuropsychology: A Pocket Handbook for Assessment, (2nd ed), Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Other work

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