Publications
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Lee, Y., & Schumacher, E. H. (2024). Cognitive flexibility in and out of the laboratory: task switching, sustained attention, and mind wandering. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 59, 101434.
Seeburger, D. T., Xu, N., Ma, M., Larson, S., Godwin, C., Keilholz, S. D., & Schumacher, E. H. (2024). Time-varying functional connectivity predicts fluctuations in sustained attention in a serial tapping task. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 24(1), 111–125.
Xu, N., Smith, D. M., Jeno, G., Seeburger, D. T., Schumacher, E. H., & Keilholz, S. D. (2023). The interaction between random and systematic visual stimulation and infraslow quasi-periodic spatiotemporal patterns of whole-brain activity. Imaging Neuroscience, 1-19.
Godwin, C. A., Smith, D. M., & Schumacher, E. H. (2023). Beyond mind wandering: Performance variability and neural activity during off-task thought and other attention lapses. Consciousness and Cognition, 108, 103459.
Hazeltine, E., Dykstra, T., & Schumacher, E. (2022). What is a task and how do you know if you have one or more? Theory and history in the human and social sciences, 75-95.
Dykstra, T., Smith, D. M., Schumacher, E. H., & Hazeltine, E. (2022). Measuring task structure with transitional response times: Task representations are more than task sets. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29(5), 1812–1820.
Cookson, S. L., & Schumacher, E. H. (2022). Dissociating the Neural Correlates of Planning and Executing Tasks with Nested Task Sets. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(5), 877–896.
Smith, D. M., Dykstra, T., Hazeltine, E., & Schumacher, E. H. (2020). Task representation affects the boundaries of behavioral slowing following an error. Attention Perception & Psychophysics, 82(5), 2315–2326.
Smith, D. M., Dykstra, T., Hazeltine, E., & Schumacher, E. H. (2020). Task representation affects the boundaries of behavioral slowing following an error. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-12.
Cookson, S. L., Hazeltine, E., & Schumacher, E. H. (2019b). Task structure boundaries affect response preparation. Psychological Research, 84(6), 1610–1621.
Cookson, S. L., Hazeltine, E., & Schumacher, E. H. (2019). Task structure boundaries affect response preparation. Psychological Research, 1-12.
Bezdek, M. A., Godwin, C. A., Smith, D. M., Hazeltine, E., & Schumacher, E. H. (2019). Conscious and unconscious aspects of task representations affect dynamic behavior in complex situations. . Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 6(3), 225–241.
Greenberg, J., Romero, V. L., Elkin-Frankston, S., Bezdek, M. A., Schumacher, E. H., & Lazar, S. W. (2019). Reduced interference in working memory following mindfulness training is associated with increases in hippocampal volume. Brain imaging and behavior, 13(2), 366-376.
Hao, Y., Yao, L., Smith, D. M., Sorel, E., Anderson, A. K., Schumacher, E. H., & Evans, G. W. (2019). Prefrontal-posterior coupling mediates transitions between emotional states and influences executive functioning. Scientific reports, 9(1), 1-9.
Abbas, A., Belloy, M., Kashyap, A., Billings, J., Nezafati, M., Schumacher, E. H., & Keilholz, S. (2019). Quasi-periodic patterns contribute to functional connectivity in the brain. NeuroImage, 191, 193-204.
Smith, D., Zhao, Y., Keilholz, S., & Schumacher, E. H. (2018). Investigating the intersession reliability of dynamic brain-state properties. Brain Connectivity, 5, 255-267.
Hunter, M. A., Lieberman, G., Coffman, B. A., Trumbo, M. C., Armenta, M. L., Robinson, C. S. H., Bezdek, M., O’Sickey, A. J., Jones, A. P., Romero, V., Elkin-Frankston, S., Gaurino, S., Eusebi, L., Schumacher, E. H., Witkiewitz, K., & Clark, V. P. (2018). Mindfulness-based training with transcranial direct current stimulation modulates neuronal resource allocation in working memory: A randomized pilot study with a nonequivalent control group. Heliyon, 4.
Schumacher, E. H., Cookson, S. L., Smith, D. M., Nguyen, T. V. N., Sultan, Z., Reuben, K. E., & Hazeltine, E. (2018). Dual-Task Processing With Identical Stimulus and Response Sets: Assessing the Importance of Task Representation in Dual-Task Interference. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(1031).
Yousefi B., Shin J., Schumacher E. H., Keilholz S. D. (2018). Quasi-periodic of intrinsic brain activity in individuals and their relationship to global signal. NeuroImage, 167, 297-308.
Bezdek, M. A., Wenzel, W. G., & Schumacher, E. H. (2017). The effect of suspense on brain activation and memory during naturalistic viewing. Biological Psychology, 129. 73-81.
Grooms, J. K., Thompson, G. J., Pan, W., Billings, J., Schumacher, E. H., Epstein, C. M., Keiholz, S. D. (2017). Infraslow Electroencephalographic and Dynamic Resting State Network Activity, 7(5).
Godwin, C. A., Hunter, M. A., Bezdek, M. A., Lieberman, G., Elkin-Frankston, S., Romero, V. L., … & Schumacher, E. H. (2017). Functional connectivity within and between intrinsic brain networks correlates with trait mind wandering. Neuropsychologia, 103, 140-153.
Schumacher, E.H. & Hazeltine, E. (2016). Hierarchical task representation: Task files and response selection. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25(6), 449-454.
Cookson, S. L., Hazeltine, E., & Schumacher, E.H. (2016). Neural representation of stimulus-response associations during task preparation. Brain Research, 1648, 496-505.
Hazeltine, E., & Schumacher, E. H. (2016). Chapter Six – Understanding Central Processes: The Case against Simple Stimulus-Response Associations and for Complex Task Representation. In H. R. Brian (Ed.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation (Vol. Volume 64, pp. 195-245): Academic Press.
Schwarb, H., Nail, J., & Schumacher, E. H. (2016). Working memory training improves visual short-term memory capacity. Psychological Research, 80(1), 128-148.
Bezdek, M. A., Gerrig, R. J., Wenzel, W. G., Shin, J., Pirog Revill, K., & Schumacher, E. H. (2015). Neural evidence that suspense narrows attentional focus. Neuroscience, 303, 338-345.
Magnuson M.E., Thompson G.E., Schwarb H., Pan W-J, McKinley A., Schumacher E.H., Keilholz S.D. (2015). Errors on interrupter tasks presented during spatial and verbal working memory performance are linearly linked to large-scale functional network connectivity in high temporal resolution resting state fMRI. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 9, 854-867.
Dmochowski, J.P., Bezdek, M.A., Abelson, B.P., Johnson, J.S., Schumacher, E. H. & Parra, L.C. (2014). Audience preferences are predicted by temporal reliability of neural processing. Nature Communications, 5, 1-9.
Thompson, G. J., Magnuson, M. E., Merritt, M. D., Schwarb, H., Pan, W., McKinley, A., Tripp, L. D., Schumacher, E. H., & Keilholz, S. D. (2013). Short-time windows of correlation between large-scale functional brain networks predict vigilance intraindividually and interindividually. Human Brain Mapping, 34, 3280–3298.
Schwarb, H. & Schumacher, E. H. (2012). Generalized lessons about sequence learning from the study of the serial reaction time task. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 8, 165-178.
Schumacher, E. H., Lightman, E., Schwarb, H., & Hazeltine, E. (2011). The Boundaries of Sequential Modulationsn: Evidence for Set-Level Control. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 37, 1898-1914.
Schumacher, E. H., Schwarb, H., Lightman, E. & Hazeltine, E. (2011). Investigating the modality specificity of response selection using a temporal flanker task. Psychological Research, 75, 499-512.
Majeed, W., Magnuson, M., Hasenkamp, W., Schwarb, H. Schumacher, E. H., Barsalou, L., & Keilholz, S. D. (2011). Spatiotemporal dynamics of low frequency BOLD fluctuations in rats and humans. NeuroImage, 54, 1140-50.
Schumacher, E. H., Seymour, T. S. & Schwarb, H. (2010). Brain activation evidence for response conflict in the exclude recognition task. Brain Research, 1329, 113-123.
Schwarb, H. & Schumacher, E. H. (2010). Implicit sequence learning is represented by stimulus-response rules. Memory & Cognition, 38, 677-688.
Schumacher, E. H. & Schwarb, H. (2009). Parallel response selection disrupts sequence learning under dual task conditions. Accepted for publication. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 270-290.
Schwarb, H. & Schumacher, E. H. (2009). Neural evidence of a role for spatial response selection in the learning of spatial sequences. Brain Research, 1247, 114-125.
Seymour, T. S. & Schumacher, E. H. (2009). Electromyographic evidence for response conflict in the exclude recognition task. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 9, 71-82.
Schumacher, E. H., Jacko, J. A., Primo, S. A., Main, K. L., Moloney, K. P., Kinzel, E. N. & Ginn, J. (2008). Reorganization of visual processing is related to eccentric viewing in patients with macular degeneration, Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 26, 391-402.
Nagel, I. E., Schumacher, E. H., Goebel, R. & D’Esposito, M. (2008). Functional MRI investigation of verbal selection mechanisms in lateral prefrontal cortex. NeuroImage, 43, 801-807.
Landau, S. M., Garavan, H., Schumacher, E. H., & D’Esposito, M. (2007). Regional specificity and practice: Dynamic changes in object and spatial working memory. Brain Research, 1180, 78-89.
Schumacher, E. H., Cole M. W., & D’Esposito, M. (2007). Selection and maintenance of stimulus-response rules during preparation and performance of a spatial choice-reaction task. Brain Research, 1136, 77-87.
Stelzel, C., Schumacher, E. H., Schubert, T., & D’Esposito, M. (2006). The neural effect of stimulus-response modality compatibility on dual-task performance: an fMRI study. Psychological Research, 70, 514-525.
Schumacher, E. H., Hendricks M. J., & D’Esposito, M. (2005). Sustained involvement of a frontal-parietal network for spatial response selection with practice of a spatial choice-reaction task. Neuropsychologia, 43, 1444-1455.
Landau, S. M., Schumacher, E. H., Garavan, H., Druzgal, T. J., & D’Esposito, M. (2004). A functional MRI study of the influence of practice on component processes of working memory. NeuroImage, 22, 211-221.
Schumacher, E. H., Elston, P. A., & D’Esposito, M. (2003). Neural evidence for representation specific response selection. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, 1111-1121.
Schumacher, E. H. & Jiang, Y. (2003). Neural mechanisms for response selection: Representation specific or modality independent? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, 1077-1079.
Schumacher, E. H. & D’Esposito, M. (2002). Neural implementation of response selection in humans as revealed by localized effects of stimulus-response compatibility on brain activation. Human Brain Mapping, 17, 193-201.
Schumacher, E. H., Seymour, T. L., Glass, J. M., Fencsik, D. F., Lauber, E. L., Kieras, D. E., & Meyer, D. E. (2001). Virtually perfect time sharing in dual-task performance: Uncorking the central cognitive bottleneck. Psychological Science, 12, 101-108.
Glass, J. M., Schumacher, E. H., Lauber, E. J., Zurbriggen, E. L., Gmeindl, L., Kieras, D. E., and Meyer, D. E. (2000). Aging and the psychological refractory period: Task-coordination strategies in young and old adults. Psychology and Aging, 15, 571-595.
Schumacher, E. H., Lauber, E. J., Glass, J. M., Zurbriggen, E. L., Gmeindl, L., Kieras, D. E., & Meyer, D. E. (1999). Concurrent response-selection processes in dual-task performance: Evidence for adaptive executive control of task-scheduling. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 791-814.
Jonides, J., Schumacher, E. H., Smith, E. E., Koeppe, R. A., Awh, E., Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., Marshuetz, C., Willis, C. R. (1998). The role of parietal cortex in verbal working memory. Journal of Neuroscience, 18, 5026-5034.
Jonides, J., Schumacher, E. H., Smith, E. E., Lauber, E., Awh, E., Minoshima, S., & Koeppe, R. A. (1997). The task-load of verbal working memory affects regional brain activation as measured by PET. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 9, 462-475.
Awh, E., Jonides, J., Smith, E. E., Schumacher, E. H., Koeppe, R. A., & Katz, S. (1996). Dissociation of storage and rehearsal in verbal working memory. Psychological Science, 7, 25-31.
Jonides, J., Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., Smith, E. E., Awh, E., Barnes, L. L., Drain, M., Glass, J., Lauber, E. J., Patalano, A. L., & Schumacher, E. H. (1996). Verbal and spatial working memory in humans. In D. Medin (Ed.) The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 35, 43-88. Academic Press.
Schumacher, E. H., Lauber, E., Awh, E., Jonides, J., Smith, E. E., & Koeppe, R. A. (1996). PET evidence for an amodal verbal working memory system. NeuroImage, 3, 79-88.
Meyer, D. E., Kieras, D. E., Lauber, E., Schumacher, E. H., Glass, J., Zurbriggen, E., Gmeindl, L., & Apfelblat, D. (1995). Adaptive executive control: Flexible multiple-task performance without pervasive immutable response-selection bottlenecks. Acta Psychologica, 90, 163-190.
Smith, E. E., Jonides, J., Koeppe, R. A., Awh, E., Schumacher, E. H., & Minoshima, S. (1995). Spatial vs. object working memory: PET investigations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 7, 337-356.
