Joseph B. Hopfinger, Ph.D.
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UNC-CH
Department of Psychology
Davie Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270

Phone: 919-962-5085
Fax: 919-962-2537
e-Mail: hopfinger@unc.edu

PUBLICATIONS

Hopfinger, J. B., Camblin, C.C. & Parks, E. (in press). Isolating the internal in endogenous attention. Psychophysiology.

Kim, S. & Hopfinger, J. B. (in press). Neural basis of visual distraction. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Fichtenholtz, H. M., Hopfinger, J. B., Graham, R., Detwiler, J. M., & LaBar, K. S. (in press).  Event-related potentials reveal temporal staging of dynamic emotional expression and gaze shift effects on attentional orienting. Social Neuroscience.

Parks, E. W. L. & Hopfinger, J. B. (2008). Hold it! Memory affects attentional dwell time. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 1128-1134.

Pinkham, A. E., Hopfinger, J. B., Ruparel, K., Penn, D. L. (2008). An investigation of the relationship between activation of a social cognitive neural network and social functioning. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 34, 688-697.

Chanon, V. M. & Hopfinger, J. B. (2008). Memory’s grip on attention: The influence of item memory on the allocation of attention. Visual Cognition, 16, 325-340.

Pinkham, A. E., Hopfinger, J. B., Pelphrey, K. A. Piven, J., Penn, D. L. (2008). Neural bases for impaired social cognition in schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders. Schizophrenia Research, 99, 164-175.

Fichtenholtz, H. M., Hopfinger, J. B., Graham, R., Detwiler, J. M. LaBar, K. S. (2007). Happy and fearful emotion in cues and targets modulates event-related potential indices of gaze-directed attentional orienting. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2, 323-333.

Hopfinger, J. B., & West, V. M. (2006). Interactions between endogenous and exogenous attention on cortical visual processing. NeuroImage, 31, 774-789.

Giesbrecht, B., Kingstone, A., Handy, T. C., Hopfinger, J. B., and Mangun, G. R. (2006). The Functional Neuroimaging of Attention. In R. Cabeza & A. Kingstone (Eds.) Handbook of Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition, 2nd Edition (pp. 85-111). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hopfinger, J. B. & Ries, A. J. (2005). Automatic versus contingent mechanisms of sensory-driven neural biasing and reflexive attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 1341-1352.

Hopfinger, J. B. & Maxwell, J. S. (2005). Appearing and disappearing stimuli trigger a reflexive modulation of visual cortical activity. Cognitive Brain Research, 25, 48-56

Hopfinger, J. B. (2005). Electrophysiology of reflexive attention. In L. Itti, G. Rees, & J. Tsotsos (Eds.), Neurobiology of Attention (pp. 219-225). San Diego: Academic Press / Elsevier.

Hopfinger, J. B., Khoe, W. & Song, A. (2005). Combining electrophysiology with structural and functional neuroimaging: ERPs, PET, MRI, and fMRI. In T. Handy (Ed.), Event-Related Potentials: A Methods Handbook (pp. 345-379). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hopfinger, J. B., Luck, S. J., & Hillyard, S. A. (2004). Selective attention: Electrophysiological and neuromagnetic studies. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.) The Cognitive Neurosciences III (pp. 561-574). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Slotnick, S. D., Hopfinger, J. B., Klein, S. A., & Sutter, E. E. (2002). Darkness beyond the light: attentional inhibition surrounding the classic “spotlight.” NeuroReport, 13, 773-778.

Hopfinger, J. B., Woldorff, M. G., Fletcher, E., & Mangun, G. R. (2001). Dissociating top-down attentional control from selective perception and action. Neuropsychologia, 39, 1277-1291.

Hopfinger, J. B. & Mangun, G. R. (2001). Tracking the influence of reflexive attention on sensory and cognitive processing. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1, 56-65.

Hopfinger, J. B. & Mangun, G. R. (2001). Electrophysiological Studies of Reflexive Attention. In C. Folk & B. Gibson (Eds.), Attraction, distraction, and action: Multiple perspectives on attentional capture (pp. 3-26). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.

Handy, T. C., Hopfinger, J. B., & Mangun, G. R. (2001). Functional neuroimaging of attention. In R. Cabeza & A. Kingstone (Eds.) Handbook on Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition (pp. 75-108). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Yonelinas, A. P., Hopfinger, J. B., Buonocore, M. H., Kroll, N. E. A., & Baynes, K. (2001). Hippocampal, parahippocampal and occipital-temporal contributions to associative and item recognition memory: An fMRI study. NeuroReport, 12, 359-363.

Hopfinger, J. B., Buonocore, M. H., & Mangun, G. R. (2000). The neural mechanisms of top-down attentional control. Nature Neuroscience, 3, 284-291.
        
Kiehl, K. A., Liddle, P. F., & Hopfinger, J. B. (2000). Error processing and the rostral anterior cingulate: An event-related fMRI study. Psychophysiology, 37, 216-223.
        
Hopfinger, J. B., Büchel, C., Holmes, A. P., & Friston, K. J. (2000). A meta-analysis of multiple parameter spaces influencing the sensitivity of event-related fMRI analyses. NeuroImage, 11, 326-333.

Hopfinger, J. B., Jha, A. P., Hopf, J. M., Girelli, M., & Mangun, G. R. (2000) Electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies of voluntary and reflexive attention. In S. Monsell & J. Driver (Eds.), Control of Cognitive Processes, Attention & Performance, vol. XVIII  (pp. 125-153). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Mangun, G. R., Hopfinger, J. B., & Jha, A. P. (2000). Integrating electrophysiology and neuroimaging in the study of human brain function. In P. Williamson, A. M. Siegel, D. W. Roberts, V. M. Thandi, & M. S. Gazzaniga  (Eds.), Advances in Neurology (Vol. 84): Neocortical Epilepsies (pp. 35-49). Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins.

Mangun, G. R., Jha, A. P., Hopfinger, J. B., & Handy, T. C. (2000). The timecourse and functional anatomy of attention and working memory systems: Effects on visual processing. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The New Cognitive Neurosciences (pp. 701-710). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Hopfinger, J. B. & Mangun, G. R. (1998). Reflexive attention modulates processing of visual stimuli in human extrastriate cortex. Psychological Science, 9, 441-447.

Mangun, G. R., Hopfinger, J. B., & Heinze, H. J. (1998). Integrating electrophysiology and neuroimaging in the study of human cognition. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 30, 118-130.

Mangun, G. R., Hopfinger, J. B., Kussmaul, C., Fletcher, E., & Heinze, H. J. (1997). Covariations in ERP and PET measures of spatial selective attention in human extrastriate visual cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 5, 273-279.