Publications

• Effects of TMS on the Decoding and Electrophysiology of Priority in Working Memory
  Fulvio, J.M., & Postle, B.R. (2026)
  eNeuro, 13(4) ENEURO.0346-25.2026
  https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0346-25.2026

2025

• EEG Correlates of Active Removal from Working Memory
  Shan, J., & Postle, B.R. (2025)
  Journal of Neuroscience, 45(28) e2414242025
  https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2414-24.2025

2022

• Context-binding in visual working memory is reflected in bilateral event-related potentials, but not in contralateral delay activity
  Cai, Y., Fulvio, J.M., Samaha, J., Postle, B.R. (2022)
  eNeuro 9(6):3, 1-15
  https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0207-22.2022

• Flexible top-down control in the interaction between working memory and perception
  Teng, C., Fulvio, J.M., Jiang, J., & Postle, B.R. (2022)
  Journal of Vision 22(11):3, 1-19
  https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.11.3

• Priority-based transformations of stimulus representation in visual working memory
  Wan, Q., Menendez, J.A., & Postle, B.R.(2022)
  PLoS Computational Biology, 1-24
  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009062

• The Influence of Active Removal from Working Memory on Serial Dependence
  Shan, J. & Postle, B.R. (2022)
  Journal of Cognition, 5(1), 31
  http://doi.org/10.5334/joc.222

• Spectral distribution dynamics across different attentional priority states
  Pietrelli, M., Samaha, J., & Postle, B.R. (2022)
  Journal of Neuroscience, 42(19), 4026-4041
  https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2318-21.2022

• Spontaneous alpha-band amplitude predicts subjective visibility but not discrimination accuracy during high-level perception
  Samaha, J., LaRocque, J.J., & Postle, B.R. (2022)
  Consciousness & Cognition, 102, 103337
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2022.103337

2021

• One-Year Update from the Editor-in-Chief
  Postle, B.R. & Fulvio, J.M. (2021).
  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol. 34(1), 1-3.
  https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01799

• Attention biases competition for visual representation via enhancement of targets and inhibition of nontargets
  Sheldon, A.D., Saad, E., Sahan, M.I., Meyering, E., Starrett, M.J., LaRocque, J.J., Rose, N.S., & Postle, B.R. (2021).
  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol. 33, 739-755.
  https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01672

• Spatial Specificity of Feature-based Interaction Between Working Memory and Visual Processing
  Teng, C., & Postle, B.R. (2021)
  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance Vol. 47, No. 4, 495-507
  https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000899

• The neural codes underlying internally generated representations in visual working memory
  Yu, Q., & Postle, B.R. (2021)
  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 33:6, pp. 1142–1157
  https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01702

• TMS in working memory research
  Johnson, J.S., Feredoes, E., and Postle, B.R. (2021)
  Wasserman, A.V. Peterchev, U. Ziemann, S.H. Lisanby, H.R. Siebner, and V. Walsh (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Transcranial Stimulation, 2^nd Edition. Oxford University Press (Oxford, U.K.)
  https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198832256.013.34

• Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Working Memory
  Postle, B.R. (2021)
  R.H. Logie, V. Camos, and N. Cowan (Eds.) Working Memory: State of the Science. Oxford University Press (Oxford, U.K.), pp. 333-357.

• Statement from the Incoming Editor-in-Chief
  Postle, B.R. (2021)
  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 33:1, pp. 1–2
  https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01650

• Gender (Im)balance in Citation Practices in Cognitive Neuroscience
  Fulvio, J.M., Akinnola, I., & Postle, B.R. (2021)
  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 33:1, pp. 3–7
  https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01643

2020

• Neuroimaging and the localization of function in visual cognition.
  Postle, B.R. & Yu, Q. (2020)
  Visual Cognition  28, pp. 447-452
  https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2020.1777237

• The Role of Location-Context Binding in Nonspatial Visual Working Memory
  Cai, Y., Fulvio, J.M., Yu, Q., Sheldon, A.D., & Postle, B.R. (2020)
  eNeuro.0430-20.2020 1–14
  https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0430-20.2020

• Perceptual metacognition of human faces is causally supported by function of the lateral prefrontal cortex
  Lapate, R. C., Samaha, J., Rokers, B., Postle, B. R., & Davidson, R. J. (2020)
  Communications biology, 3(1), 1-10.
  https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-1049-3

• Delay-period activity in frontal, parietal, and occipital cortex tracks noise and biases in visual working memory
  Yu Q, Panichello MF, Cai Y, Postle BR, Buschman TJ (2020)
  PLoS Biol 18(9): e3000854.
  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000854

• The neural consequences of attentional prioritization of internal representations in visual working memory.
  *Sahan, M.I., *Sheldon, A.D., & Postle, B.R. (2020)
  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 32:5, pp. 917–944
  https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01517

• Tracking stimulus representation across a 2-back visual working memory task
  Wan Q., Cai, Y., Samaha, J. & Postle, B.R. (2020)
  R. Soc. Open Sci. 7: 190228
  https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190228

• Different states of priority recruit different neural representations in visual working memory
  Yu, Q., Teng, C. & Postle, B.R. (2020)
  PLoS Biol 18(6): e3000769
  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000769

• Cognitive control, not time, determines the status of items in working memory
  Fulvio, J.M. & Postle, B.R. (2020)
  Journal of Cognition, 3(1):8, 1-8
  https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.98

2019

• Connectivity differences between consciousness and unconsciousness in non-rapid eye movement sleep: a TMS-EEG study
  Lee, M., Baird, B., Gosseries, O., Nieminen, J.,Boly, M., Postle, B.R., Tononi, G., and Lee, S-W. (2019)
  Scientific Reports, 9(1), 5175
  PMCID: PMC6435892

• Confidence boosts serial dependence in orientation estimation 
  Samaha, J., Switsky, M., and Postle, B.R. (2019)
  Journal of Vision, 19(4), 25-25
  PMID: 31009526

• Overlapping and Distinct Contributions of Stimulus Location and of Spatial Context to Nonspatial Visual Short-Term Memory
  Cai, Y., Yu, Q., and Postle, B.R. (2019)
  Journal of Neurophysiology, 121(4), 1222-1231
  PMCID: PMC6485733

2018

• Working Memory: Separating the present and the future.
  Yu, Q., & Postle, B. R. (2018).
  eLife, 7, e43339.
  PMCID: PMC6279346

• Effects of meaningfulness on perception: Alpha-band oscillations carry perceptual expectations and influence early visual responses
  Samaha, J., Boutonnet, B., Postle, B.R., and Lupyan, G. (2018)
  Scientific Reports, 8, 6606
  PMCID: PMC5920106

• Parietal-occipital interactions underlying control- and representation-related processes in working memory for nonspatial visual features
  *Gosseries, O., *Yu, Q., LaRocque, J.J., Starrett, M.J., Rose, N.S., Cowan, N., Postle, B.R. (2018)
  Journal of Neuroscience, 38(18), 4357-4366
  PMCID: PMC5932644

2017

• Inhibition of lateral prefrontal cortex produces emotionally biased first impressions: A transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography study
  Lapate, R.C., Samaha, J., Rokers, B., Hamzah, H., Postle, B.R., Davidson, R.J. (2017)
  Psychological Science, 28(7), 942-953
  PMCID: PMC5725229

• Comparing the Effects of 10-Hz Repetitive TMS on Task of Visual STM and Attention
  Emrich, S.M., Johnson, J.S., Sutterer, D.W., Postle, B.R. (2017)
  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(2), 286-297
  PMCID: PMC5199610

• Correlated individual differences suggest a common mechanism underlying metacognition in visual perception and visual short-term memory
  Samaha, J, & Postle, B.R. (2017)
  Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 284(1867), 20172035
  PMCID: PMC5719179

• The neural correlates of dreaming
  Siclari, F., Baird, B., Perogamvros, L., Bernardi, G., LaRocque, J.J., Riedner, B., Boly, M., Postle, B.R., Tononi, G. (2017).
  Nature Neuroscience, 20(6), 872-878
  PMCID: PMC5462120

• Are the Neural Correlates of Consciousness in the Front or in the Back of the Cerebral Cortex? Clinical and Neuroimaging Evidence
  Boly, M., Massimini, M., Tsuchiya, N., Postle, B.R., Koch, C., & Tononi, G. (2017)
  Journal of Neuroscience, 37(40), 9603-9613
  PMCID: PMC5628406

• Within-Category Decoding of Information in Different Attentional States in Short-Term Memory
  LaRoque, J.J., Riggall, A.C., Emrich, S.M., & Postle, B.R. (2017)
  Cerebral Cortex, 27(10), 4881-4890
  PMCID: PMC6059111

• Prestimulus alpha-band power biases visual discrimination confidence, but not accuracy
  Samaha, J., Iemi, L., Postle, B.R. (2017)
  Consciousness and Cognition, 54, 47-55
  PMCID: PMC5561529

• Working memory functions of the prefrontal cortex
  Postle, B.R. (2017)
  In M. Watanabe (Ed.) Prefrontal Cortex as an Executive, Emotional and Social Brain.
  Springer, 39-48

• Distinct oscillatory frequencies underlie excitability of human occipital and parietal cortex
  Samaha, J., Gosseries, O., Postle, B.R. (2017)
  The Journal of Neuroscience, 37(11), 3824-3833
  PMCID: PMC5354329

2016 

• Reactivation of latent working memories with transcranial magnetic stimulation
  Rose, N. S., LaRocque, J., Riggall, A., Gosseries, O., Starrett, M.J., Meyering, E.E., & Postle, B.R. (2016).
  Science, 354(6316), 1136-1139
  PMCID: PMC5221753
  (Reprint)

• • The Unforgettable Career of Suzanne Corkin
    Postle, B.R., Kensinger, E. (2016)
    Hippocampus, 26(10), 1233-1237
    
  • Consciousness and cortical responsiveness: a within-state study during non-rapid eye movement sleep
    Nieminen, J. O., Gosseries, O., Massimini, M., Saad, E., Sheldon, A. D., Boly, M., Siclari, F., Postle, B.R., Tononi, G. (2016)
    Scientific Reports, 6, 30932
    PMCID: PMC4974655
  • Decoding and reconstructing the focus of spatial attention from the topography of alpha-band oscillations
    Samaha, J., Sprague T.C., & Postle, B.R. (2016)
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28(8), 1090-1097
    PMCID: PMC5074376
    

PostleinpressCurrentDirections

• How does the brain keep information “in mind”?
  Postle, B.R. (2016)
  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25(3), 151-156

• Dissociating perceptual confidence from discrimination accuracy reveals no influence of metacognitive awareness on working memory
  Samaha, J., Barrett, J., Sheldon, A., Larocque, J., & Postle, B.R. (2016)
  Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 851
  PMCID: PMC4893488

2015

• The speed of alpha-band oscillations predicts the temporal resolution of visual perception
  Samaha, J. & Postle, B.R. (2015)
  Current Biology, 25(22), 2985-90
  PMCID: PMC4654641
  

• Activation and information in working memory research
  Postle, B.R. (2015). Activation and information in working memory research. In A. Duarte, M. Shields, and D.R. Addis (Eds.)
  The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory. Wiley-Blackwell (Oxford, U.K.), 21-43.

• Neural evidence for the flexible control of mental representations
  Lewis-Peacock, J.A., Drysdale, A.T., & Postle, B.R. (2015)
  Cerebral Cortex, 25(10), 3303-3313
  PMCID: PMC 4598817
  
• Top-down control of the phase of alpha-band oscillations as a mechanism for temporal prediction
  Samaha, J., Bauer, P., Cimaroli, S., & Postle, B.R. (2015)
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(27), 8439-8444
  PMID: 26578800
• Context-specific differences in fronto-parieto-occipital effective connectivity during short-term memory maintenance
  Kundu, B., Chang, J-Y; Postle, B.R., and Van Veen, B.D. (2015)
  NeuroImage, 114, 320-327
  PMCID: PMC4446161
  
• Neural bases of the short-term retention of visual information
  Postle, B.R. (2015)
  In Mechanisms of Sensory Working Memory: Attention and Performance XXV,
  Jolicoeur, P., Lefebvre, C., & Martinez-Trujillo, J. (eds.)
  London, U.K.: Academic Press, 43-58
• The short- and long-term fate of memory items retained outside the focus of attention
  LaRocque, J.J., *Eichenbaum, A.S., *Starrett, M.J., Rose, N.S., Emrich, S.M., & Postle, B.R. (2015)
  [Special Issue on Working Memory] Memory & Cognition, 43(3), 453-468
  PMCID: PMC4447501

• How best to study the function of consciousness?
  Samaha, J. (2015)
  Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 604
  PMID: 25999907
• Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience
  Postle, B.R. (2015)
  Wiley-Blackwell
• The cognitive neuroscience of working memory
  D’Esposito, M. and Postle B.R. (2015)
  Annual Review of Psychology, 66, 115-142.
  PMID: 25251486
• The cognitive neuroscience of visual short-term memory
  Postle, B.R. (2015)
  Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 1, 40-46.
  PMID: 26516631

2014

• Prestimulation phase predicts the TMS-evoked response
  Kundu, B., Johnson, J.S., & Postle, B.R. (2014)
  Journal of Neurophysiology, 112(8), 1885-1893.
  PMCID: PMC4200008
• Trait-like differences in underlying oscillatory state predict individual differences in the TMS-evoked response
  Kundu, B., Johnson, J.S., & Postle, B.R. (2014)
  Brain Stimulation, 7(2), 234-242.
  PMCID: PMC3959568
• Multiple neural states of representation in short-term memory? It’s a matter of attention
  LaRocque J.J., Lewis-Peacock J.A., and Postle B.R. (2014)
  Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 5.
  PMID: 3899521

2013

• The positional-specificity effect reveals a passive-trace contribution to visual short-term memory
  Postle B.R., Awh E., Serences J.T., Sutterer D.W., and D’Esposito M. (2013)
  PLoS ONE, 8(12), e83483
  PMCID: PMC3873305
• A theoretically based index of consciousness independent of sensory processing and behavior
  Casali A.G., Gosseries O., Rosanova M., Boly M., Sarasso S., Casali K.R., Casarotto S., Bruno M-A., Laureys S., Tononi G., & Massimini M. (2013)
  Science Translational Medicine, 5(198), 198ra105
  PMID: 23946194
• Assessing sleep consciousness within subjects using a serial awakening paradigm
  *Siclari, F., *LaRocque, J.J., Postle, B.R., and Tononi, G. (2013)
  Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 542
  PMCID: PMC3747360
• Strengthened effective connectivity underlies transfer of working memory training to tests of short-term memory and attention
  Kundu, B., Sutterer, D.W., Emrich, S.M., and Postle, B.R. (2013)
  Journal of Neuroscience, 33(20), 8705-8715
  PMCID: PMC3758887
• Distributed patterns of activity in sensory cortex reflect the precision of multiple items maintained in visual short-term memory
  *Emrich, S.M., *Riggall, A.C., LaRocque, J.J., and Postle, B.R. (2013)
  Journal of Neuroscience, 33(15), 6516-6523
• Decoding attended information in short-term memory: An EEG study
  LaRocque, J.J., Lewis-Peacock, J.A., Drysdale, A.T., Oberauer, K., and Postle, B.R. (2013)
  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(1), 127-142
  PMCID: PMC3775605

2012

• Conserved functional connectivity but impaired effective connectivity of thalamocortical circuitry in schizophrenia
  Guller, Y., Tononi, G., and Postle, B.R. (2012)
  Brain Connectivity, 2(6), 311-319
  PMCID: PMC3621336
• The relationship between working memory storage and elevated activity, as measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging
  Riggall, A.C. and Postle, B.R. (2012)
  Journal of Neuroscience, 32(38), 12990-12998
  PMCID: PMC3470886
• Reduced natural oscillatory frequency of frontal thalamocortical circuits in schizophrenia
  Ferrarelli, F., Sarasso, S., Guller, Y., Riedner, B. Peterson, M., Bellesi, M., Massimini, M., Postle, B.R., and Tononi, G. (2012)
  Archives of General Psychiatry, 69(8), 766-774
  PMCID: PMC3394893
• Probing thalamic integrity in schizophrenia using concurrent transcranial magnetic stimulation and functional magnetic resonance imaging
  Guller, Y., Ferrarelli, F., Shackman, A.J., Sarasso, S., Peterson, M.J., Langheim, F.J., Meyerand, M.E., Tononi, G., and Postle, B.R. (2012)
  Archives of General Psychiatry, 69(7), 662-671
  PMCID: PMC3411883
• Task dependent changes in cortical excitability and effective connectivity: A combined TMS-EEG study
  Johnson, J.S., Kundu, B., Casali, A.G., and Postle, B.R. (2012)
  Journal of Neurophysiology, 107(9), 2383-2392
  PMCID: PMC3362246
• Decoding the internal focus of attention
  Lewis-Peacock, J.A and Postle, B.R. (2012)
  Neuropsychologia, 50(4), 470-478
  PMCID: PMC3288445
• The prefrontal cortex and oculomotor delayed response: a reconsideration of the “mnemonic scotoma”
  Tsujimoto, S. and Postle, B.R. (2012)
  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(3), 627-635
  PMCID: PMC3269537
• Neural evidence for a distinction between short-term memory and the focus of attention
  Lewis-Peacock, J.A., Drysdale, A., Oberauer, K., and Postle, B.R. (2012)
  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(1), 61-79
  PMCID: PMC32222712

2011

• Effects of test-enhanced learning in a cognitive psychology course
  Hattikudur, S. and Postle, B.R. (2011)
  Journal of Behavioral and Neuroscience Research, 9(2), 151-157
• Areas of left perisylvian cortex mediate auditory-verbal short-term memory
  Koenigs, M., Acheson, D., Barbey, A., Solomon, J., Postle, B.R., and Grafman, J. (2011)
  Neuropsychologia, 49(13), 3612-3619
  PMCID: PMC3209761
• What underlies the ability to guide action with spatial information that is no longer present in the environment?
  Postle, B.R. (2011)
  In A. Vandierendonck and A. Szmalec (Eds.) Spatial Working Memory. Psychology Press (Hove, U.K.), 897-901.
• The effect of concurrent semantic categorization on delayed serial recall
  Acheson, D.J., MacDonald, M.C., and Postle, B.R. (2011)
  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37(1), 44-59
  PMCID: PMC3081404
• Increased alpha-band power during the retention of shapes and shape-location associations in visual short-term memory
  Johnson, J.S., Sutterer, D.W., Acheson, D.J., Lewis-Peacock, J.A., and Postle, B.R., (2011)
  Frontiers in Psychology, 2(128), 1-9
  PMCID: PMC3114253
• A common neural substrate for language production and verbal working memory
  Acheson, D.J., Hamidi, M., Binder, J.R., and Postle, B.R., (2011)
  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(6), 1358-1367
  PMCID: PMC3053417
• Does high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation produce residual and/or cumulative effects within an experimental session?
  *Hamidi, M., *Johnson, J.S., Feredoes, E., and Postle, B.R. (2011)
  Brain Topography, 23(4), 355-367
  PMCID: PMC2978750

2010

• Using EEG to explore how rTMS produces its effects on behavior
  Johnson, J.S., Hamidi, M., and Postle, B.R. (2010)
  Brain Topography, 22(4), 281-293
  PMCID: PMC2907910
• The interaction of concreteness and phonological similarity in verbal working memory
  Acheson, D.J., Postle, B.R., and MacDonald, M.C. (2010).
  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36(1), 17-36
  PMCID: PMC3000525
• Brain responses evoked by high-frequency repetitive TMS: An ERP study
  Hamidi, M., Slagter, H.A., Tononi, G., and Postle, B.R. (2010)
  Brain Stimulation, 3(1), 2-14
  PMCID: PMC20383278
• Stronger inference with direct manipulation of brain function
  Postle, B.R. and Feredoes, E. (2010)
  Cortex, 46(1), 121-123
  PMCID: PMC2787675

2009

• Prefrontal control of familiarity and recollection in working memory
  Feredoes, E. and Postle, B.R. (2009)
  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(2), 323-330
  PMCID: PMC2807902
• Superior parietal cortex is critical for the manipulation of information in working memory
  Koenigs, M., Barbey, A.K., Postle, B.R., and Grafman, J. (2009)
  Journal of Neuroscience, 29(47), 14980-14986
  PMCID: PMC2799248
• Verbal working memory and language production: common approaches to the serial ordering of verbal information
  Acheson, D.J. and MacDonald, M.C. (2009)
  Psychological Bulletin, 135(1), 50–68
• Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation affects behavior by biasing endogenous cortical oscillations
  Hamidi, M., Slagter, H.A., Tononi, G., and Postle, B.R. (2009)
  Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 3, 14
  PMCID: PMC2707056
• Evaluating the role of prefrontal and parietal cortices in memory-guided response with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
  Hamidi, M., Tononi, G., and Postle, B.R. (2009)
  Neuropsychologia, 47(2), 295–302
  PMCID: PMC2704005
• Short term and working memory 
  Postle, B.R. and Pasternak, T. (2009)
  In L.R. Squire (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Elsevier (Oxford), Volume 8, 793-799
• The hippocampus, memory, and consciousness
  Postle, B.R. (2009)
  In S. Laureys and G. Tononi (Eds). Neurology of Consciousness. Elsevier (Amsterdam), 326-338

2008

• Temporary activation of long-term memory supports working memory
  Lewis-Peacock, J.A. and Postle, B.R. (2008)
  Journal of Neuroscience, 28(35), 8765-8771
  PMCID: PMC2699183
• Evaluating frontal and parietal contributions to spatial working memory with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
  Hamidi, M., Tononi, G., and Postle, B.R. (2008)
  Brain Research, 1230, 202-210
  PMCID: PMC2612637

2007

• The neural bases of the short-term storage of verbal information are anatomically variable across individuals
  Feredoes, E., Tononi, G., and Postle, B.R. (2007)
  Journal of Neuroscience, 27(41), 11003–11008
  PMID: 17928441
• Nonvisual codes and nonvisual brain areas support visual working memory
  Postle, B.R. and Hamidi, M. (2007)
  Cerebral Cortex, 17(9), 2151-2162
  PMID: 17150984
• “Activated long-term memory”? The bases of representation in working memory
  Postle, B.R. (2007)
  In N. Osaka, R.H. Logie, and M. D’Esposito (Eds.) The Cognitive Neuroscience of Working Memory. Oxford University Press (Oxford, U.K.), 333-349
• Localization of load sensitivity of working memory storage: Quantitatively and qualitatively discrepant results yielded by single-subject and group-averaged approaches to fMRI group analysis
  Feredoes, E., and Postle, B.R. (2007)
  NeuroImage, 35(2), 881–903
  PMCID: PMC1994574

2006

• Direct evidence for a prefrontal contribution to the control of proactive interference in verbal working memory
  Feredoes, E., Tononi, G., and Postle, B.R. (2006)
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 103(51), 19530-19534
  PMCID: 1748259
• Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation dissociates working memory manipulation from retention functions in prefrontal, but not posterior parietal, cortex
  Postle, B.R., Ferrarelli, F., Hamidi, M., Feredoes, E., Massimini, Peterson, M., Alexander, A., and Tononi, G. (2006)
  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(10), 1712-1722
  PMID: 17014375
• The selective disruption of spatial working memory by eye movements
  Postle, B.R., Idzikowski, C, Della Salla, S., Logie, R.H., and Baddeley, A.D. (2006)
  The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59(1), 100-120
  PMCID: PMC1414070
• Working memory as an emergent property of the mind and brain
  Postle, B.R. (2006)
  Neuroscience, 139(1), 23-28
  PMCID: PMC1428794
• Distraction-spanning sustained activity during delayed recognition of locations
  Postle, B.R. (2006)
  NeuroImage, 30(3), 950-962
  PMID: 16413797
• Is the prefrontal cortex necessary for delay task performance? Evidence from lesion and fMRI data
  D’Esposito, M., Cooney, J., Gazzaley, A., Gibbs, S.E.B., and Postle, B.R. (2006)
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 12(2), 248-260
  PMID: 16573858

2005

• Effects of verbal and nonverbal interference on spatial and object visual working memory
  Postle, B.R., D’Esposito, M., and Corkin, S. (2005)
  Memory & Cognition, 33(2), 203-212
  PMCID: PMC1262675
• Delay-period activity in prefrontal cortex: one function is sensory gating
  Postle, B.R. (2005)
  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17(11), 1679-1690
  PMCID: PMC1343532

2004

• Prefrontal cortex and the mediation of proactive interference in working memory
  Postle, B.R., Brush, L.N., and Nick, A.M. (2004)
  Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 4(4), 600-608
  PMCID: PMC1200452
• The where and how of attention-based rehearsal in spatial working memory
  Postle, B.R.,Awh, E., Jonides, J., Smith, E.E., and D’Esposito, M. (2004)
  Cognitive Brain Research, 20(2), 194–205
  PMID: 15183391
• The neural bases of the effects of item-nonspecific proactive interference in working memory
  Postle, B.R. and Brush, L.N. (2004)
  Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 4(3), 379-392
  PMCID: PMC1200452

2003

• Seeking the neural substrates of visual working memory storage
  Postle, B.R., Druzgal, T.J., and D’Esposito, M. (2003)
  Cortex, 39(4-5), 927-946
  PMID: 14584560
• Context in verbal short-term memory
  Postle, B.R. (2003)
  Memory & Cognition, 31(8), 1198-1207
  PMID: 15058681
• Spatial working memory activity of the caudate nucleus is sensitive to frame of reference
  Postle, B.R. and D’Esposito, M. (2003)
  Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 3(2), 133-144
  PMID: 12943328

2002

• On having one’s data shared
  Postle, B.R., Shapiro, L.A. and Biesanz, J.C. (2002)
  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14(6), 838-840
  PMID: 12191451

2001

• Behavioral and neurophysiological correlates of episodic coding, proactive interference, and list length effects in a running span verbal working memory task
  Postle, B.R., Berger, J.S, Goldstein, J.H., Curtis, C.E., and D’Esposito, M. (2001)
  Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 1(1), 10-21
  PMID: 12467100

2000

• Using event-related fMRI to assess delay-period activity during performance of spatial and nonspatial working memory tasks
  Postle, B.R., Zarahn, E., and D’Esposito, M. (2000)
  Brain Research Protocols, 5(1), 57-66
  PMID: 10719266
• An fMRI investigation of cortical contributions to spatial and nonspatial visual working memory
  Postle, B.R., Stern, C.E., Rosen, B.R., and Corkin, S. (2000)
  NeuroImage, 11(5), 409-423
  PMID: 10806028
• Prefrontal cortical contributions to working memory: evidence from event-related fMRI studies
  D’Esposito, M., Postle, B.R., and Rypma, B. (2000)
  Experimental Brain Research, 133, 3-11
  PMID: 10933205
• Evaluating models of the topographical organization of working memory function in frontal cortex with event-related fMRI
  Postle, B.R. and D’Esposito, M. (2000)
  Psychobiology, 28(2), 132-145
• Neural correlates of processes contributing to working memory function: evidence from neuropsychological and pharmacological studies
  D’Esposito, M. and Postle, B.R. (2000)
  Control of Cognitive Processes: Attention & Performance XVIII (S. Monsell and J. Driver, eds.), 579-602
• Activity in human frontal cortex associated with spatial working memory and saccadic behavior
  Postle, B.R., Berger, J.S., Taich, A.M., and D’Esposito, M. (2000)
  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12(Supplement 2), 2-14

1999

• Functional neuroanatomical double dissociation of mnemonic and executive control processes contributing to working memory
  Postle, B.R. , Berger, J. S. , and D’Esposito, M. (1999)
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 96(22), 12959-12964
  PMCID: PMC23182
• Manipulation of familiarity reveals a necessary lexical component of the word-stem completion priming effect
  Postle, B.R. and Corkin, S. (1999)
  Memory & Cognition, 27(1), 12-25
• The neural substrate and temporal dynamics of interference effects in working memory as revealed by event-related fMRI
  D’Esposito, M., Postle, B.R., Jonides, J., and Smith, E.E. (1999)
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 96(13), 7514-7519
  PMCID: PMC22117
• Dissociation of human caudate nucleus activity in spatial and nonspatial working memory
  Postle, B.R. and D’Esposito, M. (1999)
  Cognitive Brain Research, 8(2), 107-115
• The dependence of span and delayed-response performance on prefrontal cortex
  D’Esposito, M. and Postle, B.R. (1999)
  Neuropsychologia, 37(11), 1303-1315
• An evaluation of the concurrent discrimination task as a measure of habit learning: Performance of amnesic subjects
  Hood, K. L., Postle, B. R., and Corkin. S. (1999)
  Neuropsychologia, 37(12), 1375-1386
• “What” – then – “where” in visual working memory: an event-related fMRI study
  Postle, B.R. and D’Esposito, M. (1999)
  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11(6), 585-597
• Maintenance versus manipulation of information held in working memory: an fMRI study
  D’Esposito, M., Postle, B.R., Ballard, D., and Lease, J. (1999)
  Brain & Cognition, 41(1), 66-86

1998

• Impaired word-stem completion priming with novel words: Evidence from the amnesic patient H.M.
  Postle, B.R. and Corkin, S. (1998)
  Neuropsychologia, 36(5), 421-440

1997

• The time course of spatial and object learning in Parkinson’s disease
  Postle, B.R., Locascio, J.J., Corkin, S. and Growdon, J.H. (1997)
  Neuropsychologia, 35(10), 1413-1422
• Spatial, but not object, delayed response is impaired in early Parkinson’s disease
  Postle, B.R., Jonides, J., Smith, E., Corkin, S., and Growdon, J.H. (1997)
  Neuropsychology, 11(2), 171-179

1996

• Intact implicit memory for novel patterns in Alzheimer’s disease
  Postle, B.R., Corkin, S., and Growdon, J.H. (1996)
  Learning and Memory, 3(4), 305-312

(* = these authors contributed equally)