Publications

Carpenter, C.M., Mullin, H.A., Cwiek, A., Carter, E., Vervoordt, S., Lan, X., Dennis, N.A., Rabinowitz, A., Venkatesan, U.M., & Hillary, F.G. (under review). Hippocampal network connectivity and episodic memory in individuals aging with traumatic brain injury. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8jh4v

Dennis, N.A., Overman, A.A., Carpenter, C.M., Becker, A., West, J.T., & Chase, S.O. (under review). The Otter and the Cleaver: Exploring the neural underpinnings of unitization using the Gestalt principle of proximity. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/3d57x

West, J. T., Wagner, R. L., Steinkrauss, A., & Dennis, N. A. (2025). Investigating the cognitive correlates of semantic and perceptual false memory in older and younger adults: A multi-group latent variable approach. Journal of Memory and Language. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2025.104625

Turney, I. C., Steinkrauss, A. C., Wagner, R. L., Chamberlain, J. D., West, J. T., Hakun, J. G., Ross, L. A., Kirchhoff, B. A., & Dennis, N. A. (2025). Investigation of the neural effects of memory training to reduce false memories in older adults: Univariate and multivariate analyses. Neurobiology of Aging. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2024.12.007

Fandakova, Y. & Dennis, N.A. (2024). Introduction to the special issue: the neuroscience of false memory. Memory. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2418768

Dubec, L., Gerver, C. R., Dennis, N., & Beaty, R. (2024). Enhancing creative divergent thinking in older adults with a semantic retrieval strategy. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2024.2414855

Dennis, N. A., Carpenter, C. M., & Becker, A. (2024). Examining the neural basis of unitization: A review. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 41, 389-401. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-024-01170-3

Carpenter, C. M., & Dennis, N. A. (2024). Investigating the neural basis of schematic false memories by examining schematic and lure pattern similarity. Memory, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2316169

Dennis, N., Chamberlain, J., & Carpenter, C. (2024). False memories: what neuroimaging tells us about how we misremember the past. In The Sage Handbook of Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, 91-103. SAGE Publications Ltd, https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529616651.n7

Steinkrauss, A. C., Carpenter, C. M., Tarkenton, M. K., Overman, A. A., & Dennis, N. A. (2023). Neural distinctiveness and discriminability underlying unitization and associative memory in aging. Aging Brain, 4, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbas.2023.100097

Gerver, C. R., Griffin, J. W., Dennis, N. A., & Beaty, R. E. (2023). Memory and creativity: A meta-analytic examination of the relationship between memory systems and creative cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30, 2116-2154. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02303-4

Carpenter, C. M., Webb, C. E., Overman, A. A., & Dennis, N. A. (2023). Within-category similarity negatively affects associative memory performance in both younger and older adults, Memory, 31(1), 77-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2022.2123524

Carpenter, C. M., & Dennis, N. A. (2023). Does unitization really function like items? The role of interference on item and associative memory processes. Memory & Cognition, 51, 1159–1169. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01389-w

Dennis, N. A., & Koen, J. (2022). Introduction to the special issue: advances in understanding the cognitive neuroscience of aging with multivariate methods. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 29(3), 367-374. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2022.2044447

Dennis, N. A., Overman, A. A., Carpenter, C. M., & Gerver, C. R. (2022). Understanding associative false memories in aging using multivariate analyses. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 29(3), 500-525. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2022.2037500

Chamberlain, J. D., Bowman, C. R., & Dennis, N. A. (2022). Age-related differences in encoding-retrieval similarity and their relationship to false memory. Neurobiology of Aging, 113, 15-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2022.01.011

Ricuperio, S., Carpenter, C. M., Steinkrauss, A., Gerver, C. R., Chamberlain, J. D.,
Overman, A. A., & Dennis, N. A. (2022). Neural distinctiveness and reinstatement of hippocampal representations supports associative unitization. Brain Research, 1798, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2022.148143

Kurkela, K., Carpenter, C. M., Babu, H. J., Chamberlain, J. D., Allen, C., & Dennis, N. A. (2021). The effect of memory cue duration on performance in the directed forgetting task in healthy aging. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 29(6), 943-964. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2021.1942427

Elbich, D. B., Webb, C. E., & Dennis, N. A. (2021). The influence of item familiarization on neural discriminability during associative memory encoding and retrieval. Brain and Cognition, 152, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2021.105760

Chamberlain, J. D., Turney, I. C., Goodman, J. T., Hakun, J. G., & Dennis, N. A. (2021). Fornix white matter microstructure differentially predicts false recollection rates in older and younger adults. Neuropsychologia, 157, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107848

Bulgarelli, F., Weiss, D. J., & Dennis, N. A. (2021). Cross-situational statistical learning in younger and older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 28(3), 346-366. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2020.1759502

Dennis, N. A., Gutchess, A. H., & Thomas, A. K. (2020). Overview of Models of Cognitive Aging. Handbook of Cognitive Aging, 5-31. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108552684.002

Webb, C. E., & Dennis, N. A. (2020). Memory for the usual: the influence of schemas on memory for non-schematic information in younger and older adults. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 37(1-2), 58-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2019.1674798

Gerver, C. R., Overman, A. A., Babu, H. J., Hultman, C. E., & Dennis, N. A. (2020). Examining the neural basis of congruent and incongruent configural contexts during associate retrieval. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(9), 1796-1812. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01593

Gertel, V. H., Karimi, H., Dennis, N. A., Neely, K. A., & Diaz, M. T. (2020). Lexical frequency affects functional activation and accuracy in word naming among older and younger adults. Psychology & Aging, 34(4), 536-552. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000454

Gerver, C. R., Neely, K. A., Kurkela, K. A., Diaz, M. T., Goodman, J. T., Blouch, S. B., Samimy, S., & Dennis, N. A. (2020). Shared neural recruitment across working memory and motor control tasks as a function of task difficulty and age. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 27(6), 864-879. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2019.1700898

Dennis, N. A., Overman, A. A., Gerver, C. R., McGraw, K. E., Rowley, M. A., & Salerno, J. M. (2019). Different types of associative encoding evoke differential processing in both younger and older adults: evidence from univariate and multivariate analyses. Neuropsychologia, 135, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107240

Ross, L. A., Webb, C. E., Whitaker, C., Hicks, J. M., Schmidt, E. L., Samimy, S., Dennis, N. A., & Visscher, K. M. (2019). The effect of useful field of view training on brain activity and connectivity. The Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 74(7), 1152-1162. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gby041

Bowman, C. R., Chamberlain, J. D., & Dennis, N. A. (2019). Sensory representations supporting memory specificity: Age effects on behavioral and neural discriminability. Journal of Neuroscience, 39(12), 2265-2275. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2022-18.2019

Overman, A. A., McCormick-Huhn, J. M., Dennis, N. A., Steinsiek, A. B., & Cesar, L. B. (2019). Same face, same place, different memory: Manner of presentation modulates the associative deficit in older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 26(1), 44-57. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2017.1397097

Dennis, N. A., & Turney, I. C. (2018). The influence of perceptual similarity and individual differences on false memories in aging. Neurobiology of Aging, 62, 221-230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.10.020

Webb, C.E., Dennis, N.A., Differentiating true and false schematic memories in older adults. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 74(7), 1111–1120. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gby011

Dennis, N. A., & McCormick-Huhn, J. M. (2018). Item and associative memory decline in healthy aging. Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 1-40. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119170174.epcn110

Overman, A. A., McCormick-Huhn, J. M., Dennis, N. A., Salerno, J. M., & Giglio, A. P. (2018). Older adults’ associative memory is modified by manner of presentation at encoding and retrieval. Psychology and Aging, 33(1), 82-92. http://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000215

McCormick-Huhn, J. M., Chen, H., Wyble, B. A., & Dennis, N. A. (2018). Using attribute amnesia to test the limits of hyper-binding and associative deficits in working memory. Psychology and Aging. 33(1), 165-175. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000213

McCormick-Huhn, J. M., Bowman, C., & Dennis, N. A. (2018). Repeated study of items with and without repeated context: aging effects on recollection and familiarity. Memory, 26(5), 603-609. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2017.1387267

Bowman, C. R., Sine, S. & Dennis, N. A. (2017). Modulation of target recollection and recollection rejection networks due to retrieval facilitation and interference. Learning & Memory, 24, 607-611.

Neeley, K. A., Samimy, S., Blouch, S. L., Wang, P., Chennavasin, A., Diaz, M. T., Dennis, N. A. (2017). Memory-guided force control in healthy younger and older adults. Experimental Brain Research, 235(8): 2473-2482.

Grant, A. & Dennis, N. A. (2017). Increased processing speed in young adult bilinguals: evidence from source memory judgments. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 20(2), 327-336.

Turney, I. C., Dennis, N. A, Maillet, D., & Rajah, M. N. (2017). Exploring the influence of encoding format on subsequent memory. Memory. 25(5), 686-696.

Geib, B. R., Stanley, M. L., Dennis, N. A., Woldorff, M. & Cabeza, R. (2017). From hippocampus to whole-brain: The role of integrative processing in episodic memory retrieval. Human Brain Mapping. I38(4):2242-2259.

Turney, I. C. & Dennis, N. A. (2017). Elucidating the neural correlates of related false memories using a systematic measure of perceptual relatedness. NeuroImage, 146: 940-950.

Webb, C. E., Turney, I. C., & Dennis, N. A. (2016). What’s the Gist? The influence of schemas on the neural correlates underlying true and false memories. Neuropsychologia, 93: 61-75.

Bowman, C. R. & Dennis, N. A. (2016). The neural basis of recollection rejection: increases in hippocampal-prefrontal connectivity in the absence of a shared recall-to-reject and target recollection network. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28: 1194-1209.

Rizio, A. & Dennis, N. A. (2016). Recollection after inhibition: The effects of intentional forgetting on the neural correlates of retrieval. Cognitive Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2016.1154522

Kurkela, K. A. & Dennis, N. A. (2016). Event-related fMRI studies of false memory: An Activation Likelihood Estimation meta-analysis. Neuropsychologia, 81: 149-167.

Dennis, N. A., Turney, I. C., Webb, C. E., & Overman, A. A. (2015). The effects of item familiarity on the neural correlates of successful associative memory encoding. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 15, 889-900.

Wilkinson, K. M., Dennis, N. A., Webb, C. E., Therrien, M., Stadtman, M., Farmer, J., Leach, R., Warrenfeltz, M., Zeuner, C. (2015). Neural Activity Associated with Visual Search for Line Drawings on ACC Displays: An Exploration of the Use of fMRI. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 31(4): 310-324.

Bowman, C. R. & Dennis, N. A. (2015). Age differences in the neural correlates of novelty processing: The effects of item-relatedness.. Brain Research, 1612: 2-15.

Bowman, C. R. & Dennis, N. A. (2015). The neural correlates of correctly rejecting lures during memory retrieval: The role of item-relatedness.  Experimental Brain Research, 233: 1963-1975.

Venkatesan, U. M., Dennis, N. A ., & Hillary, F. (2015). Chronology and chronicity of altered resting-state functional connectivity after traumatic brain injury. Journal of Neurotrauma. 32(4):252-64. PMCID: PMC4347859

Dennis, N. A., Bowman, C. R., & Turney, I. C. (2015). Neural correlates of false memories. In Audrey Duarte, Donna Rose Addis, & Morgan Barense (Eds.), The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Memory. pp 150-171. Wiley-Blackwell.

Grant, A., Dennis, N. A., Li, P. (2014). Cognitive control, cognitive reserve, and memory in the aging bilingual brain. Frontiers in Psychology, 5: 1401.

Dennis, N. A, Johnson, C. E., Peterson, K. P. (2014). Neural correlates underlying true and false associative memories. Brain and Cognition, 88: 65-72.

Rizio, A. A. & Dennis, N. A. (2014). The cognitive control of memory: Age differences in the neural correlates of successful remembering and intentional forgetting. PLoS One, 9(1): 1-12.

Dennis, N. A., Bowman, C. R., & Peterson, K. P. (2014). Age-related differences in the neural correlates mediating false recollection. Neurobiology of Aging, 35(2): 395-407.

Rizio, A. A., Dennis, N. A. (2013).The neural correlates of cognitive control: Successful remembering and intentional forgetting.   Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(2): 297-312.

Dennis, N. A. & Peterson K. M. (2013). Neural correlates mediating age differences in episodic memories: Evidence from BOLD contrasts and connectivity analyses. Psychologia. 55(2): 112-130.

Butler, A. C., Dennis, N. A., Marsh, E. J. (2012). Inferring facts from fiction: Reading correct and incorrect information affects memory for related information. Memory, 20(5): 487-498.

Dennis, N. A., Bowman, C. R., & Vandekar, S. N. (2012). True and phantom recollection: An fMRI investigation of similar and distinct neural correlates and connectivity. NeuroImage, 59: 2982-2993.

Cabeza, R. & Dennis, N. A. (2012). Frontal lobes and aging: Deterioration and Compensation. In Stuss, D.T., & Knight, R.T. (Eds.). Principles of Frontal Lobe Function, 2nd Edition. (pp.628-652) New York: Oxford University Press.

Dennis, N. A. & Cabeza, R. (2011). Age-related dedifferentiation of learning systems: an fMRI study of implicit and explicit learning. Neurobiology of Aging, 32(12): 2318.e17-2318.e30.

Dennis, N. A., Cabeza, R., Need, A., Waters-Metenier, S., Goldstein, D., & LaBar, K. S. (2011). Brain-derived neurotrophic factor Val66Met polymorphism and hippocampal activation during episodic encoding and retrieval tasks. Hippocampus, 21(9): 980-989.

Dennis, N. A., Browndyke, J. N., Stokes, J., Need, A., Burke, J. R., Welsh-Bohmer, K., & Cabeza, R. (2010). Temporal lobe functional activity and connectivity in young adult APOE e4 carriers. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 6(4): 303-311.

Dennis, N. A., Need, A. C., LaBar, K. S., Waters-Metenier, S, Cirulli, E. T., Kragel, J, Goldstein, D. B. & Cabeza, R. (2010). COMT Val108/158Met genotype affects neural but not cognitive processing in healthy individuals.  Cerebral Cortex, 20(3): 672-683.

Madden, D. J., Costello, M. C., Dennis, N. A., Davis, S. W., Shepler, A. N., Spaniol, J., Bucur, B., Cabeza, R. (2010). Adult Age Differences in Functional Connectivity during Executive Control. NeuroImage. 52: 643–657.

Daselaar, S. M., Prince, S. E., Dennis, N. A., Hayes, S. M., Kim, H., & Cabeza, R. (2009). Posterior midline and ventral parietal activity is associated with retrieval success and encoding failure. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 3(13): 1-10.

Prince, S. E., Dennis, N. A., & Cabeza, R. (2009). Encoding and retrieving of faces and places: Distinguishing process- and stimulus-specific differences in brain activity. Neuropsychologia, 47: 2282–2289.

Davis, S. W., Dennis, N. A., Buchler, N., White, L. E., Madden, D. J., & Cabeza, R. (2009). Assessing the effects of aging on long white matter tracts using diffusion tensor tractography. NeuroImage, 46(2): 530-41.

Madden, D. J., Spaniol, J., Costello, M., Bucur, B., White, L., Cabeza, R., Davis, S. W., Dennis, N. A., Provenzale, & Huettel, S. A. (2009). Cerebral white matter integrity mediates adult age differences in cognitive performance.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(2): 289–302.

Dennis, N. A., Hayes, S. M., Prince, S. E., Madden, D. J., Huettel, S. A., & Cabeza, R. (2008). Effects of aging on the neural correlates of successful item and source memory encoding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 34(4): 791-808.

Davis, S. W., Dennis, N. A., Fleck, M., Daselaar, S. M., & Cabeza, R. (2008). Que PASA?: the posterior-anterior shift in aging. Cerebral Cortex,18(5): 1201-1209.

Dennis, N. A., Kim, H., & Cabeza, R. (2008). Age-related differences in brain activity during true and false memory retrieval.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(8): 1390-1402.

Howard, J. H., Jr., Howard, D. V., Dennis, N. A., & Kelly, A. J. (2008). Implicit learning of predictive relationships in three-element visual sequences by young and old adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 34(5): 1139-57.

Howard, D. V., Howard, J. H., Jr., Dennis, N. A., LaVine, S., & Valentino, K. (2008). Aging and implicit learning of a simple association. Journal of Gerontology B: Psychological Sciences, 63(2): 100-105.

Dennis, N. A. & Cabeza, R. (2008). Neuroimaging of Healthy Cognitive Aging. In F.E.M. Craik & T. Salthouse (Eds.). Handbook of Cognitive Aging, 3rd Edition. pp. 1-54. New York: Psychological Press.

Dennis, N. A., Kim, H., & Cabeza, R. (2007). Effects of aging on true and false memory formation: an fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 45(14): 3157-3166.

Howard, J. H., Jr., Howard, D. V., Dennis, N. A., & Yankovich, H. (2007). Event timing and age-deficits in higher-order sequence learning. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 14(6): 647-668.

Dennis, N. A., Daselaar, S., & Cabeza, R. (2007). Effects of aging on transient and sustained successful memory encoding activity. Neurobiology of Aging, 28(11): 1749-1758.

Daselaar, S., Dennis, N. A., & Cabeza, R. (2007). Ageing: age-related changes in episodic and working memory. In S. Rombouts, F. Barkhof, and P. Scheltens (Eds.). Clinical Applications of Functional Brain MRI. Oxford University Press.

Dennis, N. A., Howard, J. H., Jr., & Howard, D. V. (2006). Implicit sequence learning without motor sequencing in young and old adults. Experimental Brain Research,175(1): 153-64.

Howard, J.H., Jr., Howard, D.V., Dennis, N.A., Yankovich, H., & Vaidya, C.J. (2004). Implicit spatial contextual learning in healthy aging. Neuropsychology, 18(1): 124-134.

Dennis, N. A., Howard, J. H., Jr., & Howard, D. V. (2003). Age deficits in learning sequences of spoken words. Journal of Gerontology B: Psychological Sciences, 58: 224-227.

Carlin, M. T., Soraci, S. A., Strawbridge, C. P., Dennis, N. A., Loiselle, R., Chechile, N. A. (2003). Detection of changes in naturalistic scenes: Evidence of intelligence-related differences. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 108(3): 181-193.

Mackay, H. A., Soraci, S. A., Carlin, M. T., Dennis, N. A., & Strawbridge, C.P. (2002). Guiding visual attention during acquisition of matching to sample. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 107(6): 445-454.

Carlin, M. T., Soraci, S. A., Dennis, N. A., Strawbridge, C., & Chechile, N. A. (2002). Guided visual search in individuals with mental retardation. American Journal on Mental Retardation,107(4): 237-251.

Carlin, M. T., Soraci, S. A., Dennis, N. A., Chechile, N. A., & Loiselle, R. C. (2001). Enhancing free recall rates of individuals with mental retardation. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 106(4): 314-326.

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