Peer-reviewed publications
UNDER PEER-REVIEW
Ren, X. and Coutanche, M.N. (submitted). Sleep reduces the semantic coherence of memory recall: An application of latent semantic analysis to investigate memory reconstruction. [PREPRINT]
Liu, R., Tremel, J., Fiez, J., Durisko, C., Schunn, C., Coutanche, M.N., & Libertus, M. (submitted). The integration of symbolic and non-symbolic number representations in the human brain.
Koch, G.E., Akpan, E., & Coutanche, M.N. (submitted). Image memorability is predicted at different stages of a convolutional neural network. [PREPRINT]
Hallion, L.S., Wright, A.G.C., Coutanche, M.N., Joormann, J., & Kusmierski, S.N. (submitted). An empirically-derived taxonomy of perseverative thought: Evidence for a dimensional approach to classification. [PREPRINT]
Coutanche, M.N., Akpan, E., & Buckser, R.R. (submitted). Representational Connectivity Analysis: Identifying networks of shared changes in representational strength through jackknife resampling. [PREPRINT]
PUBLISHED AND IN PRESS
Bruett, H., Calloway, R.C., Tokowicz, N., & Coutanche, M.N. (In press). Neural pattern similarity across concept exemplars predicts memory after a long delay. NeuroImage. [LINK]
Coutanche, M.N., Koch, G.E., & Paulus, J.P. (In press). Influences on memory for naturalistic visual episodes: Sleep, familiarity, and traits differentially affect forms of recall. Learning & Memory. [PDF]
Koch, G.E., Paulus, J.P., & Coutanche, M.N. (In press). Neural patterns are more similar across individuals during successful memory encoding than during failed memory encoding. Cerebral Cortex. [PDF]
Popov, V., Zhang, Q., Koch, G.E., Calloway, R.C., & Coutanche, M.N. (2019). Semantic knowledge influences whether novel episodic associations are represented symmetrically or asymmetrically. Memory & Cognition, 47(8), 1567-1581.
- Pre-registered (https://osf.io/rdsw5); materials, data, code online (https://osf.io/72amw)
Coutanche, M.N. (2019). Addressing misconceptions of Fast Mapping in adults. Invited commentary. Cognitive Neuroscience, 10(4), 226–228. [PDF]
Carlos, B.J., Hirshorn, E.A., Durisko, C., Fiez, J.A., & Coutanche, M.N. (2019). Word inversion sensitivity as a marker of visual word form area lateralization: An application of a novel multivariate measure of laterality. NeuroImage, 191, 493-502. [LINK]
Coutanche, M.N., & Hallion, L.S. (In press). Machine learning for clinical psychology and clinical neuroscience. In A.G.C. Wright and M.N. Hallquist (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods in Clinical Psychology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Coutanche, M.N., Solomon, S.H., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (In press). Conceptual combination. In D. Poeppel, G. R. Mangun and M. S. Gazzaniga (Eds.), The Cognitive Neurosciences, 6th edition. Boston, MA: MIT Press.
Martin, L., Durisko, C., Moore, M.W., Coutanche, M.N., Chen, D., & Fiez, J.A. (2019). The VWFA is the home of orthographic learning when house images are used as letters. eNeuro, 6(1), ENEURO.0425-17.2019. [LINK]
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2019). Neural activity in human visual cortex is transformed by learning real world size. NeuroImage, 186, 570-576. [LINK]
Bruett, H., Fang, X., Kamaraj, D.C., Haley, E., & Coutanche, M.N. (2018). Expertise moderates incidentally learned associations between words and images. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. [LINK]
Coutanche, M.N., & Koch, G.E. (2018). Creatures great and small: Real-world size of animals predicts visual cortex representations beyond taxonomic category. NeuroImage, 183, 627-634. [LINK]
Anzellotti, S.*, & Coutanche, M.N.* (2018). Beyond Functional Connectivity: Investigating Networks of Multivariate Representations. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(3), 258–269. [*equal contributions] [LINK]
Coutanche, M.N., & Paulus, J.P. (2018). An empirical analysis of popular press claims regarding linguistic change in President Donald J. Trump. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. [LINK]
Coutanche, M.N., & Koch, G.E. (2017). Variation across individuals and items determine learning outcomes from fast mapping. Neuropsychologia, 106, 187–193. [LINK]
Coutanche, M.N., Solomon, S.H., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2016). A meta-analysis of fMRI decoding: Quantifying influences on human visual population codes. Neuropsychologia, 82, 134–141. [PDF]
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2015). Rapid consolidation of new knowledge in adulthood via fast mapping. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19(9), 486–488. [LINK]
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2015). Creating concepts from converging features in human cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 25(9), 2584-2593. [PDF] [MEDIA]
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2014). Fast mapping rapidly integrates information into existing memory networks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(6), 2296-2303. [PDF]
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2014). Using informational connectivity to measure the synchronous emergence of fMRI multi-voxel information across time. Journal of Visualized Experiments, (89). [LINK]
Coutanche, M.N. (2013). Distinguishing multi-voxel patterns and mean activation: Why, how, and what does it tell us? Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 13(3), 667–673. [PDF]
Coutanche, M.N., Gianessi, C.A., Chanales, A.J.H., Willison, K.W., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2013). The role of sleep in forming a memory representation of a two-dimensional space. Hippocampus, 23(12), 1189-1197. [PDF]
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2013). Informational Connectivity: Identifying synchronized discriminability of multi-voxel patterns across the brain. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:15, 1-14. [PDF] [Informational Connectivity Toolbox]
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2012). Reversal without remapping: What we can (and cannot) conclude about learned associations from training-induced behavior changes. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7(2), 118–134. [PDF] [MEDIA]
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2012). The advantage of brief fMRI acquisition runs for multi-voxel pattern detection across runs. NeuroImage, 61(4), 1113–1119. [PDF]
Coutanche, M.N., Thompson-Schill, S.L., & Schultz, R.T. (2011). Multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI data predicts clinical symptom severity. NeuroImage, 57(1), 113–123. [PDF]
Kylliäinen, A., Wallace, S., Coutanche, M.N., Leppänen, J.M., Cusack, J., Bailey, A. J., & Hietanen, J.K. (2012). Affective-motivational brain responses to direct gaze in children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines, 53(7), 790–797.
Casey, J.P., Magalhaes, T., Conroy, J.M., Regan, R., Shah, N., Anney, R., Shields, D.C., et al. (2012). A novel approach of homozygous haplotype sharing identifies candidate genes in autism spectrum disorder. Human Genetics, 131(4), 565-579.
Ren, X. and Coutanche, M.N. (submitted). Sleep reduces the semantic coherence of memory recall: An application of latent semantic analysis to investigate memory reconstruction. [PREPRINT]
Liu, R., Tremel, J., Fiez, J., Durisko, C., Schunn, C., Coutanche, M.N., & Libertus, M. (submitted). The integration of symbolic and non-symbolic number representations in the human brain.
Koch, G.E., Akpan, E., & Coutanche, M.N. (submitted). Image memorability is predicted at different stages of a convolutional neural network. [PREPRINT]
Hallion, L.S., Wright, A.G.C., Coutanche, M.N., Joormann, J., & Kusmierski, S.N. (submitted). An empirically-derived taxonomy of perseverative thought: Evidence for a dimensional approach to classification. [PREPRINT]
Coutanche, M.N., Akpan, E., & Buckser, R.R. (submitted). Representational Connectivity Analysis: Identifying networks of shared changes in representational strength through jackknife resampling. [PREPRINT]
PUBLISHED AND IN PRESS
Bruett, H., Calloway, R.C., Tokowicz, N., & Coutanche, M.N. (In press). Neural pattern similarity across concept exemplars predicts memory after a long delay. NeuroImage. [LINK]
Coutanche, M.N., Koch, G.E., & Paulus, J.P. (In press). Influences on memory for naturalistic visual episodes: Sleep, familiarity, and traits differentially affect forms of recall. Learning & Memory. [PDF]
Koch, G.E., Paulus, J.P., & Coutanche, M.N. (In press). Neural patterns are more similar across individuals during successful memory encoding than during failed memory encoding. Cerebral Cortex. [PDF]
Popov, V., Zhang, Q., Koch, G.E., Calloway, R.C., & Coutanche, M.N. (2019). Semantic knowledge influences whether novel episodic associations are represented symmetrically or asymmetrically. Memory & Cognition, 47(8), 1567-1581.
- Pre-registered (https://osf.io/rdsw5); materials, data, code online (https://osf.io/72amw)
Coutanche, M.N. (2019). Addressing misconceptions of Fast Mapping in adults. Invited commentary. Cognitive Neuroscience, 10(4), 226–228. [PDF]
Carlos, B.J., Hirshorn, E.A., Durisko, C., Fiez, J.A., & Coutanche, M.N. (2019). Word inversion sensitivity as a marker of visual word form area lateralization: An application of a novel multivariate measure of laterality. NeuroImage, 191, 493-502. [LINK]
Coutanche, M.N., & Hallion, L.S. (In press). Machine learning for clinical psychology and clinical neuroscience. In A.G.C. Wright and M.N. Hallquist (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods in Clinical Psychology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Coutanche, M.N., Solomon, S.H., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (In press). Conceptual combination. In D. Poeppel, G. R. Mangun and M. S. Gazzaniga (Eds.), The Cognitive Neurosciences, 6th edition. Boston, MA: MIT Press.
Martin, L., Durisko, C., Moore, M.W., Coutanche, M.N., Chen, D., & Fiez, J.A. (2019). The VWFA is the home of orthographic learning when house images are used as letters. eNeuro, 6(1), ENEURO.0425-17.2019. [LINK]
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2019). Neural activity in human visual cortex is transformed by learning real world size. NeuroImage, 186, 570-576. [LINK]
Bruett, H., Fang, X., Kamaraj, D.C., Haley, E., & Coutanche, M.N. (2018). Expertise moderates incidentally learned associations between words and images. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. [LINK]
Coutanche, M.N., & Koch, G.E. (2018). Creatures great and small: Real-world size of animals predicts visual cortex representations beyond taxonomic category. NeuroImage, 183, 627-634. [LINK]
Anzellotti, S.*, & Coutanche, M.N.* (2018). Beyond Functional Connectivity: Investigating Networks of Multivariate Representations. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(3), 258–269. [*equal contributions] [LINK]
Coutanche, M.N., & Paulus, J.P. (2018). An empirical analysis of popular press claims regarding linguistic change in President Donald J. Trump. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. [LINK]
Coutanche, M.N., & Koch, G.E. (2017). Variation across individuals and items determine learning outcomes from fast mapping. Neuropsychologia, 106, 187–193. [LINK]
Coutanche, M.N., Solomon, S.H., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2016). A meta-analysis of fMRI decoding: Quantifying influences on human visual population codes. Neuropsychologia, 82, 134–141. [PDF]
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2015). Rapid consolidation of new knowledge in adulthood via fast mapping. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19(9), 486–488. [LINK]
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2015). Creating concepts from converging features in human cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 25(9), 2584-2593. [PDF] [MEDIA]
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2014). Fast mapping rapidly integrates information into existing memory networks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(6), 2296-2303. [PDF]
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2014). Using informational connectivity to measure the synchronous emergence of fMRI multi-voxel information across time. Journal of Visualized Experiments, (89). [LINK]
Coutanche, M.N. (2013). Distinguishing multi-voxel patterns and mean activation: Why, how, and what does it tell us? Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 13(3), 667–673. [PDF]
Coutanche, M.N., Gianessi, C.A., Chanales, A.J.H., Willison, K.W., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2013). The role of sleep in forming a memory representation of a two-dimensional space. Hippocampus, 23(12), 1189-1197. [PDF]
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2013). Informational Connectivity: Identifying synchronized discriminability of multi-voxel patterns across the brain. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:15, 1-14. [PDF] [Informational Connectivity Toolbox]
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2012). Reversal without remapping: What we can (and cannot) conclude about learned associations from training-induced behavior changes. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7(2), 118–134. [PDF] [MEDIA]
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2012). The advantage of brief fMRI acquisition runs for multi-voxel pattern detection across runs. NeuroImage, 61(4), 1113–1119. [PDF]
Coutanche, M.N., Thompson-Schill, S.L., & Schultz, R.T. (2011). Multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI data predicts clinical symptom severity. NeuroImage, 57(1), 113–123. [PDF]
Kylliäinen, A., Wallace, S., Coutanche, M.N., Leppänen, J.M., Cusack, J., Bailey, A. J., & Hietanen, J.K. (2012). Affective-motivational brain responses to direct gaze in children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines, 53(7), 790–797.
Casey, J.P., Magalhaes, T., Conroy, J.M., Regan, R., Shah, N., Anney, R., Shields, D.C., et al. (2012). A novel approach of homozygous haplotype sharing identifies candidate genes in autism spectrum disorder. Human Genetics, 131(4), 565-579.
Conference presentations
Coutanche, M.N. (May, 2020). Roles of perceptual and conceptual hierarchies in the formation of memories. Symposium presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Akpan, E., Buckser, R., and Coutanche, M.N. (May, 2020). Identifying networks with common changes in representational similarity over time using jackknife resampling. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Koch, G.E., Akpan, E., and Coutanche, M.N. (May, 2020). Image memorability is predicted by activity across stages of convolutional neural networks and the human ventral stream. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Ren, X., and Coutanche, M.N. (May, 2020). Information can be extracted from ventral stream multi- voxel patterns across spatial scales using the wavelet transform. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Colvin, M., Koch, G., Dresang, H., Warren, T., Dickey, M.W., and Coutanche, M.N. (March 2020). fMRI evidence for the existence and function of animacy predictions. Poster presented at the Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, Amherst, MA.
Coutanche, M.N. (March, 2020). Applications of Informational Connectivity. Presentation at the Organization of Human Brain Mapping Equinox Twitter Conference. https://ohbmx.org/
Hallion, L.S., Wright, A.G.C., Coutanche, M.N., Kusmierski, S.N., and Caulfield, M.K. (November 2019). Toward a dimensional taxonomy of perseverative thought. Spotlight Research Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Atlanta, GA.
Bruett, H., Calloway, R.C., Tokowicz, N., and Coutanche, M.N. (November 2019). Neural reactivation after a month-long delay for word-concept associations. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montréal, Canada.
Coutanche, M.N., and Paulus, J.P. (November 2019). A role for schema in establishing relational memory associations in the human brain. Talk at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montréal, Canada.
Akpan, E., Koch, G.E., and Coutanche, M.N. (November 2019). A novel method that integrates open MRI resources to track the gray matter footprints of cognitive functions. Poster presented at the CMU Open Science Symposium 2019, Pittsburgh, PA.
Akpan, E., Koch, G.E., and Coutanche, M.N. (October 2019). Distributed gray matter footprints predict cognitive abilities: Successful prediction of memory recall in older adults. Poster presented at the University of Pittsburgh Computational Medicine Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
Paulus, J.P., and Coutanche, M.N. (October 2019). A role for schema in establishing rapid relational memory associations in the human brain. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Koch, G.E., Liu, R., Libertus, M.E., Fiez, J., and Coutanche, M.N. (October 2019). Neural representations of number across semantic, phonological, visual, and manual formats. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Akpan, E., Koch, G.E., and Coutanche, M.N. (October 2019). Tracking gray matter footprints of neurally distributed cognitive functions. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Popov, V., Zhang, Q., Koch, G.E., Calloway, R.C., and Coutanche, M.N. (July 2019). The effect of semantic relatedness on associative asymmetry in memory. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada.
Liu, R., Koch, G.E., Coutanche, M.N., Fiez, J., and Libertus, M. (June 2019). Representing numerical information across different formats in the adult brain. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society. Ottawa, Canada.
Colvin, M. , Dresang, H. , Koch, G., Warren, T., Dickey, M.W., and Coutanche, M.N. (June 2019). fMRI evidence for the existence and function of animacy predictions. Talk at Psycholinguistics in Iceland - Parsing and Prediction meeting, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Akpan, E., Sauter, J., and Coutanche, M.N. (May 2019). A multi-dimensional surface-based method for determining brain lateralization. Poster presented at the Ninth International Workshop on the Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND), Pittsburgh, PA.
Coutanche, M.N., Koch, G.E., and Paulus, J.P. (May 2019). Using neural representations during encoding to predict subsequent retrieval of dynamic events. Poster presented at the Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.
Coutanche, M.N., Koch, G.E., and Paulus, J.P. (May 2019). A common neural signature for encoding success and failure for dynamic episodes. Poster presented at the Concepts, Actions, and Objects Symposium, Rovereto, Italy.
Libertus, M.E., Coutanche, M.N., Fiez, J., Koch, G.E., and Liu, R. (April 2019). Neural integration of visual and semantic number knowledge in 4th graders and adults. Poster presented at the BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting, Bethesda, MD.
Koch, G.E., Paulus, J.P., and Coutanche, M.N. (March 2019). How neural representations during encoding predict recall success and failure for dynamic episodes. Poster to be presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Koch, G.E., Paulus, J.P., and Coutanche, M.N. (March 2019). How neural representations during encoding predict recall success and failure for dynamic episodes. Poster presented at the 19th Annual University of Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Grad Expo, Pittsburgh, PA.
Paulus, J.P., Koch, G.E., and Coutanche, M.N. (November 2018). A role of sleep in the consolidation of dynamic episodes. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.
Bruett, H., Fang, X., Kamaraj, D.C., Haley, E., and Coutanche, M.N. (November 2018). Expertise moderates incidentally learned associations between words and images. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.
Koch, G.E., Paulus, J.P., and Coutanche, M.N. (November 2018). A role of sleep in the consolidation of dynamic episodes. Poster presented at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Sleep and Circadian Science Research Day, Pittsburgh, PA.
Koch, G.E., Paulus, J.P., and Coutanche, M.N. (October 2018). Investigating how neural representations during encoding predict later memory retrieval. Poster presented at the University of Pittsburgh Brain Day, Pittsburgh, PA.
Hirshorn, E.A., Carlos, B.J., Durisko, C., Perfetti C., Fiez, J.A., and Coutanche, M.N. (August 2018). Word inversion sensitivity as a marker of word identification style and visual word form area lateralization. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Quebec City, Canada.
Zhang, Q., Popov, V., Koch, G.E., Calloway, R.C., and Coutanche, M.N. (July 2018). Fast memory integration facilitated by schema consistency. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI.
Coutanche, M.N. (June 2018). Word learning and semantic memory: Individual differences in semantic memory predict temporal pole volume and degree of lexical integration. Symposium talk at the International Workshop on Advanced Learning Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA.
Paulus, J.P., Koch, G.E., and Coutanche, M.N. (June 2018). The role of sleep in consolidation of dynamic episodes. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Advanced Learning Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA.
Koch, G.E., and Coutanche, M.N. (June 2018). Neural correlates for trait memory differences. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Advanced Learning Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA.
Coutanche, M.N. (May 2018). Using existing knowledge to promote the integration of new memories. Talk at the 2018 Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.
Coutanche, M.N. (April 2018). Incorporating new knowledge into existing perceptual and conceptual dimensions through interacting regions of the human brain. Talk at the International Conference on Learning and Memory, Huntington Beach, CA.
Coutanche, M.N., Fiez, J.A., and Libertus, M. (April 2018). Neurobehavioral integration of visual and semantic number knowledge and its role for individual variation in math ability. Poster presented at the BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting, Bethesda, MD.
Bruett, H. and Coutanche, M.N. (March 2018). The role of inter-region information synchrony in processing visual stimuli. Data blitz and poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Koch, G.E. and Coutanche, M.N. (March 2018). Perceptual and conceptual dimensions impacting animate items in the human ventral stream. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Coutanche, M.N. (November 2017). Incorporating new knowledge into perceptual and conceptual dimensions through interacting regions of the human brain. Talk at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada.
Bruett, H. and Coutanche, M.N. (November 2017). The role of inter-region information synchrony in processing visual stimuli. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada.
Carlos, B.J., Hirshorn, E.A., Durisko, C., Fiez, J.A., and Coutanche, M.N. (November 2017). Multivariate laterality as a novel measure of laterality and marker for word inversion sensitivity in the visual word form area. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada.
Coutanche, M.N. and Koch, G.E. (October 2017). Neural correlates for trait memory differences. Poster presented at the University of Pittsburgh Brain Day Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
Carlos, B.J. and Coutanche, M.N. (June 2017). Testing a new method for assessing lateralization using multi-voxel pattern analysis. Poster to be presented at Eighth International Workshop on the Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND), Pittsburgh, PA.
Bruett, H. and Coutanche, M.N. (June 2017). Informational connectivity as a method for measuring synchrony in the processing of visual information. Poster to be presented at Eighth International Workshop on the Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND), Pittsburgh, PA.
Coutanche, M.N. and Koch, G.E. (May 2017). The interaction of conceptual dimensions for animate items in the human ventral stream. Workshop on Concepts, Actions and Objects: Functional and Neural Perspectives, Rovereto, Italy.
Coutanche, M.N. and Koch, G.E. (March 2017). Neural correlates for trait memory differences. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Coutanche, M.N. and Thompson-Schill, S.L. (November 2016). The influence of recent semantic learning on human visual cortex. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Coutanche, M.N. and Koch, G.E. (November 2016). The neural basis for trait memory differences. Poster presented at University of Pittsburgh Brain Day 2016, Pittsburgh, PA.
Coutanche, M.N. and Thompson-Schill, S.L. (November 2016). The influence of recent semantic learning on human visual cortex. Poster presented at University of Pittsburgh Brain Day 2016, Pittsburgh, PA.
Coutanche, M.N. and Chun, M.M. (July 2016). Exploring the nature of fast mapped knowledge through divided attention. Symposium presentation at International Conference on Memory, Budapest, Hungary.
Herholz, P., Schuster, V., Coutanche, M.N., & Jansen, A. (June, 2016). fMRI as a new fertility monitor? Influences of sex hormones on brain organization revealed by MVPA. Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Geneva, Switzerland.
Coutanche, M.N., & Chun, M.M. (July 2016). Exploring the nature of fast mapped knowledge through divided attention. Symposium presentation at International Conference on Memory, Budapest, Hungary.
Ruscio, A.M., Hallion, L.S., Coutanche, M.N., Wu, H., Thompson-Schill, S.L., & Rauch, S.L. (April 2016). Neural substrates of worry and rumination in generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder. Symposium presentation at Anxiety and Depression Association of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Tamez, E.R., Trueswell, J.C., Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (October 2015). fMRI activity during a spontaneous dialogue task. Poster presented at Society for the Neurobiology of Language Annual Meeting 2015, Chicago, IL.
Parma, V.*, Coutanche, M.N.*, Seubert, J., Fondberg, R., Hackl, L., Åhs, F., & Lundström, J.N. (April 2015). Anxiety-dependent modulation of olfactory fear conditioning: A multidimensional approach. Association for Chemoreception Sciences Annual Meeting 2015, FL. * Equal contributions
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (November 2014). Fast mapping rapidly integrates information into existing memory networks. Symposium speaker in the Memory, Sleep and Dreams Symposium, Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting 2014, Long Beach, CA.
Parma, V.*, Coutanche, M.N.*, Seubert, J., Fondberg, R., Hackl, L., Åhs, F., & Lundström, J.N. (November 2014). Multidimensional approach to the study of olfactory fear conditioning in individuals with low and high trait anxiety vulnerability. Clinical Chemosensation Annual Meeting 2014, Dresden, Germany. * Equal contributions
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (May 2014). A meta-analysis of multi-voxel patterns in the ventral stream. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting 2014, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (May 2014). Fast mapping rapidly integrates information into existing memory networks. Talk at 2014 Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (April 2014). Fast mapping rapidly integrates information into existing memory networks. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting 2014, Boston, MA.
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (May 2013). Converging on a convergence zone: concurrent feature decoding predicts identity decoding for anticipated objects. Talk at Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects: Functional and Neural Perspectives 2013, Rovereto, Italy.
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (May 2013). Functional activity patterns encoding the identity of anticipated objects are marked by converging shape and color decoding in early visual areas during preparatory visual attention. Talk at Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting 2013, Naples, FL.
Coutanche, M.N., Gianessi, C.A., Chanales, A.J.H., Willison, K.W., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (November 2012). Sleep aids the consolidation of spatial relational memories. Poster presented at Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (April 2012). The advantage of brief functional magnetic resonance imaging acquisition runs for multi-voxel pattern detection. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting 2012, Chicago, IL.
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (April 2011). Informational Connectivity: a novel fMRI analysis method for identifying brain areas that share distributed coding principles. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting 2011, San Francisco, CA.
Coutanche, M.N., Thompson-Schill, S.L., & Schultz, R.T. (October 2009). An application of multi-voxel pattern analysis to investigating patient groups: face classification in the autism fusiform face area. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2009, Chicago, IL.
Coutanche, M.N., Wallace, S., White, K.B., Foley, S., Bailey, A., & I.M.G.S.A.C. (May 2008). Face and gaze processing in the broader autism phenotype: independent differences in ASD relatives. Poster presented at International Meeting for Autism Research 2008, London, UK.
White, K.B., Wallace, S., Parr, J., Coutanche, M.N., Foley, S., Bailey, A., & I.M.G.S.A.C. (May 2008). Social cognition in the broader autism phenotype. Poster presented at International Meeting For Autism Research 2008, London, UK.
Akpan, E., Buckser, R., and Coutanche, M.N. (May, 2020). Identifying networks with common changes in representational similarity over time using jackknife resampling. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Koch, G.E., Akpan, E., and Coutanche, M.N. (May, 2020). Image memorability is predicted by activity across stages of convolutional neural networks and the human ventral stream. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Ren, X., and Coutanche, M.N. (May, 2020). Information can be extracted from ventral stream multi- voxel patterns across spatial scales using the wavelet transform. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Colvin, M., Koch, G., Dresang, H., Warren, T., Dickey, M.W., and Coutanche, M.N. (March 2020). fMRI evidence for the existence and function of animacy predictions. Poster presented at the Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, Amherst, MA.
Coutanche, M.N. (March, 2020). Applications of Informational Connectivity. Presentation at the Organization of Human Brain Mapping Equinox Twitter Conference. https://ohbmx.org/
Hallion, L.S., Wright, A.G.C., Coutanche, M.N., Kusmierski, S.N., and Caulfield, M.K. (November 2019). Toward a dimensional taxonomy of perseverative thought. Spotlight Research Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Atlanta, GA.
Bruett, H., Calloway, R.C., Tokowicz, N., and Coutanche, M.N. (November 2019). Neural reactivation after a month-long delay for word-concept associations. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montréal, Canada.
Coutanche, M.N., and Paulus, J.P. (November 2019). A role for schema in establishing relational memory associations in the human brain. Talk at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montréal, Canada.
Akpan, E., Koch, G.E., and Coutanche, M.N. (November 2019). A novel method that integrates open MRI resources to track the gray matter footprints of cognitive functions. Poster presented at the CMU Open Science Symposium 2019, Pittsburgh, PA.
Akpan, E., Koch, G.E., and Coutanche, M.N. (October 2019). Distributed gray matter footprints predict cognitive abilities: Successful prediction of memory recall in older adults. Poster presented at the University of Pittsburgh Computational Medicine Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
Paulus, J.P., and Coutanche, M.N. (October 2019). A role for schema in establishing rapid relational memory associations in the human brain. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Koch, G.E., Liu, R., Libertus, M.E., Fiez, J., and Coutanche, M.N. (October 2019). Neural representations of number across semantic, phonological, visual, and manual formats. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Akpan, E., Koch, G.E., and Coutanche, M.N. (October 2019). Tracking gray matter footprints of neurally distributed cognitive functions. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Popov, V., Zhang, Q., Koch, G.E., Calloway, R.C., and Coutanche, M.N. (July 2019). The effect of semantic relatedness on associative asymmetry in memory. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada.
Liu, R., Koch, G.E., Coutanche, M.N., Fiez, J., and Libertus, M. (June 2019). Representing numerical information across different formats in the adult brain. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society. Ottawa, Canada.
Colvin, M. , Dresang, H. , Koch, G., Warren, T., Dickey, M.W., and Coutanche, M.N. (June 2019). fMRI evidence for the existence and function of animacy predictions. Talk at Psycholinguistics in Iceland - Parsing and Prediction meeting, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Akpan, E., Sauter, J., and Coutanche, M.N. (May 2019). A multi-dimensional surface-based method for determining brain lateralization. Poster presented at the Ninth International Workshop on the Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND), Pittsburgh, PA.
Coutanche, M.N., Koch, G.E., and Paulus, J.P. (May 2019). Using neural representations during encoding to predict subsequent retrieval of dynamic events. Poster presented at the Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.
Coutanche, M.N., Koch, G.E., and Paulus, J.P. (May 2019). A common neural signature for encoding success and failure for dynamic episodes. Poster presented at the Concepts, Actions, and Objects Symposium, Rovereto, Italy.
Libertus, M.E., Coutanche, M.N., Fiez, J., Koch, G.E., and Liu, R. (April 2019). Neural integration of visual and semantic number knowledge in 4th graders and adults. Poster presented at the BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting, Bethesda, MD.
Koch, G.E., Paulus, J.P., and Coutanche, M.N. (March 2019). How neural representations during encoding predict recall success and failure for dynamic episodes. Poster to be presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Koch, G.E., Paulus, J.P., and Coutanche, M.N. (March 2019). How neural representations during encoding predict recall success and failure for dynamic episodes. Poster presented at the 19th Annual University of Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Grad Expo, Pittsburgh, PA.
Paulus, J.P., Koch, G.E., and Coutanche, M.N. (November 2018). A role of sleep in the consolidation of dynamic episodes. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.
Bruett, H., Fang, X., Kamaraj, D.C., Haley, E., and Coutanche, M.N. (November 2018). Expertise moderates incidentally learned associations between words and images. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.
Koch, G.E., Paulus, J.P., and Coutanche, M.N. (November 2018). A role of sleep in the consolidation of dynamic episodes. Poster presented at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Sleep and Circadian Science Research Day, Pittsburgh, PA.
Koch, G.E., Paulus, J.P., and Coutanche, M.N. (October 2018). Investigating how neural representations during encoding predict later memory retrieval. Poster presented at the University of Pittsburgh Brain Day, Pittsburgh, PA.
Hirshorn, E.A., Carlos, B.J., Durisko, C., Perfetti C., Fiez, J.A., and Coutanche, M.N. (August 2018). Word inversion sensitivity as a marker of word identification style and visual word form area lateralization. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Quebec City, Canada.
Zhang, Q., Popov, V., Koch, G.E., Calloway, R.C., and Coutanche, M.N. (July 2018). Fast memory integration facilitated by schema consistency. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI.
Coutanche, M.N. (June 2018). Word learning and semantic memory: Individual differences in semantic memory predict temporal pole volume and degree of lexical integration. Symposium talk at the International Workshop on Advanced Learning Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA.
Paulus, J.P., Koch, G.E., and Coutanche, M.N. (June 2018). The role of sleep in consolidation of dynamic episodes. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Advanced Learning Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA.
Koch, G.E., and Coutanche, M.N. (June 2018). Neural correlates for trait memory differences. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Advanced Learning Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA.
Coutanche, M.N. (May 2018). Using existing knowledge to promote the integration of new memories. Talk at the 2018 Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.
Coutanche, M.N. (April 2018). Incorporating new knowledge into existing perceptual and conceptual dimensions through interacting regions of the human brain. Talk at the International Conference on Learning and Memory, Huntington Beach, CA.
Coutanche, M.N., Fiez, J.A., and Libertus, M. (April 2018). Neurobehavioral integration of visual and semantic number knowledge and its role for individual variation in math ability. Poster presented at the BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting, Bethesda, MD.
Bruett, H. and Coutanche, M.N. (March 2018). The role of inter-region information synchrony in processing visual stimuli. Data blitz and poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Koch, G.E. and Coutanche, M.N. (March 2018). Perceptual and conceptual dimensions impacting animate items in the human ventral stream. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Coutanche, M.N. (November 2017). Incorporating new knowledge into perceptual and conceptual dimensions through interacting regions of the human brain. Talk at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada.
Bruett, H. and Coutanche, M.N. (November 2017). The role of inter-region information synchrony in processing visual stimuli. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada.
Carlos, B.J., Hirshorn, E.A., Durisko, C., Fiez, J.A., and Coutanche, M.N. (November 2017). Multivariate laterality as a novel measure of laterality and marker for word inversion sensitivity in the visual word form area. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada.
Coutanche, M.N. and Koch, G.E. (October 2017). Neural correlates for trait memory differences. Poster presented at the University of Pittsburgh Brain Day Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
Carlos, B.J. and Coutanche, M.N. (June 2017). Testing a new method for assessing lateralization using multi-voxel pattern analysis. Poster to be presented at Eighth International Workshop on the Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND), Pittsburgh, PA.
Bruett, H. and Coutanche, M.N. (June 2017). Informational connectivity as a method for measuring synchrony in the processing of visual information. Poster to be presented at Eighth International Workshop on the Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND), Pittsburgh, PA.
Coutanche, M.N. and Koch, G.E. (May 2017). The interaction of conceptual dimensions for animate items in the human ventral stream. Workshop on Concepts, Actions and Objects: Functional and Neural Perspectives, Rovereto, Italy.
Coutanche, M.N. and Koch, G.E. (March 2017). Neural correlates for trait memory differences. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Coutanche, M.N. and Thompson-Schill, S.L. (November 2016). The influence of recent semantic learning on human visual cortex. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Coutanche, M.N. and Koch, G.E. (November 2016). The neural basis for trait memory differences. Poster presented at University of Pittsburgh Brain Day 2016, Pittsburgh, PA.
Coutanche, M.N. and Thompson-Schill, S.L. (November 2016). The influence of recent semantic learning on human visual cortex. Poster presented at University of Pittsburgh Brain Day 2016, Pittsburgh, PA.
Coutanche, M.N. and Chun, M.M. (July 2016). Exploring the nature of fast mapped knowledge through divided attention. Symposium presentation at International Conference on Memory, Budapest, Hungary.
Herholz, P., Schuster, V., Coutanche, M.N., & Jansen, A. (June, 2016). fMRI as a new fertility monitor? Influences of sex hormones on brain organization revealed by MVPA. Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Geneva, Switzerland.
Coutanche, M.N., & Chun, M.M. (July 2016). Exploring the nature of fast mapped knowledge through divided attention. Symposium presentation at International Conference on Memory, Budapest, Hungary.
Ruscio, A.M., Hallion, L.S., Coutanche, M.N., Wu, H., Thompson-Schill, S.L., & Rauch, S.L. (April 2016). Neural substrates of worry and rumination in generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder. Symposium presentation at Anxiety and Depression Association of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Tamez, E.R., Trueswell, J.C., Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (October 2015). fMRI activity during a spontaneous dialogue task. Poster presented at Society for the Neurobiology of Language Annual Meeting 2015, Chicago, IL.
Parma, V.*, Coutanche, M.N.*, Seubert, J., Fondberg, R., Hackl, L., Åhs, F., & Lundström, J.N. (April 2015). Anxiety-dependent modulation of olfactory fear conditioning: A multidimensional approach. Association for Chemoreception Sciences Annual Meeting 2015, FL. * Equal contributions
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (November 2014). Fast mapping rapidly integrates information into existing memory networks. Symposium speaker in the Memory, Sleep and Dreams Symposium, Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting 2014, Long Beach, CA.
Parma, V.*, Coutanche, M.N.*, Seubert, J., Fondberg, R., Hackl, L., Åhs, F., & Lundström, J.N. (November 2014). Multidimensional approach to the study of olfactory fear conditioning in individuals with low and high trait anxiety vulnerability. Clinical Chemosensation Annual Meeting 2014, Dresden, Germany. * Equal contributions
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (May 2014). A meta-analysis of multi-voxel patterns in the ventral stream. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting 2014, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (May 2014). Fast mapping rapidly integrates information into existing memory networks. Talk at 2014 Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (April 2014). Fast mapping rapidly integrates information into existing memory networks. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting 2014, Boston, MA.
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (May 2013). Converging on a convergence zone: concurrent feature decoding predicts identity decoding for anticipated objects. Talk at Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects: Functional and Neural Perspectives 2013, Rovereto, Italy.
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (May 2013). Functional activity patterns encoding the identity of anticipated objects are marked by converging shape and color decoding in early visual areas during preparatory visual attention. Talk at Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting 2013, Naples, FL.
Coutanche, M.N., Gianessi, C.A., Chanales, A.J.H., Willison, K.W., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (November 2012). Sleep aids the consolidation of spatial relational memories. Poster presented at Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (April 2012). The advantage of brief functional magnetic resonance imaging acquisition runs for multi-voxel pattern detection. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting 2012, Chicago, IL.
Coutanche, M.N., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (April 2011). Informational Connectivity: a novel fMRI analysis method for identifying brain areas that share distributed coding principles. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting 2011, San Francisco, CA.
Coutanche, M.N., Thompson-Schill, S.L., & Schultz, R.T. (October 2009). An application of multi-voxel pattern analysis to investigating patient groups: face classification in the autism fusiform face area. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2009, Chicago, IL.
Coutanche, M.N., Wallace, S., White, K.B., Foley, S., Bailey, A., & I.M.G.S.A.C. (May 2008). Face and gaze processing in the broader autism phenotype: independent differences in ASD relatives. Poster presented at International Meeting for Autism Research 2008, London, UK.
White, K.B., Wallace, S., Parr, J., Coutanche, M.N., Foley, S., Bailey, A., & I.M.G.S.A.C. (May 2008). Social cognition in the broader autism phenotype. Poster presented at International Meeting For Autism Research 2008, London, UK.