Publications of Dr. Robert T. Knight, MD
Evan Rauch Professor of Neuroscience
Director of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley

Loui, P., Wu, E.H., Wessel, D. L. and Knight, R.T. A generalized mechanism for perception of pitch patterns. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(2): 454-459, 2009.

Kishiyama, M.M., Boyce, W.T., Jimenez, A.M., Perry, L.M. and Knight, R.T. Socioeconomic disparities affect prefrontal function in children. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21:6, 1106-1115, 2009.

Fuhrmann Alpert, G., Hein, G, Tsai, N., Naumer, M.J. and Knight, R.T. Temporal Characteristics of audio-visual information flow. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(20): 5344-5349, 2008.

Knight, R.T. Consciousness Unchained: Ethical Issues and the Vegetative and Minimally Conscious State. American Journal of Bioethics, 8(9):1-2, 2008.

Canolty, R.C., Soltani, M.S., Dalal, S.S., Edwards, E., Barbaro, N.M., Dronkers, N.F., Nagarajan, S.S., Kirsch, H.E. and Knight, R.T. Spatiotemporal dynamics of word processing in the human brain. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 1(1): 185-196, 2007.

Deouell, L.Y., Heller, A., D'Esposito, M. Malach, R. and Knight, R.T. Cerebral responses to change in spatial location of unattended sounds. Neuron, 55(6): 985-996, 2007.

Canolty, R., Edwards, E., Soltani, M., Dalal, S.S., Kirsch, H.E., Barbaro, N.M., Berger, M.S. and Knight, R.T. High gamma power is phase-locked to theta oscillations in human neocortex. Science, 313: 1626-1628, 2006.

Barcelo, F., S. Suwazono, and R.T. Knight, Prefrontal modulation of visual processing in hum. Nature Neuroscience, 2000.

Knight, R.T., Distributed cortical network for visual attention . Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1997. 9 (1): p. 75-91.

Chao, L.L. and R.T. Knight, Contribution of human prefrontal cortex to delay performance. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1998. 10 (2): p. 167-77.

Rosahl, S.K. and R.T. Knight, Role of prefrontal cortex in generation of the contingent negative variation . Cerebral Cortex, 1995. 5 (2): p. 123-34.

Knight, R.T., et al., Prefrontal cortex regulates inhibition and excitation in distributed neural networks . Acta Psychologica, 1999. 101 (2-3): p. 159-78.

Nielsen-Bohlman, L. and R.T. Knight, Prefrontal cortical involvement in visual working memory . Cognitive Brain Research, 1999. 8 : p. 299-310.

Nielsen-Bohlman, L. and Knight, R. T.   Rapid memory mechanisms in human. NeuroReport , 5: 1517-1521, 1994.

Gehring, W.J. and R.T. Knight, Prefrontal-cingulate interactions in action monitoring . Nature Neuroscience, 2000. 3 (5): p. 516-520.

Knight, R.T., Decreased response to novel stimuli after prefrontal lesions in man . Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 1984. 59 (1): p. 9-20.

Knight, R., Contribution of human hippocampal region to novelty detection . Nature, 1996. 383 (6597): p. 256-9.

Knight, R.T. and D. Scabini, Anatomic bases of event-related potentials and their relationship to novelty detection in humans. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, 1998. 15 (1): p. 3-13.

Chao, L., Nielsen-Bohlman, L. and Knight, R. T.   Auditory event-related potentials dissociate early and late  memory processes.   Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology , 96: 157-168, 1995.

Chao, L.L. and Knight, R.T.   Prefrontal and posterior cortical contributions to auditory working memory. Cognitive Brain Research, 4: 27-39, 1996.

Kramer, M.A.,   Edwards, E., Soltani, M., Knight, R.T ., Berger, M.S. and Szerzi, A.J. Measures of linear and non-linear interdependence of electrocortigram time series from evoked-response potential experiments. Conf. Proc. IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc . 1:5558-561, 2004.

Kramer, M.A., Edwards, E., Soltani, M., Berger, M.S., Knight, R.T. and Szeri, A.J.   Synchronization measures of bursting data: application to the electrocorticogram of an auditory event-related experiment .   Physical Review E. , 70(1):011914-1-10, 2004.

Gazzaley, A., Cooney, J.W., McEvoy, K., Knight, R.T. and D'Esposito, M.   Top-down enhancement and suppression of the magnitude and speed of neural activity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17:3, 507-517, 2005.

Simon-Thomas, E.R., Role, K.O. and Knight, R.T. Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence of a right hemisphere bias for the influence of negative emotion on higher cognition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17:3, 518-529, 2005.

Simon-Thomas, E.R. and Knight, R.T. Affective and cognitive modulation of ERP indices of performance monitoring. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience , 5(3):362-372, 2005 .

Canolty, R., Edwards, E., Soltani, M., Dalal, S.S., Kirsch, H.E., Barbaro, N.M.,   Berger, M.S. and Knight, R.T.   High gamma power is phase-locked to theta oscillations in human neocortex. Science , 313: 1626-1628, 2006.

Deouell, L.Y., Parnes, A., Pickard, N. and Knight, R.T. Spatial location is automatically tracked by human auditory sensory memory: evidence from the mismatch negativity. European Journal of Neuroscience , 24: 1488-1494, 2006.

Padilla, M.L., Woods, R.A., Hale, L.A. and Knight, R.T.    Lapses in a prefrontal-extrastriate preparatory attention network predicts mistakes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(9): 1477-1487, 2006.

Fuhrmann Alpert, G., Sun, F.T., Handwerker, D.,   D'Esposito, M. and Knight, R.T. Information analysis of event-related BOLD responses: exploring spatio-temporal patterns of brain activations NeuroImage , 34: 1545-1561, 2007.

Knight, R.T. Neural networks debunk phrenology.   Science, 316 (5831): 1578-1579, 2007.

Canolty, R.C., Soltani, M.S.,   Dalal, S.S., Edwards, E., Barbaro, N.M., Dronkers, N.F., Nagarajan, S.S., Kirsch, H.E. and Knight, R.T. Spatiotemporal dynamics of word processing in the human brain. Frontiers in Neuroscience , 1(1): 185-196, 2007.

Hartikainen, K.S., Ogawa, K.H., Soltani, M. and Knight, R.T. Emotionally arousing stimuli compete with attention to the left hemispace. NeuroReport, 18(18): 1929-1933, 2007.

Dalal, S.S., Guggisberg, A.G., Sekihara, K., Findlay, A.M., Canolty, R.T., Knight, R.T., Barbaro, N.M., Kirsch, H.E. and Nagarajan, S.S. Spatial localization of cortical time-frequency dynamics. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc , 1:4941-4944, 2007.

Alain, C., D.L. Woods, and R.T. Knight, A distributed cortical network for auditory sensory memory in humans . Brain Research, 1998. 812 (1-2): p. 23-37.