Cognitive neuroscience of discourse comprehension

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Aron K. Barbey

Profil

Aron Keith Barbey (born January 6, 1977) is an American cognitive neuroscientist, whose research investigates the neural architecture of human intelligence. Aron K. Barbey is Director of the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois. He received a Ph.D. in Psychology from Emory University in 2007 and completed a research fellowship in Cognitive Neuroscience at the National Institutes of Health in 2011. He is an Associate Professor in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Bioengineering, and is affiliated with the Beckman Institute, the Carl Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, the Center for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory, and the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and Dr. Barbey has led several of the largest and most comprehensive human lesion studies of high-level cognitive functions. He has received multiple early career academic achievement awards and won more than $10 million in private and federal research grants as PI since joining the University of Illinois in 2011. Many activities that Dr. Barbey do. Dr. Barbey did the Intelligence, Learning, and Plasticity Initiative at the University of Illinois and serves on the Editorial Board of multiple journals, including NeuroImage, Intelligence, Thinking & Reasoning, and Trends in Neuroscience and Education.

Research

Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Intelligence

Barbey’s research investigates the effects of human brain because damage on intellectual and social functions, with particular emphasis on the prefrontal cortex. Studies of patients with frontal lobe damage that have result a long history in the neuroscience of intelligence and provide a direct way to test whether regions within the prefrontal cortex are necessary for specific intellectual abilities. However, it was only recently that the limited applicability and specificity of small sample studies of focal brain damage were overcome by contemporary lesion mapping approaches. In a series of landmark studies, Barbey's research group investigated almost 200 patients with focal brain injuries and maping them be the architecture of executive, social, and emotional brain systems. His research has helped to identify and characterize the neural systems underlying general intelligence, emotional intelligence, social intelligence, fluid intelligence, working memory, cognitive flexibility, and discourse comprehension. Barbey's research has also revealed molecular genetic markers that predict general intelligence following traumatic brain injury.

Cognitive Neuroscience Methods to Enhance Human Intelligence

A central goal of Barbey's research is to establish and validate cognitive neuroscience-directed interventions to enhance human intelligence. In this effort, Barbey's research group has evaluated the efficacy of a 16-week cognitive neuroscience, physical fitness, and nutritional intervention in the IARPA-sponsored INSIGHT project. In addition, Barbey's research group is developing and testing nutraceuticals to enhance the performance of United States Air Force Battlefield Airmen in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory and Abbott Nutrition.

Primary Appointment

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, Beckman Institute
Associate Professor, Center for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory
Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering
Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Associate Professor, Division of Nutritional Sciences
Associate Professor, Institute for Genomic Biology
Associate Professor, Neuroscience Program

Selected Publications

General Intelligence

• Barbey, Aron K.; Colom, Roberto; Solomon, Jeffrey; Krueger, Frank; Forbes, Chad; Grafman, Jordan. "An integrative architecture for general intelligence and executive function revealed by lesion mapping". Brain. 135 (4): 1154–1164. doi:10.1093/brain/aws021.
• Barbey, Aron K.; Colom, Roberto; Grafman, Jordan. "Dorsolateral prefrontal contributions to human intelligence". Neuropsychologia. 51 (7): 1361–1369. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.05.017.
• Barbey, Aron K.; Colom, Roberto; Paul, Erick; Forbes, Chad; Krueger, Frank; Goldman, David; Grafman, Jordan. "Preservation of General Intelligence following Traumatic Brain Injury: Contributions of the Met66 Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor". PLoS ONE. 9 (2): e88733. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088733.
• Watson, Patrick; Paul, Erick; Cooke, Gillian; Ward, Nathan; Monti, James; Horecka, Kevin; Allen, Courtney; Hillman, Charles; Cohen, Neal; Kramer, Arthur; Barbey, Aron K. "Underlying sources of cognitive-anatomical variation in multi-modal neuroimaging and cognitive testing". NeuroImage. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.01.023.

Fluid Intelligence

• Barbey, Aron K.; Colom, Roberto; Paul, Erick J.; Grafman, Jordan. "Architecture of fluid intelligence and working memory revealed by lesion mapping". Brain Structure and Function. 219 (2): 485–494. doi:10.1007/s00429-013-0512-z.
• Barbey, Aron K.; Colom, Roberto; Grafman, Jordan. "Architecture of cognitive flexibility revealed by lesion mapping". NeuroImage. 82: 547–554. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.087.
• Barbey, Aron K.; Koenigs, Michael; Grafman, Jordan. "Orbitofrontal Contributions to Human Working Memory". Cerebral Cortex. 21 (4): 789–795. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhq153.
• Barbey, Aron K.; Koenigs, Michael; Grafman, Jordan (May 2013). "Dorsolateral prefrontal contributions to human working memory". Cortex. 49 (5): 1195–1205. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2012.05.022. PMID 22789779.
• Koenigs, Michael; Barbey, Aron K.; Postle, Brad; Grafman, Jordan. "Superior Parietal Cortex Is Critical for the Manipulation of Information in Working Memory". Journal of Neuroscience. 29 (47): 14980–14986. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3706-09.2009.
• Paul, Erick J.; Larsen, Ryan J.; Nikolaidis, Aki; Ward, Nathan; Hillman, Charles H.; Cohen, Neal J.; Kramer, Arthur F.; Barbey, Aron K. "Dissociable brain biomarkers of fluid intelligence". NeuroImage. 137: 201–211. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.05.037.

Social and Emotional Intelligence

• Barbey, A. K.; Colom, R.; Paul, E. J.; Chau, A.; Solomon, J.; Grafman, J. H. "Lesion mapping of social problem solving". Brain. 137: 2823–2833. doi:10.109

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• Barbey, Aron K.; Colom, Roberto; Grafman, Jordan (Mar 2014). "Distributed neural system for emotional intelligence revealed by lesion mapping". Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 9 (3): 265–272. doi:10.1093/scan/nss124. PMID 23171618.
• Krueger, Frank; Barbey, Aron K.; McCabe, Kevin; Strenziok, Maren; Zamboni, Giovanna; Solomon, Jeffrey; Raymont, Vanessa; Grafman, Jordan. "The neural bases of key competencies of emotional intelligence". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (52): 22486–22491. doi:10.1073/pnas.0912568106.
• Barbey, Aron K.; Krueger, Frank; Grafman, Jordan. "An evolutionarily adaptive neural architecture for social reasoning". Trends in Neurosciences. 32 (12): 603–610. doi:10.1016/j.tins.2009.09.001.
• Barbey, Aron K.; Colom, Roberto; Grafman, Jordan. "Neural mechanisms of discourse comprehension: a human lesion study". Brain. 137 (1): 277–287. doi:10.1093/brain/awt312.
• Patterson, Richard; Rothstein, Jared; Barbey, Aron K. "Reasoning, cognitive control, and moral intuition". Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. 6. doi:10.3389/fnint.2012.00114.

Reasoning, Judgment, and Decision Making

• Barbey, Aron K.; Patterson, Richard. "Architecture of explanatory inference in the human prefrontal cortex". Frontiers in Psychology. 2. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00162.
• Barbey, Aron K.; Krueger, Frank; Grafman, Jordan. "Structured event complexes in the medial prefrontal cortex support counterfactual representations for future planning". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 364 (1521): 1291–1300. doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0315.
• Barbey, Aron K.; Sloman, Steven A. (Jun 2007). "Base-rate respect: From ecological rationality to dual processes". The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 30 (3): 241–54; discussion 255–97. doi:10.1017/S0140525X07001653. PMID 17963533.
• Khemlani, Sangeet; Barbey, Aron K.; Johnson-Laird, Philip (Oct 2014). "Causal reasoning with mental models". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00849.
• Operskalski, Joachim; Barbey, Aron K. (April 2016). "Risk literacy in medical decision making". Science. 352. doi:10.1126/science.aaf7966.
• Patterson, Richard; Operskalski, Joachim; Barbey, Aron K. (Oct 2015). "Motivated explanation". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 9. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00559.
• Sloman, Steven; Barbey, Aron K.; Hotaling, Jared M. "A Causal Model Theory of the Meaning of Cause, Enable, and Prevent". Cognitive Science. 33 (1): 21–50. doi:10.1111/j.1551-6709.2008.01002.x.
• Wolff, Phillip; Barbey, Aron K.; Hausknecht, Matthew. "For want of a nail: How absences cause events". Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 139 (2): 191–221. doi:10.1037/a0018129.
• Wolff, Phillip; Barbey, Aron K. (Jan 2015). "Causal reasoning with forces". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 9. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00001.

Reference

http://www.decisionneurosciencelab.org/aron-barbey/
http://beckman.illinois.edu/directory/person/barbey

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