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Recent papers:

Hallgrimsson HT, Sharan R, Grafton ST, Singh AK. Estimating localized complexity of white-matter wiring with GANs. Medical Imaging Meets NeuroIPS. December 14, 2019. Vancouver BC.

Shapiro AD, Grafton ST. Subjective value then confidence in human ventromedial prefrontal cortex. PLoS ONE 15(2): e0225617, 2020

Marneweck M, Grafton ST. Representational neural mapping of dexterous grasping before lifting in humans. J Neurosci 40:2708-2717, 2020.

Marneweck M, Grafton ST. Neural substrates of anticipatory motor adaptation for object lifting. Scientific Reports 10: 10430, 2020.

Dundon NM, Garrett N, Babenko V, Cieslak M, Daw ND, Grafton ST. Sympathetic involvement in time-constrained sequential foraging. Cognitive Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 20:730-745, 2020.

Pritschet L, Santander T, Taylor CM, Layher E, Yu S, Miller MB, Grafton ST, Jacobs EG. Functional reorganization of brain networks across the human menstrual cycle. NeuroImage. 220:117091, 2020.

Taylor CM, Pritschet L, Olsen R, Layher E, Santander T, Grafton ST, Jacobs EG. Progesterone shapes medial temporal lobe volume across the human menstrual cycle. NeuroImage. 220:117125, 2020.

Fu T-S, Wang X, Peterson M, Grafton S, Eckstein M, Wang WY. Counterfactual Vision-and-Language Navigation via Adversarial Path Sampler. ECCV, August 23, 2020.

Garcea FE, Green C, Grafton ST, Buxbaum LJ. Structural Disconnection of the Tool Use Network After Left Hemisphere Stroke Predicts Limb Apraxia Severity. Cerebral Cortex Communications. 1, 2020.

Mueller JM, Pritschet L, Santander T, Taylor CM, Grafton ST, Goard-Jacobs E, Carlson JM. Dynamic community detection reveals transient reorganization of functional brain networks across a female menstrual cycle. Network Neuroscience. 5: 125–144, 2020.

Marneweck M, Grafton ST. Overt and covert object features mediate timing of patterned brain activity during motor planning. Cerebral Cortex Communications. 1:tgaa080, 2020.

Fitzgerald M, Pritschet L, Santander T, Grafton ST, Jacobs EG. Cerebellar network organization across the human menstrual cycle. Scientific Reports. 10:20732, 2020.

Kumar S, Iftekhar ASM, Goebel M, Bullock T, Maclean M, Miller M, Santander T, Giesbrecht B, Grafton S, Manjunath BS. StressNet: Detecting Stress in Thermal Videos. IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Waikaloa HI, January 5, 2021.

Dundon N, Shapiro AD, Babenko V, Okafor GN, Grafton ST. Ventromedial prefrontal cortex activity and sympathetic allostasis during value-based ambivalence. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 15: 615796, 2021.

Mitchell B, Marneweck M, Petzold L, Grafton S. Motor Adaptation via Distributional Learning. J Neural Eng. 18: 046049, 2021.

Cieslak M, Cook PA, He X, Yeh F-C, Dhollander T, Adebimpe A, Aguirre GK, Bassett DS, Betzel RF, Bourque J, Cabral LM, Davatzikos C, Detre J, Earl E, Elliott MA, Fadnavis S, Fair DA, Foran W, Fotiadis P, Garyfallidis E, Giesbrecht B, Gur RC, Gur RE, Kelz M, Keshavan A, Larsen BS, Luna B, Mackey AP, Milham MP, Oathes DJ, Perrone A, Pines AR, Roalf DR, Richie-Halford A, Rokem A, Sydnor VJ, Tinashe M. Tapera TM, Tooley UA, Vettel JM, Yeatman JD, Grafton ST, Satterthwaite TD. QSIPrep: An integrative platform for preprocessing and reconstructing diffusion MRI. Nature Methods. 18: 775-778, 2021.

Teich E, Cieslak M, Giesbrecht B, Vettel J, Grafton S, Satterthwaite T, Bassett D. Crystallinity characterization of white matter in the human brain. New Journal of Physics. 23: 073047, 2021.

Berlot E, Popp NJ, Grafton ST, Diecrichsen J. Combining repetition suppression and pattern analysis provides new insights into the role of M1 and parietal areas in skilled sequential actions. J Neurosci. 41: 7649-7661, 2021.

Metzgar R, Stoll H, Grafton ST, Buxbaum LJ, Garcea FE. Single-case disconnectome lesion-symptom mapping: Identifying two subtypes of limb apraxia. Neuropsychologia. 170: 108210, 2022.

Lin S, Tang S, Grafton ST, and Singh A. Deep Representations for Time-varying Brain Datasets. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD ’22), August 14–18, 2022, Washington, DC, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3534678.3539301

Paul T, Cieslak M, Hensel L, Wiemer VM, Grefkes C, Grafton ST, Fink GR, Volz LJ. The role of corticospinal and extrapyramidal pathways in motor impairment after stroke. Brain Communications. 5: fcac301, 2023.

Colas JT, Dundon NM, Gerraty RT, Saragosa-Harris NM, Szymula KP, Tanwisuth K, Tyszka JM, van Geen C, Ju H, Toga AW, Gold JI, Bassett DS, Hartle CA, Shohamy D, Grafton ST, O'Doherty JP. Reinforcement learning with associative or discriminative generalization across states and actions: fMRI at 3 T and 7 T. Human Brain Mapping. 43: 4750– 4790, 2022.

Lin S, Tang S, Grafton ST, Singh AK. 2022. Deep Representations for Time-varying Brain Datasets. In: Proceedings of the 28thACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’22), August 14–18, 2022, Washington, DC, New York, NY, 2022.

Habituation of the Stress Response Multiplex to Repeated Cold Pressor Exposure. Bullock T, MacLean MH, Santander T, Boone AP, Babenko V, Dundon NM, Stuber A, Jimmons L, Raymer J, Okafor GN, Miller MB, Barry Giesbrecht B, Grafton ST. Frontiers Physiology. 13:752900, 2023.

Dundon, NM, Colas JT, Garrett N, Babenko V, Rizor E, Yang D, MacNamara M, Petzold L, Grafton ST. Decision heuristics in contexts integrating action selection and execution. Scientific Reports. 13:6486, 2023.

Nakuci J, Wasylyshyn N, Cieslak M, Elliot JC, Bansal K, Giesbrecht B, Grafton ST, Vettel JM, Garcia JO, Muldoon SF. Within- and between-subject reproducibility and variability in multi-modal, longitudinal brain networks. Scientific Reports. 13:6486, 2023.

Shailja S, Grafton ST, Manjunath BS. ReTrace: Topological insight to evaluation of white matter tractography using Reeb graphs. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Workshop on Computational Diffusion MRI (CDMRI), 2023.

Shailja S, Bhagavatula V, Cieslak M, Vettel JM, Grafton ST, Manjunath BS. ReeBundle: a method for topological modeling of white matter pathways using diffusion MRI. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 42:3725-3737, 2023.

Hopp FR, Amir O, Fisher JT, Grafton S, Sinnott-Armstrong W, Weber R. Moral Foundations Elicit Shared and Dissociable Cortical Activation Modulated by Political Ideology. Nature Human Behavior. Published on line, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01693-8.

Paul T, Wiemer VM, Hensel L, Cieslak M, Tscherpel C, Grefkes C, Grafton ST, Fink GR, Volz LJ. Interhemispheric structural connectivity underlies motor recovery after stroke. Ann Neurology. 94:785–797, 2023.

Stump A, Gregory C, Babenko V, Rizor E, Bullock T, Macy A, Giesbrecht B, Grafton ST, Dundon NM. Non-invasive monitoring of cardiac contractility: Trans-Radial Electrical Bioimpedance Velocimetry. Psychophysiology. e14411, 2024.

Cieslak M, Cook PA, Tapera TM, Radhakrishnan H, Elliott M, Roalf D, Oathes DJ, Bassett DS, Tisdall D, Rokem A, Grafton ST, Satterthwaite T. Diffusion MRI head motion correction methods are highly accurate but impacted by denoising and sampling scheme. Human Brain Mapping. 45:e26570, 2024.

Radhakrishnan H, Chenying Zhao C, Sydnor VJ, Baller EB, Cook PA, Fair D, Giesbrecht B, Larsen B, Murtha K, Roalf DR, Rush-Goebel S, Shinohara R, Shou H, Tisdall MD, Vettel J, Grafton S, Cieslak M, Satterthwaite T. A Practical Evaluation of Measures Derived from Compressed Sensing Diffusion Spectrum Imaging. Human Brain Mapping. 45:e26580, 2024.

Colas J, O'Doherty J, Grafton ST. Active reinforcement learning versus action bias and hysteresis: control with a mixture of experts and nonexperts. PLOS Comp Biol. 20:e1011950, 2024.

Varshney A, Munns M, Kasowski J, Zhou M, He C, Grafton S, Giesbrecht B, Hegarty M, Beyeler M. Stress Affects Navigation Strategies in Immersive Virtual Reality. Scientific Reports. 14:5949, 2024.

Boone AP, Bullock T, MacLean MH, Santander T, Raymer J, Stuber A, Jimmons L, Okafr GN, Grafton ST, Miller MB, Giesbrecht B, Hegarty M. Resilience of Navigation Strategy and Efficiency to the Impact of Acute Stress. Spatial Cog and Comp. 24:195–226, 2024.

Chu H-Y, Smith Y, Lytton WW, Grafton S, Villalba R, Masilamoni G, Wichmann T. Dysfunction of Motor Cortices in Parkinson’s disease. Cerebral Cortex. 34:bhae294, 2024.

Rizor EJ, Babenko V, Dundon NM, Beverly-Aylwin R, Stump A, Hayes M, Herschenfeld-Catalan L, Jacobs EG, Grafton ST. Menstrual cycle-driven hormone concentrations co-fluctuate with white and grey matter architecture changes across the whole brain. Human Brain Mapping. 45:e26785, 2024.

Paul T, Wiemer VM, Hensel L, Cieslak M, Tscherpel C, Grefkes, Grafton ST, Fink GR, Volz LJ. Corticospinal premotor fibers facilitate complex motor control after stroke. Ann Clin Translational Neurology, In press, 2024, doi: 10.1002/acn3.52159.
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