University of Pittsburgh

Fiez, Julie

Fiez, Julie

Professor, Department of Psychology
PhD, Washington University at St. Louis

Primary Program: Cognitive Program
All programs: Clinical Program, Cognitive Program, Cognitive Neuroscience Concentration Program

Contact

605 LRDC
412-624-7078
Fax: 412-422-9149
fiez@pitt.edu
http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/faculty/fiez.shtml
www.lrdc.pitt.edu/fiez

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Research Interests: My lab relies upon a broad-based and interdisciplinary cognitive neuroscience approach to address questions that fall within two predominant strands of research. One strand is focused on the neural basis of language processing. Topics of interest include the articulatory and phonological codes involved in verbal working memory, and the ways in which different writing systems influence the representation and processing of orthographic information. A second strand is focused on basic learning systems in the human brain. We are especially interested in how cognition may be optimized by reinforcement learning signals mediated by the basal ganglia and error-correction signals mediated by the cerebellum.

Accepting Graduate Students: Yes

Selected Publications

  • Nelson, J.R., Liu, Y., Fiez, J., & Perfetti, C.A. (2009). Assimilation and accommodation patterns in ventral occipitotemporal cortex in learning a second writing system. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 810-820. (Abstract-pdf)
  • Strick, P.L., Dum, R.P., & Fiez, J.A. (2009). Cerebellum and nonmotor function. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 32, 413-434. (Abstract-pdf)
  • Tricomi, E., & Fiez, J.A. (2008) Feedback signals in the caudate reflect goal achievement on a declarative memory task. NeuroImage, 41, 1154-1167. (Abstract-pdf)
  • Wilson, S. J., Sayette, M.A., Delgado, M.R., & Fiez, J.A. (2008). Effect of smoking opportunity on responses to monetary gain and loss in the caudate nucleus. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 428-434. (Abstract-pdf)
  • Liu, Y., Dunlap, S., Fiez, J., & Perfetti, C. (2007) Evidence for neural accommodation to a writing system following learning. Human Brain Mapping, 28, 1223-1234. (Abstract-pdf)
  • Fiez, J.A., Tranel, D., Seager-Frerichs, D., and Damasio, H. (2006). Specific impairments in reading and phonological processing are associated with damage to the left frontal operculum. Cortex, 42. (Abstract-pdf)
  • Ravizza, S.M., McCormick, C.A., Schlerf, J.E., Justus, T., Ivry, R.B., & Fiez, J.A. (2006). Cerebellar damage produces selective deficits in verbal working memory. Brain, 129, 306-320. (Abstract-pdf)

Honors and Awards

  • APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology (2002)
  • Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award (2001)
  • Wiley Young Investigator Award in Human Brain Mapping (1997)
  • Member, NIH Cognitive Neuroscience Study Section
  • Editorial Board, The Cerebellum

Labs

Graduate Student Advisees

  • Cox, Karin
  • Russell, Kathryn
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