Publications

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  • 2025
    • Hartsough, L., Ginther, M., Cheng, E. K., & Marois, R. (2025). A psychometric approach to decision-making thresholds across legal and societal domains. PNAS nexus, pgae592. doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae592. [PDF]
    • Yue, Q., Newton, A. T., & Marois, R. (2025). Ultrafast fMRI reveals serial queuing of information processing during multitasking in the human brain. Nature Communications, 16(1), 3057. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-58228-0. [PDF]
  • 2024
    • Tamber-Rosenau, B. J., Newton, A. T., & Marois, R. (2024). Flexible encoding of multiple task dimensions in human cerebral cortex. Frontiers in Cognition, 3, 1438390. doi: 10.3389/fcogn.2024.1438390. [PDF]
  • 2023
    • Baruah, M., Banerjee, B., Nagar, A. K., & Marois, R. (2023). AttentionMNIST: a mouse-click attention tracking dataset for handwritten numeral and alphabet recognition. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 3305. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-29880-7. [PDF]
  • 2022
    • Ginther, M. R., Hartsough, L. E., & Marois, R. (2022). Moral outrage drives the interaction of harm and culpable intent in third-party punishment decisions. Emotion, 22(4), 795. doi: 10.1037/emo0000950. [PDF]
  • 2021
    • Sy, J. L., Miao, H. Y., Marois, R., & Tong, F. (2021). Conscious perception can be both graded and discrete. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(8), 1461. doi: 10.1037/xge0001009. [PDF]
  • 2020
    • Hartsough, L. E. S., Ginther, M. R., & Marois, R. (2020). Distinct affective responses to second- and third-party norm violations. Acta Psychologica. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.  [PDF]
    • Sun, H., Yue, Q., Sy, J. L., Godwin, D., Eaton, H. P., Raghavan, P., & Marois, R. (2020). Increase in internetwork functional connectivity in the human brain with attention capture. Journal of Neurophysiology, 124(6), 1885-1899. doi: 10.1152/jn.00693.2019. [PDF]
  • 2019
    • Han, S. W., Eaton, H. P., & Marois, R. (2019). Functional fractionation of the cingulo-opercular network: Alerting insula and  updating cingulate. Cerebral Cortex. 29(6):2624-2638. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhy130.  [PDF]
  • 2018
    • Fougnie, D. L., Cockhren, J., & Marois, R. (2018) A common source of attention for auditory and visual tracking. Att. Percept. Psychophys. doi: 10.3758/s13414-018-1524-9.  [PDF]
    • Tamber-Rosenau, B. J., Asplund, C. L., & Marois, R. (2018). Functional dissociation of the inferior frontal junction from the dorsal attention network in top-down attentional control. J. Neurophysiol. 120(5): 2498-2512.  doi: 10.1152/jn.00506.2018.  [PDF]
  • 2016
    • Ginther, M. R., Bonnie, R. J., Hoffman, M. B., Shen, F. X., Simons, K. W., Jones, O. D., & Marois, R. (2016) Parsing the Behavioral and Brain Mechanisms of Third-Party Punishment. J Neurosci. 36:9420-34. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4499-15.2016.  [PDF]
    • Tamber-Rosenau, B. J., & Marois, R. (2016) Central attention is serial, but midlevel and peripheral attention are parallel – A hypothesis. Atten Percept Psychophys. 78:1874-88. doi: 10.3758/s13414-016-1171-y.  [PDF]
  • 2015
    • Buckholtz, J. W., Martin, J. W., Treadway, M. T., Jan, K., Zald, D. H., Jones, O. D., & Marois, R. (2015) From blame to punishment: Disrupting prefrontal cortex activity reveals norm enforcement mechanisms. Neuron, 87:1369-80. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.08.023.  [PDF]
    • Tamber-Rosenau, B. J. , Fintzi, A., & Marois, R. (2015) Crowding in visual working memory reveals its spatial resolution and the nature of its representations. Psychological Science, 26:1511-21. doi: 10.1177/0956797615592394.  [PDF]
    • Godwin, D., Barry, R. L., & Marois, R. (2015) Breakdown of the brain’s functional network modularity with awareness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 112:3799-804. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1414466112.  [PDF]
    • Fougnie, D. L., Zughni, S., Godwin, D., & Marois, R. (2015) Working memory storage is intrinsically domain-specific. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 144:30-47. doi: 10.1037/a0038211.  [PDF]
  • 2014
    • Ginther, M. R., Shen, F. X., Bonnie, R. J., Hoffman, M. B., Jones, O. D., Marois, R. & Simons, K. W. (2014) The Language of Mens Rea, 67 Vand. L. Rev. 1327. [PDF]
    • Treadway, M. T., Buckholtz, J. W., Martin, J. W., Jan, K., Asplund, C. L., Ginther, M. R., Jones, O. D., & Marois, R. (2014) Cortocolimbic Gating of Emotion-Driven Punishment. Nat. Neurosci. 17:1270-5. doi: 10.1038/nn.3781.  [PDF]
    • Han, S. W., & Marois, R. (2014) The effects of stimulus-driven competition and task set on involuntary attention. J. Vision 14:1-24. doi:10.1167/14.7.14.  [PDF]
    • Jones, O.D., Buckholtz, J.W., Schall, J.D., & Marois, R. (2014) Brain Imaging for Judges: An Introduction to Law and Neuroscience. Court Review, 50:44-51.  [PDF]
    • Han S. W., & Marois R. (2014). Functional fractionation of the stimulus-driven attention network. J. Neurosci. 34, 6958-6969. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4975-13.2014.  [PDF]
    • Asplund, C. L., Fougnie, D. L., Zughni, S., Martin, J., & Marois, R. (2014) The attentional blink reveals the probabilistic nature of discrete conscious perception. Psychol. Sci. 25: 824-831. doi: 10.1177/0956797613513810.  [PDF]
  • 2013
    • Filmer, H., Mattingley J., Marois R., & Dux P. E. (2013) Disrupting prefrontal cortex prevents performance gains from sensory-motor training. J Neurosci. 33: 18654-60. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2019-13.2013.  [PDF]
    • Jones, O. J., Marois, R., Farah, M., & Greely, H. (2013) Law and Neuroscience, J Neurosci. 33: 17624-30. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3254-13.2013.  [PDF]
    • Tamber-Rosenau B. J., Dux P. E., Tombu M. N., Asplund C. L., & Marois R. (2013) Amodal processing in human prefrontal cortex. J Neurosci. 33:11573-87. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4601-12.2013.  [PDF]
    • Han S. W., & Marois R. (2013) The source of dual-task limitations: Serial or parallel processing of multiple response selections? Atten Percept Psychophys. 75: 1395-1405. doi: 10.3758/s13414-013-0513-2.  [PDF]
    • Katwal, S. B., Gore, J. C., Marois, R, & Rogers, B. P. (2013) Unsupervised Spatiotemporal Analysis of FMRI Data Using Graph-based Visualizations of Self-organizing Maps. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME). 60: 2472-2483. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2258344.  [PDF]
  • 2012
    • Han, S. W., & Marois, R. (2012) Dissociation between process-based and data-based limitations for conscious perception in the human brain. Neuroimage, 64: 399-406. doi: 10.1016/jneuroimage.2012.09.016.  [PDF]
    • Buckholtz, J. W., & Marois R. (2012). The roots of modern justice: cognitive and neural foundations of social norms and their enforcement. Nature Neuroscience 15: 655-61. [PDF]
  • 2011
    • Tombu, M. N, Asplund, C. L., Dux, P. E., Godwin, D, Martin, J. W., & Marois, R. (2011). A unified attentional bottleneck in the human brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 108:13426-13431. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1103583108.  [PDF]
    • Fougnie, D. L., & Marois, R. (2011). What limits working memory capacity? Evidence for modality-specific sources to the simultaneous storage of visual and auditory arrays. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37:1329-1341. doi: 10.1037/a0024834.  [PDF]
    • Scalf, P., Dux, P. E., & Marois, R. (2011). Working memory encoding delays top-down attention to visual cortex. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 23:2593-2604. [PDF]
    • Shen, Francis X., Hoffman, Morris B., Jones, Owen D., Greene, Joshua D. and Marois, Rene. (2011). Sorting guilty minds. New York University Law Review, Vol. 80. [PDF]
    • Todd, J. J., Han, S. W., Harrison, S., & Marois, R. (2011). The neural correlates of visual working memory encoding: A time-resolved fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 49: 1527-1536. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsycholgia.2011.01.040.  [PDF]
  • 2010
    • Fougnie, D. L., Asplund, C. L., & Marois, R. (2010). What are the units of storage in visual working memory? Journal of Vision, 10(12):27, 1–11. doi:10.1167/10.12.27. [PDF]
    • Asplund, C. L., Todd, J. J., Snyder, A. P., Gilbert, C. M., & Marois, R. (2010). Surprise-Induced Blindness: A Stimulus-Driven Attentional Limit to Conscious Perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 36(6):1372-1381. doi: 10.1037/a0020551.  [PDF]
    • Marois, R. (2010) Mind’s eye wide shut. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 14:433-434. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.08.003.  [PDF]
    • Robitaille, N., Marois, R., Todd, J., Grimault, S., Cheyne, D., Jolicoeur, P. (2010). Distinguishing between lateralized and non-lateralized brain activity associated with visual short-term memory: fMRI, MEG, and EEG evidence from the same observers. Neuroimage 53:1334-1345. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.07.027.  [PDF]
    • Harrison, A., Jolicoeur, P., & Marois, R. (2010). ‘What’ and ‘Where’ in the Intraparietal Sulcus: An fMRI Study of Object Identity and Location in Visual Short-Term Memory. Cerebral Cortex 20:2478-2485. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhp314.  [PDF]
    •  Asplund, C. L., Todd, J. J., Snyder, A. P., & Marois, R. (2010). A central role for the lateral prefrontal cortex in goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention. Nature Neuroscience, 13: 507-512. doi: 10.1038/nn.2509.  [PDF]
  • 2009
    • Fougnie, D. L., & Marois, R. (2009). Dual-task interference in visual working memory: A limitation in storage capacity but not in encoding or retrieval. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 71: 1831-1841. doi:10.3758/APP.71.8.1831.  [PDF]
    • Dux, P. E., Tombu, M. N., Harrison, S., Rogers, B. P., Tong, F., & Marois, R. (2009). Training improves multitasking performance by increasing the speed of information processing in human prefrontal cortex. Neuron, 63: 127-138. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.06.005.  [PDF]
    • Ivanoff, J. I., Branning, P., & Marois, R. (2009). Mapping the pathways of Information Processing from Sensation to Action in Four Distinct Sensorimotor tasks. Human Brain Mapping, 30:4167-4186. doi: 10.1002/hbm.20837.  [PDF]
    • Dux, P. E., & Marois, R. (2009). How humans search for targets through time: A review of data and theory from the attentional blink. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71:1683-700. doi: 10.3 758/APP.71.8. 1683.  [PDF]
    • Dux, P. E., Asplund, C. L., & Marois, R. (2009). Both exogenous and endogenous target salience manipulations support resource depletion accounts of the attentional blink: A reply to Olivers, Spalek, Kawahara & Di Lollo.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 219-224. doi:10.3758/PBR.16.1.219.  [PDF]
    • Fougnie, D., & Marois, R. (2009). Attentive tracking disrupts feature binding in visual working memory. Visual Cognition, 17, 48-66. doi: 10.1080/13506280802281337.  [PDF]
  • 2008
    • Dux, P. E., & Marois, R. (2008). Distractor inhibition predicts individual differences in the attentional blink. PLoS ONE, 3, e3330. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0003330.  [PDF]
    • Buckholtz, J. W., Asplund, C. L., Dux, P., Zald, D. H., Gore, J. C., Jones, O. W., & Marois, R. (2008). The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment. Neuron, 30, 930-940. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.10.016.  [PDF]
    • Ivanoff, J., Branning, P., & Marois, R. (2008) fMRI evidence for a dual process account of the speed-accuracy tradeoff in decision-making. PLoS ONE. Jul 9; 3(7):e2635. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002635.  [PDF]
    • Dux, P. E., Asplund, C. L., & Marois, R. (2008). An attentional blink for sequentially presented targets: Evidence in favor of resource depletion accounts. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 809-813. doi: 10.3758/PBR.15.4.809.  [PDF]
  • 2007
    • Dux, P., & Marois, R. (2007). Repetition Blindness is Immune to the Central Bottleneck. Psychonomic Bulletin Review 14, 729-734.  [PDF]
    • Fougnie, D. L., & Marois, R. (2007). Executive Load in Working Memory Induces Inattentional Blindness. Psychonomic Bulletin Review 14, 142-147.  [PDF]
  • 2006
    • Dux, P., Ivanoff, J., Asplund, C., & Marois, R. (2006). Isolation of a central bottleneck of information processing with time-resolved fMRI. Neuron, 52: 1109-1120. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.11.009.  [PDF]
    • Yi, D. J., Kelley, T. A., Marois, R., & Chun, M. M. (2006). Attentional Modulation of Repetition Attenuation is Anatomically dissociable for scenes and faces.  Cognitive Brain Research, 1080:53-62. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2006.01.090.  [PDF]
    • Fougnie, D. L., & Marois, R. (2006). Distinct Capacity Limits for Attention and Working Memory.  Evidence from Attentive Tracking and Visual Working Memory Paradigms. Psychological Science, 17:526-534.  [PDF]
    • Marois, R., Larson, J. M., Chun M. M., & Shima, D. (2006). Response-specific sources of dual-task interference in human premotor cortex. Psychological Research, 70:436-447. doi: 10.1007/s00426-005-0022-6.  [PDF]
  • 2005
    • Todd, J. J., Fougnie, D. L., & Marois, R. (2005) Visual Short-Term Memory Load Suppresses Right Temporo-Parietal Junction Activity and Induces Inattentional Blindness. Psychological Science, 16:965-972.  [PDF]
    • Todd, J. J., & Marois, R. (2005) Posterior Parietal Cortex Activity Predicts Individual Differences in Visual Short-Term Memory Capacity. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 5:144-155.  [PDF]
    • Marois, R., & Ivanoff, J. (2005) Capacity limits of Information processing in the brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9:296-304. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2005.04.010.  [PDF]
  • 2004
    • Yi, D. J., Woodman, G. F., Widders, D., Marois, R., & Chun M. M. (2004) The neural representation of ignored visual events: Dissociable effects of perceptual attention and working memory attention. Nature Neuroscience 7:992-996. doi:10.1038/nn1294.  [PDF]
    • Todd, J. J., & Marois, R. (2004) The Capacity Limit of Visual Short-Term Memory in Human Posterior Parietal Cortex.  Nature 428:751-753. doi:10.1038/nature02466.  [PDF]
    • Marois, R., Yi, D. J., Chun, M. M. (2004) The neural fate of perceived and missed events in the attentional blink.  Neuron.  41:465-472.  [PDF]
    • Marois, R., Chun, M. M., & Gore, J. C. (2004) A common parieto-frontal network is recruited under both low visibility and high perceptual interference. Journal of Neurophysiology 92:2985-2992. doi: 10.1152/jn.01061.2003.  [PDF]
  • 2003
    • Schultz, R. T., Grelotti, D., Klin, A., Kleinman, J., Van der Gaag, C., Marois, R., & Skudlarski, P. (2003) The Role of the Fusiform Face Area in Social Cognition:  Implications for the Pathobiology of Autism. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences. 358:415-427. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1208.  [PDF]
  • 2002
    • Shafritz, K. M., Gore, J. C., & Marois, R. (2002) The role of the parietal cortex in visual feature binding. Proceedings National Academy Sciences USA 99:10917-10922. doi: 10.1073pnas.152694799.  [PDF]
    • Palmeri, T. J., Blake, R., Marois, R., Flanery, M., & Whetsell, W. (2002) The Perceptual Reality of Synesthetic Colors. Proceedings National Academy Sciences USA 99:4127-4131. doi: 10.1073pnas.022049399.  [PDF]
  • 2001
    • Anderson, A.W., Marois, R., Colson, E.R., Peterson, B.S., Duncan, C.C., Ehrenkranz, R.A., Schneider, K.C., Gore, J.C., & Ment, L.C. (2001). Neonatal Auditory Activation Detected by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 19:1-5.  [PDF]
  • 2000
    • Marois, R., Leung, H. C., Gore, J. C. (2000) A stimulus-driven approach to object identity and location processing in the human brain. Neuron 25:717-728.  [PDF]
    • Marois, R., Chun, M. M., Gore, J. C. (2000) Neural Correlates of the Attentional Blink. Neuron, 28: 299-308.  [PDF]