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Timothy Curran

TitleProfessor
InstitutionUniversity of Colorado Boulder
DepartmentPsych-Psychology
Phone303/492-5040

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    R01MH064812     (CURRAN, TIMOTHY E)Jan 1, 2002 - May 31, 2013
    NIH/NIMH
    ERP Studies of Dual Processes in Recognition Memory
    Role: Principal Investigator
    R01MH096698     (CURRAN, TIMOTHY E)Sep 21, 2012 - Jul 31, 2015
    NIH/NIMH
    Expert Memory: Superior Encoding, Enhanced Retrieval, and Refined Perception
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Jones T, Hadley H, Cataldo A, Arnold E, Curran T, Tanaka JW, Scott LS. Neural and behavioral effects of subordinate-level training of novel objects across manipulations of color and spatial frequency. Eur J Neurosci. 2018 Mar 02. PMID: 29499088.
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    2. Ross RS, Smolen A, Curran T, Nyhus E. MAO-A Phenotype Effects Response Sensitivity and the Parietal Old/New Effect during Recognition Memory. Front Hum Neurosci. 2018; 12:53. PMID: 29487517.
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    3. Yang Z, Zhuang X, Sreenivasan K, Mishra V, Curran T, Byrd R, Nandy R, Cordes D. 3D spatially-adaptive canonical correlation analysis: Local and global methods. Neuroimage. 2018 Apr 01; 169:240-255. PMID: 29248697.
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    4. Medrano P, Nyhus E, Smolen A, Curran T, Ross RS. Individual differences in EEG correlates of recognition memory due to DAT polymorphisms. Brain Behav. 2017 Dec; 7(12):e00870. PMID: 29299388.
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    5. Zhuang X, Yang Z, Curran T, Byrd R, Nandy R, Cordes D. A family of locally constrained CCA models for detecting activation patterns in fMRI. Neuroimage. 2017 Apr 01; 149:63-84. PMID: 28041980.
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    6. Strózak P, Bird CW, Corby K, Frishkoff G, Curran T. FN400 and LPC memory effects for concrete and abstract words. Psychophysiology. 2016 Nov; 53(11):1669-1678. PMID: 27463978.
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    7. Earls HA, Curran T, Mittal V. A Meta-analytic Review of Auditory Event-Related Potential Components as Endophenotypes for Schizophrenia: Perspectives From First-Degree Relatives. Schizophr Bull. 2016 11; 42(6):1504-1516. PMID: 27217271.
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    8. Strózak P, Abedzadeh D, Curran T. Separating the FN400 and N400 potentials across recognition memory experiments. Brain Res. 2016 Mar 15; 1635:41-60. PMID: 26776478; PMCID: PMC4779423 [Available on 03/15/17].
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    9. Hagen S, Vuong QC, Scott LS, Curran T, Tanaka JW. The role of spatial frequency in expert object recognition. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2016 Mar; 42(3):413-22. PMID: 26480250.
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    10. Ross RS, Medrano P, Boyle K, Smolen A, Curran T, Nyhus E. Genetic variation in the serotonin transporter gene influences ERP old/new effects during recognition memory. Neuropsychologia. 2015 Nov; 78:95-107. PMID: 26423665; PMCID: PMC4744468 [Available on 11/01/16].
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    11. Earls HA, Curran T, Mittal V. Deficits in Early Stages of Face Processing in Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review of the P100 Component. Schizophr Bull. 2016 Mar; 42(2):519-27. PMID: 26175474; PMCID: PMC4753590 [Available on 03/01/17].
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    12. Chevalier N, Martis SB, Curran T, Munakata Y. Metacognitive processes in executive control development: the case of reactive and proactive control. J Cogn Neurosci. 2015 Jun; 27(6):1125-36. PMID: 25603026; PMCID: PMC4510990.
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    13. Schwikert SR, Curran T. Familiarity and recollection in heuristic decision making. J Exp Psychol Gen. 2014 Dec; 143(6):2341-65. PMID: 25347534; PMCID: PMC4244259.
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    14. Hagen S, Vuong QC, Scott LS, Curran T, Tanaka JW. The role of color in expert object recognition. J Vis. 2014 Aug 11; 14(9). PMID: 25113021.
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    15. Herzmann G, Curran T. Neural correlates of the in-group memory advantage on the encoding and recognition of faces. PLoS One. 2013; 8(12):e82797. PMID: 24358226; PMCID: PMC3866141.
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    16. Wilder MH, Jones M, Ahmed AA, Curran T, Mozer MC. The persistent impact of incidental experience. Psychon Bull Rev. 2013 Dec; 20(6):1221-31. PMID: 23430793.
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    17. Lai VT, Curran T. ERP evidence for conceptual mappings and comparison processes during the comprehension of conventional and novel metaphors. Brain Lang. 2013 Dec; 127(3):484-96. PMID: 24182839.
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    18. Noh E, Herzmann G, Curran T, de Sa VR. Using single-trial EEG to predict and analyze subsequent memory. Neuroimage. 2014 Jan 01; 84:712-23. PMID: 24064073; PMCID: PMC3874086.
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    19. Ketz N, O'Reilly RC, Curran T. Classification aided analysis of oscillatory signatures in controlled retrieval. Neuroimage. 2014 Jan 15; 85 Pt 2:749-60. PMID: 23845425; PMCID: PMC3842395.
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    20. Jones M, Curran T, Mozer MC, Wilder MH. Sequential effects in response time reveal learning mechanisms and event representations. Psychol Rev. 2013 Jul; 120(3):628-66. PMID: 23915086.
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    21. Depue BE, Ketz N, Mollison MV, Nyhus E, Banich MT, Curran T. ERPs and neural oscillations during volitional suppression of memory retrieval. J Cogn Neurosci. 2013 Oct; 25(10):1624-33. PMID: 23647560.
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    22. Herzmann G, Bird CW, Freeman M, Curran T. Effects of oxytocin on behavioral and ERP measures of recognition memory for own-race and other-race faces in women and men. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2013 Oct; 38(10):2140-51. PMID: 23648370; PMCID: PMC3775862.
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    23. Cordes D, Jin M, Curran T, Nandy R. The smoothing artifact of spatially constrained canonical correlation analysis in functional MRI. Int J Biomed Imaging. 2012; 2012:738283. PMID: 23365555.
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    24. Wyatte D, Curran T, O'Reilly R. The limits of feedforward vision: recurrent processing promotes robust object recognition when objects are degraded. J Cogn Neurosci. 2012 Nov; 24(11):2248-61. PMID: 22905822.
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    25. Mollison MV, Curran T. Familiarity in source memory. Neuropsychologia. 2012 Sep; 50(11):2546-65. PMID: 22789677; PMCID: PMC3432179.
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    26. Herzmann G, Young B, Bird CW, Curran T. Oxytocin can impair memory for social and non-social visual objects: a within-subject investigation of oxytocin's effects on human memory. Brain Res. 2012 Apr 27; 1451:65-73. PMID: 22424787; PMCID: PMC3334403.
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    27. Jin M, Pelak VS, Curran T, Nandy RR, Cordes D. A preliminary study of functional abnormalities in aMCI subjects during different episodic memory tasks. Magn Reson Imaging. 2012 May; 30(4):459-70. PMID: 22387024; PMCID: PMC3327830.
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    28. Chatham CH, Claus ED, Kim A, Curran T, Banich MT, Munakata Y. Cognitive control reflects context monitoring, not motoric stopping, in response inhibition. PLoS One. 2012; 7(2):e31546. PMID: 22384038.
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    29. Herzmann G, Jin M, Cordes D, Curran T. A within-subject ERP and fMRI investigation of orientation-specific recognition memory for pictures. Cogn Neurosci. 2012 Sep 01; 3(3-4):174-192. PMID: 22984367.
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    30. Cordes D, Herzmann G, Nandy R, Curran T. Optimization of contrast detection power with probabilistic behavioral information. Neuroimage. 2012 Apr 15; 60(3):1788-99. PMID: 22326984; PMCID: PMC3313002.
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    31. Jin M, Nandy R, Curran T, Cordes D. Extending local canonical correlation analysis to handle general linear contrasts for FMRI data. Int J Biomed Imaging. 2012; 2012:574971. PMID: 22461786; PMCID: PMC3272863.
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    32. Pierce LJ, Scott LS, Boddington S, Droucker D, Curran T, Tanaka JW. The n250 brain potential to personally familiar and newly learned faces and objects. Front Hum Neurosci. 2011; 5:111. PMID: 22059071; PMCID: PMC3204460.
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    33. Nyhus E, Curran T. Midazolam-induced amnesia reduces memory for details and affects the ERP correlates of recollection and familiarity. J Cogn Neurosci. 2012 Feb; 24(2):416-27. PMID: 22004049.
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    34. Cordes D, Jin M, Curran T, Nandy R. Optimizing the performance of local canonical correlation analysis in fMRI using spatial constraints. Hum Brain Mapp. 2012 Nov; 33(11):2611-26. PMID: 23074078.
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    35. Herzmann G, Willenbockel V, Tanaka JW, Curran T. The neural correlates of memory encoding and recognition for own-race and other-race faces. Neuropsychologia. 2011 Sep; 49(11):3103-15. PMID: 21807008.
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    36. Herzmann G, Curran T. Experts' memory: an ERP study of perceptual expertise effects on encoding and recognition. Mem Cognit. 2011 Apr; 39(3):412-32. PMID: 21264603.
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    37. Snyder HR, Hutchison N, Nyhus E, Curran T, Banich MT, O'Reilly RC, Munakata Y. Neural inhibition enables selection during language processing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Sep 21; 107(38):16483-8. PMID: 20813959; PMCID: PMC2944747.
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    38. Rass O, Landau JD, Curran T, Leynes PA. Event-related potential (ERP) correlates of memory blocking and priming during a word fragment test. Int J Psychophysiol. 2010 Nov; 78(2):136-50. PMID: 20620176.
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    39. Curran T, Doyle J. Picture superiority doubly dissociates the ERP correlates of recollection and familiarity. J Cogn Neurosci. 2011 May; 23(5):1247-62. PMID: 20350169.
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    40. Nyhus E, Curran T. Functional role of gamma and theta oscillations in episodic memory. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2010 Jun; 34(7):1023-35. PMID: 20060015; PMCID: PMC2856712.
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    41. Rossion B, Curran T. Visual expertise with pictures of cars correlates with RT magnitude of the car inversion effect. Perception. 2010; 39(2):173-83. PMID: 20402240.
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    42. Nyhus E, Curran T. Semantic and perceptual effects on recognition memory: evidence from ERP. Brain Res. 2009 Aug 04; 1283:102-14. PMID: 19505439; PMCID: PMC2748123.
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    43. Lai VT, Curran T, Menn L. Comprehending conventional and novel metaphors: an ERP study. Brain Res. 2009 Aug 11; 1284:145-55. PMID: 19505446.
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    44. Curran T, Gibson L, Horne JH, Young B, Bozell AP. Expert image analysts show enhanced visual processing in change detection. Psychon Bull Rev. 2009 Apr; 16(2):390-7. PMID: 19293112.
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    45. Huber DE, Tian X, Curran T, O'Reilly RC, Woroch B. The dynamics of integration and separation: ERP, MEG, and neural network studies of immediate repetition effects. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2008 Dec; 34(6):1389-416. PMID: 19045982.
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    46. Huber DE, Clark TF, Curran T, Winkielman P. Effects of repetition priming on recognition memory: testing a perceptual fluency-disfluency model. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2008 Nov; 34(6):1305-24. PMID: 18980396.
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    47. D'Lauro C, Tanaka JW, Curran T. The preferred level of face categorization depends on discriminability. Psychon Bull Rev. 2008 Jun; 15(3):623-9. PMID: 18567265.
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    48. Scott LS, Tanaka JW, Sheinberg DL, Curran T. The role of category learning in the acquisition and retention of perceptual expertise: a behavioral and neurophysiological study. Brain Res. 2008 May 19; 1210:204-15. PMID: 18417106.
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    49. Norman KA, Tepe K, Nyhus E, Curran T. Event-related potential correlates of interference effects on recognition memory. Psychon Bull Rev. 2008 Feb; 15(1):36-43. PMID: 18605477.
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    50. Frank MJ, O'Reilly RC, Curran T. Midazolam, hippocampal function, and transitive inference: Reply to Greene. Behav Brain Funct. 2008 Jan 30; 4:5. PMID: 18234111; PMCID: PMC2249592.
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    51. Frank MJ, D'Lauro C, Curran T. Cross-task individual differences in error processing: neural, electrophysiological, and genetic components. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2007 Dec; 7(4):297-308. PMID: 18189003.
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    52. Frank MJ, Moustafa AA, Haughey HM, Curran T, Hutchison KE. Genetic triple dissociation reveals multiple roles for dopamine in reinforcement learning. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Oct 09; 104(41):16311-6. PMID: 17913879; PMCID: PMC2042203.
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    53. Speer NK, Curran T. ERP correlates of familiarity and recollection processes in visual associative recognition. Brain Res. 2007 Oct 12; 1174:97-109. PMID: 17825273; PMCID: PMC2194750.
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    54. Depue BE, Curran T, Banich MT. Prefrontal regions orchestrate suppression of emotional memories via a two-phase process. Science. 2007 Jul 13; 317(5835):215-9. PMID: 17626877.
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    55. Rugg MD, Curran T. Event-related potentials and recognition memory. Trends Cogn Sci. 2007 Jun; 11(6):251-7. PMID: 17481940.
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    56. Donaldson DI, Curran T. Potential (ERP) studies of recognition memory for faces. Neuroimage. 2007 Jun; 36(2):488-9. PMID: 17481924; PMCID: PMC1948821.
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    57. Rossion B, Collins D, Goffaux V, Curran T. Long-term expertise with artificial objects increases visual competition with early face categorization processes. J Cogn Neurosci. 2007 Mar; 19(3):543-55. PMID: 17335400.
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    58. Curran T, DeBuse C, Leynes PA. Conflict and criterion setting in recognition memory. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2007 Jan; 33(1):2-17. PMID: 17201551.
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    59. Curran T, Hancock J. The FN400 indexes familiarity-based recognition of faces. Neuroimage. 2007 Jun; 36(2):464-71. PMID: 17258471; PMCID: PMC1948028.
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    60. Scott LS, Tanaka JW, Sheinberg DL, Curran T. A reevaluation of the electrophysiological correlates of expert object processing. J Cogn Neurosci. 2006 Sep; 18(9):1453-65. PMID: 16989547.
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    61. Tanaka JW, Curran T, Porterfield AL, Collins D. Activation of preexisting and acquired face representations: the N250 event-related potential as an index of face familiarity. J Cogn Neurosci. 2006 Sep; 18(9):1488-97. PMID: 16989550.
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    62. Frank MJ, O'Reilly RC, Curran T. When memory fails, intuition reigns: midazolam enhances implicit inference in humans. Psychol Sci. 2006 Aug; 17(8):700-7. PMID: 16913953.
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    63. Jacobs J, Hwang G, Curran T, Kahana MJ. EEG oscillations and recognition memory: theta correlates of memory retrieval and decision making. Neuroimage. 2006 Aug 15; 32(2):978-87. PMID: 16843012.
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    64. Depue BE, Banich MT, Curran T. Suppression of emotional and nonemotional content in memory: effects of repetition on cognitive control. Psychol Sci. 2006 May; 17(5):441-7. PMID: 16683933; PMCID: PMC2878760.
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    65. Curran T, DeBuse C, Woroch B, Hirshman E. Combined pharmacological and electrophysiological dissociation of familiarity and recollection. J Neurosci. 2006 Feb 15; 26(7):1979-85. PMID: 16481430.
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    66. Wong AC, Gauthier I, Woroch B, DeBuse C, Curran T. An early electrophysiological response associated with expertise in letter perception. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2005 Sep; 5(3):306-18. PMID: 16396092.
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    67. Gonsalves BD, Kahn I, Curran T, Norman KA, Wagner AD. Memory strength and repetition suppression: multimodal imaging of medial temporal cortical contributions to recognition. Neuron. 2005 Sep 01; 47(5):751-61. PMID: 16129403.
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    68. Frank MJ, Woroch BS, Curran T. Error-related negativity predicts reinforcement learning and conflict biases. Neuron. 2005 Aug 18; 47(4):495-501. PMID: 16102533.
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    69. Tanaka JW, Curran T, Sheinberg DL. The training and transfer of real-world perceptual expertise. Psychol Sci. 2005 Feb; 16(2):145-51. PMID: 15686581.
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    70. Curran T, Friedman WJ. ERP old/new effects at different retention intervals in recency discrimination tasks. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res. 2004 Jan; 18(2):107-20. PMID: 14736570.
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    71. Curran T. Effects of attention and confidence on the hypothesized ERP correlates of recollection and familiarity. Neuropsychologia. 2004; 42(8):1088-106. PMID: 15093148.
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    72. Curran T, Dien J. Differentiating amodal familiarity from modality-specific memory processes: an ERP study. Psychophysiology. 2003 Nov; 40(6):979-88. PMID: 14986851; PMCID: PMC1413574.
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    73. Goldmann RE, Sullivan AL, Droller DB, Rugg MD, Curran T, Holcomb PJ, Schacter DL, Daffner KR, Budson AE. Late frontal brain potentials distinguish true and false recognition. Neuroreport. 2003 Sep 15; 14(13):1717-20. PMID: 14512844.
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    74. Curran T, Friedman WJ. Differentiating location- and distance-based processes in memory for time: an ERP study. Psychon Bull Rev. 2003 Sep; 10(3):711-7. PMID: 14620368; PMCID: PMC1350916.
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    75. Gauthier I, Curran T, Curby KM, Collins D. Perceptual interference supports a non-modular account of face processing. Nat Neurosci. 2003 Apr; 6(4):428-32. PMID: 12627167.
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    76. Curran T, Cleary AM. Using ERPs to dissociate recollection from familiarity in picture recognition. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res. 2003 Jan; 15(2):191-205. PMID: 12429370.
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    77. Deckersbach T, Savage CR, Curran T, Bohne A, Wilhelm S, Baer L, Jenike MA, Rauch SL. A study of parallel implicit and explicit information processing in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Am J Psychiatry. 2002 Oct; 159(10):1780-2. PMID: 12359688.
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    78. Curran T, Tanaka JW, Weiskopf DM. An electrophysiological comparison of visual categorization and recognition memory. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2002 Mar; 2(1):1-18. PMID: 12452581.
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    79. Curran T. Implicit learning revealed by the method of opposition. Trends Cogn Sci. 2001 Dec 01; 5(12):503-504. PMID: 11728895.
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