Bradley R. Postle

 

 

Our interests in human memory and cognition encompass the cognitive and neural bases of working memory, attention, control, intelligence, and nondeclarative memory.

E-mail: postle@wisc.edu

Research Strength: Behavior: Cognition and Emotion

• The neural and cognitive bases of working memory storage
• The role of cortical oscillations in working memory
• The control of interference in working memory
• Age-related differences in working and short-term memory performance
• The dynamics of the BOLD evoked response

Lab Website:

http://psych.wisc.edu/postlab

Selected Publications:

• Postle, B.R. 2009. The hippocampus, memory, and consciousness. In S. Laureys and G. Tononi (Eds). Neurology of Consciousness Elsevier (Amsterdam) 326-338. [PDF]
• Hamidi, M., G. Tononi, and B.R. Postle. 2008. Evaluating the role of prefrontal and parietal cortices in memory-guided response with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation Neuropsychologia. In press
• Lewis-Peacock, J.A. and B.R. Postle. 2008. Temporary activation of long-term memory supports working memory. J. Neurosci. 28: 8765-8771. [PDF]
• Hamidi, M., G. Tononi, and B.R. Postle. 2008. Evaluating frontal and parietal contributions to spatial working memory with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. Brain Research 1230: 202-210. [PDF]
• Feredoes, E., G. Tononi, and B.R. Postle. 2007. The neural bases of the short-term storage of verbal information are anatomically variable across individuals. J. Neurosci. 27: 11003–11008. [PDF]
• Postle, B.R. and M. Hamidi. 2007. Nonvisual codes and nonvisual brain areas support visual working memory. Cerebral Cortex 17: 2151-2162. [PDF]
• Postle, B.R. 2007. "Activated long-term memory"? The bases of representation in working memory. In N. Osaka, R.H. Logie, and M. D'Esposito (Eds.) The Cognitive Neuroscience of Working Memory. Oxford University Press (Oxford, U.K.).
• Feredoes, E., and B.R. Postle. 2007. Localization of load sensitivity of working memory storage: Quantitatively and qualitatively discrepant results yielded by single-subject and group-averaged approaches to fMRI group analysis. NeuroImage 35: 881–903. [PDF]
• Feredoes, E., G. Tononi, and B.R. Postle. 2006. Direct evidence for a prefrontal contribution to the control of proactive interference in verbal working memory. PNAS 103: 19530-19534. [PDF]
• Postle, B.R., F. Ferrarelli, M. Hamidi, E. Feredoes, E., M. Massimini, M. Peterson, A. Alexander, and G. Tononi. 2006. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation dissociates working memory manipulation from retention functions in prefrontal, but not posterior parietal, cortex. J. Cog. Neurosci.18: 1712-1722. [PDF]
• Postle, B.R., C. Idzikowski, S. Della Salla, R.H. Logie, A.D. Baddeley. 2006. The selective disruption of spatial working memory by eye movements. Q. J. Exp. Psychol. 59: 100-120. [PDF]
• Postle, B.R. 2006. Distraction-spanning sustained activity during delayed recognition of locations. NeuroImage 30: 950-962. [PDF]
• Postle, B.R. 2006. Working memory as an emergent property of the mind and brain. Neuroscience 139: 23-28. [PDF]
• D'Esposito, M., J. Cooney, A. Gazzaley, S.E.B. Gibbs, and B.R. Postle. 2006. Is the prefrontal cortex necessary for delay task performance? Evidence from lesion and fMRI data. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 12: 248-260. [PDF]
• Postle, B.R. 2005. Delay-period activity in prefrontal cortex: One function is sensory gating. J. Cog. Neurosci. 11: 1679-1690. [PDF]
• Postle, B.R., L.N. Brush, and A.M. Nick. 2004. Prefrontal cortex and the mediation of proactive interference in working memory. Cog. Affect. and Beh. Neurosci. 4: 600-608.
• Postle, B.R., E. Awh, J. Jonides, E.E. Smith, and M. D'Esposito. 2004. The where and how of attention-based rehearsal in spatial working memory. Cog. Brain Res. 20: 194-205. [PDF]
• Postle, B.R., T.J. Druzgal, and M. D'Esposito. 2003. Seeking the neural substrates of visual working memory storage. Cortex 39: 1198-1207. [PDF]
• Postle, B.R. and M. D'Esposito. 2003. Spatial working memory activity of the caudate nucleus is sensitive to frame of reference. Cog. Affect. and Beh. Neurosci. 3: 133-144. [PDF]
• Postle, B.R., J.S. Berger, and M. D'Esposito. 1999. Functional neuroanatomical double dissociation of mnemonic and executive control processes contributing to working memory. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 96: 12959-12964. [PDF]
• Postle, B.R. and S. Corkin. 1998. Impaired word-stem completion priming with novel words: Evidence from the amnesic patient H.M. Neuropsychologia 36: 421-440.