Mark Douglas Allen
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Contact Information
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Research
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I use a variety of human brain imaging techniques to understand various cognitive processing systems, such as language, memory, object recognition, and problem solving. My most current research focusses on developing functional imaging techniques that are useful in clinical settings, for the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders. More specifically, I use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess patterns of neural activity in non-brain damaged individuals while they perform a series of basic cognitive tasks that are commonly used in neurological and neuropsychological assessment exams. The benefits of this research are 1) standard claims about which brain areas and cognitive systems these exams purport to measure can be examined through this powerful and more direct measure 2)this research will greatly enhance the usefulness of fMRI in clinical settings, e.g., for diagnosis and treatment of neuropathology.
Education
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Ph.D. in Cognitive Science
Johns Hopkins University
2000
Professional Affiliations
Publications
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Cheryl L. Garn, Mark D. Allen, James D. Larsen
(2008).
An fMRI study of sex differences in brain activation during object naming..
Cortex.
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Mark D. Allen and Tyler E. Owens
(2008).
A reply to David Kemmerer's "a critique of Mark D. Allen's 'The preservation of verb subcategory knowledge in a spoken language comprehension deficit'"..
Brain and Language.
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Osterhout, L., Wright, R., Allen, M
(2007).
The psychology of linguistic form.
Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences.
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Allen, M., Bigler, E., Larsen, J., Goodrich-Hunsaker, N., Hopkins, R
(2007).
Functional neuroimaging evidence for high cognitive effort on the Word Memory Test in the absence of external incentives.
Brain Injury.
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MARK D. ALLEN
(2005).
The preservation of verb subcategory knowledge in a spoken language comprehension deficit.
Brain and Language.
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Fong-Ichimura, A.K., Allen, M., Owens, T., Hall. A., Hyde, D., Robison, T., Olsen, J.
(2004).
Cortical sources of the N400 and the N400 effect.
The Clinical Neuropsychologist.
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Osterhout, L., ALLEN, M., McLaughlin, J., & Inoue, K.
(2003).
Brain Responses to Linguistic Anomalies in Connected Discourse.
Memory and Cognition.
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McKinnon, R., ALLEN, M., & Osterhout, L.
(2003).
Morphological Decomposition During Lexical Processing: Evidence from Event-related Potentials.
NeuroReport.
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ALLEN, M. & Badecker, W., & Osterhout, L.
(2003).
Morphological Analysis in Sentence Processing: an ERP Study.
Language and Cognitive Processes.
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Osterhout, L., ALLEN, M., & McLaughlin, J.
(2002).
Words In The Brain: Lexical Determinants Of Word-Induced Brain Activity.
Journal of Neurolinguistics.
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Badecker, W., & ALLEN, M.
(2002).
Morphological Parsing And The Perception Of Lexical Identity: A Masked Priming Study Of Stem-Homographs.
Journal of Memory and Language.
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ALLEN, M., & Badecker, W.
(2002).
Stem-Homography, Lemma Competition, And Conscious Word Perception.
Brain and Language.
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ALLEN, M., & Badecker, W.
(2002).
Inflectional Regularity: Probing The Nature Of Lexical Representation In A Cross-Modal Priming Task.
Journal of Memory and Language.
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