Peer-reviewed journal articles
Daker, R. J., Viskontas, I. V., Porter, G. F., Colaizzi, G. A., Lyons, I. M., & Green, A. E. (2023). Investigating links between creativity anxiety, creative performance, and state-level anxiety and effort during creative thinking. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 17095.
Slayton, M. A., Romero-Sosa, J. L., Shore, K., Buonomano, D. V., & Viskontas, I. V. (2020). Musical expertise generalizes to superior temporal scaling in a Morse code tapping task. PloS one, 15(1), e0221000.
Slayton, M., Bristol, A. S., & Viskontas, I. V. (2019). Factors affecting group creativity: lessons from musical ensembles. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 27, 169-174.
Viskontas, I.V., Knowlton, B.J., & Fried, I. (2016) Responses of Neurons in the Medial Temporal Lobe During Encoding and Recognition of Face-Scene Pairs. Neuropsychologia.
Marlow, C. A., Viskontas, I. V., Matlin, A., Boydston, C., Boxer, A., & Taylor, R. P. (2015). Temporal Structure of Human Gaze Dynamics Is Invariant During Free Viewing. PloS one, 10(9), e0139379.
Kapur, N., Cole, J., Manly, T., Viskontas, I.V., Ninteman, A., Hasher, L., & Pascual-Leone, A. (2013) Positive Clinical Neuroscience – Explorations in Positive Neurology.The Neuroscientist, 31 pages.
Howard, M.W, Viskontas, I.V., Shankar, K.H., & Fried, I. (2012) Ensembles of human MTL neurons ‘jump back in time’ in response to a repeated stimulus. Hippocampus,22(9): 1833-47.
Viskontas, I.V., Boxer, A.L., Fesenko, J., Matlin, A., Heuer, H.W., Mirsky, J., & Miller, B.L. (2011) Visual search patterns in semantic dementia show paradoxical facilitation of binding processes. Neuropsychologia, 49(3): 468-78.
Miller, B.L., & Viskontas, I.V. (2011) Introduction: elucidating the neural basis of the self.Neurocase, 17(3): 189.
Mirsky, J.B., Heuer, H.W., Jafari, A., Kramer, J.H., Schenk, A.K., Viskontas, I.V., Miller, B.L., & Boxer, A.L. (2011) Anti-saccade performance predicts executive function and brain structure in normal elders. Cognitive Behavior and Neurology, 24(2): 50-8.
Greenberg, D. L., Ogar, J. M., Viskontas, I.V., Gorno Tempini, M.L., Miller, B., & Knowlton, B.J. (2010) Multimodal cuing of autobiographical memory in semantic dementia. Neuropsychology, 25(1): 98-104.
Viskontas, I.V., Quiroga, R.Q., & Fried, I. (2009) Human medial temporal lobe neurons respond preferentially to personally relevant images, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(50):21329-34.
Viskontas, I.V., Carr V.A., Engel S.A., & Knowlton B.J. (2009) The neural correlates of recollection: hippocampal activation declines as episodic memory fades.Hippocampus,19(3):265-72.
Viskontas, I.V., Carr, V.A., Engel, S.A., & Knowlton, B.J. (2009) Neural Activity in the Hippocampus and Perirhinal Cortex during Encoding Is Associated with the Durability of Episodic Memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(11): 2652-62.
Viskontas, I.V., Papatriantyfallou, J., Papageorgiou, S., Miller, B.L., Pavlic, D., Bingol, A., & Yener, G. (2009) Difficulties in detecting behavioral symptoms of frontotemporal lobar degeneration across cultures. Alzheimer’s Disease and Associated Disorders,23(1):77-81.
Viskontas, I.V. (2008) Advances in memory research: single-neuron recordings from the human medial temporal lobe aid our understanding of declarative memory. Current Opinion in Neurology, 21(6):662-8.
Krawczyk, D.C, Morrison, R.G., Viskontas, I.V., Holyoak, K.J., Chow, T.W., Mendez, M.F., Miller, B.L., & Knowlton, B.J. (2008) Distraction during relational reasoning: The role of prefrontal cortex in interference control. Neuropsychologia, 46: 2020-32.
Viskontas, I. V., Possin, K. L., & Miller, B. L. (2007). Symptoms of frontotemporal dementia provide insights into orbitofrontal cortex function and social behavior. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1121: 528-49.
Carr, V., & Viskontas, I.V. (2007) A unique role for the hippocampus in recollecting the past and remembering the future. Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 30(3): 319-320.
Ekstrom, A.D., Viskontas, I.V., Kahana, M.J., Jacobs, J., Upchurch, K., Bookheimer, S. and Fried, I. (2007) Contrasting roles of neural firing and local field potentials in human memory. Hippocampus, 17(8): 606-17.
Viskontas, I.V., Ekstrom, A.D., Wilson, C.L., & Fried, I. (2007) Characterizing interneuron and pyramidal cells in the human medial temporal lobe in vivo.Hippocampus, 17(1): 49-57.
Viskontas, I.V., Knowlton, B.J., Steinmetz, P.N. & Fried, I. (2006) Differences in Mnemonic Processing by Neurons in the Human Hippocampus and Parahippocampal Region. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(10): 1654-62.
Viskontas, I.V., & Holyoak, K.J. (2006) Mechanisms of fluid cognition: Relational integration and inhibition. Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 2: 141.
Sha, S.J., Hou, C., Viskontas, I.V., & Miller, B.L. (2006) Are frontotemporal lobar degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy, and corticobasal degeneration distinct diseases? Nature Reviews: Clinical Practice Neurology, 2(12): 658-65.
Viskontas, I.V., Holyoak, K.J., & Knowlton, B.J. (2005) Relational integration in older Adults. Thinking & Reasoning, 11(4): 390-410.
Viskontas, I.V., Morrison, R.G., Holyoak, K.J., Hummel, J.E., & Knowlton, B.J. (2004) Relational Integration, Inhibition and Reasoning in Older Adults. Psychology & Aging,19(4): 1-11.
Knowlton, B.J., Viskontas, I.V. (2003) Retention systems of the brain: Evidence from neuropsychological patients. Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 26 (6): 743-744.
Viskontas, I.V., McAndrews, MP., Moscovitch, M. (2002) Memory for famous people in patients with unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy and excisions. Neuropsychology, 16(4): 472-480.
Viskontas, I.V., McAndrews, MP., Moscovitch, M. (2000) Remote episodic memory deficits in patients with unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy and excisions. The Journal of Neuroscience, 20(15): 5853-5857.
Book Chapters and White Papers
Hartley, I. & Viskontas, I.V. (2023) Neuropsychology in Stea, J. N., & Hupp, S. (Eds.). Investigating Clinical Psychology: Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies. Taylor & Francis, UK.
Viskontas, I.V. (2023) Seeing takes so much more than vision, in Rubinstein, Ed., Seeing it All. Goff Books.
Schneider, M.J. & Viskontas I.V. (2023) Brain Training and Intelligence. In Investigating Pop Psychology Pseudoscience: Improving Critical Thinking Skills (Hupp and Wiseman, eds), Taylor and Francis, UK.
Chrysikou, E.G., Kelly, A.E., & Viskontas, I.V. (2023) The Neuroscience of Creativity and Emotions. In Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Emotions (Zorana, Hoffman & Kaufman, eds), Cambridge University Press, UK.
Hartley, I. & Viskontas, I.V. (2023) How Technology is Changing Creativity. In Innovation and Change Across Cultures (Preiss, Singer & Kaufman, eds) Palgrave MacMillan Press, USA.
Viskontas, I.V. (2020) Music for Every Child. A white paper outlining the impact of music education on child development. Published by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation.
Viskontas, I.V. (2018) The Challenges of Changing Minds: Why Pseudoscience Persists. In Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science (Kaufmann & Kaufmann, eds), MIT Press.
Viskontas, I.V. (2018) Training to be Creative: The Interplay between Cognition, Skill Learning and Motivation. In Cambridge Handbook of the Neuroscience of Creativity (Jung and Vartanian, eds), Cambridge University Press.
Viskontas, I.V. ( 2017) Training to be Creative: Mindset, Motivation and Deliberate Practice. In Cambridge Handbook of the Neuroscience of Creativity(Vartanian and Jung, eds), Cambridge University Press.
Viskontas, I.V. (2017) The Challenges of Changing Minds: Why Pseudoscience Persists. In Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science(Kaufmann & Kaufmann, eds), MIT Press.
Viskontas, I.V., & Lee, S. E. (2015) The Creation of Art in the Setting of Dementia. InArt, Aesthetics and the Brain (Huston, Nadal et al., eds), Oxford University Press.
Viskontas, I.V., & Miller, B.L. (2013) Art and Dementia: how degeneration of some brain regions can lead to new creative impulses. In The Neuroscience of Creativity (A. Bristol, O. Vartanian & J. Kaufmann, eds), MIT Press.
Viskontas, I.V. (2012) Mapping memories in the medial temporal lobe: contributions from single-neuron recordings in patients with epilepsy. Proceedings of the Epilepsy and Memory: the State of the Art Meeting in Dartington, 2009. Oxford University Press.
Viskontas, I.V., & Miller, B.L. (2011) Paradoxical creativity and adjustment in neurological conditions. In The Paradoxical Brain (N. Kapur, ed), Cambridge University Press, pp. 221-233.
Viskontas, I.V. & Miller, B.L. (2009) Frontotemporal dementia. In Behavioral Neurology of Dementia (B.L. Miller & B. Boeve, eds), Cambridge Press, pp. 45-55.
Miller, B.L., & Viskontas, I.V. (2009) Memory loss. In Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine(S.L. Hauser ed), McGraw Hill Press, online.
Geschwind, M.A., Haman, A., & Viskontas, I.V. (2009) Frontotemporal dementia. InBehavioral Neurology of Dementia (B.L. Miller & B. Boeve, eds), Cambridge Press, pp. 345-66.
Rosen, H., & Viskontas, I.V. (2008) Cortical neuroanatomy and cognition. In Handbook of Clinical Neurology: Neuropsychology and Behavior (B.L. Miller & G. Goldenberg eds),Elsevier, 88:41-60.
Viskontas, I.V., & Fried, I. (2008) Imaging techniques: Human depth electrodes. In New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (Squire, L.R. ed), Elsevier, online.
Viskontas, I.V., & Miller, B.L. (2007) Frontotemporal dementia, in Continuum: Dementia,American Academy of Neurology, April Issue.
Bristol, A.S., & Viskontas, I.V. (2006) Dynamic Processes within Associative Memory Stores: Piecing together the Neural Basis of Creative Cognition. In Creativity, Knowledge and Reason (J.C. Kaufman, & J. Baer, eds) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 60-80.
Viskontas, I.V. & Knowlton, B.J. (2003) Procedural learning in humans. In Learning and Memory, Second Edition (J.H. Byrne, ed) Macmillan Reference, Farmington Hills, MI.