Daniel J. Weintraub Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience; Co-Director, functional MRI Center; and Editor, Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Area: Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

Contact Information

Email: jjonides@umich.edu
Psychology Office: 4428B East Hall
Psychology Phone: 734-764-0192

Alternate Office: Labs - B434, B426
Alternate Phone: 734-647-6249

Research and Teaching Interests

We seek to uncover the psychological and neural architecture of short-term (working) memory and executive processes that operate on information in the service of cognitive tasks.

Representative Publications

• Jonides, J., Lewis, R.L., Nee, D.E., Lustig, C.A., Berman, M.G., and Moore, K.S. (In press). The mind and brain of short-term memory. Annual Review of Psychology.
• Berman, M., Jonides, J., and Nee, D.E. (In press). Studying mind and brain with fMRI. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience.
• Wager, T.D., Hernandez, L., and Jonides, J. (In press). Elements of functional neuroimaging. In J. Cacioppo, L. Tassinary, and G. Berntson (Eds.). Handbook of Psychophysiology, 3rd Edition. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Jonides, J. and Nee, D.E. (2006). Brain mechanisms of proactive interference in working memory. Neuroscience, 139, 181-193.
• Wager, T.D., Jonides, J., Smith, E.E., and Nichols, T.E. (2005). Towards a taxonomy of attention-shifting: Individual differences in fMRI during multiple shift types. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 127-143.
• Nee, D.E., Wager, T.D., and Jonides, J. (In press). A meta-analysis of neuroimaging activations from interference-resolution tasks.
• Wager ,T.D., Sylvester, C-Y C., Lacey, S.C., Nee, D.E., Franklin, M., and Jonides, J. (2005). Common and unique components in resolving response inhibition revealed by fMRI. NeuroImage, 27, 323-340.
• Jonides, J., Lacey, S.C., and Nee, D.E. (2005). Processes of working memory in mind and brain. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 2-5.
• Wager, T.D., Jonides, J., and Reading, S. (2004). Neuroimaging studies of shifting attention: A meta-analysis. NeuroImage, 22, 1679-1693.

Honors and Awards

• Excellence in Research Award, University of Michigan, 1996
• Elected Fellow, Society of Experimental Psychologists, 1996
• Elected Fellow, AAAS, 1995
• Excellence in Education Award, University of Michigan, 1992
• Fellowship from American Council on Education, 1982 (declined).
• University of Michigan Distinguished Service Award, 1978.
• Spencer Foundation research award: The development of automaticity, 1980-1981.
• Faculty Development Fund Award for the development of instructional materials for introductory psychology, 1980.
• Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, 2003
• Collegiate Professorship, 2004
• Elected Fellow, Association for Psychological Science, 2005

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