Publications

Klamer, K., Craig, J., Haines, C., Sullivan, K., & Ekstrand, C. (2024). Psychological well-being modulates neural synchrony during naturalistic fMRI. Neuropsychologia, 204, 108987. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108987

Danielson, T. L., Gould, L. A., DeFreitas, J. M., MacLennan, R. J., Ekstrand, C., Borowsky, R., Farthing, J. P., & Andrushko, J. W. (2024). Activity in the pontine reticular nuclei scales with handgrip force in humans. Journal of Neurophysiology, 131(5), 807–814. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00407.2023

Petersson JN, Bykowski EA, Ekstrand C, Dukelow SP, Ho C, Debert CT, Montina T, Metz GAS. Unraveling Metabolic Changes following Stroke: Insights from a Urinary Metabolomics Analysis. Metabolites. 2024; 14(3):145. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo14030145

Danielson, T. L., Gould, L., DeFreitas, J. M., MacLennan, R. J., Ekstrand, C., Borowsky, R., Farthing, J. P., & Andrushko, J. W. (2023). Activity in the reticulospinal tract scales with handgrip force in humans. BioRxiv, 2023.10.27.563544. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.27.563544

Andrushko, J. W., Rinat, S., Kirby, E. D., Dahlby, J., Ekstrand, C., & Boyd, L. A. (2023). Females exhibit smaller volumes of brain activation and lower inter-subject variability during motor tasks. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 17698. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44871-4
Deligiannis, E., Donnelly, M., Coricelli, C., Babin, K., Stubbs, K., Ekstrand, C., Wilcox, L. M., & Culham, J. C. (2023). 3D Faces Evoke Stronger fMRI Activation than 2D Faces. Journal of Vision, 23(9), 5164. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.23.9.5164

Ekstrand, C. (2023). A novel 4D fMRI clustering technique to examine event-related spatiotemporal dynamics of face processing in naturalistic stimuli. BioRxiv, 2023.06.15.545143. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.15.545143

Andrushko, J. W., Rinat, S., Kirby, E. D., Dahlby, J., Ekstrand, C., & Boyd, L. A. (2023). Females exhibit smaller volumes of brain activation and lower inter-subject variability during motor tasks. BioRxiv, 2023.04.24.536726. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.24.536726

Klamer, K., Craig, J., Sullivan, K., Haines, C., & Ekstrand, C. (2023). Trait level somatic arousal modulates fMRI neural synchrony to naturalistic stimuli. BioRxiv, 2023.09.27.559823. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.27.559823

Haines, C., Sullivan, K., Klamer, K., Craig, J., & Ekstrand, C. (2023). Mapping the Changing Neural Architecture of Narrative Processing Using Naturalistic Stimuli: an fMRI Study. BioRxiv, 2023.09.15.557976. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.15.557976

Neudorf, J., Gould, L., Mickleborough, M. J. S., Ekstrand, C., & Borowsky, R. (2022). Unique, Shared, and Dominant Brain Activation in Visual Word Form Area and Lateral Occipital Complex during Reading and Picture Naming. Neuroscience, 481, 178–196. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2021.11.022

Kress, S., Neudorf, J., Ekstrand, C., & Borowsky, R. (2021). Unmasking the effects of orthography, semantics, and phonology on 2AFC visual word perceptual identification. Visual Cognition, 29(10), 657–678. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2021.1989099

Neudorf, J., Gould, L., Mickleborough, M. J. S., Ekstrand, C., & Borowsky, R. (2021). Unique, shared, and dominant brain activation in Visual Word Form Area and Lateral Occipital Complex during reading and picture naming. BioRxiv, 2021.09.20.461111. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.20.461111

Andrushko, J. W., Gould, L., Renshaw, D. W., Ekstrand, C., Hortobágyi, T., Borowsky, R., & Farthing, J. P. (2021). High force unimanual handgrip contractions increase ipsilateral sensorimotor activation and functional connectivity. Neuroscience, 452, 111-125.

Ekstrand, C., Neudorf, J., Kress, S., & Borowsky, R. (2020). Structural connectivity predicts functional activation during lexical and sublexical reading. NeuroImage, 218, 117008.

Neudorf, J., Ekstrand, C., Kress, S., & Borowsky, R. (2020). Brain structural connectivity predicts brain functional complexity: DTI derived centrality accounts for variance in fractal properties of fMRI signal. Neuroscience, 438, 1-8. 

Gould, L., Wu, A., Tellez, J., Neudorf, J., Kress, S., Gibb, K., Ekstrand, C., Dabirzadeh, H., Ahmed, S. U., & Borowsky, R. (2020). Atypical language localization in right temporal lobe epilepsy: An fMRI case report. Epilepsy and Behavior Case Reports, 14, 100364.

Neudorf, J., Ekstrand, C., Kress, S., & Borowsky, R. (2019). FMRI of Shared-Stream Priming of Lexical Identification by Object Semantics Along the Ventral Visual Processing Stream. Neuropsychologia, 133, 107185. 

Ekstrand, C., Neudorf, J., Kress, S., & Borowsky, R. (2019). How words and space collide: Lexical and sublexical reading are reliant on separable reflexive and voluntary attention regions in hybrid tasks. Cortex, 121, 104-116.

Neudorf, J., Ekstrand, C., Kress, S., Neufeldt, A., & Borowsky, R. (2019). Interactions of reading and semantics along the ventral visual processing stream. Visual Cognition, 27, 21-37.

Ekstrand, C., Neudorf, J., Gould, L., Mickleborough, M., & Borowsky, R. (2019). Where words and space collide: The overlapping neural activation of lexical and sublexical reading with voluntary and reflexive spatial attention. Brain Research, 1709, 1-12.

Gould, L., Ekstrand, C., Fourney, D., Mickleborough, M., Ellchuk, T., & Borowsky, R. (2018). The effect of tumor neovasculature on functional magnetic resonance imaging blood oxygen level–dependent activation. World Neurosurgery, 115, 373-383.

Ekstrand, C., Jamal, A., Nguyen, R., Kudryk, A., Mann, J., & Mendez, I. (2018). Immersive and interactive virtual reality to improve learning and retention of neuroanatomy in medical students: A randomized controlled study. The Canadian Medical Association Journal: Open, 6, E103-E109.

Gould, L., Mickleborough, M.,Lorentz, E., Ekstrand, C., & Borowsky, R. (2018). A behavioral and fMRI examination of the effect of rhythm on reading Noun-Verb homographs aloud. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 33(7), 829-849.

Gould, L., Kelly, M. E., Mickleborough, M., Ekstrand, C., Brymer, K., Ellchuk, T., & Borowsky, R. (2017). Reorganized neural activation in motor cortex following subdural fluid collection: An fMRI and DTI study. Neurocase, 23(5-6), 292-303. 

Ekstrand, C., Neudorf, J., Lorentz, E., Gould, L., Mickleborough, M., & Borowsky, R. (2017). More than a feeling: The bidirectional convergence of semantic visual object and somatosensory processing. Acta Psychologica, 181, 1-9.

Gould, L., Mickleborough, M., Ekstrand, C., Lorentz, E., & Borowsky, R. (2017). Examining the neuroanatomical and the behavioural basis of the effect of basic rhythm on reading aloud. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 32(6), 724-742.

Lorentz, E., Ekstrand, C., Gould, L., & Borowsky, R. (2016). Red-hot: How colour and semantic temperature processing interact in a Stroop-like paradigm. Visual Cognition, 24(2), 173-181.

Lorentz, E., McKibbon, T., Ekstrand, C., Gould, L., Anton, K., & Borowsky, R. (2016). Disentangling genuine semantic Stroop effects in reading from contingency effects: On the need for two neutral baselines. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 386.

Ekstrand, C., Gould, L., Mickleborough, M., Lorentz, E., & Borowsky, R. (2016). When words and space collide: Spatial attention interacts with lexical access during word recognition. Visual Cognition, 24(3), 284-291.

Ekstrand, C., Mickleborough, M., Fourney, D., Gould, L., Lorentz, E., Ellchuk, T., & Borowsky, R. (2016). Pre-surgical integration of fMRI and DTI of the sensorimotor system in transcortical resection of a high-grade insular astrocytoma. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 10, 15.

Gould, L., Mickleborough, M., Wu, A., Tellez, J., Ekstrand, C., Lorentz, E., Ellchuk, T., Babyn, P., & Borowsky, R. (2016). Presurgical language mapping in epilepsy: Using fMRI of reading to identify functional reorganization in a patient with long-standing temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior Case Reports, 5, 6-10.

Mickleborough, M., Ekstrand, C., Gould, L., Lorentz, E., Ellchuk, T., Babyn, P., & Borowsky, R. (2016). Attentional network differences between migraineurs and non-migraine controls: fMRI evidence. Brain Topography, 29(3), 419-428.

Gould, L., McKibben, T., Ekstrand, C., Lorentz, E., & Borowsky, R. (2016). The beat goes on: The effect of rhythm on reading aloud. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2, 236-250. 

Mickleborough, M., Kelly, M., Gould, L., Ekstrand, C., Lorentz, E., Ellchuk, T., Babyn, P., & Borowsky, R. (2015). Inclusion of attentional networks in the pre-surgical neuroimaging assessment of a large deep hemispheric cavernous malformation: An FMRI case report. Cerebrovascular Diseases, 39(3-4), 202-208.

Lorentz, E., Gould, L., Mickleborough, M., Ekstrand, C., Boyer, M., Cheesman, J., & Borowsky, R. (2015). All in one fell Stroop: Examining consciousness thresholds with a multiple response paradigm. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 2(2), 111–133.

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