Dr Jon Simons
University position
University Lecturer
Dr Jon Simons is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students.
Departments
Department of Experimental Psychology
Institutes
Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute
Home page
http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/memlab
Research Theme
Interests
Our research investigates the role of brain regions such as the frontal, medial temporal, and parietal lobes in human memory.
This work involves inter-relating cognitive hypotheses with evidence from functional neuroimaging of healthy volunteers and from examining the effects of neurological and psychiatric disorders, and normal aging, on memory abilities.
Research in the laboratory uses a number of methods, including behavioural studies, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electrophysiology (MEG/EEG), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
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Research Focus
Keywordsmemory executive function prefrontal fMRI neuropsychology |
Clinical conditionsAlzheimer's disease Amnesia Dementia Schizophrenia Stroke Traumatic brain injury |
Equipment
Behavioural analysis
Electroencephalography (EEG)
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
Neuropsychological testing
Collaborators
CambridgeValerie Brandt James Thom | United KingdomPaul Burgess Web: http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/executi... Chris Frith Web: http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Frith/ Sam Gilbert Web: http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/executi... InternationalAndrew Budson Web: http://people.bu.edu/abudson/ Ian Dobbins Web: http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/... Wilma Koutstaal Web: http://www.psych.umn.edu/people/... Ingrid Olson Web: http://www.temple.edu/cnl/ind... Dan Schacter Web: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dsweb/ |
Key publications
Simons JS, Peers PV, Hwang DY, Ally BA, Fletcher PC, Budson AE (2008), “Is the parietal lobe necessary for recollection in humans?” Neuropsychologia 46(4):1185-91 Details
Simons JS, Davis SW, Gilbert SJ, Frith CD, Burgess PW (2006), “Discriminating imagined from perceived information engages brain areas implicated in schizophrenia” NeuroImage 32:696-703 Details
Simons JS, Gilbert SJ, Owen AM, Fletcher PC, Burgess PW (2005), “Distinct roles for lateral and medial anterior prefrontal cortex in contextual recollection” Journal of Neurophysiology 94:813-820 Details
Simons JS, Spiers HJ (2003), “Prefrontal and medial temporal lobe interactions in long-term memory.” Nat Rev Neurosci 4(8):637-48 Details
Publications
2009
Hirst W, Phelps EA, Buckner RL, Budson AE, Cuc A, Gabrieli JD, Johnson MK, Lustig C, Lyle KB, Mather M, Meksin R, Mitchell KJ, Ochsner KN, Schacter DL, Simons JS, Vaidya CJ (2009), “Long-term memory for the terrorist attack of September 11: flashbulb memories, event memories, and the factors that influence their retention.” J Exp Psychol Gen 138(2):161-76 Details
Simons JS, Peers PV, Mazuz YS, Berryhill ME, Olson IR (2009), “Dissociation Between Memory Accuracy and Memory Confidence Following Bilateral Parietal Lesions.” Cereb Cortex Details
2008
Ally BA, Simons JS, McKeever JD, Peers PV, Budson AE (2008), “Parietal contributions to recollection: Electrophysiological evidence from aging and patients with parietal lesions.” Neuropsychologia 46(7):1800-1812 Details
Simons JS (2008), “Constraints on cognitive theories from neuroimaging studies of source memory” Neuroimaging and Psychological Theories of Human Memory
Simons JS, Henson RN, Gilbert SJ, Fletcher PC (2008), “Separable forms of reality monitoring supported by anterior prefrontal cortex.” J Cogn Neurosci 20(3):447-57 Details
Simons JS, Mayes AR (2008), “What is the parietal lobe contribution to human memory?” Neuropsychologia 46(7):1739-1742 Details
Turner MS, Simons JS, Gilbert SJ, Frith CD, Burgess PW (2008), “Distinct roles for lateral and medial rostral prefrontal cortex in source monitoring of perceived and imagined events.” Neuropsychologia 46(5):1442-53 Details
2007
Budson AE, Simons JS, Waring JD, Sullivan AL, Hussoin T, Schacter DL (2007), “Memory for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks one year later in patients with Alzheimer's disease, patients with mild cognitive impairment, and healthy older adults.” Cortex 43(7):875-88 Details
Burgess PW, Dumontheil I, Gilbert SJ, Okuda J, Schölvinck ML, Simons JS (2007), “On the role of rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10) in prospective memory” Prospective Memory: Cognitive, Neuroscience, Developmental, and Applied Perspectives 235-260
Gilbert SJ, Dumontheil I, Simons JS, Frith CD, Burgess PW (2007), “Comment on "Wandering minds: the default network and stimulus-independent thought".” Science 317(5834):43; author reply 43 Details
Gilbert SJ, Williamson IDM, Dumontheil I, Simons JS, Frith CD, Burgess PW (2007), “Distinct regions of medial rostral prefrontal cortex supporting social and nonsocial functions” Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2:217-226
Simons JS, Graham KS (2007), “Amnesia” Encyclopedia of Stress 158-160
Simons JS, Tetlow-Noell CE (2007), “Why life speeds up as you get older: How memory shapes our past” Psychological Medicine 37:906-907
2006
Burgess PW, Gilbert SJ, Okuda J, Simons JS (2006), “Rostral prefrontal brain regions (area 10): A gateway between inner thought and the external world?” Disorders of Volition 373-396
Gilbert SJ, Simons JS, Frith CD, Burgess PW (2006), “Performance-related activity in medial rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10) during low-demand tasks.” J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 32(1):45-58 Details
Gilbert SJ, Spengler S, Simons JS, Frith CD, Burgess PW (2006), “Differential functions of lateral and medial rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10) revealed by brain-behavior associations.” Cereb Cortex 16(12):1783-9 Details
Gilbert SJ, Spengler S, Simons JS, Steele JD, Lawrie SM, Frith CD, Burgess PW (2006), “Functional specialization within rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10): a meta-analysis.” J Cogn Neurosci 18(6):932-48 Details
Simons JS, Schölvinck ML, Gilbert SJ, Frith CD, Burgess PW (2006), “Differential components of prospective memory? Evidence from fMRI.” Neuropsychologia 44(8):1388-97 Details
2005
Burgess PW, Simons JS (2005), “Theories of frontal lobe executive function: Clinical applications” Effectiveness of Rehabilitation for Cognitive Deficits 211-231
Burgess PW, Simons JS, Coates LM, Channon S (2005), “The search for specific planning processes” The Cognitive Psychology of Planning 199-227
Burgess PW, Simons JS, Dumontheil I, Gilbert SJ (2005), “The gateway hypothesis of rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10) function” Measuring the Mind: Speed, Control, and Age 217-248
Honey GD, Honey RA, Sharar SR, Turner DC, Pomarol-Clotet E, Kumaran D, Simons JS, Hu X, Rugg MD, Bullmore ET, Fletcher PC (2005), “Impairment of specific episodic memory processes by sub-psychotic doses of ketamine: the effects of levels of processing at encoding and of the subsequent retrieval task.” Psychopharmacology (Berl) 181(3):445-57 Details
Maril A, Simons JS, Weaver JJ, Schacter DL (2005), “Graded recall success: an event-related fMRI comparison of tip of the tongue and feeling of knowing.” Neuroimage 24(4):1130-8 Details
Simons JS, Owen AM, Fletcher PC, Burgess PW (2005), “Anterior prefrontal cortex and the recollection of contextual information.” Neuropsychologia 43(12):1774-83 Details
Simons JS, Verfaellie M, Hodges JR, Lee AC, Graham KS, Koutstaal W, Schacter DL, Budson AE (2005), “Failing to get the gist: reduced false recognition of semantic associates in semantic dementia.” Neuropsychology 19(3):353-61 Details
2004
Budson AE, Simons JS, Sullivan AL, Beier JS, Solomon PR, Scinto LF, Daffner KR, Schacter DL (2004), “Memory and emotions for the september 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in patients with Alzheimer's disease, patients with mild cognitive impairment, and healthy older adults.” Neuropsychology 18(2):315-27 Details
Dobbins IG, Simons JS, Schacter DL (2004), “fMRI evidence for separable and lateralized prefrontal memory monitoring processes.” J Cogn Neurosci 16(6):908-20 Details
Pierce BH, Simons JS, Schacter DL (2004), “Aging and the seven sins of memory” Recent Advances in Psychology and Aging 15:1-40
Simons JS, Dodson CS, Bell D, Schacter DL (2004), “Specific- and partial-source memory: effects of aging.” Psychol Aging 19(4):689-94 Details
2003
Graham KS, Johnsrude IS, Simons JS (2003), “The temporal lobe” Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences 4:486-495
Maril A, Simons JS, Mitchell JP, Schwartz BL, Schacter DL (2003), “Feeling-of-knowing in episodic memory: an event-related fMRI study.” Neuroimage 18(4):827-36 Details
Simons JS, Koutstaal W, Prince S, Wagner AD, Schacter DL (2003), “Neural mechanisms of visual object priming: evidence for perceptual and semantic distinctions in fusiform cortex.” Neuroimage 19(3):613-26 Details
2002
Lee AC, Graham KS, Simons JS, Hodges JR, Owen AM, Patterson K (2002), “Regional brain activations differ for semantic features but not categories.” Neuroreport 13(12):1497-501 Details
Nestor PJ, Graham KS, Bozeat S, Simons JS, Hodges JR (2002), “Memory consolidation and the hippocampus: further evidence from studies of autobiographical memory in semantic dementia and frontal variant frontotemporal dementia.” Neuropsychologia 40(6):633-54 Details
Simons JS, Graham KS, Hodges JR (2002), “Perceptual and semantic contributions to episodic memory: Evidence from semantic dementia and Alzheimer's disease” J Mem Lang 47:197-213
Simons JS, Verfaellie M, Galton CJ, Miller BL, Hodges JR, Graham KS (2002), “Recollection-based memory in frontotemporal dementia: implications for theories of long-term memory.” Brain 125(Pt 11):2523-36 Details
2001
Simons JS, Graham KS, Galton CJ, Patterson K, Hodges JR (2001), “Semantic knowledge and episodic memory for faces in semantic dementia.” Neuropsychology 15(1):101-14 Details
Simons JS, Graham KS, Owen AM, Patterson K, Hodges JR (2001), “Perceptual and semantic components of memory for objects and faces: a pet study.” J Cogn Neurosci 13(4):430-43 Details
2000
Graham KS, Simons JS, Pratt KH, Patterson K, Hodges JR (2000), “Insights from semantic dementia on the relationship between episodic and semantic memory.” Neuropsychologia 38(3):313-24 Details
Simons JS, Graham KS (2000), “New learning in semantic dementia: Implications for cognitive and neuroanatomical models of long-term memory” Revue de Neuropsychologie 10:199-215
Simons JS, Graham KS (2000), “Amnesia” Encyclopedia of Stress 176-178
Simons JS, Hodges JR (2000), “Transient global amnesia: A review of the recent literature” Neurocase 6:211-230
1999
Simons JS, Graham KS, Hodges JR (1999), “What does semantic dementia reveal about the functional role of the perirhinal cortex?” Trends Cogn Sci 3(7):248-249 Details
Simons JS, Lambon Ralph MA (1999), “The auditory agnosias” Neurocase 5:379-406