Papers
Preprints
2026
2024
Successful retrieval is its own reward
Smith, D. E. and Long, N. M.
Published
2026
A shared brain state for episodic and semantic retrieval
Bair, M. B. and Long, N. M. Journal of Neuroscience, In press.
Repeated extrinsic rewards following retrieval practice facilitate later memory
Smith, D. E., Smith, A. M., Buras, H. B., and Long, N. M. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 33, 126.
Working memory demands modulate memory brain state engagement
Nguyen, DT and Long, N. M. iScience, In press.
2025
Evidence for a reactionary account of retrieval state initiation
Han, S. and Long, N. M. Imaging Neuroscience, 3.
Mnemonic brain state engagement is diminished in healthy aging
Moore, I. L., Smith, D. E., and Long, N. M. Neurobiology of Aging, 151.
2024
Prior memory responses modulate behavior and brain state engagement
Wheelock, J. R. and Long, N. M. Communications Psychology, 2, 121.
Response-locked theta dissociations reveal potential feedback signal following successful retrieval
Smith, D. E., Wheelock, J. R., and Long, N. M. Imaging Neuroscience, 2.
Semantic associations restore neural encoding mechanisms
Moore, I. L. and Long, N. M. Learning & Memory, 31(3).
Top-down task goals induce the retrieval state
Smith, D. E. and Long, N. M. Journal of Neuroscience, 44(31).
2023
Spatiotemporal dynamics of memory encoding and memory retrieval states
Hong, Y., Smith, D. E., Moore, I. L., and Long, N. M. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35(9).
The intersection of the retrieval state and internal attention
Long, N. M. Nature Communications, 14, 3861.
2022
Temporal context modulates encoding and retrieval of overlapping events
Smith, D. E., Moore, I. L., and Long, N. M. Journal of Neuroscience, 42(14), 3000–3010.
2021
Cortical representations of visual stimuli shift locations with changes in memory states
Long, N. M. and Kuhl, B. A. Current Biology, 31(5), 1119–1126.
2019
2018
Bottom-up and top-down factors differentially influence stimulus representations across large-scale attentional networks
Long, N. M. and Kuhl, B. A. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(10), 2495–2504.
2017
Contextually mediated spontaneous retrieval is specific to the hippocampus
Long, N. M., Sperling, M. R., Worrell, G. A., Davis, K. A., Lucas, T. H., Lega, B. C., Jobst, B. C., Sheth, S. A., Zaghloul, K., Stein, J. M., Das, S. R., Gorniak, R., and Kahana, M. J. Current Biology, 27, 1–6.
Modulation of task demands suggests that semantic processing interferes with the formation of episodic associations
Long, N. M. and Kahana, M. J. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43, 167–176.
2016
Hippocampal mismatch signals are modulated by the strength of neural predictions and their similarity to outcomes
Long, N. M., Lee, H., and Kuhl, B. A. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(50), 12677–12687.
2015
2014
Subsequent memory effect in intracranial and scalp EEG
Long, N. M., Burke, J. F., and Kahana, M. J. NeuroImage, 84, 488–494.
2010
Separable prefrontal cortex contributions to free recall
Long, N. M., Öztekin, I., and Badre, D. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(33), 10967–10976.