Murphy EF, Means A, Li C, Baez H, Gomez-Ramirez M. Strength of Activation and Temporal Dynamics of BioLuminescent-Optogenetics in Response to Systemic Injections of the Luciferin. Neuroimage. 2024 Oct 1:120882. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120882. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39362505.

Celinskis D, Black CJ, Murphy J, Barrios-Anderson A, Friedman NG, Shaner NC, Saab CY, Gomez-Ramirez M, Borton DA, Moore CI. Toward a brighter constellation: multiorgan neuroimaging of neural and vascular dynamics in the spinal cord and brain. Neurophotonics. 2024 Apr;11(2):024209. doi: 10.1117/1.NPh.11.2.024209. Epub 2024 May 7. PMID: 38725801; PMCID: PMC11079446.

Ahuja A, Shivkumar S, Feistritzer CM, Haefner RM, DeAngelis GC, Gomez-Ramirez M. Flexible Perception of Tactile Motion in Multiple Reference Frames. Under Review (2023)

Trzcinski NK, Hsiao SS, Connor EC, Gomez-Ramirez M. Multi-finger receptive field properties in primary somatosensory cortex: A revised account of the spatiotemporal integration functions of area 3b. Cell Reports 2023. 42(3):112176. PMID: 36867529

Gomez-Ramirez M, More IA, Hochgeschwender U, Moore CI. Regulation of cortical neurons using bioluminescent molecules: A biological method for driving optogenetic elements in-vivo. Journal of Neuroscience Research. J Neurosci Res. 2020. 98(3):471-480. PMID: 31544973

Trzcinski NK, Gomez-Ramirez M, Hsiao SS. Functional consequences of experience-dependent plasticity on tactile perception following perceptual learning. Eur J Neurosci. 2016 Sep;44(6):2375-86. doi: 10.1111/ejn.13343. Epub 2016 Aug 1. PubMed PMID: 27422224; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5028271.

Gomez-Ramirez M, Hysaj K, Niebur E. Neural mechanisms of ive attention in the somatosensory system. J Neurophysiol. 2016 Sep 1;116(3):1218-31. doi: 10.1152/jn.00637.2015. Epub 2016 Jun 22. Review. PubMed PMID: 27334956; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5018055.

Mahoney JR, Molholm S, Butler JS, Sehatpour P, Gomez-Ramirez M, Ritter W, Foxe JJ. Keeping in touch with the visual system: spatial alignment and multisensory integration of visual-somatosensory inputs. Front Psychol. 2015;6:1068. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01068. eCollection 2015. PubMed PMID: 26300797; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4525670.

Kim SS, Gomez-Ramirez M, Thakur PH, Hsiao SS. Multimodal Interactions between Proprioceptive and Cutaneous Signals in Primary Somatosensory Cortex. Neuron. 2015 Apr 22;86(2):555-66. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.03.020. Epub 2015 Apr 9. PubMed PMID: 25864632; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4409561.

Gomez-Ramirez M, Trzcinski NK, Mihalas S, Niebur E, Hsiao SS. Temporal correlation mechanisms and their role in feature ion: a single-unit study in primate somatosensory cortex. PLoS Biol. 2014 Nov;12(11):e1002004. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002004. eCollection 2014 Nov. PubMed PMID: 25423284; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4244037.

Abeles IY, Gomez-Ramirez M. Impairments in background and event-related alpha-band oscillatory activity in patients with schizophrenia. PLoS One. 2014;9(3):e91720. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091720. eCollection 2014. PubMed PMID: 24646909; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3960158.

Pei YC, Chang TY, Lee TC, Saha S, Lai HY, Gomez-Ramirez M, Chou SW, Wong AM. Cross-modal sensory integration of visual-tactile motion information: instrument design and human psychophysics. Sensors (Basel). 2013 May 31;13(6):7212-23. doi: 10.3390/s130607212. PubMed PMID: 23727955; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3715219.

Gomez-Ramirez M, Kelly SP, Molholm S, Sehatpour P, Schwartz TH, Foxe JJ. Oscillatory sensory ion mechanisms during intersensory attention to rhythmic auditory and visual inputs: a human electrocorticographic investigation. J Neurosci. 2011 Dec 14;31(50):18556-67. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2164-11.2011. PubMed PMID: 22171054; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3298747.

Leitman DI, Sehatpour P, Garidis C, Gomez-Ramirez M, Javitt DC. Preliminary Evidence of Pre-Attentive Distinctions of Frequency-Modulated Tones that Convey Affect. Front Hum Neurosci. 2011;5:96. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00096. eCollection 2011. PubMed PMID: 22053152; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3205480.

Leavitt VM, Molholm S, Gomez-Ramirez M, Foxe JJ. "What" and "where" in auditory sensory processing: a high-density electrical mapping study of distinct neural processes underlying sound object recognition and sound localization. Front Integr Neurosci. 2011;5:23. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2011.00023. eCollection 2011. PubMed PMID: 21734870; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3124831.

Ross LA, Molholm S, Blanco D, Gomez-Ramirez M, Saint-Amour D, Foxe JJ. The development of multisensory speech perception continues into the late childhood years. Eur J Neurosci. 2011 Jun;33(12):2329-37. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07685.x. Epub 2011 May 25. PubMed PMID: 21615556; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3127459.

Katz R, De Sanctis P, Mahoney JR, Sehatpour P, Murphy CF, Gomez-Ramirez M, Alexopoulos GS, Foxe JJ. Cognitive control in late-life depression: response inhibition deficits and dysfunction of the anterior cingulate cortex. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2010 Nov;18(11):1017-25. doi: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e3181d695f2. PubMed PMID: 20808083; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3770530.

Lucan JN, Foxe JJ, Gomez-Ramirez M, Sathian K, Molholm S. Tactile shape discrimination recruits human lateral occipital complex during early perceptual processing. Hum Brain Mapp. 2010 Nov;31(11):1813-21. doi: 10.1002/hbm.20983. PubMed PMID: 20162607; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6870567.

Kelly SP, Gomez-Ramirez M, Foxe JJ. The strength of anticipatory spatial biasing predicts target discrimination at attended locations: a high-density EEG study. Eur J Neurosci. 2009 Dec;30(11):2224-34. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06980.x. Epub 2009 Nov 20. PubMed PMID: 19930401.

De Sanctis P, Gomez-Ramirez M, Sehatpour P, Wylie GR, Foxe JJ. Preserved executive function in high-performing elderly is driven by large-scale recruitment of prefrontal cortical mechanisms. Hum Brain Mapp. 2009 Dec;30(12):4198-214. doi: 10.1002/hbm.20839. PubMed PMID: 19572310; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6871224.

Gomez-Ramirez M, Kelly SP, Montesi JL, Foxe JJ. The effects of L-theanine on alpha-band oscillatory brain activity during a visuo-spatial attention task. Brain Topogr. 2009 Jun;22(1):44-51. doi: 10.1007/s10548-008-0068-z. Epub 2008 Oct 9. PubMed PMID: 18841456.

Kelly SP, Gomez-Ramirez M, Foxe JJ. Spatial attention modulates initial afferent activity in human primary visual cortex. Cereb Cortex. 2008 Nov;18(11):2629-36. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhn022. Epub 2008 Mar 4. PubMed PMID: 18321874; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2733320.

Kelly SP, Gomez-Ramirez M, Montesi JL, Foxe JJ. L-theanine and caffeine in combination affect human cognition as evidenced by oscillatory alpha-band activity and attention task performance. J Nutr. 2008 Aug;138(8):1572S-1577S. doi: 10.1093/jn/138.8.1572S. PubMed PMID: 18641209.

Senkowski D, Gomez-Ramirez M, Lakatos P, Wylie GR, Molholm S, Schroeder CE, Foxe JJ. Multisensory processing and oscillatory activity: analyzing non-linear electrophysiological measures in humans and simians. Exp Brain Res. 2007 Feb;177(2):184-95. doi: 10.1007/s00221-006-0664-7. Epub 2006 Oct 19. PubMed PMID: 17051387.

Gomez-Ramirez M, Higgins BA, Rycroft JA, Owen GN, Mahoney J, Shpaner M, Foxe JJ. The deployment of intersensory ive attention: a high-density electrical mapping study of the effects of theanine. Clin Neuropharmacol. 2007 Jan-Feb;30(1):25-38. doi: 10.1097/01.WNF.0000240940.13876.17. PubMed PMID: 17272967.

Senkowski D, Molholm S, Gomez-Ramirez M, Foxe JJ. Oscillatory beta activity predicts response speed during a multisensory audiovisual reaction time task: a high-density electrical mapping study. Cereb Cortex. 2006 Nov;16(11):1556-65. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhj091. Epub 2005 Dec 15. PubMed PMID: 16357336; NIHMSID:NIHMS26312.

Molholm S, Sehatpour P, Mehta AD, Shpaner M, Gomez-Ramirez M, Ortigue S, Dyke JP, Schwartz TH, Foxe JJ. Audio-visual multisensory integration in superior parietal lobule revealed by human intracranial recordings. J Neurophysiol. 2006 Aug;96(2):721-9. doi: 10.1152/jn.00285.2006. Epub 2006 May 10. PubMed PMID: 16687619; NIHMSID:NIHMS26311.

Book Chapters

Hsiao S, Gomez-Ramirez M (2014). Neural Coding of Tactile Perception. In The Cognitive Neurosciences (pp. 375-388). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

 Hsiao S, Gomez-Ramirez M (2013). Neural Mechanisms of Tactile Perception. In Handbook of Psychology (pp. 206-239). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

 Hsiao S, Gomez-Ramirez M (2011). Touch. In Neurobiology of Sensation and Reward (pp. 141-159). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

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