Steven L. Bressler, Ph.D.

Professor

 

Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences

Department of Psychology

Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Florida Atlantic University

 

http://www.ccs.fau.edu/~bressler/

 

 

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

 

Journal Articles

 

Richter CG, Coppola R, Bressler SL. Top-down facilitation of sensory processing in primary visual cortex by extrastriate cortex. 2013, submitted.

 

Salazar RF, Dotson NM, Bressler SL, Gray CM. Content specific fronto-parietal synchronization during visual working memory. Science, 2012, 338:1097-1100.

 

Meehan T, Bressler SL. Neurocognitive networks: findings, models, and theory. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 2012, 36:2232-2247.

 

Ledberg A, Montagnini A, Coppola R, Bressler SL. Reduced variability of ongoing and evoked cortical activity leads to improved behavioral performance. PLoS One, 2012, 7(8):e43166.

 

Tang W, Bressler SL, Sylvester CM, Shulman GL, Corbetta M. Measuring Granger causality between cortical regions from voxelwise fMRI BOLD signals with LASSO. PLoS Computational Biology, 2012, 8(5):e1002513.

 

Fuster JM, Bressler SL. Cognit activation: a mechanism enabling temporal integration in working memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2012, 16:207-218.

 

Simpson GV, Weber DL, Dale CL, Pantazis D, Bressler SL, Leahy RM, Luks TL. Dynamic activation of frontal, parietal and sensory regions underlying anticipatory visual spatial attention. Journal of Neuroscience, 2011, 31:13880-13889.

 

Bressler SL, Seth AK. Wiener-Granger causality: A well established methodology. Neuroimage, 2011, 58:323-329.

 

Bressler SL, Menon, V. Large-scale brain networks in cognition: emerging methods and principles. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2010, 14:277-290.

 

Hui HB, Pantazis D, Bressler SL, Leahy RM. Identifying true cortical interactions in MEG using the nulling beamformer. Neuroimage, 2010, 49:3161-3174.

 

Kozma R, Bressler SL, Perlovsky L, Venayagamoorthy GK. Advances in neural networks research: an introduction. Neural Networks, 2009, 22:489-490.

 

Bressler SL. The sensory component of tonic motor control. Clinical Neurophysiology, 2009, 120:1035-1036.

 

Bressler SL, Richter CG. Large-scale cortical network coordination: a proposal for the neural substrate of expectancy, New Mathematics and Natural Computation, 2009, 5:47-59.

 

Chen Y, Bressler SL, Ding M. Dynamics on networks: assessing functional connectivity with Granger causality. Comput. Math. Organ. Theor., 2009, 15:329-350.

 

Xu L, Stoica P, Li J, Bressler SL, Shao X, Ding M. ASEO: A method for the simultaneous estimation of single-trial event-related potentials and ongoing brain activities. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 2009, 56:111-121.

 

Bressler SL. Neurocognitive networks. Scholarpedia, 2008, 3(2):1567.

 

Bressler SL, Tang W, Sylvester C, Shulman G, Corbetta M. Top-down control of human visual cortex by frontal and parietal cortex in anticipatory visual spatial attention. J. Neurosci., 2008, 28:10056-10061.

 

Cui J, Xu L, Bressler SL, Ding M, Liang H. BSMART: a MATLAB/C toolbox for analysis of multichannel neural time series. Neural Netw., 2008, 21:1094-1104.

 

Zhang Y, Chen Y, Bressler SL, Ding M. Response preparation and inhibition: the role of the cortical sensorimotor beta rhythm. Neuroscience, 2008, 156:238-246.

 

Zhang Y, Wang X, Bressler SL, Chen Y, Ding M. Prestimulus cortical activity is correlated with speed of visuomotor processing. J. Cogn. Neuro., 2008, 20:1915-1925.

 

Bressler SL, Richter CG, Chen YH, Ding M. Cortical functional network organization from autoregressive modeling of local field potential oscillations. Stat. Med., 2007, 26:3875-3885.

 

Wang X, Chen Y, Bressler SL, Ding M. Granger causality between multiple interdependent neurobiological time series: blockwise versus pairwise methods. Int. J. Neur. Sys., 2007, 17:71-78.

 

Ledberg A, Bressler SL, Ding M, Coppola R, Nakamura R. Large-scale visuomotor integration in the cerebral cortex. Cereb. Cort., 2007, 17:44-62.

 

Bressler SL, Tognoli E. Operational principles of neurocognitive networks. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2006, 60(2):139-148.

 

Chen Y, Bressler SL, Knuth KH, Truccolo W, Ding M. Stochastic modeling of neurobiological time series: power, coherence, Granger causality, and separation of evoked responses from ongoing activity. Chaos, 2006, 16(2):26113.

 

Knuth KH, Shah AS, Truccolo W, Ding M, Bressler SL, Schroeder CE. Differentially variable component analysis (dVCA): Identifying multiple evoked components using trial-to-trial variability. J. Neurophysiol., 2006, 95:3257-3276.

 

Chen Y, Bressler SL, Ding M. Frequency decomposition of conditional Granger causality and application to multivariate neural field potential data. J. Neurosci. Meth., 2006, 150:228-237.

 

Liang H, Bressler SL, Buffalo EA, Desimone R, Fries P. Empirical mode decomposition of field potentials from macaque V4 in visual spatial attention. Biol. Cybern., 2005, 92:380-392.

 

Liang H, Bressler SL, Desimone R, Fries P. Empirical model decomposition: A method for analyzing neural data. Neurocomp., 2005, 65-66:801-807.

 

Brovelli A, Ding M, Ledberg A, Chen Y, Nakamura R, Bressler SL. Beta oscillations in a large-scale sensorimotor cortical network: directional influences revealed by Granger causality. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2004, 101:9849-9854.

 

Bressler SL. Inferential constraint sets in the organization of visual expectation. Neuroinformatics, 2004, 2(2):227-238.

 

Shah AS, Bressler SL, Knuth KH, Ding M, Mehta AD, Ulbert I, Schroeder CE. Neural dynamics and the fundamental mechanisms of event-related brain potentials. Cereb. Cort., 2004, 14:476-483.

 

Bressler SL. Context rules. Commentary on W.A. Phillips & S.M. Silverstein, 'Convergence of biological and psychological perspectives on cognitive coordination in schizophrenia'. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2003, 26(1):85.

 

Bressler SL. Cortical coordination dynamics and the disorganization syndrome in schizophrenia. Neuropsychopharmacology, 2003, 28:S35-S39.

 

Truccolo WA, Knuth KH, Shah A, Bressler SL, Schroeder CE, Ding M. Estimation of single-trial multi-component ERPs: Bayesian foundation and applications. Biol. Cybern., 2003, 89:426-438.

 

Liang H, Bressler SL, Ding M, Desimone R, Fries P. Temporal dynamics of attention-modulated neuronal synchronization in macaque V4. Neurocomp., 2003, 52-54:481-487.

 

Bressler SL. Understanding cognition through large-scale cortical networks. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2002, 11:58-61.

 

Liang H, Bressler SL, Ding M, Truccolo WA, Nakamura R. Synchronized activity in prefrontal cortex during anticipation of visuomotor processing. NeuroReport, 2002, 13:2011-2016.

 

Truccolo WA, Ding M, Knuth KH, Nakamura R, Bressler SL. Trial-to-trial variability of cortical evoked responses: implications for the analysis of functional connectivity. Clin. Neurophysiol., 2002, 113:206-226.

 

Bressler SL, Kelso JAS. Cortical coordination dynamics and cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2001, 5:26-36.

 

Kaminski M, Ding M, Truccolo-Filho W, Bressler SL. Evaluating causal relations in neural systems: Granger causality, directed transfer function and statistical assessment of significance. Biol. Cybern., 2001, 85:145-157.

 

Liang H, Ding M, Bressler SL. Temporal dynamics of information flow in the cerebral cortex. Neurocomp., 2001, 38-40:1429-1435.

 

Liang H, Ding M, Bressler SL. The detection of cognitive state transitions by stability changes in event-related cortical field potentials. Neurocomp., 2001, 38-40:1423-1428.

 

Truccolo WA, Ding M, Bressler SL. Variability and interdependence of local field potentials: effects of gain modulation and nonstationarity. Neurocomp., 2001, 38-40:983-992.

 

Liang H, Ding M, Nakamura R, Bressler SL. Causal influences in primate cerebral cortex during visual pattern discrimination. NeuroReport, 2000, 11:2875-2880.

 

Liang H, Ding M, Bressler SL. On the tracking of dynamic functional relations in monkey cerebral cortex. Neurocomp., 2000, 32-33:891-896.

 

Truccolo WA, Ding M, Bressler SL. Stability constraints for oscillatory neural networks. Neurocomp., 2000, 32-33:585-589.

 

Ding M, Bressler SL, Yang W, Liang H. Short-time spectral analysis of cortical event-related potentials by adaptive multivariate autoregressive (AMVAR) modeling: Data preprocessing, model validation, and variability assessment. Biol. Cybern., 2000, 83:35-45.

 

Bressler SL, Ding M, Yang W. Investigation of cooperative cortical dynamics by multivariate autoregressive modeling of event-related local field potentials. Neurocomp., 1999, 26-27:625-631.

 

Mayville JM, Bressler SL, Fuchs A, Kelso JAS. Spatiotemporal reorganization of electrical activity in the human brain associated with a phase transition in rhythmic auditory-motor coordination, Exp. Brain Res., 1999, 127:371-381.

 

Bressler SL. Interareal synchronization in the visual cortex. Behavioral Brain Research, 1996, 76:37-49.

 

Menon V, Freeman WJ, Cutillo BA, Desmond JE, Ward MF, Bressler SL, Laxer KD, Barbaro N, Gevins AS. Spatio-temporal correlations in human gamma band electrocorticograms, Electroenceph. clin. Neurophysiol., 1996, 98:89-102.

 

Bressler SL. Large-scale cortical networks and cognition. Brain Research Reviews, 1995, 20:288-304.

 

Wallenstein GV, Kelso JAS, Bressler SL. Phase transitions in spatiotemporal patterns of brain activity and behavior, Physica D, 1995, 84:626-634.

 

Gevins A, Cutillo B, Desmond J, Ward M, Bressler S, Barbero N, Laxer K. Subdural grid recordings of distributed neocortical networks involved with somatosensory discrimination. Electroenceph. clin. Neurophysiol., 1994, 92:282-290.

 

Gevins A, Cutillo B, DuRousseau D, Le J, Leong H, Martin N, Smith ME, Bressler S, Brickett P, McLaughlin J, Barbero N, Laxer K. Imaging the spatiotemporal dynamics of cognition with high-resolution evoked potential methods. Human Brain Mapping, 1994, 1:101-116.

 

Bressler SL, Coppola R, Nakamura R. Episodic multiregional cortical coherence at multiple frequencies during visual task performance. Nature, 1993, 366:153-156.

 

Kelso JAS, Bressler SL, Buchanan S, DeGuzman GC, Ding M, Fuchs A, Holroyd T. A phase transition in human brain and behavior. Phys. Lett. A, 1992, 169:134-144.

 

Bressler SL. The gamma wave: a cortical information carrier? Trends in Neurosciences, 1990, 13:161‑162.

 

Gevins AS, Bressler SL, Cutillo BA, Illes J, Miller JC, Stern J, Jex HR. Effects of prolonged mental work on functional brain topography. Electroenceph. clin. Neurophysiol., 1990, 76:339-350.

 

Gevins AS, Bressler SL, Morgan NH, Cutillo BA, White RM, Greer D, Illes J. Event‑related covariances during a bimanual visuomotor task. I. Methods and analysis of stimulus‑ and response‑locked data. Electroenceph. clin. Neurophysiol., 1989, 74:58‑75.

 

Gevins AS, Cutillo BA, Bressler SL, Morgan NH, White RM, Illes J, Greer D. Event‑related covariances during a bimanual visuomotor task. II. Preparation and feedback. Electroenceph. clin. Neurophysiol., 1989, 74:147‑160.

 

Bressler SL. Changes in electrical activity of rabbit olfactory bulb and cortex to conditioned odor stimulation. Behavioral Neuroscience, 1988, 102:740‑747.

 

Bressler SL. Functional relation of olfactory bulb and cortex: I. Spatial variation of bulbo‑cortical interdependence. Brain Research, 1987, 409:285‑293.

 

Bressler SL. Functional relation of olfactory bulb and cortex: II. Model for driving of cortex by bulb. Brain Research, 1987, 409:294‑301.

 

Gevins A, Morgan N, Bressler S, Cutillo B, White R, Illes J, Greer D, Doyle J, Zeitlin G. Human neuroelectric patterns predict performance accuracy. Science, 1987, 235:580‑585.

 

Gevins A, Morgan N, Bressler S, Doyle J, Cutillo B. Improved ERP estimation via pattern classification. Electroenceph. clin. Neurophysiol., 1986, 64:177‑186.

 

Gevins A, Doyle J, Cutillo B, Schaffer R, Tannehill R, Bressler S. Neurocognitive pattern analysis of a visuospatial task: rapidly‑shifting foci of evoked correlations between electrodes. Psychophysiology, 1985, 22:32‑43.

 

Bressler SL. Spatial organization of EEGs from olfactory bulb and cortex. Electroenceph. clin. Neurophysiol., 1984, 57:270‑276.

 

Gevins A, Schaffer R, Doyle J, Cutillo B, Tannehill R, Bressler S. Shadows of thought: shifting lateralization of human brain electrical patterns during brief visuo‑motor task. Science, 1983, 220:97‑99.

 

Bressler SL, Freeman WJ. Frequency analysis of olfactory system EEG in cat, rabbit, and rat. Electroenceph. clin. Neurophysiol., 1980, 50:19‑24.

Book Chapters

 

Bressler SL. Event-related potentials of the cerebral cortex. In: RP Vertes, RW Stackman (Eds.) Electrophysiological Recording Methods, Humana Press, New York, 2009, in press.

 

Bressler SL. The formation of global neurocognitive state. In: LI Perlovsky, R Kozma (Eds.) Neurodynamics of Higher-Level Cognition and Consciousness, Springer, New York, 2007, pp. 61-72.

 

Bressler SL, McIntosh AR. The role of neural context in large-scale neurocognitive network operations. In: VK Jirsa, AR McIntosh (Eds.) Springer Handbook on Brain Connectivity, Springer, New York, 2007, pp. 403-419.

 

Bressler SL, Richter CG, Chen Y, Ding M. Top-down cortical influences in visual expectation. IEEE Proceedings of the 2006 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2006, pp. 384-390.

 

Ding M, Chen Y, Bressler SL. Granger causality: basic theory and application to neuroscience. In: B Schelter, M Winterhalder, J Timmer (Eds.) Handbook of Time Series Analysis: Recent Theoretical Developments and Applications, Wiley-VCH, Berlin, 2006, pp. 437-460.

 

Bressler SL, Ding M. Event-related potentials. In: M Akay (Ed.) Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering, Wiley, Hoboken NJ, 2006, dx.doi.org/ 10.1002/9780471740360.ebs0455.

 

Ding M, Knuth K, Chen Y, Bressler SL, Schroeder CE. Coping with trial-to-trial variability of event related signals: a Bayesian inference approach. Proceedings of the 13th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2005), Antalya, 2005.

 

Bressler SL. Event-related potentials. In: MA Arbib (Ed.) The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2002, pp. 412-415.

 

Truccolo WA, Knuth KH, Bressler SL, Ding M. Bayesian analysis of single trial cortical event-related components. In: RL Fry (Ed.) Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering, American Institute of Physics, Melville NY, 2002, pp. 64-73.

 

Knuth KH, Truccolo WA, Bressler SL, Ding M. Separation of multiple evoked responses using differential amplitude and latency variability. In: TJ Sejnowski (Ed.) Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation, San Diego, 2001.

 

Bressler SL. The dynamic manifestation of cognitive structures in the cerebral cortex. In: A Riegler, M Peschl, A von Stein (Eds.) Understanding Representation in the Cognitive Sciences, Kluwer Academic, New York, 1999, pp. 121-126.

 

Bressler SL, Ding M. Coordination dynamics in large-scale cortical networks. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 1999, pp. 113-116.

 

Bressler SL. The dynamic manifestation of cognitive structures in the cerebral cortex. In: A Riegler & M Peschl (Eds.) International Workshop on New Trends in Cognitive Science, Austrian Society for Cognitive Science Technical Report 97-01, 1997, 37-41.

 

Bressler SL. Large-scale integration of cortical information processing. In: MA Pastor, J Artieda (Eds.) Time, Internal Clocks, and Movement, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1996, 53-68.

 

Bressler SL, Coppola R, Nakamura R. Broad-band synchronization in monkey neocortex. In: W Ditto, L Pecora, M Shlesinger, M Spano, S Vohra (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Experimental Chaos, World Scientific, Singapore, 1995, 226-232.

 

Bressler SL. Dynamic self-organization in the brain as observed by transient cortical coherence. In: K Pribram (Ed.) Origins: Brain and Self-Organization, Lawrence Erlbaum, New York, 1994, 536-545.

 

Bressler SL, Nakamura RK. Inter-area synchronization in rhesus macaque neocortex during a visual pattern discrimination task. In: F Eeckman, J Bower (Eds.) Computation and Neural Systems. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA., 1993, 515-522.

 

Anderson CM, Holroyd T, Bressler SL, Nakamura R, Selz KA, Mandell AJ. 1/f-like spectra in cortical and subcortical brain structures: a possible marker of behavioral state-dependent self-organization. In: P Handel, A Chung (Eds.) Noise in Physical Systems and 1/f Noise. AIP, New York, 1993, 737-740.

 

Barczys C, Freeman WJ, Bressler SL. Quantitative search for stimulus-specific patterns in the human electroencephalogram (EEG) during a somatosensory task. In: F Eeckman (Ed.) Analysis and Modeling of Neural Systems. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA., 1992, 55-60.

 

Bressler SL, Freeman WJ. Mechanisms of chaotic dynamics in the olfactory system shown by simultaneous recordings from bulb and cortex. In: D Duke, W Pritchard (Eds.) Measuring Chaos in the Human Brain. World Scientific, Singapore, 1991, 6-16.

 

Kelso JAS, Bressler SL, Buchanan S, DeGuzman GC, Ding M, Fuchs A, Holroyd T. Cooperative and critical phenomena in the human brain revealed by multiple SQUIDS. In: D Duke, W Pritchard (Eds.) Measuring Chaos in the Human Brain. World Scientific, Singapore, 1991, 97-112.

 

Gevins AS, Bressler SL. Functional topography of the human brain. In: G Pfurtscheller, FH Lopes da Silva (Eds.) Functional Brain Imaging. Hans Huber Publishers, Bern, 1988, 99‑116.

 

Gevins AS, Cutillo BA, Bressler SL, Morgan NH, Fowler‑White RM, Greer DS, Illes J, Doyle JC, Tannehill RS, Zeitlin GM. Neurophysiological precursors of accurate visuomotor performance. NATO Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development. Trondheim (Norway), 1988, 432: 25.

 

Gevins AS, Morgan NH, Bressler SL, Greer DS, Costales B, Smith K, Faucette R. Fourth generation neurocognitive pattern analysis system. NATO Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development. Trondheim (Norway), 1988, 432: 2.

 

Gevins AS, Cutillo BA, Fowler‑White RM, Illes J, Bressler SL. Neurophysiological patterns of operational fatigue: Preliminary results. NATO Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development. Trondheim (Norway), 1988, 432: 22.

 

Gevins AS, Cutillo BA, Morgan NH, Bressler SL, Illes J, White RM, Greer DS. Event‑related covariances of a bimanual visuomotor task. In: R Johnson, J Rohrbaugh, R Parasuraman (Eds.) Current Trends in Event Related Potential Research. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1988.