Faculty

I am a new Assistant Professor at UCSD starting November 1st, 2006. I welcome contact from potential graduate students, research assistants and postdocs interested in cognitive neuroscience.

In the lab, we employ functional and structural MRI and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, and we study neuropsychological and neurological patients to address a range of questions related to cognitive control. I am interested, in particular, in how frontal/basal-ganglia circuits are engaged during cognition and in how pathology of these circuits relates to neuropsychiatric conditions such as impulse control disorders. 

Selected Publications

Aron, A.R & Poldrack, R.A (2006). Cortical and subcortical contributions to stop signal response inhibition: role of the subthalamic nucleus. Journal of Neuroscience 26, 2424-2433. 

Aron A.R, Shohamy D, Clark J, Myers C, Gluck M.A, Poldrack R.A (2004) Human midbrain sensitivity to cognitive feedback and uncertainty during classification learning. Journal of Neurophysiology.

Aron A.R, Robbins T.W & Poldrack R.A (2004). Inhibition and the right inferior frontal cortex. Trends Cognit Sci.

Aron A.R, Fletcher P.C, Bullmore E.T, Sahakian B.J, Robbins T.W (2003). Stop-signal inhibition disrupted by damage to right inferior frontal gyrus in humans. Nature Neuroscience 6(2):115-6.

Aron A.R, Watkins L, Sahakian B.J, Monsell S, Barker, R.A, Robbins T.W (2003). Task-Set Switching Deficits In Early-Stage Huntington's Disease: Implications For Basal Ganglia Function. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 15(5): 629-642.

Aron A.R, Dowson J, Sahakian B.J, Robbins T.W (2003). Methylphenidate improves response inhibition in adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Biological Psychiatry ; 54: 1465-1468.