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Penny A. MacDonald

Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario
Verified email at lhsc.on.ca
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Interdimensional interference in the Stroop effect: Uncovering the cognitive and neural anatomy of attention

CM MacLeod, PA MacDonald - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2000 - cell.com
In the classic Stroop effect, naming the color of an incompatible color word (eg the word RED
printed in green ink; say, ‘green') is much slower and more error-prone than is naming the …

Memory and confidence in memory judgments among individuals with obsessive compulsive disorder and non-clinical controls

PA Macdonald, MM Antony, CM Macleod… - Behaviour research and …, 1997 - Elsevier
The present study investigated episodic memory functioning in: (1) obsessive compulsive
disorder (OCD) patients with primarily checking symptoms (ie checkers); (2) OCD patients …

[HTML][HTML] Differential effects of dopaminergic therapies on dorsal and ventral striatum in Parkinson's disease: implications for cognitive function

PA MacDonald, O Monchi - Parkinson's Disease, 2011 - hindawi.com
Cognitive abnormalities are a feature of Parkinson's disease (PD). Unlike motor symptoms
that are clearly improved by dopaminergic therapy, the effect of dopamine replacement on …

The influence of attention at encoding on direct and indirect remembering

PA MacDonald, CM MacLeod - Acta Psychologica, 1998 - Elsevier
The relation between attention at encoding and direct (ie, recognition) versus indirect (ie,
rapid reading) remembering was investigated. In Experiments 1 and 2, color of print indicated …

Parkin-mediated monoubiquitination of the PDZ protein PICK1 regulates the activity of acid-sensing ion channels

…, AR Ase, CXQ Chen, PA MacDonald… - Molecular biology of …, 2007 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Mutations in the parkin gene result in an autosomal recessive juvenile-onset form of Parkinson's
disease. As an E3 ubiquitin-ligase, parkin promotes the attachment of ubiquitin onto …

The effect of dopamine therapy on ventral and dorsal striatum-mediated cognition in Parkinson's disease: support from functional MRI

PA MacDonald, AA MacDonald, KN Seergobin… - Brain, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The central aim of our study was to elucidate functions mediated by the ventral and dorsal
striatum, respectively, to better understand the cognitive effects of dopamine replacement in …

The role of parietal cortex in awareness of self-generated movements: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study

PA MacDonald, T Paus - Cerebral Cortex, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Awareness of self-generated movements arises from comparing motor plans, and the
accompanying (hypothetical) efference copy, with the visual and proprioceptive consequences of …

[HTML][HTML] Social symptoms of Parkinson's disease

…, K Van Hedger, M Anello, PA MacDonald - Parkinson's …, 2020 - hindawi.com
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is typically well recognized by its characteristic motor symptoms (eg,
bradykinesia, rigidity, and tremor). The cognitive symptoms of PD are increasingly being …

[HTML][HTML] Dorsal striatum mediates cognitive control, not cognitive effort per se, in decision-making: An event-related fMRI study

…, NM Hiebert, KN Seergobin, AM Owen, PA MacDonald - NeuroImage, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective Whether the dorsal striatum (DS) mediates cognitive control or cognitive effort per
se in decision-making is unclear given that these effects are highly correlated. As the …

Subcortical regional morphology correlates with fluid and spatial intelligence

M Burgaleta, PA MacDonald, K Martínez… - Human brain …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Neuroimaging studies have revealed associations between intelligence and brain morphology.
However, researchers have focused primarily on the anatomical features of the cerebral …