publications

Dede, AJO, Cross, ZR, Gray, SM, Kelly, JP, Yin, Q, Vahidi, P, Asano, E, Schuele, SU, Rosenow, JM, Wu, JY, Lam, SK, Raskin, JS, Lin, JJ, Kim McManus, O, Sattar, S, Shaikhouni, A, King-Stephens, D, Weber, PB, Laxer, KD, Brunner, P, Roland, JL, Saez, I, Girgis, F, Knight, RT, Ofen, N, Johnson, EL. Episodic memory involves transient and sparse connectivity aligned to both internal and external events. PLoS Biology 23 (2025). PDF | data & code

Cross, ZR, Gray, SM, Dede, AJO, Rivera, YM, Yin, Q, Vahidi, P, Rau, EMB, Cyr, C, Holubecki, AM, Asano, E, Lin, JJ, Kim McManus, O, Sattar, S, Saez, I, Girgis, F, King-Stephens, D, Weber, PB, Laxer, KD, Schuele, SU, Rosenow, JM, Wu, JY, Lam, SK, Raskin, JS, Chang, EF, Shaikhouni, A, Brunner, P, Roland, JL, Braga, RM, Knight, RT, Ofen, N, Johnson, EL. The development of aperiodic neural activity in the human brain. Nature Human Behaviour (2025). PDF | data & code | press release

Sazesh, S, Farrokhi, A, Shalchyan, V, Johnson, EL, Daliri, MR. Distinct neural patterns for various information in working memory: A brain connectivity study. PLoS ONE 20 (2025). PDF | data

Rau, EMB, Fellner, M-C, Heinen, R, Zhang, H, Yin, Q, Vahidi, P, Kobelt, M, Asano, E, Kim McManus, O, Sattar, S, Lin, JJ, Auguste, KI, Chang, EF, King-Stephens, D, Weber, PB, Laxer, KD, Knight, RT, Johnson, EL, Ofen, N, Axmacher, N. Reinstatement and transformation of memory traces for recognition. Science Advances 11 (2025). PDF | data & code | press release

Anguera, JA, Jones, KT, Johnson, EL, Zanto, T, eds. Technology and brain health. Frontiers for Young Minds (2024). PDF

Ueda, R, Sakakura, K, Mitsuhashi, T, Sonoda, M, Firestone, E, Kuroda, N, Kitazawa, Y, Uda, H, Luat, AF, Johnson, EL, Ofen, N, Asano, E. Cortical and white matter substrates supporting visuospatial working memory. Clinical Neurophysiology 162 (2024). PDF | data & code

Yin, Q, Johnson, EL, Ofen, N. Neurophysiological mechanisms of cognition in the developing brain: Insights from intracranial EEG studies. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 64 (2023). PDF

Johnson, EL, Knight, RT. How can iEEG be used to study inter-individual and developmental differences? in Intracranial EEG: A Guide for Cognitive Neuroscientists (ed N Axmacher) (Springer, Cham, 2023). PDF

Johnson, EL, Lin, JJ, King-Stephens, D, Weber, PB, Laxer, KD, Saez, I, Girgis, F, D’Esposito, M, Knight, RT, Badre, D. A rapid theta network mechanism for flexible information encoding. Nature Communications 14 (2023). PDF | data & code | press release

Jones, KT, Johnson, EL, Gazzaley, A, Zanto, T. Structural and functional network mechanisms of rescuing cognitive control in aging. NeuroImage 262 (2022). PDF

Johnson, EL, Chang, WK, Dewar, CD, Sorensen, D, Lin, JJ, Solbakk, A-K, Endestad, T, Larsson, PG, Ivanovic, J, Meling, TR, Scabini, D, Knight, RT. Orbitofrontal cortex governs working memory for temporal order. Current Biology 32 (2022). PDF

Johnson, EL, Yin, Q, O’Hara, NB, Tang, L, Jeong, J-W, Asano, E, Ofen, N. Dissociable oscillatory theta signatures of memory formation in the developing brain. Current Biology 32 (2022). PDF | data & code | press release

Johnson, EL, Arciniega, H, Jones, KT, Kilgore-Gomez, A, Berryhill, ME. Individual predictors and electrophysiological signatures of working memory enhancement in aging. NeuroImage 250 (2022). PDF | data & code

Johnson, EL, Jones, KT. Longitudinal indices of human cognition and brain structure. Journal of Neuroscience Research 99 (2021). PDF

Davoudi, S, Parto Dezfouli, M, Knight, RT, Daliri, MR, Johnson, EL. Prefrontal lesions disrupt posterior alpha-gamma coordination of visual working memory representations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 33 (2021). PDF | data & code

Parto Dezfouli, M, Davoudi, S, Knight, RT, Daliri, MR, Johnson, EL. Prefrontal lesions disrupt oscillatory signatures of spatiotemporal integration in working memory. Cortex 138 (2021). PDF | data & code

Yin, Q, Johnson, EL, Tang, L, Auguste, KI, Knight, RT, Asano, E, Ofen, N. Direct brain recordings reveal occipital cortex involvement in memory development. Neuropsychologia 148 (2020). PDF

Johnson, EL, Kam, JWY, Tzovara, A, Knight, RT. Insights into human cognition from intracranial EEG: A review of audition, memory, internal cognition, and causality. Journal of Neural Engineering 17 (2020). PDF

Jones, KT, Johnson, EL, Tauxe, ZS, Rojas, DC. Modulation of auditory gamma-band responses using transcranial electrical stimulation. Journal of Neurophysiology 123 (2020). PDF | data & code

Jones, KT, Johnson, EL, Berryhill, ME. Frontoparietal theta-gamma interactions track working memory enhancement with training and tDCS. NeuroImage 211 (2020). PDF

Ofen, N, Tang, L, Yu, Q, Johnson, EL. Memory and the developing brain: From description to explanation with innovation in methods. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 36 (2019). PDF

Johnson, EL, King-Stephens, D, Weber, PB, Laxer, KD, Lin, JJ, Knight, RT. Spectral imprints of working memory for everyday associations in the frontoparietal network. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 12 (2019). PDF | data & code

Johnson, EL, Tang, L, Yin, Q, Asano, E, Ofen, N. Direct brain recordings reveal prefrontal cortex dynamics of memory development. Science Advances 4 (2018). PDF | press release

Radecki, DZ, Johnson, EL, Brown, AK, Meshkin, NT, Perrine, SA, Gow, A. Corticohippocampal dysfunction in the OBiden mouse model of primary oligodendrogliopathy. Nature Scientific Reports 8 (2018). PDF

Johnson, EL, Adams, JN, Solbakk, A-K, Endestad, T, Larsson, PG, Ivanovic, J, Meling, TR, Lin, JJ, Knight, RT. Dynamic frontotemporal systems process space and time in working memory. PLoS Biology 16 (2018). PDF | data & code

Johnson, EL, Dewar, CD, Solbakk, A-K, Endestad, T, Meling, TR, Knight, RT. Bidirectional frontoparietal oscillatory systems support working memory. Current Biology 27 (2017). PDF | data & code

Vendetti, MS, Starr, A, Johnson, EL, Modavi, K, Bunge, SA. Eye movements reveal optimal strategies for analogical reasoning. Frontiers in Psychology 8 (2017). PDF

Foo, F, Johnson, EL. Music: The last thing we forget. Frontiers for Young Minds 5 (2017). PDF

Johnson, EL, Helfrich, RF. How brain cells make memories. Frontiers for Young Minds 4 (2016). PDF

Johnson, EL, Knight, RT. Intracranial recordings and human memory. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 31 (2015). PDF

Vendetti, MS, Johnson, EL, Lemos, CJ, Bunge, SA. Hemispheric differences in relational reasoning: Novel insights based on an old technique. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9 (2015). PDF

Johnson, EL, Miller Singley, AT, Peckham, AD, Johnson, SL, Bunge, SA. Task-evoked pupillometry provides a window into the development of short-term memory capacity. Frontiers in Psychology 5 (2014). PDF

Johnson, EL, Munro, SE, Bunge, SA. Development of neural networks supporting goal-directed behavior, in Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology: Developing Cognitive Control Processes: Mechanisms, Implications, and Interventions, Vol. 37 (eds PD Zelazo, M Sera) (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014). PDF

Gallo, DA, Korthauer, LE, McDonough, IM, Teshale, S, Johnson, EL. Age-related positivity effects and autobiographical memory detail: Evidence from a past/future source memory task. Memory 19 (2011). PDF

Gallo, DA, Foster, KT, Johnson, EL. Elevated false recollection of emotional pictures in young and older adults. Psychology & Aging 24 (2009). PDF

Gallo, DA, Meadow, NG, Johnson, EL, Foster, KT. Deep levels of processing elicit a distinctiveness heuristic: Evidence from the criterial recollection task. Journal of Memory & Language 58 (2008). PDF