Anjan Chatterjee, M.D.
Representative Recent Publications:
Language/Space
Woods, A.J., Goksun, T., Chatterjee, A., Zelonis, S., Mehet, A., Smith, S. The development of organized visual search. Acta Psychologica 143 (2013) 191-199. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.03.008.
Gwenda L. Schmidt, Eileen R. Cardillo, Alexander Kranjec, Matthew Lehet, Page Widick, Anjan Chatterjee. Not all analogies are created equal: Associative and categorical analogy processing following brain damage. Neuropsychologia 50 (2012) 1372-1379.
Cardillo, E. R., Watson, C. E., Schmidt, G. L., Kranjec, A., Chatterjee, A., From Novel to Familiar: Tuning the Brain for Metaphors. NeuroImage 59 (2012) 3212-3221.
Watson, C., Chatterjee, A., A bilateral frontoparietal network underlies visuospatial analogical reasoning. NeuroImage 59 (2012) 2831-2838.
Watson, C., Chatterjee, A., The Functional Neuroanatomy of Actions. Neurology (2011) 76;1428 doi: 10.1212
Kranjec A, Chatterjee A. Are temporal concepts embodied? A challenge for cognitive neuroscience. Frontiers in Psychology. (2010) 1:240 p. 1-9. doi:10.3389
Wencil, EB, Aguirre, GK, Coslett, HB, & Chatterjee, A. Carving the clock at its component joints: Neural basis for interval timing. Journal of Neurophysiology (2010) 104(1):160-8.
Wencil, EB, Radoeva, P & Chatterjee, A. Size isn’t all that matters: noticing differences in size and temporal order. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2010) 4:171.
Cardillo E, Schmidt G, Kranjec A, Chatterjee A. Stimulus design is an obstacle course: 560 matched literal and metaphorical sentences for testing neural hypotheses about metaphor. Behavior Research Methods. (2010) 42(3): 651-664. doi:10.3758 (Supplemental Materials)
Kranjec A, Lehet M, Bromberger B, Chatterjee A. A Sinister Bias for Calling Fouls in Soccer. PLoS ONE. (2010) 5(7): e11667. doi:10.1371
Chatterjee, A. Disembodying Cognition. Language and Cognition. 2-1 (2010), 79-116
Kranjec, A., Cardillo, E., Schmidt, G., Chatterjee, A. Prescribed spatial prepositions influence how we think about time. Cognition. 114 (2010) 111–116
Amorapanth P, Widick P, Chatterjee A. The Neural Basis for Spatial Relations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.(2009) 22:8, pp. 1739-1753
Schmidt G, Kranjec A, Cardillo E, Chatterjee, A. Beyond Laterality: A Critical Assessment of Research on the Neural Basis of Methaphor. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. (2009) p. 1-5
Chen E, Widick P, Chatterjee A. Functional-anatomical organization of predicate metaphor processing. Brain & Language. 2008, 107: 194-202
Chatterjee A. The Neural Organization of Spatial Thought and Language. Seminars in Speech and Language. 2008, 29: 226-238
Wu D, Morganti A, Chatterjee A. Neural substrates of processing path and manner information of a moving event. Neuropsychologia. 2008, 46: 704-713
Wu D, Waller S, Chatterjee A. The functional neuroanatomy of thematic role and locative relational knowledge. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2007, 19(9): 1542-1555
Kable J, Chatterjee A. Specificity of action representations in occipitotemporal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2006, 18(9): 1498-1517.
Kable J, Kan IP, Wilson A, Thompson-Schill SL, Chatterjee A.Conceptual representations of action in the lateral temporal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2005, 17(12): 1855-1870.
Gottfried JA, Sancar F, Chatterjee A. Acquired mirror writing and reading: evidence for reflected graphemic representations. Neuropsychologia, 2003, 41: 96-107.
Kable J, Lease-Spellmeyer J, Chatterjee A. The neural substrate of action event knowledge. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2002, 14: 785-794.
Chatterjee A. Language and space: some interactions. Trends in Cognitive Science, 2001, 5: 55-61.
Chatterjee A, Southwood MH, Basilico D. Verbs, events and spatial representations. Neuropsychologia, 1999, 395-402.
Attention
Smith S E, Chatterjee A. Visuospatial Attention in Children. Archives of Neurology, 2008, 65(10):1284-1288.
Snyder J, Chatterjee A. The Frontal Cortex and Exogenous Attentional Orienting. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2006, 18(11):1913-1923.
Ricci R, Genero R, Colombatti S, Zampieri D, Chatterjee A. Visuomotor links in awareness: evidence from extinction. Neuroreport, 2005, 16(8): 843-847.
Snyder J, Chatterjee A. Spatial-temporal anisometries following right parietal damage. Neuropsychologia, 2004, 42: 1703-1708.
Ricci R, Chatterjee A. Sensory and response contributions to visual awareness in extinction. Experimental Brain Research, 2004, 157: 85-93.
Olson E, Stark M, Chatterjee A. Evidence for a unimodal somatosensory attention system. Experimental Brain Research, 2003, 151: 15-23.
Ricci R, Chatterjee A. Context and crossover in unilateral neglect. Neuropsychologia, 2001, 39: 1138-1143.
Vaishnavi S, Calhoun J, Chatterjee A. Binding personal and peripersonal space: Evidence from tactile extinction. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2001, 13: 181-189.
Chatterjee A, Ricci R, Calhoun J. Weighing the evidence for cross over in neglect . Neuropsychologia, 2000, 38: 1390-1397.
Aesthetics
van Buren B, Bromberger B, Potts D, Miller B, Chatterjee A. Changes in Painting Styles of Two Artists With Alzheimer's Disease. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 7 (2013) 89-94.
Chatterjee A. Where There be Dragons: Finding the Edges of Neuroaesthetics Aesthetics. 2011.
Chatterjee A. Neuroaesthetics; Growing Pains of a New Discipline Aesthetic Science. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Chatterjee A., Widick, P., Sternschein, R., Smith, W. B., Bromberger, B. The Assessment of Art Attributes. Empirical Studies of the Arts, Vol. 28(2) 207-222, 2010.
Chatterjee A, Bromberger B, Smith W, Sternschein R, Widick P. Artistic Production Following Brain Damage: A Study of Three Artists. LEONARDO, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 405Ð410, 2011.
Chatterjee A. Neuroaesthetics: A Coming of Age Story. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011, 23:1, pp. 53-62.
Chatterjee A., Thomas, A., Smith, S.E., and Aguirre, G.K. The Neural Response to Facial Attractiveness. Neuropsychology, 2008.
Chatterjee A., Hamilton R. H., Amorapanth P. X. Art produced by a patient with Parkinson's disease. Behavioural Neurology, 17 (2006) 105-108.
Chatterjee A. The Neuropsychology of visual art: conferring capacity. International Review of Neurobiology, 2006, 74: 39-49.
Wilson A. & Chatterjee A. The assessment of preference for balance: introducing a new test. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 2005, 23(2): 165-180.
Chatterjee A. The neuropsychology of visual artistic expression. Neuropsychologia, 2004, 42: 1568-1583.
Chatterjee A. Prospects for a Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Aesthetics, Bulletin of Psychology and the Arts, 2003, 4(2): 55-60.
Chatterjee A. Portrait profiles and the notion of agency. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 2002, 20: 33-41.
Neuro Ethics
Anjan Chatterjee. Drugs to build a better brain, Nature, (2013):496, 431-432.
Bree Chancellor & Anjan Chatterjee. Brain Branding: When Neuroscience and Commerce Collide, AJOB Neuroscience, (2011):2:4, 18-27
Hamilton R., Messing S., Chatterjee A.,Rethinking the thinking cap Neurology, 2011, 11 January, Vol 76
Chatterjee A. Correspondence: A medical view of potential adverse effects Nature, 2009, 29 January, Vol 338
Chatterjee A. Head to Head: Is it acceptable for people to take methylphenidate to enhance performance? British Medical Journal, 27 June 2009, Vol 338
Chatterjee A. Framing Pains, Pills, and Professors. Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2008, 2.2: 139-146.
Chatterjee A. Cosmetic Neurology and Cosmetic Surgery: Parallels, Predictions and Challenges. Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2007, 16: 129-137.
Chatterjee A. The promise and predicament of cosmetic neurology. Journal of Medical Ethics, 2006, 32: 110-113.
Chatterjee A. Cosmetic neurology: The controversy over enhancing movement, mentation, and mood. Neurology, 2004, 63: 968-974.
Miscellaneous
Fellows L, Stark M, Berg A, Chatterjee A. Patient Registries in Cognitive Neuroscience Research: Advantages, Challenges, and Practical Advice. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 20:6, pp. 1107-1113
Chatterjee A. A Madness to the Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2005, 17(6): 847-849.
Biran I, Giovannetti T, Buxbaum L, Chatterjee A. The alien hand syndrome: What makes the alien hand alien? Cognitive Neuropsychology, 2006, 23(4): 563-582.