Contact

juliana@ebire.org

Education

• Ph.D., Psychology 1997
  University of California, Berkeley
• M.A., Psychology 1993
  University of California, Berkeley
• B.S., Psychobiology 1991
  University of California, Los Angeles

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Juliana V. Baldo, PhD.

Research Neuropsychologist

Research Interests

My interests have centered on research with normal, psychiatric, and neurologic participants in the realm of cognitive neuroscience. Specifically, one theme of my research has been the investigation of so-called "executive functions," or those abilities often associated with the frontal lobes. More recently, I have been investigating the role that language plays in mediating such executive processes. In my work, I have utilized techniques such as MRI, PET, and lesion studies to better understand these cognitive processes as well as their neurologic underpinnings. My approach has been shaped by the emergence of the field of cognitive neuroscience, which aims to determine the neuroanatomical substrates of cognition and thus requires an understanding of issues in both cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

Publications

• Baldo, J. V., Bunge S. A., Wilson S. M., Dronkers N. F. (in press). Is relational reasoning dependent on language? A voxel-based lesion symptom mapping study. Brain and Language.

• Turken, A. U., Herron, T. J., Kang, X.-J., O'Connor, L. E., Sorensen, D., Baldo, J. V., & Woods, D. L. (in press). Multimodal surface-based morphometry reveals diffuse cortical cortical atrophy in traumatic brain injury. BMC Medical Imaging.

• Baldo, J. V., Arevalo, A., Wilkins, D. P., & Dronkers, N. (2009). Voxel-based lesion analysis of category-specific naming on the Boston Naming Test. Center for Research in Language Technical Report, University of California, San Diego, 21, 1-2.

• Yochim, B., Baldo, J., Kane, K., & Delis, D. (2009). D-KEFS Tower test performance in patients with lateral prefrontal cortex lesions: the importance of error monitoring. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 31, 658-663.

• Baldo, J., Ruff, R., & Patterson, J. (2008). Blast exposure and mild traumatic brain injury: a neuropsychologist’s perspective. California Speech-Hearing-Language Association Magazine.

• Baldo, J., Klosterman, E., & Dronkers, N. (2008). It's either a cook or a baker: patients with conduction aphasia get the gist but lose the trace. Brain and Language, 105, 134-140.

• Turken, A., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Bammer, R., Baldo, J., Dronkers, N., & Gabrieli, J. (2008). Cognitive processing speed and the structure of white matter pathways: convergent evidence from normal variation and lesion studies. NeuroImage.

• Baldo, J., Wilson, S., & Dronkers, N. (in press). Uncovering the neural substrates of language: a voxel-based lesion symptom mapping approach. To appear in M. Faust (Ed.): Advances in the Neural Substrates of Language: Toward a Synthesis of Basic Science and Clinical Research.

• Dronkers, N.F. & Baldo, J.V. (in press). Broca's Area. In P. Hogan (Ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences.

• Dronkers, N.F. & Baldo, J.V. (in press). Language: Aphasia. In L.R. Squire (Ed.) The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Oxford: Elsevier.

• Yochim, B., Baldo, J., Nelson, A., & Delis, D. C. (2007). D-KEFS Trail Making Test performance in patients with lateral prefrontal cortex lesions. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 13, 704-709.

• Baldo, J., & Dronkers, N. (2007). Neural correlates of arithmetic and language comprehension: a common substrate? Neuropsychologia, 45, 229-235.

• Baldo, J. V., Schwartz, S., Wilkins, D., & Dronkers, N. F. (2006). Role of frontal versus temporal cortex in verbal fluency as revealed by voxel-based lesion symptom mapping. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 12, 1-5.

• Baldo, J., & Dronkers, N. (2006). The Role of Inferior Parietal and Inferior Frontal Cortex in Working Memory. Neuropsychology, 20, 529-538.

• Ogar, J., Willock, S., Baldo, J, Wilkins, D., Ludy, C., & Dronkers, N. (2006). Clinical and anatomical correlates of apraxia of speech. Brain and Language, 97, 343-350.

• Katrina Keil, Juliana Baldo, Edith Kaplan, Joel Kramer, and Dean C. Delis (2005). Role of frontal cortex in inferential reasoning: Evidence from the Word Context Test. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society (2005), 11, 426-33.

• Baldo, J.V., Dronkers, N. F., Wilkins, D., Ludy, C., Raskin, P., & Kim, J. (2005). Is problem solving dependent on language? Brain and Language, 92, 240-250.

• Baldo, J. V., Delis, D., Wilkins, D., & Shimamura, A.P. (2004). Is it bigger than a breadbox? Performance of patients with prefrontal lesions on a new executive function test. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 19, 407-419.

• Schwartz, S., Baldo, J., Graves, R. & Brugger, P. (2003). Pervasive influence of semantics in letter and category fluency: a multidimensional approach. Brain and Language, 87, 400-411.

• Evered, L., Ruff, R., Baldo, J. V., & Isomura, A. (2003). Emotional risk factors and postconcussional disorder. Assessment, 10, 420-427.

• Baldo, J. V., Ludy, C., Wilkins, D., & Dronkers, N. (2002). Impaired category but preserved letter fluency in patients with severe Wernicke's aphasia. Brain and Language, 83, 26-28 (Abstract).

• Baldo, J. V., Delis, D., Kramer, J., & Shimamura, A. P. (2002). Memory performance on the California Verbal Learning Test-II: Findings from patients with focal frontal lesions. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 8, 539-546.

• Stricker, J. L., Brown, G. G., Wixted, J., Baldo, J. V., & Delis, D. (2002). New semantic and serial clustering indices for the California Verbal Learning Test-Second Edition: Background, rationale, and formulae. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 8, 425-435.

• Baldo, J. V. & Shimamura, A. P. (2002). Frontal lobes and memory. Handbook of Memory Disorders? nd Edition. John Wiley & Co: England.

• Baldo, J. V., Ahmad, L., & Ruff, R. (2002). Neuropsychological performance in patients following mold exposure. Applied Neuropsychology, 9, 193-202.

• Baldo, J. V., Elder, J., Larsen, J., Dronkers, N. F., Redfern, B., & Ludy, C. (2001). Is cognition intact in patients with aphasia? Brain and Language, 79, 64-67 (Abstract).

• Baldo, J. V., Shimamura, A. P., Delis, D., Kramer, J., & Kaplan, E. (2001). Design and verbal fluency in patients with frontal lobe lesions. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 7, 586-596.

• Dronkers, N. F. & Baldo, J. V. (2001). Neural basis of speech production. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, pp. 14875-14879.

• Schwartz, S. & Baldo, J. V. (2001). Distinct patterns of word retrieval in right and left frontal lobe patients: A multidimensional perspective. Neuropsychologia, 39, 1209-1217.

• Nordahl, T., Carter, C., Salo, R., Kraft, L., Baldo, J. V., Salamat, S., Robertson, L., & Kusubov, N. (2001). Anterior cingulate metabolism correlates with Stroop errors in paranoid schizophrenia patients. Neuropsychopharmacology, 25, 139-148.

• Baldo, J. V. & Shimamura, A. P. (2000). Spatial and color working memory in patients with lateral prefrontal cortex lesions. Psychobiology, 28, 156-167.

• Baldo, J. V., Shimamura, A. P., & Prinzmetal, W. (1998). Mapping symbols to response modalities: interference effects on Stroop-like tasks. Perception & Psychophysics, 60, 427-437.

• Ivry, R. B. & Baldo, J. V. (1992). Is the cerebellum involved in learning and cognition? Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2, 212-216.