Contact

diane@ebire.org

Appointments

  • Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Neurology, University of California, Davis
  • Faculty Member, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis
  • Faculty Member, Neuroscience Graduate Group, University of California, Davis

Education

  • Ph.D., Neuroscience 1991, University of California, San Diego
  • B.A., Biology 1984, Wake Forest University

People

Diane Swick

Diane Swick, Ph.D.

Research Neuropsychologist

Publications

  • Justus, T., Yang, J., Larsen, J., de Mornay Davies, P., & Swick, D. (2009). An event-related potential study of cross-modal morphological and phonological priming. Journal of Neurolinguistics 22: 584-604.

  • Ashley, V. & Swick, D. (2009). Consequences of emotional stimuli: Age differences on pure and mixed blocks of the emotional Stroop. Behavioral and Brain Functions. 5:14.

  • Swick, D., Ashley, V., & Turken, A.U. (2008). Left inferior frontal cortex is critical for response inhibition. BMC Neuroscience 9:102.

  • Turken, A.U. & Swick, D. (2008). The effect of orbitofrontal lesions on the error-related negativity. Neuroscience Letters 441: 7-10.

  • Justus, T., Larsen, J., de Mornay Davies, P., & Swick, D. (2008). Interpreting dissociations between regular and irregular past-tense morphology: Evidence from event-related potentials. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience 8: 178?194.

  • Lincoln, A.E., Long, D.L., Swick, D., Larsen, J., & Baynes, K. (2008). Hemispheric asymmetries in the perceptual representations of words. Brain Research 1188: 112-121.

  • Swick, D., Senkfor, A., & Van Petten, C. (2006). Source memory retrieval is affected by aging and prefrontal lesions: behavioral and ERP evidence. Brain Research 1107: 161-176.

  • Justus, T., Larsen, J., de Mornay Davies, P., & Swick, D. (2005). Event-related potentials demonstrate prolonged N400 priming effects for English irregular verbs. Brain and Language 95: 64-65.

  • Swick, D. (2005). ERPs in neuropsychological populations. In: T.C. Handy (Ed.), Event-Related Potentials: A Methods Handbook (pp. 299-322). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

  • Swick, D. (2006). ERPs in neuropsychological populations(In Press). In: T.C. Handy (Ed.), Event-Related Potentials: A Methods Handbook (pp. 299-322). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

  • Ashley, V., Vuilleumier, P., & Swick, D. (2004). Time course and specificity of event-related potentials to emotional expressions. NeuroReport 15: 211-216.

  • Swick, D. & Turken, A.U. (2004). Focusing on the anterior cingulate cortex: Effects of focal lesions on cognitive performance. In: M.I. Posner (Ed.), Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention (pp. 393-406). New York: Guilford Press.

  • Swick, D., Miller, K.M., & Larsen, J. (2004). Auditory repetition priming is impaired in pure alexic patients. Brain and Language 89: 543-553.

  • Larsen, J., Baynes, K., & Swick, D. (2004). Right hemisphere reading mechanisms in a global alexic patient. Neuropsychologia 1459-1476.

  • Swick, D. & Turken, A.U. (2004). Errors can be dissociated from conflict: Implications for theories of performance monitoring. In: M. Ullsperger & M. Falkenstein (Eds.) Errors, Conflicts, and the Brain. Current Opinions on Performance Monitoring (pp. 195-204). Leipzig: MPI of Cognitive Neuroscience.

  • Miller, K.M. & Swick, D. (2003). Orthography influences the perception of speech in alexic patients. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 15: 981-990.

  • Turken, A.U., Vuilleumier, P., Mathalon, D.H., Swick, D., & Ford, J.M. (2003). Are impairments of action monitoring and executive control true dissociative dysfunctions in patients with schizophrenia? American Journal of Psychiatry 160: 1881-1883.

  • Swick, D. & Jovanovich, J. (2002). Anterior cingulate cortex and the Stroop task: Neuropsychological evidence for topographic specificity. Neuropsychologia 40: 1240-1253.

  • Swick, D. & Turken, A.U. (2002). Dissociation between conflict detection and error monitoring in the human anterior cingulate cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99: 16354-16359.

  • Thompson-Schill, S.L., Jonides, J., Marshuetz, C., Smith, E.E., D'Esposito, M., Kan, I.P., Knight, R.T., & Swick, D. (2002). Effects of frontal lobe damage on interference effects in working memory. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience 2: 109-120.

  • Vuilleumier, P., Hazeltine, E., Sagiv, N., Poldrack, R.A., Swick, D., Rafal, R.D., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2001). Neural fate of seen and unseen faces in visuospatial neglect: A combined event-related fMRI and ERP study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98: 3495-3500.

  • Swick, D. & Knight, R.T. (1999). Contributions of prefrontal cortex to recognition memory: electrophysiological and behavioral evidence. Neuropsychology 13: 155-170.

  • Knight, R.T., Staines, W.R., Swick, D. & Chao, L. (1999). Prefrontal cortex regulates inhibition and excitation in distributed neural networks. Acta Psychologica 101: 159-178.

  • Turken, A.U. & Swick, D. (1999). Response selection in the human anterior cingulate cortex. Nature Neuroscience 2: 920-924.

  • Swick, D. (1998). Effects of prefrontal lesions on lexical processing and repetition priming: an ERP study. Cognitive Brain Research 7: 143-157.

  • Swick, D. & Knight, R.T. (1998). Cortical lesions and attention. In: R. Parasuraman (Ed.), The Attentive Brain (pp. 143-162). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

  • Swick, D. (1998). Left temporal-parietal lesions impair repetition priming for nonwords, but not words. Brain and Language 65: 144-146.

  • Thompson-Schill, S.L., Swick, D., Farah, M.J., D'Esposito, M., Kan, I.P., & Knight, R.T. (1998). Verb generation in patients with focal frontal lesions: a neuropsychological test of neuroimaging findings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95: 15855-15860.

  • Swick, D. & Knight, R.T. (1997). Event-related potentials differentiate the effects of aging on word and nonword repetition in explicit and implicit memory tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 23: 123-142.

  • Swick, D. & Knight, R.T. (1996). Is prefrontal cortex involved in cued recall? A neuropsychological test of PET findings. Neuropsychologia 34: 1019-1028.

  • Swick, D. & Knight, R.T. (1995). Contributions of right inferior temporal-occipital cortex to visual word and nonword priming. NeuroReport 7: 11-16.

  • Swick, D., Pineda, J.A., & Foote, S.L. (1994). Effects of systemic clonidine on auditory event-related potentials in squirrel monkeys. Brain Research Bulletin 33: 79-86.

  • Swick, D., Kutas, M., & Neville, H. (1994). Localizing the neural generators of event-related brain potentials. In: A. Kertesz (Ed.), Localization and Neuroimaging in Neuropsychology (pp. 73-121). San Diego: Academic Press.

  • Swick, D., Pineda, J.A., Schacher, S., & Foote, S.L. (1994). Locus coeruleus neuronal activity in awake monkeys: relationship to auditory P300-like potentials and spontaneous EEG. Experimental Brain Research 101: 86-92.

  • Pineda, J.A. & Swick, D. (1992). Visual P3-like potentials in squirrel monkey: Effects of a noradrenergic agonist. Brain Research Bulletin 28: 485-491.

  • Pineda, J.A., Swick, D., & Foote, S.L. (1991). Noradrenergic and cholinergic influences on the genesis of P3-like potentials. In: C.H.M. Brunia (Ed.), Event-Related Brain Research (EEG Suppl. 42: 165-172). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

  • Segal, D.S., Kuczenski, R.T., & Swick, D. (1989). Audiogenic stress response: Behavioral characteristics and underlying monoamine mechanisms. J. Neural Transmission 75: 31-50.

  • Pineda, J.A., Holmes, T.C., Swick, D., & Foote, S.L. (1989). Brain-stem auditory evoked potentials in squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus). Electroenceph. clin. Neurophysiol. 73: 532-543.