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Liaw, G.J., Chia, T.T.Y., Obana, T., & Asplund, C.L. (preprint, 2022). Do temporal information processing limitations share cognitive causes? A correlational study of different attentional forms and modalities. Manuscript on PsyArXiv: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cznh9
Obana, T., Lim, S.W.H., & Asplund, C.L. (preprint, 2022). Surprise-induced deafness: Unexpected auditory stimuli capture attention to the detriment of subsequent detection. Manuscript on PsyArXiv: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/evfxa
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Leong, E.-L., Chua, Y.D., Obana, T., & Asplund C.L. (2026). Electrophysiological markers of surprise-induced failures of visual and auditory awareness. Consciousness and Cognition. Share link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1nivj3lcz4GhDj [free full text until 22 October 2026]
Tadeo, X., Seres, G., Wang, P., Sapanel, Y., Remus, A., Eyal, J.L., Lee, J.,K.-W., Chesterman, S., Savulesco, J., Wong, J.E.-L., Asplund, C.L., Stone, R.B., Tee, B.C.K., Shokri, R., Raczkowsak, M., Chong, L.M., Kwek, S.P., Blasiak, A., & Ho, D. (2026). Unique digital images as incentives in clinical trials: a digital shift toward meaningful participation. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 28: e88022. https://doi.org/10.2196/88022 [open access]
Kong, R., Xue, A., Cheng, J., Ooi, L.Q.R., Asplund, C.L., Tan, X.W., Goh, S.E., Lee, J.J., Koh, J.Z.J., Tan, R.S.Y., Singh, H.K.G., Tan, T.W.K., Wong, A.P.H., Webler, R.D., Fox, M.D., Siddiqi, S., Tor, P., & Yeo, B.T.T. (2026). Network-based near-scalp personalized brain stimulation targets. Imaging Neuroscience, 4: IMAG.a.1222. https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1222 [open access]
Sun, P., Wong, A.P.H., Asplund, C.L., & Derbyshire, S.W.G. (2025). Peripheral contributions to offset analgesia: Effects of stimulus duration, intensity, and location. PAIN, 166(12): e823-e829. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003745 [subscription access]
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Kwek, S.P., Leong, Q.Y., Lee, V.V., Lau, N.Y., Vijayakumar, S., Ng, W.Y., Rai, B., Raczkowska, M.N., Asplund, C.L., Remus, A., & Ho, D. (2025). Exploring the general acceptability and user experience of a digital therapeutic for cognitive training in a Singaporean older adult population: Qualitative study. JMIR Formative Research, 9 :e63568. https://doi.org/10.2196/63568 [open access]
Tan, G.C.-Y., Wang, Z. Tan, E.S.E., Ong, R.J.M., Ooi, P.E., Lee, D., Rane, N., Tey, S.Y.X., Chua, S.Y., Goh, N., Lam, G.W., Chakraborty, A., Yew, A.K.L., Ong, S.K., Kee, J.L., Lim, X.Y., Hashim, N., Lu, S.H., Meany, M., Tolomeo, S., Asplund, C.L., Tan, H.M., & Keppo, J. (2024). Transdiagnostic clustering of self-schema from self-referential judgements identifies subtypes of healthy personality and depression. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 17: 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2023.1244347 [open access]
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*Chen, J., *Tam, A., Kebets, V., Orban, C., Ooi, L.Q.R., Asplund, C.L., Marek, S., Dosenbach, N.U.F., Eickhoff, S.B., Bzdok, D., Holmes, A.J., & Yeo, B.T.T. (2022). Shared and unique brain network features predict cognitive, personality, and mental health scores in the ABCD study. Nature Communications, 13: 2217, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29766-8 [open access]
Wong, T.Y.Q., Yap, M.J., Obana, T., Asplund, C.L., & Teh, E.J. (2022). Brief report: Emotional picture and language processing in adults with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 52(1): 435-446. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-04920-1 [subscription access]
Asplund, C.L., Kannangath, A., Long, V.J.E., & Derbyshire, S.W.G. (2021). Offset analgesia is reduced on the palm and increases with stimulus duration. European Journal of Pain, 25(4): 790-800. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.1710 [subscription access]
Asplund, C.L., Obana, T., Bhatnagar, P., Koh, X.Q., & Perrault, S.T. (2020). It's all in the timing: Principles of transient distraction illustrated with vibrotactile tasks. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 27(3): 17, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1145/3386358 [free full text]
Wu, E.X.W., Liaw, G.J., Goh, R.Z., Chia, T.T.Y., Chee, A.M.J., Obana, T., Rosenberg, M.D., Yeo, B.T.T., & Asplund, C.L. (2020). Overlapping attentional networks yield divergent behavioral predictions across tasks: Neuromarkers for diffuse and focused attention? NeuroImage, 209: 116535, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116535 [open access]
Kee, T., Weiyan, C., Blasiak, A., Wang, P., Chong, J.K., Chen, J., Yeo, B.T.T., **Ho, D., & **Asplund, C.L. (2019). Harnessing CURATE.AI as a digital therapeutics platform by identifying N-of-1 learning trajectory profiles. Advanced Therapeutics, 2(9): 1900023, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1002/adtp.201900023 [subscription access]
Derbyshire, S.W.G., Long, V.J.E., & Asplund, C.L. (2019). Stepwise increasing sequential offsets cannot be used to deliver high thermal intensities with little or no perception of pain. Journal of Neurophysiology, 122(2): 729-736. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00007.2019 [free full text]
- Supplementary materials: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8143445
Tamber-Rosenau, B.J., Asplund, C.L., & Marois, R. (2018). Functional dissociation of the inferior frontal junction from the dorsal attention network in top-down attentional control. Journal of Neurophysiology, 120(5): 2498-2512. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00506.2018 [free full text]
Kong, D., Asplund, C.L., Ling, A., & Chee, M.W.L. (2015). Increased automaticity and altered temporal preparation following sleep deprivation. Sleep, 38(8): 1219-1227. https://doi.org/10.5665/sleep.4896 [subscription access] | (free full text at PubMed Central: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4507727/)
Yeo, B.T.T., Krienen, F.M., Eickhoff, S.B., Yaakub, S.N., Fox, P.T., Buckner, R.L., Asplund, C.L., & Chee, M.W.L. (2015). Functional specialization and flexibility in human association cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 25(10): 3654-3672. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu217 [subscription access] | (free full text at PubMed Central: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4598819/)
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Treadway, M.T., Buckholtz, J.W., Martin, J.W., Jan, K., Asplund, C.L., Ginther, M.R., Jones, O.D., & Marois, R. (2014). Corticolimbic gating of emotion-driven punishment. Nature Neuroscience, 17(9): 1270-1275. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3781 [subscription access] | (free full text via Scholarship@Vanderbilt Law: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty-publications/1423/)
Kong, D., Asplund, C.L., & Chee, M.W.L. (2014). Sleep deprivation reduces the rate of rapid picture processing. NeuroImage, 91: 169-176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.01.037 [open access]
Asplund, C.L., Fougnie, D., Zughni, S., Martin, J.W., & Marois, R. (2014). The attentional blink reveals the probabilistic nature of discrete conscious perception. Psychological Science, 25(3): 824-831. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797613513810 [subscription access] | (free full text at PubMed Central: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3954951/)
Ong, J.L., Asplund, C.L., Chia, T.T.Y., & Chee, M.W.L. (2013). Now you hear me, now you don't: Eyelid closures as an indicator of auditory task disengagement. Sleep, 36(12): 1867-1874. https://doi.org/10.5665/sleep.3218 [subscription access] | (free full text at PubMed Central: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3825436/)
Yaakub, S.N., Dorairaj, K., Poh, J.S., Asplund, C.L., Krishnan, R., Lee, J., Keefe, R.S.E., Adcock, R.A., Wood, S.J., & Chee, M.W.L. (2013). Preserved working memory and altered brain activation in persons at risk for psychosis. American Journal of Psychiatry, 170(11): 1297-1307. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.12081135 [free full text]
Asplund, C.L. & Chee, M.W.L. (2013). Time-on-task and sleep deprivation effects are evidenced in overlapping brain areas. NeuroImage, 82: 326-335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.119 [subscription access]
Wong, P., Peebles, J.K., Asplund, C.L., Collins, C.E., Herculano-Houzel, S., & Kaas, J.H. (2013). Faster scaling of auditory neurons in cortical areas relative to subcortical structures in primate brains. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 81(4): 209-218. https://doi.org/10.1159/000350709 [subscription access]
Wee, N., Asplund, C.L., & Chee, M.W.L. (2013). Sleep deprivation accelerates delay-related loss of visual short-term memories without affecting precision. Sleep, 36(6): 849-856. https://doi.org/10.5665/sleep.2710 [subscription access] | (free full text at PubMed Central: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3649827/)
Tamber-Rosenau, B.J., Dux, P.E., Tombu, M.N., Asplund, C.L., & Marois, R. (2013). Amodal processing in human prefrontal cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience, 33(28): 11573-11587. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4601-12.2013 [open access]
Tombu, M.N, Asplund, C.L., Dux, P.E., Godwin, D., Martin, J.W., & Marois, R. (2011). A unified attentional bottleneck in the human brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(33): 13426-31. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1103583108 [free full text]
Jepma, M., Deinum, J., Asplund, C.L., Rombouts, S.A.R.B., Tamsma, J.T., Tjeerdema, N., Spapé, M.M., Garland, E.M., Robertson, D., Lenders, J.W.M., & Nieuwenhuis, S. (2011). Neurocognitive function in dopamine-β-hydroxylase deficiency. Neuropsychopharmacology, 36(8): 1608-19. https://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2011.42 [free full text]
Asplund, C.L., Todd, J.J., Snyder, A.P., Gilbert, C.M., & Marois, R. (2010). Surprise-induced blindness: A stimulus-driven attentional limit to conscious perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 36(6): 1372-81. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020551 [subscription access] | (free full text at PubMed Central: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2998593/)
Fougnie, D., Asplund, C.L., & Marois, R. (2010). What are the units of storage in visual working memory? Journal of Vision, 10(12):27, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1167/10.12.27 [free full text]
Rogers, B.P., Katwal, S.B., Morgan, V.L., Asplund, C.L., & Gore, J.C. (2010). Functional MRI and multivariate autoregressive models. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 28(8): 1058-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mri.2010.03.002 [subscription access] | (free full text at PubMed Central: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2940955/)
Asplund, C.L., Todd, J.J., Snyder, A.P., & Marois, R. (2010). A central role for the lateral prefrontal cortex in goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention. Nature Neuroscience, 13(4): 507-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.2509 [subscription access] | (free full text at PubMed Central: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2847024/)
Dux, P.E., Asplund, C.L., & Marois, R. (2009). Both exogenous and endogenous target salience manipulations support resource depletion accounts of the attentional blink: A reply to Olivers et al. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16(1): 219-24. https://doi.org/10.3758/pbr.16.1.219 [subscription access] | (free full text at PubMed Central: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2699278/)
Buckholtz, J.W., Asplund, C.L., Dux, P.E., Zald, D.H., Gore, J.C., Jones, O.D., & Marois, R. (2008). The neural correlates of third-party punishment. Neuron, 60(5): 930-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2008.10.016 [free full text]
Dux, P.E., Asplund, C.L., & Marois, R. (2008). An attentional blink for sequentially presented targets: Evidence in favor of resource depletion accounts. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15(4): 809-13. https://doi.org/10.3758/pbr.15.4.809 [subscription access] | (free full text at PubMed Central: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3644218/)
*Dux, P.E., *Ivanoff, J.G., Asplund, C.L., & Marois, R. (2006). Isolation of a central bottleneck of information processing with time-resolved fMRI. Neuron, 52(6): 1109-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2006.11.009 [free full text]
Asplund, C.L. & Venkatesan, T.L. (2013). Communicating Science. (Interview edited by Lim, R.) Asia Pacific Biotech News, 17(10-11): 25-28. (Online article)
Chee, M.W.L. & Asplund, C.L. (2013). Neuroimaging of attention and alteration of processing capacity in sleep-deprived persons. In Neuroimaging of Sleep and Sleep Disorders (E. Nofzinger, P. Maquet, & M.J. Thorpy, eds.), Cambridge University Press: 137-144. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139088268.019
Pang, S.J., Tan, Q.A., Chong, C., & Asplund, C.L. (2013). Neurobiology of Attention. In The Brain Book 2 (Lim, K.-L. & Tuck, W.S., eds.), Department of Physiology, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (Singapore): 5-8.
Buckholtz, J.W., Asplund, C.L., Dux, P.E., Zald, D.H., Gore, J.C., Jones, O.D., & Marois, R. (2011). The neural correlates of third-party punishment. In Law and neuroscience: current legal issues (Michael Freeman, ed.), Oxford University Press (Oxford, United Kingdom): 115-139. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199599844.003.0008