Publications | Papers

2022

Constricted semantic relations in acute depression

E.V. Harel, E. Shetreet, R. Tennyson, M. Fava, M. Bar | Journal of Affective Disorders

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The emotional influence of different geometries in virtual spaces: A neurocognitive examination

A. Shemesh, G. Leisman, M. Bar, Y.J. Grobman | Journal of Environmental Psychology 1-24

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2021

From Objects to Unified Minds

M. Bar | Current Directions in Psychological Science 30,129-137

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Perceptual decisions are biased toward relevant prior choices

H. Fiegin, S. Baror, M. Bar, A. Zaidel | Scientific Reports 11:648

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A neurocognitive study of the emotional impact of geometrical criteria of architectural space

A. Shemesh, G. Leisman, M. Bar, Y.J. Grobman | Architectural Science Review 1-14

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Oculomotor anticipation reveals a multitude of learning processes underlying the serial reaction time task

A. Tal, A. Bloch, H. Cohen-Dallal, O. Aviv, S.S. Ashkenazi, M. Bar, E. | Scientific Reports 11:6190

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Wanted: Architecture for changing minds

M. Bar | Physics of Life Reviews 36,35-36

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2020

Our need for associative coherence

Y. Afiki, M. Bar | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7:80

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Overarching States of Mind

N. Herz, S. Baror, M. Bar | Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24:184-199

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2019

Inferior parietal lobule and early visual areas support elicitation of individualized meanings during narrative listening

S. Saalast, J. Alho, M. Bar, E. Glerean, T. Honkela, M. Kauppila, M. Sams, I. P. Jääskeläinen | Brain and Behavior, 9:e01288

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2018

Prediction is Production: The missing link between language production and comprehension

C.D. Martin, F.M. Branzi, M. Bar | Scientific Reports 8:1079

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2017

2016

The default network and the combination of cognitive processes that mediate self-generated thought

V. Axelrod, G. Rees, M. Bar | Nature Human Behavior, 1:896–910

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Empathy: The Role of Expectations

S. Trapp, S. Schütz-Bosbach, M. Bar | Emotion Review, 10:161–166

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Internal valence modulates the speed of object recognition

M. Panichello, K. Kveraga, M. Chaumon, M. Bar, L.F. Barrett | Scientific Reports, 7:361

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Associated Information Increases Subjective Perception of Duration

R. Schweitzer, S. Trapp, M. Bar | Perception, 46:1000-1007

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Predictions penetrate perception: Converging insights from brain, behaviour and disorder

C. O'Callaghan, K. Kveraga, J. Shine, R. Adams, M. Bar | Consciousness and Cognition, 47:63-74

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Affective response to architecture - investigating human reaction to spaces with different geometry

A. Shemesh, R. Talmon, O. Karp, I. Amir, M. Bar, Y.J. Grobman | Architectural Science Review, 60:116-125

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Convergent evidence for top-down effects from the “predictive brain"

C. O'Callaghan, K. Kveraga, J. Shine, R. Adams, M. Bar | Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39:e254

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Linking Major Depression and The Neural Substrates of Associative Processing

E. Harel, R. Tennyson, M. Fava, M. Bar | Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 16:1017-1026

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Associative Activation and Its Relation to Exploration and Exploitation in the Brain

S. Baror, M. Bar | Psychological Science, 27:776-789

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Cortical integration of contextual information across objects

T. Livne, M. Bar | Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28:948-958

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Prior probability modulates anticipatory activity in category-specific areas

S. Trapp, J. Lepsien, S.A. Kotz, M. Bar | Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 16:135-144

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2015

Space and Human Perception – Exploring Our Reaction to Different Geometries of Spaces

A. Shemesh, M. Bar, Y.J. Grobman | 20th International Conference of the Association of Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia

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Increasing propensity to mind-wander with transcranial direct current stimulation

V. Axelrod, G. Rees, M. Lavidor, M. Bar | Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 112:3314–3319

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Prediction, context and competition in visual recognition

S. Trapp, M. Bar | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1339:190-198

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Direction of Magnetoencephalography Sources Associated with Feedback and Feedforward Contributions in a Visual Object Recognition Task

S.P. Ahlfors, S.R. Jones, J. Ahveninen, M.S. Hamalainen, J.W. Belliveau, M. Bar | Neuroscience Letters, 585:194-154

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Exploring the unconscious using faces

V. Axelrod, M. Bar, G. Rees | Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19:35-45

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Human preferences are biased towards associative information

S. Trapp, A. Shenhav, S. Bitzer, M. Bar | Cognition and Emotion

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Neural correlates of subliminal language processing

V. Axelrod, M. Bar, G. Rees, G. Yovel | Cerebral Cortex

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If it bleeds, it leads: Separating threat from mere negativity

K. Kveraga, J. Boshyan, R. Adams, J. Mote, N. Betz, N. Ward, N. Hadjikhani, M. Bar, L.F. Barrett | Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

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2014

Attributes of form in the built environment that influence perceived walkability

N.M. Oreskovic, P. Roth, S.L. Charles, D. Tsigaridi, K. Shepherd, K.P. Nelson, M. Bar | Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, 31:218-232

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Forming first impressions of others in schizophrenia: Impairments in fast processing and in use of spatial frequency information

J. Vakhrusheva, V. Zemon, M. Bar, N.G. Weiskopf, F. Tremeau, E. Petkova, Z. Su, I.Y. Abeles, P.D. Butler | Schizophrenia Research, 160:142-149

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The proactive brain and the fate of dead hypotheses

A. Tal, M. Bar | Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 8:138

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The resilience of object predictions: Early recognition across viewpoints and exemplars

O.S. Cheung, M. Bar | Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21:682-688

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2013

The role of parahippocampal cortex in cognition

E.M. Aminoff, K. Kveraga, and M. Bar | Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17:379–390

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Visual predictions in the orbitofrontal cortex rely on associative content

M. Chaumon, K. Kveraga, L.F. Barrett, and M. Bar | Cerebral Cortex, 24:2899-2907

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Predictive feedback and conscious visual experience

M.F. Panichello, O.S. Cheung, and M. Bar | Frontiers in Psychology, 3:620

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2012

Affective value and associative processing share a cortical substrate

A. Shenhav, L.F. Barrett, and M. Bar | Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 13:46-59

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Contributions of low and high spatial frequency processing to impaired object recognition circuitry in schizophrenia

D.J. Calderone, M.J. Hoptman, A. Martinez, S. Nair-Collins, C.J. Mauro, M. Bar, D.C. Javitt, and P.D. Butler | Cerebral Cortex, 23:1849-1858

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Micro-valences: perceiving affective valence in everyday objects

S. Lebrecht, M. Bar, L.F. Barrett, and M.J. Tarr | Frontiers in Psychology, 3:107

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Enabling Global Processing in Simultanagnosia by psychophysical biasing of visual pathways

C. Thomas, K. Kveraga, E. Huberle, H-O. Karnath, and M. Bar | Brain, 135:1578-1585

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Visual prediction and perceptual expertise

O.S. Cheung and M. Bar | International Journal of Psychophysiology, 83:156-163.

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2011

Preference for Symmetry: Only on Mars?

K. Shepherd and M. Bar | Perception, 40:1254:1256

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Early onset of neural synchronization in the contextual associations network

K. Kveraga, A.S. Ghuman, K.S. Kassam, E. Aminoff, M.S. Hamalainen, M. Chaumon, and M. Bar | Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 108:3389-3394

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Emotional valence modulates the preference for curved objects

H. Leder, P.P.L. Tinio, and M. Bar | Perception, 40:649-655

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The effect of mental progression on mood

M.F. Mason and M. Bar | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141:217-221

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2010

Wait for the second marshmallow? Future-oriented thinking and delayed reward discounting in the brain

M. Bar | Neuron, 66:4-5

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2009

A cognitive neuroscience hypothesis of mood and depression

M. Bar | Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13:456-463

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The proactive brain: memory for predictions

M. Bar | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364:1235-1243

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Predictions: A universal principle in the operation of the human brain

M. Bar | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364:1181-1182

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See it with feeling: Affective predictions during object perception

L.F. Barrett and M. Bar | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364:1235-1234

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Exploring the past and impending future in the here and now: Mind-wandering in the default state.

M.F. Mason, M. Bar and C.N. Macrae | Cognitive Sciences, 3:143-162

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2008

Cultural specificity in amygdala response to fear faces

J.Y. Chiao, T. Iidaka, H.L. Gordon, J. Nogawa, M. Bar, E. Aminoff, N. Sadato and N. Ambady | Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20:2167-2174

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The cortical underpinnings of context-based memory distortion

E. Aminoff, D.L. Schacter and M. Bar | Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20:2226-2237

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Scenes unseen: The parahippocampal cortex intrinsically subserves contextual associations, not scenes or places per se

M. Bar, E. Aminoff and D.L. Schacter | Journal of Neuroscience, 28:8539-8544

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The proactive brain: Using rudimentary information to make predictive judgments

M. Bar and M. Neta | Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 7:319–330

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The effects of priming on frontal-temporal communication

A. Ghuman, M. Bar, I.G. Dobbins and D. Schnyer | Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 105:8405-8409

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Famous Faces activate contextual associations in the parahippocampal cortex

M. Bar, E. Aminoff and A. Ishai | Cerebral Cortex, 18:1233-1238

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Integrated contextual representation for objects' identities and their locations

N. Gronau, M. Neta, & M. Bar | Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20:371-388

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2007

The Proactive Brain: Using analogies and associations to generate predictions

M. Bar | Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11:280-289

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Magnocellular projections as the trigger of top-down facilitation in recognition

K. Kveraga, J. Boshyan and M. Bar | Journal of Neuroscience, 27:13232-13240

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The continuum of "looking forward," and paradoxical requirements from memory

M. Bar | Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30:315-316

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Top-down predictions in the cognitive brain

K. Kveraga, A.S. Ghuman and M. Bar | Brain and Cognition, 65:145-168

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The units of thought

M. Bar, E. Aminoff, M. Mason and M. Fenske | Hippocampus, 17:420-428

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Visual elements of subjective preference modulate amygdala activation

M. Bar and M. Neta | Neuropsychologia, 45:2191-2200

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The parahippocampal cortex mediates spatial and non-spatial associations

E. Aminoff, N. Gronau and M. Bar | Cerebral Cortex, 17:1493-1503

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2006

Top-down facilitation of visual recognition

M. Bar, K.S. Kassam, A.S. Ghuman, J. Boshyan, A.M. Schmidt, A.M. Dale, M.S. Hamalainen, K. Marinkovic, D.L. Schacter, B.R. Rosen and E. Halgren | Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 103:449-454

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Very first impressions

M. Bar, M. Neta and H. Linz | Emotion, 6:269-278

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Humans prefer curved visual objects

M. Bar and M. Neta | Psychological Science, 17:645-648

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The influence of non-remembered affective associations on preference

A.S. Ghuman and M. Bar | Emotion, 6:215-223

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Top-down facilitation of visual object recognition: Object-based and context-based contributions

M.J. Fenske, E. Aminoff, N. Gronau and M. Bar | Progress in Brain Research, 155:3-21

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2005

The rise and fall of priming: How visual exposure shapes cortical representations of objects

L. Zago, M.J. Fenske, E. Aminoff and M. Bar | Cerebral Cortex, 15:1655-1665

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2004

Visual objects in context

M. Bar | Nature Reviews: Neuroscience, 5:617-629

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Cortical analysis of visual context

M. Bar and E. Aminoff | Neuron, 38:347-358

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2003

A cortical mechanism for triggering top-down facilitation in visual object recognition

M. Bar | Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15:600-609

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2001

Viewpoint dependency in visual object recognition does not necessarily imply viewer-centered representation

M. Bar | Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13:793-799

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Cortical mechanisms of explicit visual object recogntion

M. Bar, R. Tootell, D. Schacter, D. Greve, B. Fischl, J. Mendola, B. Rosen and A. M. Dale | Neuron, 29:529-535

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Inferior temproal neurons show greater sensitivity to nonaccidental than metric shape differences

R. Vogels, I. Biederman, M. Bar and A. Lorincz | Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13:444-453

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2000

Differing views on views: Response to Hayward and Tarr

I. Biederman and M. Bar | JVision Research, 40:3901-3905

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1999

Subordinate-level object classification reexamined

I. Biederman, S. Subramaniam, M. Bar, P. Kaloscai and J. Fiser | Psychological Research, 62:131-153

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One-shot viewpoint invariance in matching novel objects

I. Biederman and M. Bar | Vision Research, 39:2885-2899

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Localizing the cortical regions mediating visual awareness of object identity

M. Bar and I. Biederman | Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 96:1790-1793

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1998

Subliminal visual priming

M. Bar and I. Biederman | Psychological Science, 9:464-469

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1996

Spatial context in recognition

M. Bar and S. Ullman | Perception, 25:343-352

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