Publications
Pace-Schott, E. F., Verga, P., Bennett, T., Spencer, R.M.C. (in press). Sleep promotes consolidation and generalization of extinction Learning in simulated exposure therapy for spider fear. Journal of Psychiatric Research.
Baran, B., Pace-Schott, E. F., Ericson, C. & Spencer, R. M. C. (2012). Processing of emotional reactivity and emotional memory over sleep. Journal of Neuroscience, 32:1035-42. (click for Supplementary Materials)
Wilson, J., & Baran, B., Pace-Schott, E., Ivry, R. B., & Spencer, R. M. C. (in press). Sleep enhances declarative but not procedural learning in older adults. Neurobiology of Aging.
Ready, R.E., Baran, B., Chaudhry, M., Schatz, K., & Spencer, R. M. C. (in press) ApoE e4, processing speed, and white matter volume in healthy midlife children of Alzheimer’s disease. American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease & Other Dementias.
Pace-Schott, E. P. & Spencer, R. M. C. (2011). Age-related changes in the cognitive function of sleep. Progress in Brain Research. 191:75-89
Donohue, K. & Spencer, R. M. C (2011). Continuous re-exposure to environmental sound cues during sleep does not improve memory for semantically unrelated word pairs. Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology.
Pace-Schott, E., Nave, G., Morgan, A., & Spencer, R. M. C. (2011). Sleep-dependent modulation of affectively guided decision-making. Journal of Sleep Research, 21:30-39.
Pace-Schott, E., Shephard, E., Spencer, R. M. C., Marcello, M., Tucker, M. A., Propper, R., Stickgold, R. (2010). Napping promotes inter-session habituation to emotional stimuli. Neurobiology of Learning & Memory. (click here for public access)
Baran, B., Wilson, J. K., & Spencer, R. M. C. (2010). REM-dependent repair of competitive memory suppression. Experimental Brain Research, 203, 471-477. (click here for public access)
Valera, E. M., Spencer, R. M. C., Zeffiro, T. A., Makris, N., Spencer, T. J., Faraone, S. V. Biederman, J., & Seidman, L. J. Neural substrates of impaired sensorimotor timing in adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 15:68:359-67. (click here for public access)
Schlerf, J. E., Verstynen, T. D., Ivry, R. B., & Spencer, R.M. C. (2010). Evidence of a novel somatotopic map in the human neocerebellum during complex actions. Journal of Neurophysiology, 103:3330-6. (click here for public access)
Spencer, R. M. C., Karmarkar, U. & Ivry R. B. (2009). Evaluating dedicated and intrinsic models of temporal encoding by varying context. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B Biological Science, 364, 1853-1863. (click here for public access)
Spencer, R. M. C. & Ivry, R. B. (2009). Sequence learning is preserved in individuals with cerebellar degeneration when the movements are directly cued. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 1302-1310.
Weber-Fox, C., Spencer, R. M. C., Spruill J. E., & Smith, A. (2008). Atypical neural functions underlying phonological processing and silent rehearsal in children who stutter. Developmental Science, 11, 321-337.
Spencer, R. M. C., Gouw, A., & Ivry, R. B. (2007). Age-related decline of sleep-dependent consolidation. Learning and Memory, 14, ,480-484. (click here for public access)
Schlerf, J., Spencer, R. M. C., Zelaznik, H. N., & Ivry, R. B. (2007). Timing of rhythmic movements in patients with cerebellar degeneration. Cerebellum, 6, 221-231.
Spencer, R. M. C., Verstynen, T., Brett, M., & Ivry, R. B. (2007). Cerebellar activation during discrete and not continuous timed movements: an fMRI study. NeuroImage, 36, 378-387. (click here for public access)
Verstynen, T., Spencer, R. M. C., Stinear, C. M., Konkle, T., Diedrichsen, J., Byblow, W. D., & Ivry, R. B. (2007). Ipsilateral corticospinal projections do not predict congenital mirror movements: A case report. Neuropsychologia, 45, 844-852.
Spencer, R. M. C. & Ivry, R. B. (2007). The temporal representation of in-phase and anti-phase movements. Human Movement Science. 26, 226-234. (click here for public access)
Spencer, R. M. C., Semjen, A., Yang, S., & Ivry, R. B. (2006). An event-based account of coordination stability. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 13(4), 702-710.
Spencer, R. M. C., Sunm, M., & Ivry, R. B. (2006). Sleep-dependent consolidation of contextual learning. Current Biology, 16, 1001-1005.
Spencer, R. M. C., Ivry, R. B., Cattaert, D. & Semjen, A. (2005). Bimanual coordination during rhythmic movements in the absence of somatosensory feedback. Journal of Neurophysiology, 94, 2901-2910. (click here for public access)
Zelaznik, H. N., Spencer, R. M. C., Ivry, R. B., Baria, A., Bloom, M., Dolansky, L., et al. (2005). Timing variability in circle drawing and tapping: Probing the relationship between event and emergent timing. Journal of Motor Behavior, 37, 395-404. (click here for public access)
Spencer, R. M. C., Ivry, R. B., & Zelaznik, H. N. (2005). Role of the cerebellum in movements: control of timing or movement transitions? Experimental Brain Research, 161, 383-396.
Spencer, R. M. C. & Ivry, R. B. (2005). Comparison of patients with Parkinson’s disease or cerebellar lesions on continuous and discontinuous timing tasks. Brain and Cognition, 58, 84-93.
Weber-Fox, C., Spencer, R. M. C., Spruill J. E., & Smith, A. (2004). Phonological processing in adults who stutter: electrophysiological and behavioral evidence. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 47,1244-1258.
Ivry, R. B. & Spencer, R. M. C. (2004). Evaluating the role of the cerebellum in temporal processing: Beware of the null hypothesis. Brain, 127, e13. (click here for public access)
Spencer, R. M. C., Hazeltine, E., Semjen, A., & Ivry, R. B. (2004). Goal-based representation in repetitive bimanual movements. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2, 239-254.
Ivry, R. B. & Spencer, R. M. C. (2004). The neural representation of time. Current Opinions in Neurobiology, 14, 225-232.
Spencer, R. M. C., & Zelaznik, H. N. (2003). Weber (slope) analyses of timing variability in tapping and drawing tasks. Journal of Motor Behavior, 35(4), 371-382.
Spencer, R. M. C, Zelaznik, H. N., Diedrichsen, J., & Ivry, R. B. (2003). Disrupted timing of discontinuous but not continuous movements by cerebellar lesions. Science, 300, 1437-1439.
Weber-Fox, C., Spencer, R. M. C., Cuadrado, E., & Smith, A. (2003). Development of neural processes mediating rhyme judgments: Phonological and orthographic interactions. Developmental Psychobiology, 43, 128-145.
Zelaznik, H. N., Spencer, R. M., & Ivry, R. B. (2002). Dissociation of explicit and implicit timing in repetitive tapping and drawing movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 575-588.
Zelaznik, H. N., Spencer, R. M., & Doffin, J. (2000). Temporal precision in tapping and circle drawing movements at preferred rates is not correlated: Further evidence against timing as a general purpose ability. Journal of Motor Behavior, 32(2), 193-199.
Robertson, S. D., Zelaznik, H. N., Lantero, D. A., Bojczyk, K. G., Spencer, R. M., Doffin, J. G., Schneidt, T. (1999). Correlations for timing consistency among tapping and drawing tasks: Evidence against a single timing process for motor control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 1316-1330.
