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Bruce A. Crosson

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Professor
Research Psychologist

 


 Location:

University of Florida


Education:

Texas Tech University Ph.D. in Psychology, 1978
Southern Methodist University M.A. in Psychology, 1974
Southern Methodist University B.A. in Political Science, 1972

 


 

 


Recognition and Awards:

Research Mentorship Award, University of Florida Department of Clinical & Health Psychology (October 2008) 

Honorary Professor, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (January 2005-present)

Senior Research Career Scientist Award (January 2009 – December 2015)/Research Career Scientist Award (January 2004-December 2008), Department of Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research and Development Service

  


Primary Academic Appointment:

UF Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, College of Public Health and Health Professions

Other Appointments:

Brain Rehabilitation Research Center (VA RR&D), Veteran Affairs Medical Center


Research Interests:

Language (including aphasia treatment), the role of subcortial structures in cognition, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), neural plasticity during neurorehabilitation


Recent Publications:

Crosson, B. (2008). An intention manipulation to change lateralization of word production in nonfluent aphasia: Current status. Seminars in Speech and Language, 29, 188-200.

Conway, T. W., Heilman, K. M., Gopinath, K., Peck, K. K., Bauer, R. M., Briggs, R. W., Torgesen, J. K., & Crosson, B. (2008). Neural substrates related to auditory working memory comparisons: An fMRI study. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 14, 629-639.

Gopinath, K., Crosson, B., McGregor, K., Peck, K. K., ChangY.-L., Moore, A., Sherod, M., Cavanagh, C., Wabnitz, A., Wierenga, C., White, K., Cheshkova, S., Krishnamurthy, V., Briggs, R. W. (in press). Selective detrending method for reducing task-correlated motion artifact during speech in event-related FMRI. Human Brain Mapping.

Hu, J., Lee, J.-M., Gao, J., White, K. D., Crosson, B. (2008). Assessing a signal model and identifying brain activity from fMRI data by a detrending-based fractal analysis. Brain Structure and Function, 212, 417-426.

Lee, J.-M., Hu, J., Gao, J., Crosson, B., Peck, K. K., Wierenga, C. W., McGregor, K., Zhao, Q., White, K. D. (2008). Discriminating brain activity from task-related artifacts in functional MRI: Fractal scaling analysis simulation and application. NeuroImage, 40, 196-212.

Wierenga, C. E., Benjamin, M., Gopinath, K., Perlstein, W. M., Leonard, C. M., Rothi, L. J. G., Conway, T., Cato, M. A., Briggs, R. W., Crosson, B. (2008). Age-related changes in word retrieval: Role of bilateral frontal and subcortical networks. Neurobiology of Aging, 29, 436-451.

Dotson, V. M., Singletary, F., Fuller, R., Koehler, S., Bacon Moore, A., Rothi, L. J. G., Crosson, B. (2008). Treatment of word-finding deficits in fluent aphasia through the manipulation of spatial attention: Preliminary findings. Aphasiology, 22, 103-113.

Crosson, B., McGregor, K., Gopinath, K. S., Conway, T. W., Benjamin, M., Chang, Y.-L., Bacon Moore, A., Raymer, A. M., Briggs, R. W., Sherod, M. G., Wierenga, C. E., White, K. D. (2007). Functional MRI of language in aphasia: A review of the literature and the methodological challenges. Neuropsychology Review, 17, 157-177.

Crosson, B., Fabrizio, K. S., Singletary, F., Cato, M. A., Wierenga, C. E., Parkinson, R. B., Sherod, M. E., Bacon Moore, A., Ciampitti, M., Holiway, B., Leon, S., Rodriguez, A., Kendall, D. L., Levy, I. F., Gonzalez Rothi, L. J. (2007). Treatment of naming in nonfluent aphasia through manipulation of intention and attention: A phase 1 comparison of two novel treatments. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 13, 582-594.

Cato Jackson, M. A., Crosson, B. (2006). Emotional connotation of words: Role of emotion in distributed semantic systems. Progress in Brain Research, 156, 2006, 205-216.

Grande, L. J., Crosson, B., Bauer, R. M., Heilman, K. M., Kilduff, P., McGlinchey, R. (2006). Visual Selective Attention in Parkinson’s Disease: Dissociation of Exogenous and Endogenous Inhibition. Neuropsychology, 20, 370-382.

Wierenga, C. E., Maher, L. M., Bacon Moore, A., White, K. D., McGregor, K., Soltysik, D. A., Peck, K. K., Gopinath, K. S., Singletary, F., Rothi, L. J. G., Briggs, R. W., Crosson, B. (2006). Neural Substrates of Syntactic Mapping Treatment: An fMRI Study of Two Cases. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 12, 132-146.

Blonder, L. X., Heilman, K. M., Ketterson, T., Rosenbek, J., Raymer, A., Crosson, B., Maher, L., Glueckauf, R., Rothi, L. G. (2005). Affective facial and lexical expression in aprosodic versus aphasic stroke patients. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 11, 677-85.

Crosson, B., Bacon Moore, A., Gopinath, K., White, K. D., Wierenga, C. E., Gaiefsky, M. E., Fabrizio, K. R., Peck, K. K., Soltysik, D., Milstead, C., Briggs, R. W., Conway, T. W., Rothi, L. J. G. (2005). Role of the Right and Left Hemispheres in Recovery of Function during Treatment of Intention in Aphasia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 392-406.

Peck, K. K., Wierenga, C. E., Bacon Moore, A., Maher, M., Gopinath, K., Gaiefsky, M., Briggs, R. W., & Crosson, B. (2004). Comparison of Baseline Conditions to Investigate Syntactic Production using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. NeuroImage, 23, 104-110.

Soltysik, D. A., Peck, K. K., White, K. D., Crosson, B., Briggs, R. W. (2004). Comparison of Hemodynamic Response Nonlinearity across Primary Cortical Areas. NeuroImage, 22, 1117-1127.

Cato, M. A., Crosson, B., Gökçay, D., Soltysik, D., Wierenga, C., Gopinath, K., Himes, N., Belanger, H., Bauer, R. M., Fischler, I. S., Gonzalez Rothi, L., & Briggs, R. W. (2004). Processing Words with Emotional Connotation: An fMRI Study of Time Course and Laterality in Rostral Frontal and Retrosplenial Cortices. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 167-177.

Peck, K. K., Moore, A. B., Crosson, B., Gaiefsky, M., Gopinath, K. S., White, K., & Briggs, R. W. (2004). Pre and Post fMRI of an Aphasia Therapy: Shifts in Hemodynamic Time to Peak during an Overt Language Task. Stroke, 35, 554-559.

 


Contact Information:

Department of Clinical Health and Psychology, University of Florida, Health Science Center, PO Box 100165
Gainesville, FL 32610
Phone: 352-265-0490
Fax: 352-265-0468
E-mail:
bcrosson@phhp.ufl.edu

 

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