Research

My doctoral dissertation focuses on how endogenous fluctuations in attention can be characterized and how these fluctuations in attention influence the temporal organization of memory.


Publications

Jayakumar, M., Balusu, C., Aly, M. (2023). Attentional fluctuations and the temporal organization of memory. Cognition, 235, 105408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105408. [PDF]. [PsyArXiv]. [OSF]. [self-contained Code Ocean computing enviornment].

Trelle, A. N., Carr, V. A., Wilson, E. N., Swarovski, M. S., Hunt, M. P., Toueg, T. N., Tran, T.T., Channappa, D., Corso, N. K., Thieu, M. K., Jayakumar, M., Nadiadwala, A., Guo, W., Tanner, N. J., Bernstein, J. D., Litovsky, C.P., Guerin, S. A., Guerin, S. A., Harrison, M. B., Rutt, B. K., Deutsch, G. K., Chin, F.T., Davidzon, G.A., Hall, J.N., Sha, S. J., Fredericks, C. A., Andreasson, K.I., Kerchner, G. A., Wagner, A. D., Mormino, E. C. (2021). Association of CSF biomarkers with hippocampal-dependent memory in preclinical Alzheimer disease. Neurology, 96(10), e1470-e1481. [PDF].

Hou, M., de Chastelaine, M., Jayakumar, M., Donley, B. E., & Rugg, M. D. (2020). Recollection-related hippocampal fMRI effects predict longitudinal memory change in healthy older adults. Neuropsychologia, 146, 107537. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107537.[PDF]

Trelle, A. N., Carr, V. A., Guerin, S. A., Thieu, M. K., Jayakumar, M., Guo, W., Nadiadwala, A., Corso, N. K., Hunt, M. P., Litovsky, C. P., Tanner, N. J., Deutsch, G. K., Bernstein, J. D., Harrison, M. B., Khazenzon, A. M., Jiang, J., Sha, S. J., Fredericks, C. A., Rutt, B. K., Mormino, E. C., Kerchner, G. A., Wagner, A. D. (2020). Hippocampal and cortical mechanisms at retrieval explain variability in episodic remembering in older adults. ELife, 9, e55335. [PDF].

Jayakumar, M.*, Tarder-Stoll, H.*, Dimsdale-Zucker, H.R., Günseli, E., & Aly, M. (2019). Dynamic internal states shape memory retrieval. Neuropsychologia, 138, 107328. [PDF]. *denotes equal contribution


Selected Conference Presentations

For a complete list of conference presentations, please see my CV from the sidebar!

Jayakumar, M., Balusu, C., Aly, M. (2021, August). Spontaneous attentional fluctuations and the temporal organization of recall. Poster presented at the Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA. [PDF].

Jayakumar, M., Balusu, C., Aly, M. (2021, March). Spontaneous attentional fluctuations and the temporal organization of recall. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society virtual meeting. [PDF]. [Video of presentation].

Jayakumar, M., de Chastelaine, M., Donley, B.E., Kennedy K., Rugg, M.D. (2016, November). Relationship between episodic memory performance, fMRI correlates of encoding and retrieval and estimates of regional brain structure in older adults. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting. San Diego, CA. [PDF].