Joshua J. LaRocque, MD, PhD

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Clinical Instructor, Epilepsy, Department of Neurology
Post-doctoral research fellow, Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics
Department: Neurology

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Education:
B.S. (Physics, Biochemistry)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005.
MD/PhD (Medicine, Neuroscience)
University of Wisconsin, 2016.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

Epilepsy
Neurology

Description of Research Expertise

Cognitive neuroscience
EEG
fMRI

Selected Publications

Samaha J, LaRocque JJ, Postle BR.: Spontaneous alpha-band amplitude predicts subjective visibility but not discrimination accuracy during high-level perception. Conscious Cogn 2022.

LaRocque JJ, Grossman SN, Kurzweil AM, Lewis A, Zabar S, Balcer L, Galetta SL, Zhang C.: Training in Neurology: Objective Structured Clinical Examination Case to Teach and Model Feedback Skills in Neurology Residency. Neurology 98: 684-689, Apr 2022.

LaRocque JJ, Riggall AC, Emrich SM, Postle BR.: Within-Category Decoding of Information in Different Attentional States in Short-Term Memory. Cereb Cortex 27: 4881-4890, Oct 2017.

Siclari F, Baird B, Perogamvros L, Bernardi G, LaRocque JJ, Riedner B, Boly M, Postle BR, Tononi G.: The neural correlates of dreaming. Nat Neurosci 2017.

Rose NS, LaRocque JJ, Riggall AC, Gosseries O, Starrett MJ, Meyering EE, Postle BR.: Reactivation of latent working memories with transcranial magnetic stimulation. Science 354: 1136-1139, Dec 2016.

LaRocque JJ, Eichenbaum AS, Starrett MJ, Rose NS, Emrich SM, Postle BR.: The short- and long-term fates of memory items retained outside the focus of attention. Mem Cognit 2015.

Larocque JJ, Lewis-Peacock JA, Postle BR.: Multiple neural states of representation in short-term memory? It's a matter of attention. Front Hum Neurosci 8: 5, Jan 2014.

LaRocque JJ, Lewis-Peacock JA, Drysdale AT, Oberauer K, Postle BR.: Decoding attended information in short-term memory: an EEG study. J Cogn Neurosci 2013.

Siclari F, Larocque JJ, Postle BR, Tononi G.: Assessing sleep consciousness within subjects using a serial awakening paradigm. Front Psychol 4: 542, Aug 2013.

Ding F, LaRocque JJ, Dokholyan NV.: Direct observation of protein folding, aggregation, and a prion-like conformational conversion. J Biol Chem 280: 40235-40, Dec 2005.

Sheldon AD, Saad E, Sahan MI, Meyering EE, Starrett MJ, LaRocque JJ, Rose NS, Postle BR.: Attention Biases Competition for Visual Representation via Dissociable Influences from Frontal and Parietal Cortex. J Cogn Neurosci 2021.

Gosseries O, Yu Q, LaRocque JJ, Starrett MJ, Rose NS, Cowan N, Postle BR.: Parietal-Occipital Interactions Underlying Control- and Representation-Related Processes in Working Memory for Nonspatial Visual Features. J Neurosci 38: 4357-4366, May 2018.

Samaha J, Barrett JJ, Sheldon AD, LaRocque JJ, Postle BR.: Dissociating Perceptual Confidence from Discrimination Accuracy Reveals No Influence of Metacognitive Awareness on Working Memory. Front Psychol 7: 851, Jun 2016.

Siclari F, Bernardi G, Riedner BA, LaRocque JJ, Benca RM, Tononi G.: Two distinct synchronization processes in the transition to sleep: a high-density electroencephalographic study. Sleep 37: 1621-37, Oct 2014.

Emrich SM, Riggall AC, Larocque JJ, Postle BR.: Distributed patterns of activity in sensory cortex reflect the precision of multiple items maintained in visual short-term memory. J Neurosci 33: 6516-23, Apr 2013.

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