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Botvinick, M. M. & Huffstetler, S. (submitted). Effort discounting in human nucleus accumbens.

Botvinick, M. M., Niv, Y. & Barto, A. C. (submitted). Hierarchically organized behavior and its neural foundations: a reinforcement learning perspective.
Botvinick, M., Bylsma, L. M., Jax, S. & Buxbaum, L. (in revision). An interaction between object and action selection in reaching to grasp.
Botvinick, M. M., Rosen, Z. & McGuire, J. (in revision). Action selection based on anticipated cognitive demand: a test of “the law of least mental effort.”
Botvinick, M. (in press). Conflict monitoring and decision making: Reconciling two perspectives on anterior cingulate function. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience. pdf

Botvinick, M., Braver, T. S., Yeung, N., Ullsperger, M., Carter, C. S., Cohen, J. D. (in press). The conflict monitoring hypothesis: Computational and empirical investigations. In: Posner, M. I. (Ed.), Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention. New York, New York: Guilford Publications.

Botvinick, M. (2007). Multilevel structure in behavior and in the brain: a computational model of Fuster’s hierarchy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B: Biological Sciences, 362, 1615-1626. pdf
Botvinick, M. & Watanabe, T. (2007). From numerosity to ordinal rank: A gain-field model of serial order representation in cortical working memory. Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 8636-8642. pdf
McClure, S.M., Botvinick, M.M., Yeung, N., Greene, J.D., Cohen, J.D. (2007) Conflict monitoring in cognition-emotion competition. In J.J. Gross, Ed.: Handbook of Emotion Regulation (p. 204-226). New York: Guilford.
Nieuwenhuis, S., Schweizer, T.S., Mars, R.B., Botvinick, M.M., & Hajcak, G. (2007). Error-likelihood prediction in the medial frontal cortex: A critical evaluation. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 1570-1581. pdf
Botvinick, M. & Plaut, D. C. (2006). Such stuff as habits are made on: A reply to Cooper and Shallice (2006), Psychological Review, 113, 917-928. [Postscript: The way forward, 928.] pdf
Botvinick, M. & Plaut, D. C. (2006). Short-term memory for serial order: A recurrent neural network model. Psychological Review, 113, 201-233. pdf
Thompson-Schill, S. L. & Botvinick, M. M. (2006). Resolving conflict: A response to Martin and Cheng (2006). Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 13, 402-408. pdf
Botvinick, M. (2005). Effects of domain-specific knowledge on memory for serial order. Cognition, 97, 135-151. pdf
Botvinick, M. & Bylsma, L. M. (2005). Regularization in short-term memory for serial order. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 31, 351-358. pdf
Botvinick, M. & Bylsma, L. M. (2005). Distraction and action slips in an everyday task: Evidence for a dynamic representation of task context. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12, 1011-1017. pdf
Botvinick, M., Jha, A. P., Bylsma, L. M., Fabian, S. A., Solomon, P. E. & Prkachin, K. M. (2005). Viewing facial expressions of pain engages cortical areas involved in the direct experience of pain. NeuroImage, 25, 312-319. pdf
Ullsperger, M., Von Cramon, Y., Bylsma, L. & Botvinick, M. (2005). The Gratton effect: There’s more to it than priming. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 467-472.
Botvinick, M. (2004). Probing the neural basis of body "ownership". Science, 305, 782-3. pdf
Botvinick, M., Braver, T. S., Yeung, N., Ullsperger, M., Carter, C. S. & Cohen, J. D. (2004). Conflict monitoring: computational and empirical studies. In: Posner, M. I. (Ed.), The Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention (p. 91-104). New York: Guilford Press.
Botvinick, M., Cohen, J. D. & Carter, C. S. (2004). Conflict monitoring and anterior cingulate cortex: An update. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 8, 539-546. pdf
Botvinick, M. & Plaut, D. C. (2004) Doing without schema hierarchies: A recurrent connectionist approach to routine sequential action and its pathologies. Psychological Review, 111, 395-429.
Yeung, N., Botvinick, M. M. & Cohen, J. D. (2004). The neural basis of error-detection: Conflict monitoring and the error-related negativity. Psychological Review, 111, 931-959.
Botvinick, M. & Plaut, D. (2003). Constructive processes in immediate serial recall: A recurrent network model of the bigram frequency effect. In: B. Kokinov & W. Hirst (Eds.) Constructive Memory (p. 129-137). Sofia: New Bulgarian University. pdf

Botvinick, M. and Plaut, D. C. (2003). A recurrent neural network model of immediate serial recall. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 8, 109.

Botvinick, M. & Plaut, D. C. (2002). Representing task context: proposals based on a connectionist model of action. Psychological Research, 66, 298-311. pdf
Graziano, M., Cohen, J.D. & Botvinick, M. (2002). How the brain represents the body. Attention and Performance XIX: Common Mechanisms in Perception and Action. Prinz, W. and Hommel, B. (Eds.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 136-157
Botvinick, M., Braver, T., Barch, D. Carter, C. & Cohen, J. (2001). Conflict monitoring and cognitive control. Psychological Review, 108 (3), 624-652 pdf
Van Veen, V., Cohen, J. D., Botvinick, M. M., Stenger, V. A. & Carter, C. S. (2001). Anterior cingulate cortex, conflict monitoring, and levels of processing. NeuroImage, 14, 1302-1308.
Botvinick, M. & Plaut, D. C. (2000). Doing without schema hierarchies: A recurrent connectionist account of routine sequential action and its pathologies. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Abstract Program (supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience).
Carter C. S., MacDonald A. M., Botvinick, M., Ross, L. L., Stenger, A., Noll, D., & Cohen, J. D. (2000). Parsing executive processes: strategic versus evaluative functions of the anterior cingulate cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97, 1944-1948.
Carter, C. S., MacDonald A. M., III, Botvinick M., Stenger V. A. & Cohen, J. D. (2000). Parsing executive processes: Control vs. evaluation in the frontal cortex. Biological Psychiatry, 346, 104S.
Cohen, J. D., Botvinick, M., & Carter, C. S. (2000). Anterior cingulate and prefrontal cortex: Who’s in control? Nature Neuroscience, 3, 421-423.
Van Veen, V., Cohen, J. D., Botvinick M., Stenger, V. A. & Carter, C. S. (2000). Conflict related activity and the anterior cingulate: An event-related fMRI analysis of stimulus versus response based conflict. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Abstract Program (supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience), 114.
Botvinick, M., Nystrom, L., Fissell, K., Carter, C. & Cohen, J. (1999). Conflict monitoring vs. selection-for-action in anterior cingulate cortex. Nature, 402, 179-181.
Carter, S. C., Botvinick, M. M., & Cohen, J. D. (1999). The contribution of the anterior cingulate cortex to executive processes in cognition. Reviews in the Neurosciences, 10, 49-57.
Carter, C. S., MacDonald A. M., III, Botvinick, M. M., Stenger, V. A. & Cohen, J. D. (1999). Anterior cingulate cortex and executive control: What is it really doing? Society for Neuroscience, 865.9, 2168.
Botvinick, M., Braver, T. S., Barch, D., Carter, C. S. & Cohen, J. D. (1998) Evidence for conflict monitoring in the human brain. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Abstract Program (supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience), 104.
Botvinick, M., Braver, T., Barch, D., Carter, C. S. & Cohen, J. D. (1998). Monitoring for crosstalk: An interpretation of anterior cingulate cortical function. Society for Neuroscience, 659.14, 1681.
Botvinick, M. & Cohen, J. D. (1998). Rubber hand ‘feels’ what eyes see. Nature, 391, 756.
Carter, C. S., Braver, T. S., Barch, D. M., Botvinick, M. M., Noll, D., & Cohen, J. D. (1998) Anterior cingulate cortex, error detection, and the online monitoring of performance. Science, 280, 747-749.
Carter, C. S., Braver, T., Barch, D. M., Botvinick, M., Noll, D. & Cohen, J. D. (1998). Anterior cingulate, error detection and performance monitoring: An event related fMRI study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Abstract Program (supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience), 107.
Carter, C. S., Braver, T., Barch, D. M., Botvinick, M., Sanders, A., Noll, D. & Cohen, J. D. (1998). Anterior cingulate cortex, error detection and performance monitoring: An event related fMRI study. Fourth International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, S110.

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