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My publications:

(see PubMed)

Van Veen, V., Krug, M. K., Schooler, J. W., & Carter, C. S. (2009). Neural activity predicts attitude change in cognitive dissonance. Nature Neuroscience, 12(11), 1469-1474. (click here for pdf file; click here for Supplementary info)

Van Veen, V., Krug, M. K., & Carter, C. S. (2008). The neural and computational basis of controlled speed-accuracy tradeoff during task performance. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(11), 1952-1965. (click here for pdf file)

Carter, C. S. & Van Veen, V. (2007). Anterior cingulate cortex and conflict detection: An update of theory and data. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 7(4), 367-379. (click here for pdf file)

Van Veen, V., & Carter, C. S. (2006). Conflict and cognitive control in the brain. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15(5), 237-240. (click here for pdf file)

Van Veen, V., & Carter, C. S. (2006). Error detection, correction, and prevention in the brain: A brief review of data and theories. Clinical EEG & Neuroscience, 37(4), 330-335. (click here for pdf file)

Van Veen, V. (2006). A neuroimaging approach to the relationship between attention and speed-accuracy tradeoff. Doctoral thesis, University of Pittsburgh, PA.

Van Veen, V., & Carter, C. S. (2005). Separating semantic conflict and response conflict in the Stroop task: A functional MRI study. NeuroImage, 27(3), 497-504. (click here for pdf file)

Van Veen, V., Holroyd, C. B., Cohen, J. D., Stenger, V. A., & Carter, C. S. (2004). Errors without conflict: Implications for performance monitoring theories of anterior cingulate cortex. Brain and Cognition, 56(2), 267-276. (click here for pdf file)

Van Veen, V., & Carter, C. S. (2002). The anterior cingulate as a conflict monitor: fMRI and ERP studies. Physiology & Behavior, 77(4-5), 477-482. (click here for pdf file)

Van Veen, V., & Carter, C. S. (2002). The timing of action-monitoring processes in the anterior cingulate cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14(4), 593-602. (click here for pdf file)

Fincham, J. M., Carter, C. S., Van Veen, V., Stenger, V. A., & Anderson, J. R. (2002). Neural mechanisms of planning: A computational analysis using event-related fMRI. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 99(5), 3346-3351. (click here for pdf file)

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(6),1302-1308. (click here for pdf file)


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My talks:

Van Veen, V., Loharuka, S., & D’Esposito, M. (2007, November). Frontal and posterior cortical regions in the control of attention and speed-accuracy tradeoff. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, November 7, 2007).

Van Veen, V., Krug, M. K., & Carter, C. S. (2005, November). Determining how to trade off speed and accuracy in a response interference task. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, November 13, 2005.

Van Veen, V. (2003, April). Representational specificity in networks involved in performance monitoring and cognitive control. Invited talk presented at the EPOS Workshop "Performance Monitoring & Interference Control: Basic Issues & Individual Differences", Amsterdam, NL, April 11, 2003.

Van Veen, V., Holroyd, C., Cohen, J. D., Stenger, V. A., & Carter, C. S. (2002, November). Errors without conflict don't activate the anterior cingulate cortex: Implications for performance monitoring theories. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Orlando, FL, November 3, 2002.

Van Veen, V., & Carter, C. S. (2001, November). Timing of cingulate-prefrontal interactions in executive control. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, November 11, 2001.



My poster presentations:

Van Veen, V., Krug, M. K., Schooler, J. W., & Carter, C. S. (2009, June). Anterior cingulate cortex, cognitive dissonance, and attitude change: Evidence from a Solomon four-group design. Presented at the 15th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, San Francisco, CA, June 22, 2009.

Van Veen, V., Loharuka, S., & D'Esposito, M. (2009, March). Dissociating control over task set versus control of speed-accuracy emphasis in prefrontal cortex. Presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, March 22, 2009.

 

Van Veen, V., Krug, M. K., Schooler, J. W., & Carter, C. S. (2008, April). Cognitive dissonance engages anterior cingulate conflict monitoring. Presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, April 14, 2008.

Van Veen, V., & Carter, C. S. (2007, May). A PDP model of conflict and anterior cingulate activity in the go-change task. Presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York City, May 6, 2007.

Krug, M. K., Van Veen, V., & Carter, C. S. (2006, October). How does emotional processing affect conflict adaptation? Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, Georgia, October 16, 2006.

Van Veen, V., Krug, M. K., & Carter, C. S. (2006, June). How the brain trades speed and accuracy. Presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy, June 13, 2005.

Van Veen, V., & Carter, C. S. (2005, June). Modulation of conflict and control by speed-accuracy tradeoff: An fMRI study. Presented at the 11th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, Toronto, June 15, 2005.

Van Veen, V., & Carter, C. S. (2005, April). Modulation of conflict and control by speed-accuracy tradeoff. Presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York City, April 12, 2005.

Walter, R. P., Ursu, S., Van Veen, V., Becker, T. M., Lopez-Garcia, P., & Carter, C. S. (2004, October). Cognitive control versus storage in prefrontal cortex during working memory: Further evidence for an anatomical gradient of function and a specific role for DLPFC in conflict reduction. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, October 25, 2004.

Cho, R. Y., Cohen, J. D., Van Veen, V., Konecky, R., Clark, K., Belanger, C., & Carter, C. S. (2003, June). An ERP study and connectionist model of cognitive control deficits in schizophrenia. Presented at the 9th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, New York City, June 20, 2003.

Van Veen, V., Stenger, V. A., & Carter, C. S. (2003, June). Separating semantic conflict from response conflict in the Stroop task: Behavioral and neuroimaging data. Presented at the 9th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, New York City, June 20, 2003.

Cho, R. Y., Cohen, J. D., Van Veen, V., MacDonald, A. W. III., Kerns, J., Konecky, R., Belanger, C., & Carter, C. S. (2003, April). A multimodal examination of anterior cingulate correlates of trial-to-trial performance impairments in schizophrenia. Presented at the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, Colorado Springs, CO, April 1, 2003.

Cho, R. Y., Van Veen, V., Konecki, R., Clark, K., MacDonald, A. W. III., Kerns, J., Kriley, C., Cohen, J. D., & Carter, C. S. (2002, November). Anterior cingulate correlates of trial-to-trial performance impairments in schizophrenia. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Orlando, FL, November 5, 2002.

Carter, C. S., Van Veen, V., Holroyd, C., Stenger, V. A., & Cohen, J. D. (2002, June). Errors and conflict but not error feedback engage the anterior cingulate cortex during event-related fMRI: Implications for performance monitoring in the human brain. Presented at the 8th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Sendai, Japan, June 5, 2002.

Van Veen, V., Gordon, M. L., & Carter, C. S. (2002, April). Timing of activation of cingulate and prefrontal cortices following semantic conflict, response conflict and errors: A combined fMRI and ERP study. Presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, April 16, 2002.

Carter, C. S., & Van Veen, V. (2001, June). Conflict and the evaluative functions of the anterior cingulate: Converging evidence from event-related fMRI and high-density ERP. Presented at the 7th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Brighton, U.K., June 12, 2001.

Van Veen, V., McArthur, J., & Carter, C. S. (2001, March). The conflict-related negativity: An event-related potential investigation of anterior cingulate activity during response conflict and errors. Presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, March 26, 2001.

Ursu, S., Van Veen, V., Siegle, G. J., MacDonald, A. M., III, Stenger, V. A., & Carter, C. S. (2001, March). Executive control and self-evaluation in obsessive-compulsive disorder: An event-related fMRI study. Presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, March 25, 2001.

Fincham, J. M., Van Veen, V., Anderson, J. R., Stenger, V. A., Aizenstein, H., & Carter, C. S. (2000, November). An event-related fMRI study of planning: The Tower of Hanoi task and cognitive modeling. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA, November 8, 2000.

Van Veen, V., Cohen, J. D., Botvinick, M. M., Stenger, V. A., & Carter, C. S. (2000, April). Conflict-related activity and the anterior cingulate: An event-related fMRI analysis of stimulus versus response-based conflict. Presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, April 11, 2000.

Ursu, S., Van Veen, V., Ross, L. L., & Carter, C. S. (1999, October). Neuroanatomical correlates of error-related activity in the anterior cingulate cortex: Evidence from single-subject analyses. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Miami Beach, FL, October 28, 1999.

Van Veen, V., Zuffante, P. A., Mufdi, L., Leonard, C. M., & Kuldau, J. M. (1999, June). Paracingulate size correlates with verbal fluency in normals but not in schizophrenics. Presented at the 11th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Denver, CO, June 3, 1999.

Van Veen, V., & Fischler, I. S. (1998, May). Limits to the capture of visual attention by word emotionality. Presented at the 10th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Washington, D.C., May 21, 1998.



My teaching experience:

Teaching assistant, Laboratory in Cognitive Psychology. Supervisor/professor: Christian Schunn. Spring, 2003.

Talk, Theory and methods of source localization using BESA 2000. Talk presented during the Integrated fMRI Methods Workshop, Pittsburgh PA, March 9, 2002.

Teaching assistant, the Integrated Functional Imaging Workshop (training course on the integration of experimental protocol, ERP, source localization, and fMRI), March 6-11, 2001, Pittsburgh, PA. Using E-Prime, EGI, BESA and BrainVoyager software. Organizer: Walter Schneider.