John Desmond PhD

Professor of Neurology




1. Marvel, C.L. and Desmond, J.E. From storage to manipulation: How the neural correlates of verbal working memory reflect varying demands on inner speech.  Brain & Language. 2012; 120: 42-51.

2. Yau, J.M., Hua, J., Liao, D.A. and Desmond, J.E. Efficient and robust identification of cortical targets in concurrent TMS-fMRI experiments. Neuroimage, 2013, 76: 134-144.

3. Cheng, D.T., Meintjes, E.M., Stanton, M.E., Desmond, J.E., Pienaar, Dodge, N.C., Power, J.M., Molteno, C.D., Disterhoft, J.F., Jacobson, J.L., and Jacobson, S.W.  Functional MRI of cerebellar activity during eyeblink classical conditioning in children and adults. Human Brain Mapping, 2014; 35: 1390-1403.

4. Keren-Happuch, E., Chen, S.H.A., Ho, M-H.R., and Desmond, J.E.  A meta-analysis of cerebellar contributions to higher cognition from PET and fMRI Studies. Human Brain Mapping, 2014; 35: 593-615.

5. Marien, P., Ackermann, H., Adamaszek, M., Barwood, C.H., Beaton, A., Desmond, J., De Witte, E., Fawcett, A.J., Hertrich, I., Kuper, M., Leggio, M., Marvel, C., Molinari, M., Murdoch, B.E., Nicolson, R.I., Schmahmann, J.D., Stoodley, C.J., Thurling, M., Timmann, D., Wouters, E. and Ziegler, W., Consensus paper: Language and the cerebellum: an ongoing enigma, Cerebellum, 2014; 13: 386-410.

6. Yau, J.M., Celnik, P., Hsiao, S.S., and Desmond, J.E. Feeling better: separate pathways for targeted enhancement of spatial and temporal touch, Psychological Science, 2014; 25: 555-565.

7. Yau, J.M., Jalinous, R., Cantarero, G.L. and Desmond, J.E., Static field influences on transcranial magnetic stimulation: considerations for TMS in the scanner environment. Brain Stimulation; 2014, 7: 388-393.

8. Liao, D.L., Kronemer, S.I., Yau, J.M., Desmond, J.E., and Marvel, C.L. Motor system contributions to verbal and non-verbal working memory. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014, 8:753

9. Cheng, D.H., Jacobson, S.W., Jacobson, J.L., Molteno, C.D., Stanton, M.E., and Desmond, J.E. Eyeblink classical conditioning in alcoholism and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2015, 6: 155

10. Peterburs, J., Cheng, D.T., and Desmond, J.E. The association between eye movements and cerebellar activation in a verbal working memory task. Cerebral Cortex, 2016, 26: 3802-3813.

11. Peterburs, J. and Desmond, J.E., The role of the human cerebellum in performance monitoring, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2016, 40: 38-44.

12. Cheng, D.T., Meintjes, E. M., Stanton, M. E., Dodge, N. C., Pienaar, M., Warton, C. M. R., Desmond, J. E., Moteno, C. D., Peterson, B. S., Jacobson, J. L., and Jacobson, S. W. Functional MRI of human eyeblink classical conditioning in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Cerebral Cortex, 2017, 27:3752-3767.

13.  Peterburs J, Blevins LC., Sheu Y-S, Desmond JE. Cerebellar contributions to sequence prediction in verbal working memory. Brain structure & function, 2019, 224:485-499. PMC6373538.

14.  Sheu Y-S, Liang Y, Desmond JE. Disruption of Cerebellar Prediction in Verbal Working Memory. Frontiers in human neuroscience. 2019, 13:61. PMC6393359.