Dr. Jason Themanson is a neuroscientist whose primary areas of research include self-monitoring and modifiable influences on social and cognitive processing. While at the University of Illinois, Dr. Themanson’s research focused on influences on cognitive processing by examining both a person’s behavior and brain activity. Specifically, he examined the relationship between physical fitness and a person’s ability to detect and correct mistakes while completing cognitive tasks. He has also investigated the relationship between modifiable social-cognitive individual difference variables and multiple aspects of cognitive performance in both younger and older adults. His current line of research involves studying the similarities in the brain's response to cognitive and social events and examining patterns of brain activation related to thought processes and behavior in social settings or situations.
Articles
Alterations in Error-Related Brain Activity and Post-Error Behavior Over Time (with Matthew B. Pontifex, Charles H. Hillman, Peter J. Rosen, and Edward McAuley), Brain and Cognition (2012)
This study examines the relation between the error-related negativity (ERN) and post-error behavior over time...
An Event-Related Examination of Neural Activity During Social Interactions (with Stephanie M. Khatcherian, Aaron B. Ball, and Peter J. Rosen), Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (2012)
Social exclusion is known to cause alterations in neural activity and perceptions of social distress....
Neural Correlates of the Implicit Association Test: Evidence for Semantic and Emotional Processing (with John K. Williams), Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (2011)
The implicit association test (IAT) has been widely used in social cognitive research over the...
The Relation of Self-Efficacy and Error-Related Self-Regulation (with Matthew B. Pontifex, Charles H. Hillman, and Edward McAuley), International Journal of Psychophysiology (2011)
Relations between a modifiable psychosocial factor, self-efficacy (SE), and behavioral and neural indices of self-regulation,...
On the Number of Trials Necessary for Stabilization of Error-Related Brain Activity across the Life Span (with Matthew B. Pontifex, Mark R. Scudder, Michael L. Brown, Kevin C. O'Leary, Chien-Ting Wu, and Charles H. Hillman), Psychophysiology (2010)
The minimum number of trials necessary to accurately characterize the error-related negativity (ERN) and the...