Current Projects

  • Temporal learning and error monitoring
  • Interval timing and motor acts
  • Time perception and VR
  • Time perspective, urgency, and behaviors
  • Perceptual illusions

Publications

  1. Isham, E.A., & Izadifar, M.  Mental imagery and time (2023).  In R. Lestienne & P. Harris (Eds.), Time and Science. Accepted Fall 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/9781800613751_0004
  2. Isham, E.A. (2018). Saving “Free Will” from science.  In I. Fredriksson (Ed.), Essays on Consciousness: Towards a New Paradigm.
  3. Pan, M., Isham, E.A., Ryan, A. (2023).  Developing a small participant framework: An investigation of mode choice influential factors. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspective, 22https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2023.100978Get rights and content
  4. Teng, J.  & Isham, E.A. (2024). Determining the potential benefits of error feedback and metacognition on perceptual learning in the temporal and spatial domain. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.  Registered Report.
  5. Izadifar, M., Formuli, A., Isham, E.A., Paolini, M. (2023, accepted). Subjective time perception in musical imagery: An fMRI study on musicians. PsyCh Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.677
  6. Liang, M., Lomayesva, S., & Isham, E.A. (2022). Dissociable roles of theta and alpha in sub-second and supra-second time reproduction: An investigation of their links to depression and anxiety. Timing and Time Perception. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.14.480446
  7. Isham, E.A., Lomayesva, S., & Teng, J. (2022). Time estimation and passage of time judgment predict eating behaviors during COVID-19 lockdown.  Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.961092
  8. Isham, E.A. & Wall, T.A. (2022).  Differentiating the reported time of intent and action on the basis of temporal binding behaviors and confidence ratings. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02479-2
  9. Isham, E.A. & Lomayesva, S. (2022).  Involuntary classroom transition moderates the effect of Present Hedonistic perspective on the belief in free will.  Personality and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111321. Epub 2021 Oct 12.
  10. Liang, M., Zheng, J., Isham, E.A., & Ekstrom, A.D. (2021). Common and Distinct Roles of Frontal Midline Theta and Occipital Alpha Oscillations in Coding Temporal Intervals and Spatial Distances.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33, 1-17.  DOI:10.1162/jocn_a_01765
  11. Zheng, L., Gao, Z., McAvan, A.S., Isham, E.A., & Ekstrom, A.D. (2021).  Partially overlapping spatial environments trigger reinstatement in hippocampus and schema representations in prefrontal cortex.  Nature Communications, 12, DOI:10.1038/s41467-021-26560-w
  12. Isham, E.A. (2020). Temporal experience modifies future thoughts:  Manipulation of Libet’s W influences difficulty assessment during a decision-making task. PLoS ONE.
  13. Isham, E.A., Ziskin, E.M., Peterson, M., (2019).  Limitations of Hoerl and McCormack’s dual systems model of temporal consciousness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, 28-29. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18002157
  14. Isham, E.A., Le, C., & Ekstrom, A.D. (2018).  Rightward and leftward biases in temporal reproduction of objects represented in central and peripheral spaces.  Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2017.12.006
  15. Isham, E.A. (2017).  Response to J. Shepherd.  Brains Blog.  Ed. Daniel Burston.  http://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/10/23/symposium-isham-et-al-deliberation-period-easy-difficult-decisions-re-examining-libets-veto-window-ecologically-valid-framework.aspx
  16. Ekstrom, A.D., & Isham, E.A. (2017).  Human spatial navigation:  Representations across dimensions and scales. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 17, 84-89. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.06.005
  17. Isham, E.A., Wulf, K., Mejia, C., & Krisst, L.C. (2017). Deliberation period during easy and difficult decisions: Re-examining Libet’s “veto” window in a more ecologically valid framework.  Neuroscience of Consciousness. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/nix002
  18. Isham, E.A., & Geng, J.J. (2013).  Looking time predicts choice but not aesthetic value. PLoS ONE 8(8): e71698.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071698.
  19. Isham, E.A., & Geng, J.J. (2011). Rewarding performance feedback alters reported time of action. Consciousness & Cognition, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2011.08.004.
  20. Isham, E.A., Banks, W.P., Ekstrom, A.D., & Stern, J.A. (2011). Deceived and distorted: Game outcome retrospectively determines the reported time of action. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Advance online publication. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023111
  21. Ekstrom, A.D., Copara, M.S., Isham, E.A., Wang, W., & Yonelinas, A.P. (2011). Dissociable networks involved in spatial and temporal order source retrieval. NeuroImage. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.02.033
  22. Banks, W.P., & Isham, E.A. (2011) Do we really know what we are doing? Implications of reported time of decision for theories of volition. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong & L. Nadel (Eds.), Conscious Will and Responsibility. New York: Oxford University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195381641.003.0006
  23. Isham, E.A., Ekstrom, A.D., & Banks, W.P. (2010).  Effects of youth authorship on the appraisal of paintings. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 4,235-246. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/a0019308
  24. Banks, W.P., & Isham, E.A. (2009).  We infer rather than perceive the moment we decided to act. Psychological Science, 20, 17-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02254.x
  25. Quiroga, R.Q., Mukamel, R., Isham, E.A., Malach, R., & Fried, I. (2008).  Human single-neuron responses at the threshold of conscious recognition: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 3599-3604. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0707043105
  26. Ekstrom, A.D., Kahana, M.J., Caplan, J.B., Fields, T.A., Isham, E.A., Newman, E.L.& Fried, I. (2003). Cellular networks underlying human spatial navigation. Nature, 425, 184-188. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01964