Publications

*Authors contributed equally to the work

Articles:

Ferguson*, M.A., Asp*, E.W., Kletenik, I., Tranel, D., Boes, A.D., Nelson, J.M., Schaper, F.L., Siddiqi, S., Turner, J.I., Anderson, J.S., Nielsen, J., Bateman, J.R., Grafman, J., Fox, M.D.  (2024).  A neural network for religious fundamentalism derived from patients with brain lesions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121, 1-8.

Asp, E.W.  (2022).  Toward a neurobiological explanation of mystical experience.  Biological Psychiatry, 91, 330-331.

Brown, J., Jonason, A., Asp, E.W., McGinn, V., Carter, M.N., Spiller, V., Jozan, A.  (2021).  Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and confabulation in psycholegal settings: A beginner’s guide for criminal justice, forensic mental health, and legal interviewers.  Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 40, 46-86.

Brown, J., Asp, E.W., Carter, M.N., Spiller, V. Bishop-Deaton, D.  (2020).  Suggestibility and confabulation amongst individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder:  A review for criminal justice, forensic mental health, and legal interviewers.  International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 73, 101646.

Brown, J., Asp, E.W.  (2019).  Forced confabulation: A brief review.  Forensic Scholars Today, 5, 1-6.

Brown, J., Spiller, V., Carter, M.N., Asp, E.W.  (2019).  Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and confabulation: A call to action and a need for increased awareness, understanding, and training among criminal justice, forensic mental health, and legal professionals.  Dual Diagnosis, 4, 1-7.

Asp*, E.W., Gullickson*, J., Warner, K., Koscik, T., Denburg, N., Tranel, D.  (2019).  Soft on crime: Patients with prefrontal cortex damage allocate reduced third-party punishment to violent criminals.  Cortex, 119, 33-45.

Brown, J., Huntley, D., Asp, E.W., Wiley, C.R., Cich, J., Morgan, S.  (2017).  Confabulation:  Implications for criminal justice, forensic mental health, and legal professionals.  Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience, 8, 1-8.

Brown, J., Cich, J., Wiley, C.R., Charette, C., Asp, E.W.  (2017).  Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome (WKS): A review for criminal justice, forensic, legal, and mental health professionals. Forensic Scholars Today, 2, 1-9.

Brown, J., Huntley, D., Asp, E.W., Fabrizio, K., Wiley, C.R., Harris, B., Tatzemann, M., Riley, J., Eckberg, D.A.  (2017).  Traumatic-Brain Injury (TBI) and confabulation: An introduction for criminal justice and legal professionals.  Journal of Special Populations, 1, 1-13.

Taber-Thomas*, B.C., Asp*, E.W., Koenigs, M., Sutterer, M., Anderson, S.W., Tranel, D.  (2014). Arrested development:  Early prefrontal lesions impair the maturation of moral judgment. Brain, 137, 1254-1261.

Cacioppo, S., Frum, C., Asp, E.W., Weiss, R., Lewis, J.W., Cacioppo, J.T.  (2013).  A quantitative meta-analysis of functional imaging studies of social rejection. Scientific Reports, 3, 1-3.

Asp, E.W., Manzel, K., Koestner, B., Denburg, N., Tranel, D.  (2013).  Benefit of the doubt: A new view of the prefrontal cortex’s role in executive functioning and decision making.  Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7, 86.

Asp*, E.W., Manzel*, K., Koestner, B., Cole, C.A., Denburg, N., Tranel, D.  (2012).  A neuropsychological test of belief and doubt: Damage to ventromedial prefrontal cortex increases credulity for misleading advertising.  Frontiers in Neuroscience, 6, 100.

Asp, E.W., Ramchandran, K., Tranel, D.  (2012).  Authoritarianism, religious fundamentalism, and the human prefrontal cortex.  Neuropsychology, 26, 414-421.

Barrash, J., Asp, E.W., Markon, K., Manzel, K., Anderson, S.W., Tranel, D.  (2011).  Dimensions of personality disturbance after focal brain damage: Investigation with the Iowa Scales of Personality Change.  Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 33, 833-852.

Tranel, D., Manzel, K., Asp, E.W., Kemmerer, D.  (2008).  Naming dynamic and static actions: Neuropsychological evidence.  Journal of Physiology – Paris, 102, 80-94.

West, S.W., Otley, C.C., Nguyen, T.H., Phillips, P.K., Roenigk, R.K., Byrd, D.R., Asp, E.W., Weaver, A.L. (2002).  Cutaneous surgeons cannot predict blood-thinner status by intraoperative visual inspection.  Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 110, 98-103.

Chapters:

Pennycook, G., Tranel, D., Warner, K., Asp, E.W. (2019).  Beyond reasonable doubt: Cognitive and neuropsychological implications for religious disbelief.  In A. Coles & J. Collicutt (Eds.), Neurology and Religion (pp. 115-129).  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Brown, J., Charette, C., Weaver, J., Wiley, C.R., Asp, E.W., Watts, E., Oberoi, P., Wresh, J., Weinkauf, E., Vorlicky, K., Huntley, D., Concepcion, E., Giacomoni, C., Hesse, M.L.  (2018).  Confabulation: A beginner’s guide for criminal justice and forensic mental health professionals.  In J. Brown & E. Weinkauf (Eds.), Forensic Mental Health: A Source Guide for Professionals.  Spartanburg, SC: Police and Fire Publishing.

Brown, J., Jordan, B., Arndt, C., Concepcion, E., Krakowski, M.D., Trnka, A., Burger, P., Watts, E., Carter, S.L., Huntely, D., Kivisalu, T.M., Patrick, A., Asp, E.W., Beltrani, A.  (2018). Schizophrenia: A beginner’s guide for clinical and forensic considerations.  In J. Brown & E. Weinkauf (Eds.), Forensic Mental Health: A Source Guide for Professionals.  Spartanburg, SC: Police and Fire Publishing.

Warner, K., Tranel, D., Asp, E.W.  (2016).  The henchman’s brain: Neuropsychological implications to authoritarianism and prejudice.  In J.R. Absher & J. Cloutier (Eds.), Neuroimaging personality and character: Traits and mental states in the brain (pp. 325-335).  New York: Elsevier.

Asp, E.W., Tranel, D. (2013). False Tagging Theory: Toward a unitary account of prefrontal cortex function. In D.T. Stuss & R.T. Knight (Eds.), Principles of Frontal Lobe Function (2nd ed., pp. 383-416). New York: Oxford University Press.

Book Reviews:

Asp, E.W.  (2020).  Review of Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Deception, authored by Timothy R. Levine.  Journal of Communication, 71, E32-E34.