Associate Professor 214 McAlester Hall 573-882-8846 kernsj@missouri.edu Lab: Cognitive and Emotional Control Lab

The psychological and neural basis of cognitive and emotional control and their role in the development of schizophrenia and its symptoms (e.g., disorganized speech, negative symptoms). Treatment of cognitive and neural deficits in schizophrenia.

Kerns, J. G., Docherty, A. R., & Martin, E. A. (2008). Social and physical anhedonia and valence and arousal aspects of emotional experience. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 735-746.

Becker, T. M., Kerns, J. G., MacDonald, A. W. III, & Carter, C. S. (2008). Prefrontal dysfunction in first-degree relatives of schizophrenia patients during a Stroop task. Neuropsychopharmacology, 33, 2619-2625.

Kerns, J. G., & Becker, T. M. (2008). Communication disturbances, working memory, and emotion in people with elevated disorganized schizotypy. Schizophrenia Research, 100, 172-180.

Kerns, J. G. (2007). Verbal communication impairments and cognitive control components in people with schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 279-289.

Kerns, J. G. (2007). Experimental manipulation of cognitive control processes causes an increase in communication disturbances in healthy volunteers. Psychological Medicine, 37, 995-1004.

Kerns, J. G. (2006). Anterior cingulate and prefrontal cortex activity in an fMRI study of trial-to-trial adjustments on the Simon task. NeuroImage, 15, 399-405.

Kerns, J. G. (2006). Schizotypy facets, cognitive control, and emotion. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115, 418-427.