Jonas Persson
FD, docent, forskare
Professional background
Education:
| 1997 | M.S. in Psychology, Umeå University |
| 2002 | PhD in Psychology, Umeå University |
| 2008 | Associate Professor (Docent) in Psychology, Stockholm University |
Affiliations:
| 1997 | Research Assistant, Umeå University |
| 2003 | Research Fellow, Umeå University |
| 2003-2006 | Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan |
| 2007 | Lecturer (30%), Umeå University |
| 2007 | Research Scientist (70%), Stockholm University |
| 2008- | Research Assistant Professor (forskarassistent), Stockholm University |
Research Interests
- Functional neuroimaging of higher cognitive functions, such as cognitive control, working memory, and episodic memory.
- Differences in neural responses between young and older adults, and its implications for cognitive decline in old age.
- Age-related changes in the structure of the brain, including white-matter changes (as assessed by diffusion-tensor imaging), and volumetric changes.
- Structure - function correlates related to increased genetic risk for developing Alzheimer's disease.
I am also working within, and I am affiliated with, Stockholm Brain Institute. During the past years I have had a close collaboration with Lars-Göran Nilsson (PI) and Lars Nyberg in several projects involving structural and functional brain imaging, memory, aging, and genes.
These investigations are linked to the Betula project which was selected as a particularly strong research environment 2005 by the Swedish Research Council.
I am also collaborating with Prof. Patricia Reuter-Lorenz at the University of Michigan on projects on functional brain imaging, aging and cognitive training.
Publications
Peer-reviewed papers:
1. Persson, J., & Reuter-Lorenz, P. A. (2008). Gaining control: Training executive function and far transfer of the ability to resolve interference. Psychological Science, (In press.) [PDF]
2. Persson, J., Lind, J., Ingvar, M., Crutz, M., Van Broeckhoven, C., Adofsson, R., Nilsson. L.-G., & Nyberg, L. (2008). Altered patterns of deactivation in older adults with increased risk for Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychologia, 46 (6), 1679-1687. [PDF]
3. Persson, J., Lustig, C., Nelson, J. K., & Reuter-Lorenz, P. A. (2007). Age difference in deactivations: A link to cognitive control. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19 (6), 1-12. [PDF]
4. Persson, J., Jonides, J., Welsh, K. M., & Reuter-Lorenz, P. A. (2007). Cognitive fatigue of executive processes: Interaction between interference resolution tasks. Neuropsychologia, 45, 1571-1579. [PDF]
5. Lind, J., Ingvar, M., Persson, J., Cruts, M., Van Broeckhoven, C., Adolfsson, A., Nilsson, L.-G., & Nyberg, L. (2006). Parietal cortex activation predicts longitudinal memory decline in APOE-_4 carriers. NeuroReport, (17) 16, 1683-1686. [PDF]
6. Lind, J., Persson, J., Ingvar, M., Larsson, A., Cruts, M., Van Broeckhoven, C., Adolfsson, R., Bäckman, L., Nilsson, L-G., Petersson, K. M., & Nyberg, L. (2006). Cognitively intact carriers of the Apolipoprotein _4 show reduced functional brain activity response. Brain, 129 (5), 1240-1248. [PDF]
7. Persson, J., Lind, J., Larsson, A., Ingvar, M., Crutz, M., Van Broeckhoven, C., Adofsson, R., Nilsson. L-G., & Nyberg, L. (2006). Altered brain white-matter integrity in non-demented carriers of the APOE _4 allele: A risk for AD? Neurology, 66 (7), 1029-1033. [PDF]
8. Lind, J., Larsson, A., Persson, J., Ingvar, M., Nilsson, L.-G., Bäckman, L., Adolfsson, R., Crutz, M., Sleegers, K., Van Broeckhoven, C., & Nyberg, L. (2006). Reduced hippocampal volume in non-demented carriers of the Apolipoprotein E _4: Relation to chronological age and recognition memory. Neuroscience Letters, 396, 23-27. [PDF]
9. Persson, J., Nyberg, L., Lind, J., Larsson, A., Nilsson, L.-G., Ingvar, M., & Buckner, R. L. (2006). Structure - Function Correlates of Cognitive Decline in Aging. Cerebral Cortex, 16 (7), 907-15. [PDF]
10. Persson, J., Sylvester, C.-Y. C., Nelson, J. K., Welsh, K. M., Jonides, J., & Reuter-Lorenz, P. A. (2004). Selection requirements during verb generation: Differential recruitment in older and younger adults. NeuroImage, 23 (4), 1382-1390. [PDF]
11. Persson, J., Bringlöv, E., Nilsson, L.-G., & Nyberg, L. (2004). The memory enhancing effects of Ginseng and Ginko biloba in healthy volunteers. Psychopharmacology, 172, 430-434. [PDF]
12. Nyberg, L., Marklund, P., Persson, J., Cabeza, R., Forkstam, C., Petersson, K. M., & Ingvar, M. (2003). Common prefrontal activations during working memory, episodic memory, and semantic memory. Neuropsychologia, 41, 371-377. [PDF]
13. Nyberg, L., Persson, J., & Nilsson, L-G. (2002). Individual differences in memory enhancement by encoding enactment: Relationships to adult age and biological factors. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 26, 835-839. [PDF]
14. Persson, J., Habib, R., & Nyberg, L. (2002). Decreased activity in inferotemporal cortex during successful episodic memory retrieval. Neuroreport, 13, 2181-2185. [PDF]
15. Persson, J., & Nyberg, L. (2000). Conjunction Analysis of Cortical Activations Common to Encoding and Retrieval. Microscopy Research and Technique, 51, 39-44. [PDF]
16. Nilsson, L.-G., Nyberg, L., Klingberg, T., Åberg, C., Persson, J., & Roland, P. (2000). Activity in Motor Areas while Remembering Action Events. Neuroreport, 10, 2199-2201. [PDF]
17. Nyberg, L., Persson, J., Habib, R., Tulving, R., Cabeza, R., Houle, S., & McIntosh, A. R. (2000). Large Scale Neurocognitive Networks Underlying Episodic Memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 163-173. [PDF]
18. Nelson, J. K., Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., Persson, J., Sylvester, C.-Y. C., & Jonides, J. Interference resolution in the left inferior frontal gyrus. (Submitted). [PDF]
19. Persson, J., Nilsson, L.-G, & Nyberg, L. The face-name paired-associates task: An fMRI protocol that reliably elicits hippocampus activation. (Submitted). [PDF]
20. Quinn-Walsh, C.M., Bangert, A.S., Persson, J., Noll, D. C., Reuter-Lorenz P. A., & Seidler, R. D. Neural correlates of aging on a motor tapping task. (In preparation).
Book-chapters:
1. Reuter-Lorenz, P A., & Persson, J. Cognitive neuroscience of the aging brain. In: D. Park & N. Schwarz (Eds.) Cognitive Aging: A Primer. Psychology Press: Philadelphia, PA. (In press).
2. Persson, J., Bringlöv, E., Nilsson, L.-G., & Nyberg, L. Response to: Persson, J., Bringlöv, E., Nilsson, L.-G., & Nyberg, L. (2005). Herbal, extracts and memory enhancement: Reply to Scholey et al. Letter to the Editor, Psychopharmacology, 179, 708-709. [PDF]
3. Persson, J., & Nyberg, L. Altered brain activity in healthy seniors: What does it mean? In: A. Møller, S. Bond, & S. G. Lomber. (Eds.) Reprogramming the Human Brain. (2006). Progress in Brain Research, 157, 45-56.
4. Persson, J., & Reuter-Lorenz, P A. Cognition and Aging - typical development. In: C A Nelson & Luciana, M (Eds.) Handbook of developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2nd edition. MIT Press. (In press).
5. Persson, J., & Nyberg, L. Structure-function correlates of episodic memory in aging. To appear In: Huston, J.P., Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience.
Financial support
- J.C Kempes minnesfond
- STINT
- Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council)
