Publications
Works from the Raz Lab
2021
Rémi Theriault, Jay Olson, Sonia Krol, Amir Raz. (In Press) Body Swapping with a Black Person Boosts Empathy: Using Virtual Reality to Embody Another. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Kaypak, A. C. and Raz, A. (2021). Macrodosing to Microdosing with Psychedelics: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Perspectives. (Under review) download
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
Landry, M., & Raz, A. (2016). Neurophysiology of Hypnosis. In G. R. Elkins (Ed.), The clinician’s guide to Medical and Psychological Hypnosis: Foundations, Systems, Applications, and Professional Issues (pp. 19-25). New York: Springer. download
2015
Champigny, C. M., & Raz, A. (2015). Transcultural factors in hypnotizability scales: limits and prospects. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 58(2), 171-194. https://doi.org/10.1080/00029157.2015.1061473
Raz, A., & Macdonald, E.B. (2015). Paying attention to a field in crisis: Psychiatry, neuroscience, and functional systems of the brain. In L.J. Kirmayer, R. Lemelson, and C.A. Cummings (Eds.), Re-visioning psychiatry: Cultural phenomenology, critical neuroscience, and global mental health (pp. 273-304). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
2014
2013
Raz, A. & Oksenhendler, R. (2013). Paying Attention to Michael Posner. PsycCRITIQUES–Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 58(3).
2012
Lifshitz, M., Margulies, D. S., & Raz, A. (2012). Lengthy and expensive? Why the future of diagnostic neuroimaging may be faster, cheaper, and more collaborative than we think. AJOB Neuroscience, 3(4), 48-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2012.721466
Raz, A. (2012). Contemplative Practices and the Power of the Mind. The Journal of Mind-Body Regulation, 2(1), 1-2. download
2011
Raz, A., Lamar, M., Buhle, J. T., Kane, M. J., & Peterson, B. S. (2007). Selective biasing of a specific bistable-figure percept involves fMRI signal changes in frontostriatal circuits: A step toward unlocking the neural correlates of top-down control and self-regulation. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 50(2), 137-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/00029157.2007.10401611
2010
2009
Raz, A. (2009). Varieties of Attention: A Research-Magician’s Perspective. In G. Bernston and J. Cacioppo (Eds.), Handbook of Neuroscience for the Behavioural Sciences (pp. 361-369). Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Raz, A. (2009). Anomalous Cognition. In Kendrick Frazier (Ed.), Science Under Siege: Defending Science Exposing Pseudoscience (pp. 268-274). New York: Prometheus Books.
2008
Raz, A. (2008). Meeting of minds on anomalous cognition. Skeptical Inquirer, 32(4), 36-43.
Raz, A., & Guindi, D. (2008). Placebos and medical education. McGill Journal of Medicine: MJM, 11(2), 223. download
2007
Egner, T., & Raz, A. (2007). Cognitive control processes and hypnosis. Hypnosis and conscious states: The cognitive neuroscience perspective, 29-50. download
2006
Raz, A. (2006). Could certain frequencies of electromagnetic waves or radiation interfere with brain function? Scientific American Mind, 29(4), 82.
Raz, A. (2006). Individual differences and attentional varieties. Europa Medicophysica, 42(1), 53. download
2005
Moreno-Iñiguez, M., & Raz, A. (2005). Atypical attention. An alternative to pharmacological treatment for children and adolescents based on suggestion, motivation, and expectation. Revista De Psiquiatría Infanto-Juvenil, 22(3), 64-73.
Lamar, M., & Raz, A. (2005). Neuropsychological Assessment of Attention and Executive Functioning. In S. Ayers (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health & Medicine, (2nd ed. pp. 290-294). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. download
Xu, D., Raz, A., Bansal, R., Zhu, H., Hao, X., Kangarlu, A., & Peterson, B. Fiber Connection Density Map Based on Diffusion Tensor Image Data. download
Before 2005
Raz, A. (2004). Brain imaging data of ADHD. Psychiatric Times, 21(9), 42-42. download
Raz, A. (2004). Neural substrates of attention. In G. Adelman & B. H. Smith (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (pp). New York: Elsevier Science.
Raz, A. (2004). Atypical attention: Hypnosis and conflict reduction. In Posner M. I. (Ed.), Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention (pp. 420-429). New York: Guilford Press.
Raz, A. (2004). Attention. In C. Spielberger (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology (pp. 203-208). San Diego, CA: Elsevier Science Academic Press.
Raz, A., Fossella, J. A., McGuiness, P., Zephrani, Z. R., & Posner, M. I. (2004). Neural Correlates and Exploratory Genetic Associations of Attentional and Hypnotic Phenomena. Hypnose und Kognition: The official Journal of the Milton Erickson Society for Clinical Hypnosis, 2, 79-92.
Raz, A., Marinoff, G. P., Landzberg, K. S., & Guyton, D. L. (2004). Substrates of negative accommodation. Binocular vision & strabismus quarterly, 19(2), 71-74. download
Fan, J., Raz, A., & Posner, M. I. (2003). Attentional Mechanisms. In Aminoff, M. J., Daroff, R. B. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Neurological Sciences (pp. 292-299). New York: Elsevier Science.