The Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab

The Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory was founded in 2001 when Julian Paul Keenan arrived at Montclair State University from Harvard Medical School.

Our goal is to determine how and why the self evolved in the human brain.

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REVENT BOOKS

Keenan, J. P. (In Press: Cambridge University Press). Getting It Done: The Essential Guide for Neuroscience on a Budget. Due out Late 2025 or Early 2026.

Self-Face Recognition and the Brain: How the Neuroscience of Mirror Recognition Has Changed Psychology, Psychiatry, and Evolution (2023). Edited By Julian Paul Keenan, Karina Quevedo, William D. Hopkins Click Here

When Animals Die: Examining Justifications and Envisioning Justice. (2024). Edited by Katja Guenther and Julian Paul Keenan. Click Here

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

-Skowron, M., Morante, A., Alvarex, A;, & Keenan, J. P. (2025). A Pilot Study of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and the Right Teaching Parietal Junction

(bioRxiv): https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.15.676361

-Greenwood, D., Archer, Q., Ash, S., & Keenan, J. P. (2025). Connecting the Dots Between Narcissism and Fame Appeal:The Role of Imaginary Audience Fantasies. Current Issues in Personality Psychology.

-Archer, Q., Brenya, J., Chavaria, K., Friest, A., Ahmad, N., Zorns, S., Vaidya, S., Shelanskey, T., Sierra, S., Ash, S., Balugus, B., Alvarez, A., Pardillo, M., Hamilton, R., & Keenan, J. P. (2024). The Sol Braiding Method for Handling Thick Hair During Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: An Address for Potential Bias in Brain Stimulation. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, (210), 10.3791/66001. https://doi.org/10.3791/66001

-Elias, S., Spivak, S., Alvarez, A., Ferrol, M., Olivares, A., & Keenan, J. P. (In Press=Due put 2023). Self-perception and self-recognition while looking in the mirror on psilocybin. Psychedelic Medicine.