Dr. Roth conducts research with students in her lab examining performance at sound localization for the sport of blind and low vision tennis. Students recruit and conduct research studies in a tennis environment. Some students design and conduct their own research projects to answer related questions. We have published with students as co-authors, leading them to better jobs and entry to better graduate programs.

Education 

• Postdoctoral Associate, Yale School of Medicine, Magnetic Resonance Research Center, New Haven, CT
• PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Baltimore, MD (2006)
• MA, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Baltimore, MD (2002)
• BS, Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (1997)

Professional Memberships

Research

Interests: Blind Tennis; Working Memory

Publications

• Roth, J., Squelch Costa, D., Roth, S. A., Rose, C., Gibbs, R. N., Liu, K., Liu-Lopez, I., Wagle, M., & Proulx, M. J. (2023). Experiments to identify the optimal sound to use in a new sound ball to improve recruitment, retention, health, and wellness for blind and visually impaired tennis players. ITF Coaching & Sport Science Review, 31(89), 11–15.
• Roth, J. K., Johnson, M. K., Tokoglu, F., Murphy, I, and Constable, R. T. (2014). Modulating intrinsic connectivity: Adjacent subregions within supplementary motor cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and parietal cortex connect to separate functional networks during task and also connect during rest. PlosOne, 9(3): e90672.
• O’Hearn, K., Roth, J. K., Courtney, S. M., Luna, B., Street, W., Terwillinger, R. and Landau, B. (2011). Object recognition in Williams syndrome: Uneven ventral stream activation. Developmental Science. 14(3), 549-565.
• Hampson, M., Driesen, N.R., Roth, J., Gore, J.C., Constable, R.T. (2010). Functional connectivity between task-positive and task-negative brain areas and its relation to working memory performance. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 28(8), 10511057
• Roth J. K., Johnson M. K., Raye C. L., Constable R. T. (2009). Similar and dissociable mechanisms for attention to internal versus external information. NeuroImage, 48(3), 601-8.
• Courtney, S. M., Roth, J. K., and Sala, J. B. (2007). A Hierarchical Biased-Competition Model of Domain-Dependent Working Memory Maintenance and Executive Control. in “Working Memory- Behavioural & Neural Correlates”, Editors Naoyuki Osaka, Robert Logie & Marl D’Esposito, Oxford University Press
• Roth, J. K., and Courtney S. M. (2007). Neural system for updating object working memory from different sources: sensory stimuli or long-term memory. NeuroImage, 38(3), 617-30.
• Roth, J. K, Serences, J. T., Courtney, S. M. (2006). Neural System for Controlling the Contents of Object Working Memory in Humans. Cerebral Cortex, 16(11), 1595-603.
• Newman, S. D., Just, M. A., Keller, T. A., Roth, J., Carpenter, P. A. (2003). Differential effects of syntactic and semantic processing on the subregions of Broca’s Area. Cognitive Brain Research, 16(2), 297-307.
• Carpenter, P. A., Just, M. A., Keller, T., Cherkassky, V., Roth, J. K. (1998). Dynamic cortical systems subserving cognition: fMRI studies with typical and atypical individuals. In J. L. McClelland and R. S. Siegler (Eds.), “29th Carnegie Symposium on Cognition: Mechanisms of cortical development: Behavioral and neural perspectives”, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Awards & Recognition

• Phi Beta Kappa, Psi Chi, Sisters of Mercy Excellence in Advising; Mission Moment (Award given by the President and Board of Trustees for mission-aligned scholarship work)