Burton, Leslie Professor, Psychology Department: Psychology Office: 332 Phone: (203) 251-8430 Email: leslie.burton@uconn.edu

Education:

Licensure and Board Certification:

CT, NY, CA; ABPP - Clinical Neuropsychology

Research Interests:

• Neuropsychology
• Gender differences in cognition and emotion

Courses:

• Physiological Psychology
• Motivation and Emotion
• Clinical Topics: Clinical Neuropsychology

Representative Publications:

Burton, L., Rabin, L., Vardy, S., Frohlich, J., Porter, G. Wyatt, Cofer, L., and Labar, D.  (2008).  Implicit and explicit memory for affective passages in temporal lobectomy patients.  Brain and Cognition, 68, 22-29.

Burton, L., Hafetz, J., Henninger, D., and Cofer, J.  (2008).  Aggression, gender-typical childhood play, and a prenatal hormonal index.  Social Behavior and Personality, in press.

Rabin, L., Burton, L., and Barr, W.  (2007).  Utilization rates of ecologically oriented instruments among clinical neuropsychologists.  The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 21(5), 727-734.

Burton, L., Hafetz, J., and Henninger, D.  (2007).  Gender differences in relational and physical aggression. Social Behavior and Personality, 35 (1), 41-50.

Rabin, Laura, Barr, William, and Burton, Leslie.  (2007).  Effect of patient occupation/education variables on the choice of neuropsychological assessment instruments.  Applied Neuropsychology, 14(4), 247-254.

Burton, Leslie, Henninger, Debra, and Hafetz, Jessica.  (2005).  Gender differences in relationships of mental rotation, verbal fluency, and SAT scores to finger length ratios as hormonal indices.  Developmental Neuropsychology, 28(1), 493-505.

Burton, Leslie, Rabin, Laura, Wyatt, Gwinne, Frohlich, Jonathan, Vardy, Susan, and Dimitri, Diana.  (2005).  Priming effects for affective vs. neutral faces.  Brain and Cognition, 59(3), 322-329.        

Rabin, Laura, Barr, William, and Burton, Leslie. (2005). Assessment practices of North American Clinical Psychologists:  A survey of INS, NAN, and APA Division 40 members.  Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 20(1), 33-65.

Burton, Leslie, Rabin, Laura, Vardy, Susan Bernstein, Frohlich, Jonathan, Wyatt, Gwinne, Dimitri, Diana, Constante, Shimon, and Guterman, Elan.  (2004).  Gender differences in implicit and explicit memory for affective passages.  Brain and Cognition, 54(3), 218-224.

Burton, Leslie, Vardy, Susan, Frohlich, Jonathan, Dimitri, Diana, Wyatt, Gwinne, Rabin, Laura, and Labar, Douglas.  (2004).  Affective tasks elicit material-specific memory effects in temporal lobectomy patients.  Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 26(8), 1021-1030.

Burton, Leslie, Wyatt, Gwinne, Rabin, Laura, Frohlich, Jonathan, Bernstein Vardy, Susan, Dimitri, Diana, and Labar, Douglas.  (2003).  Perception and priming of affective faces in temporal lobectomy patients.  Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 25(3), 348-360.

Burton, Leslie, Leahy, Derek, and Volpe, Bruce.  (2003).  Traumatic brain injury brief outcome interview. Applied Neuropsychology, 10(3),145-152.

Pessin, Hayley, Rosenfeld, Barry, Burton, Leslie, and Breitbart, William.  (2003).  The role of cognitive impairment in desire for hastened death.  General Hospital Psychiatry, 194-199.

Burton, Leslie, Gilliam, Denise, Flynn, Sean, Labar, Douglas, and Conn, Jennifer.  (2002).  Global affective memory for faces in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.  Applied Neuropsychology, 9(4), 234-239.

Frohlich, Jonathan, Morgan, Maria, Ogawa, Sonoko, Burton, Leslie, and Pfaff, Donald.  (2002).  Statistical analysis of measures of arousal in ovariectomized female mice.  Hormones and Behavior, 42, 414-423. 

Frohlich, Jonathan, Morgan, Maria, Ogawa, Sonoko, Burton, Leslie, and Pfaff, Donald.  (2001).  Statistical analysis of hormonal influences on arousal measures in ovariectomized female mice.  Hormones and Behavior, 39 (1), 39-47.

Burton, Leslie and Labar, Douglas.  (1999).  Emotional status after left vs. right temporal lobectomy.  Seizure, 8, 116-119.

Burton, Leslie,  Gilliam, Denise,  Flynn, Sean,  and Labar, Douglas.  (1999).  Affective verbal memory in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.  Applied Neuropsychology, 6(2), 115-120.

Frohlich, Jonathan,  Ogawa, Sonoko,  Morgan, Maria,  Burton, Leslie, and Pfaff, Donald.  (1999).  Hormones, genes, and the structure of sexual arousal. Behavioral Brain Research, 105, 5-27.

Nolan, Karen and Burton, Leslie.  (1998).  Incidence of the Fuld WAIS-R profile in Parkinson's disease and in traumatic brain injury.  Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 13(5), 425-432.

Nolan, Karen,  Volpe, Bruce, and Burton, Leslie.   (1997).  The continuum of deep/surface dyslexia.  Journal of Psycholinguistic Research,  26(4), 413-24.

Burton, Leslie and Harden, Cynthia.  (1997).  Effect of topiramate on attention.  Epilepsy Research,  27, 29-32.

Hosain, Syed,  Burton, Leslie,  Fraser, Richard, and Labar, Douglas.  (1995).  Focal suppression-burst on electrocorticography after temporal lobectomy.  Neurology, 45, 2276-2278.
           
Burton, Leslie and Volpe, Bruce.  (1994).  Depression after head injury:  Do physical and cognitive sequelae have similar impact?  Journal of Neurologic Rehabilitation,  8, 63-7.

Burton, Leslie and Volpe, Bruce.  (1993).  Social Adjustment Scale assessments in traumatic brain injury.  Journal of Rehabilitation,  59(4), 34-37.

Victor, Jonathan,  Conte, Mary,  Burton, Leslie, and Nass, Ruth.  (1993).  Visual evoked potentials in dyslexics and normals:  Failure to find a difference in transient or steady-state responses.  Visual Neuroscience,  10, 939-46.

Burton, Leslie,  Wagner, Nancy,  Lim, C., and Levy, Jerre.  (1992).  Visual field differences for clockwise and counter-clockwise mental rotation.  Brain and Cognition,  18, 192-207.

Burton, Leslie and Levy, Jerre.  (1991).  Effects of processing speed on cerebral asymmetry for left and right oriented faces.  Brain and Cognition,  15(1), 95-105.

Russ, Mark,  Ackerman, Sigurd,  Burton, Leslie,  Shindledecker, Richard, and Goldberg, Elkhonen.  (1990).  Cognitive effects of ECT in the elderly.  International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry,   5, 115-18.

Burton, Leslie and Levy, Jerre. (1989).  Sex differences in the lateralized processing of facial emotion.  Brain and Cognition,  11, 210-28.

Burton, Leslie and Volpe, Bruce.  (1988).  Sex differences in emotional status of traumatically brain-injured patients.  Journal of Neurologic Rehabilitation,  2(4), 151-7.

Levy, Jerre,  Heller,Wendy,  Banich, Marie, and Burton, Leslie.   (1983).  Are variations among right-handed individuals in perceptual asymmetries caused by characteristic arousal asymmetries between the hemispheres?  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception and Performance,  9(3), 329-57.
           
Levy, Jerre,  Heller, Wendy,  Banich, Marie, and Burton, Leslie.  (1983).  Asymmetry of perception in the free-viewing of chimeric faces.  Brain and Cognition,  2, 404-19.