Indicates current or former +Undergraduate Advisee

Vargas, R. & +Nazzaro, H. (in prep). Identifying Partisan-Biased Language Tokens from Commonly Consumed American News Outlets. https://osf.io/rj6n3/ 

Vargas, R., +Gelber, A., Verstynen, T. (in prep). Media Consumption and Identity based Concept Geometries Predict Engagement and Beliefs Towards Societal Institutions. https://osf.io/vj7e5/

Vargas, R. +Gelber, A., +Fang, R. (in prep). Racial/Ethnic and Gender Categorization of Names: Toolkit for Evoking Implicit Bias

Vargas, R. & Verstynen, T. (2025). Informational ecosystems partially explain differences in socioenvironmental conceptual associations between U.S. American racial groups. Nature Communications Psychology. [article link, code]

Eng, C. M., Vargas, R., Fung, H., Niemi, S., Pocsai, M., Fisher, A., Thiessen, E. (2025). Prefrontal Cortex Intrinsic Functional Connectivity and Executive Function in Early Childhood and Early Adulthood using fNIRS. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 

Vargas, R. & Just, M. (2022) Similarities and Differences in the Neural representations of Abstract Concepts across English and Mandarin: Comparison of Underlying Dimensions of Meaning. Human Brain Mapping. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25844

Vargas, R. & Just, M.A. (2021). The Neural Representation of Concrete and Abstract Concepts. In Barbey, A.K., Karama, S. & Heier, R.J. (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Vargas, R. & Just, M.A. (2019).  Neural representations of Abstract Concepts: Identifying Underlying Neurosemantic Dimensions. Cerebral Cortex. doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhz229

Wang, J., Cherkassky, V. L., Yang, Y., Chang, K. K., Vargas, R., Diana, N., Just, M.A. (2016) Identifying thematic roles from neural representations measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 1-8. (Special Issue on Conceptual Knowledge Representation)

Price, L.R., Vargas, R., Behroosmand, R., Parkinson, A.L., Larson C.R., Greenlee, J.D.W., & Robin, D.A. (2016) Dynamic Connectivity Mapping of Electrocorticographic Data using Bayesian Differential Structural Equation Modeling. Biometrics and Biostatistics International Journal, 4.

Flagmeier, S.J., Ray, K.L., Parkinson, A.L., Li, K., Vargas, R., Laird, A., Larson, C.R. & Robin, D.A. (2014). The Neural Changes in Connectivity of the Voice Network During Error Detection and Correction. Brain and language, 132, 7-13.

Fernandez, E., Arevalo, I., Torralba, A., & Vargas, R. (2014).  Norms for five parameters of anger: How do incarcerated adults differ from the community?  International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 13, 18-24 

Fernandez, E., Vargas, R., Mahometa, M., Ramamurthy, S. & Boyle, G.J. (2012). Descriptors of Pain Sensation: A Dual Hierarchical Model of Latent Structure. The Journal of Pain, 13, 532-536.