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List of works by Mara Mather

A dual process for the cognitive control of emotional significance: implications for emotion regulation and disorders of emotion

scientific article published on 25 April 2014

A functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of short-term source and item memory for negative pictures

scientific article published in October 2006

A ten-year follow-up of a study of memory for the attack of September 11, 2001: Flashbulb memories and memories for flashbulb events

scientific article published on 09 March 2015

Actions and interactions of estradiol and glucocorticoids in cognition and the brain: Implications for aging women.

scientific article published on 27 April 2015

Acute stress increases sex differences in risk seeking in the balloon analogue risk task

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Age differences in brain activity during emotion processing: reflections of age-related decline or increased emotion regulation?

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Age differences in emotion-induced blindness: Positivity effects in early attention

scientific article published on 12 August 2019

Age differences in thalamic low-frequency fluctuations

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Age-related affective modulation of the startle eyeblink response: older adults startle most when viewing positive pictures.

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Age-related reduced prefrontal-amygdala structural connectivity is associated with lower trait anxiety

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Age-related similarities and differences in brain activity underlying reversal learning

scientific article published on 30 May 2013

Aging and attentional biases for emotional faces

scientific article published in September 2003

Aging and cognition

scientific article published on 22 April 2010

Aging and emotional memory: the forgettable nature of negative images for older adults

scientific article published in June 2003

Aging and motivated cognition: the positivity effect in attention and memory

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Aging and reflective processes of working memory: binding and test load deficits

scientific article (publication date: September 2000)

Aging and variety seeking.

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Amygdala functional connectivity is reduced after the cold pressor task

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Amygdala functional connectivity with medial prefrontal cortex at rest predicts the positivity effect in older adults' memory.

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Amygdala responses to emotionally valenced stimuli in older and younger adults

scientific article published in April 2004

Arousal increases neural gain via the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system in younger adults but not in older adults

scientific article published on 07 May 2018

Arousal-Biased Competition in Perception and Memory

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Arousal-Enhanced Location Memory for Pictures

scientific article published on February 2008

Association learning for emotional harbinger cues: when do previous emotional associations impair and when do they facilitate subsequent learning of new associations?

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Attenuating age-related learning deficits: emotional valenced feedback interacts with task complexity.

scientific article published on 19 November 2012

Beyond arousal and valence: The importance of the biological versus social relevance of emotional stimuli

scientific article published on March 1, 2012

Both Risk and Reward are Processed Differently in Decisions Made Under Stress.

scientific article published in February 2012

Both younger and older adults have difficulty updating emotional memories

scientific article published on 26 March 2012

Brain Structure and Function Associated with Younger Adults in Growth Hormone Receptor-Deficient Humans.

scientific article published on 10 January 2017

Choice-supportive source monitoring: do our decisions seem better to us as we age?

scientific article (publication date: December 2000)

Commentary: Modulation of Prepulse Inhibition and Startle Reflex by Emotions: A Comparison between Young and Older Adults

scientific article published on 9 May 2016

Comparison of two isometric handgrip protocols on sympathetic arousal in women

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Current research and emerging directions in emotion-cognition interactions

scientific article published on 11 November 2014

Dedifferentiation of emotion regulation strategies in the aging brain.

scientific article published on 6 November 2014

Differential interference effects of negative emotional states on subsequent semantic and perceptual processing.

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Disentangling the effects of arousal and valence on memory for intrinsic details

scientific article published on 01 April 2009

Effect of spaced repetitions on amnesia patients' recall and recognition performance

Effects of Emotional Arousal on Memory Binding in Normal Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Effects of hunger on emotional arousal responses and attention/memory biases

scientific article published on 07 October 2019

Emerging perspectives in social neuroscience and neuroeconomics of aging

scientific article published on April 1, 2011

Emotion strengthens high-priority memory traces but weakens low-priority memory traces.

scientific article published on 05 December 2013

Emotional Arousal and Memory Binding: An Object-Based Framework.

scientific article published on March 2007

Emotional arousal amplifies the effects of biased competition in the brain

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Encoding of goal-relevant stimuli is strengthened by emotional arousal in memory.

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Evidence for arousal-biased competition in perceptual learning

scientific article published on 19 July 2012

Forgetting in context: the effects of age, emotion, and social factors on retrieval-induced forgetting.

scientific article published on August 2012

Gender differences in reward-related decision processing under stress

scientific article published on May 23, 2011

Goal-directed memory: the role of cognitive control in older adults' emotional memory.

scientific article published in December 2005

Hearing something emotional influences memory for what was just seen: How arousal amplifies effects of competition in memory consolidation

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Heart rate variability is associated with amygdala functional connectivity with MPFC across younger and older adults

scientific article published on 31 May 2016

Highly accurate prediction of emotions surrounding the attacks of September 11, 2001 over 1-, 2-, and 7-year prediction intervals.

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How Stereotype Threat Affects Healthy Older Adults' Performance on Clinical Assessments of Cognitive Decline: The Key Role of Regulatory Fit

scientific article published on 8 March 2015

How arousal affects younger and older adults' memory binding.

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How arousal influences neural competition: What dual competition does not explain

scientific article published on January 2015

How arousal modulates the visual contrast sensitivity function

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How does context affect assessments of facial emotion? The role of culture and age

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

How fMRI Can Inform Cognitive Theories

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How retellings shape younger and older adults' memories

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How reward and emotional stimuli induce different reactions across the menstrual cycle.

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Increased functional coupling between the left fronto-parietal network and anterior insula predicts steeper delay discounting in smokers

scientific article published on 12 February 2014

Introduction to the Special Section: 20 Years of fMRI-What Has It Done for Understanding Cognition?

scientific article published on January 2013

Locus coeruleus activity strengthens prioritized memories under arousal

scientific article published on 4 January 2018

Locus coeruleus neuromodulation of memories encoded during negative or unexpected action outcomes

scientific article published on 22 March 2014

Long-term memory for the terrorist attack of September 11: flashbulb memories, event memories, and the factors that influence their retention

scientific article published in May 2009

Look out-it's your off-peak time of day! Time of day matters more for alerting than for orienting or executive attention

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Mechanisms of motivation-cognition interaction: challenges and opportunities

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Memory for choices in Alzheimer's disease

scientific article published on 12 June 2006

Memory suppression can help people "unlearn" behavioral responses--but only for nonemotional memories.

scientific article published on February 2014

Negative arousal amplifies the effects of saliency in short-term memory

scientific article published on May 28, 2012

Negative arousal increases the effects of stimulus salience in older adults

scientific article published on May 2015

Negative emotional outcomes impair older adults' reversal learning.

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Neuromelanin marks the spot: identifying a locus coeruleus biomarker of cognitive reserve in healthy aging

scientific article published on 28 October 2015

Noradrenergic mechanisms of arousal's bidirectional effects on episodic memory

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Noradrenergic responsiveness supports selective attention across the adult lifespan

scientific article published on 14 April 2020

Norepinephrine ignites local hotspots of neuronal excitation: How arousal amplifies selectivity in perception and memory

scientific article published in July 2015

Not all that glittered is gold: neural mechanisms that determine when reward will enhance or impair memory

scientific article published on 16 July 2014

Perceptual salience does not influence emotional arousal's impairing effects on top-down attention.

scientific article published on 12 January 2017

Positive Outcomes Enhance Incidental Learning for Both Younger and Older Adults

scientific article published on November 21, 2011

Reconciling findings of emotion-induced memory enhancement and impairment of preceding items.

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Remembering chosen and assigned options

scientific article published in April 2003

Risk preferences and aging: the "certainty effect" in older adults' decision making.

scientific article published on 15 October 2012

Rostral locus coeruleus integrity is associated with better memory performance in older adults

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

Sex differences in how stress affects brain activity during face viewing.

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Stereotype threat can both enhance and impair older adults' memory.

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Stereotype threat can reduce older adults' memory errors.

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Stress modulates reinforcement learning in younger and older adults.

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Stress-induced increases in progesterone and cortisol in naturally cycling women.

scientific article published on 11 February 2016

Sympathetic arousal increases a negative memory bias in young women with low sex hormone levels.

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The Affective Neuroscience of Aging

scientific article published on 02 October 2015

The Locus Coeruleus: Essential for Maintaining Cognitive Function and the Aging Brain

scientific article published on March 2016

The allure of the alignable: younger and older adults' false memories of choice features

scientific article published in February 2005

The emotion paradox in the aging brain

scientific article published on March 12, 2012

Thinking about a limited future enhances the positivity of younger and older adults' recall: Support for socioemotional selectivity theory

scientific article published on 25 April 2016

Updating existing emotional memories involves the frontopolar/orbito-frontal cortex in ways that acquiring new emotional memories does not.

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