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| ELIZABETH ANYA PHELPSSummaryAffiliation: New York University Country: USA Publications
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The neuroscience of a person networkElizabeth A Phelps
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
Am J Bioeth 7:49-50; discussion W1-4. 2007- Extinction learning in humans: role of the amygdala and vmPFCElizabeth A Phelps
Department of Psychology and New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
Neuron 43:897-905. 2004..These results provide evidence that the mechanisms of extinction learning may be preserved across species... - Human emotion and memory: interactions of the amygdala and hippocampal complexElizabeth A Phelps
Department of Psychology, 6 Washington Place, 8 th floor, New York, New York 10003, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 14:198-202. 2004..Although these are independent memory systems, they act in concert when emotion meets memory... - Intact performance on an indirect measure of race bias following amygdala damageElizabeth A Phelps
Department of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Place, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10003, USA
Neuropsychologia 41:203-8. 2003..J. Cogn. Neurosci. 12 (5) (2000) 729], the amygdala is not critical for normal performance on the IAT... - Learned fear of "unseen" faces after Pavlovian, observational, and instructed fearAndreas Olsson
New York University, Meyer Hall Psychology C and P, New York, NY 10003, USA
Psychol Sci 15:822-8. 2004..However, whereas the observational-learning group also showed this effect, the instructed-learning group did not... - Functional neuroimaging and episodic memory: a perspectiveS W Yancey
Department of Psychology, New York University, NY, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 23:32-48. 2001..Finally, we briefly comment on the potential clinical applications for this research and other memory systems... - Activation of the left amygdala to a cognitive representation of fearE A Phelps
Department of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Place, 8th Floor, New York, New York 10003, USA
Nat Neurosci 4:437-41. 2001..These results suggest that the neural substrates that support conditioned fear across species have a similar but somewhat different role in more abstract representations of fear in humans... - Contributions of the amygdala to emotion processing: from animal models to human behaviorElizabeth A Phelps
Department of Psychology, New York University, 4 6 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003, USA
Neuron 48:175-87. 2005.... - Emotion and cognition: insights from studies of the human amygdalaElizabeth A Phelps
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 57:27-53. 2006..These findings suggest that the classic division between the study of emotion and cognition may be unrealistic and that an understanding of human cognition requires the consideration of emotion... - An fMRI study of reward-related probability learningM R Delgado
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
Neuroimage 24:862-73. 2005.... - Human fear-related motor neurocircuitryT Butler
Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Box 140, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA
Neuroscience 150:1-7. 2007.... - Perceptions of moral character modulate the neural systems of reward during the trust gameM R Delgado
Department of Psychology, 6 Washington Place, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
Nat Neurosci 8:1611-8. 2005.... - Emotional memory: what does the amygdala do?E A Phelps
Department of Psychology, Yale University, 2 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
Curr Biol 7:R311-4. 1997..Recent studies of the human amygdala have shed new light on its roles in two distinct, but related processes: emotional memory and the evaluation of emotional stimuli... - Memory deficits for implicit contextual information in amnesic subjects with hippocampal damageM M Chun
Department of Psychology, Yale University, PO Box 208205, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8205, USA
Nat Neurosci 2:844-7. 1999..Our results demonstrate that the human medial temporal memory system is important for learning contextual information, which requires the binding of multiple cues... - Extending animal models of fear conditioning to humansM R Delgado
Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Biol Psychol 73:39-48. 2006.... - Lesions of the human amygdala impair enhanced perception of emotionally salient eventsA K Anderson
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
Nature 411:305-9. 2001..Our results reveal a neural substrate for affective influences on perception, indicating that similar neural mechanisms may underlie the affective modulation of both recollective and perceptual experience... - Expression without recognition: contributions of the human amygdala to emotional communicationA K Anderson
Department of Psychology, Yale University, P O Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Psychol Sci 11:106-11. 2000..This dissociation suggests that a single neural module does not support all aspects of the social communication of emotional state... - Memory for emotional words following unilateral temporal lobectomyE A Phelps
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Brain Cogn 35:85-109. 1997..Several hypotheses concerning the discrepancy between the present studies and the fear conditioning results (LaBar et al., 1995) are discussed... - Social learning of fearAndreas Olsson
Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Nat Neurosci 10:1095-102. 2007..A better understanding of social fear learning promotes integration of biological principles of learning with cultural evolution... - Neural mechanisms mediating optimism biasTali Sharot
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York 10003, USA
Nature 450:102-5. 2007.... 
Regulating the expectation of reward via cognitive strategiesMauricio R Delgado
Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, 101 Warren Street, Newark, New Jersey 07102, USA
Nat Neurosci 11:880-1. 2008....- The role of medial temporal lobe in item recognition and source recollection of emotional stimuliSONYA DOUGAL
New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 7:233-42. 2007..These data suggest that MTL regions differentially support encoding of neutral and emotional stimuli... 
Emotion processing effects on interference resolution in working memorySara M Levens
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Jordan Hall, Bldg 420, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305 2130, USA
Emotion 8:267-80. 2008..Furthermore, both valence and arousal seem to interact to produce this facilitation effect. These findings suggest that emotion facilitates response selection amid interference in working memory...- Neural circuitry underlying the regulation of conditioned fear and its relation to extinctionMauricio R Delgado
Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Neuron 59:829-38. 2008..These findings further suggest that humans may have developed complex cognition that can aid in regulating emotional responses while utilizing phylogenetically shared mechanisms of extinction... - Evidence for recovery of fear following immediate extinction in rats and humansDaniela Schiller
Psychology Department, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
Learn Mem 15:394-402. 2008..Thus, our data do not support the hypothesis that immediate extinction erases the original memory trace, nor do they suggest that a close temporal proximity of therapeutic intervention to the traumatic event might be advantageous... - How personal experience modulates the neural circuitry of memories of September 11Tali Sharot
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:389-94. 2007.... - Is the human amygdala critical for the subjective experience of emotion? Evidence of intact dispositional affect in patients with amygdala lesionsAdam K Anderson
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 14:709-20. 2002..It is concluded that the human amygdala may be recruited during phenomenal affective states in the intact brain, but is not necessary for the production of these states... - How arousal modulates memory: disentangling the effects of attention and retentionTali Sharot
New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 4:294-306. 2004..The results indicate that arousal supports slower forgetting even when the difference in attentional resources allocated to stimuli is minimized... - How emotion enhances the feeling of rememberingTali Sharot
Department of Psychology, New York University, Room 863, 6 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003, USA
Nat Neurosci 7:1376-80. 2004..For the first time, we identify the neural mechanisms underlying the enhanced feeling of remembering for emotional events... - Classical fear conditioning in the anxiety disorders: a meta-analysisShmuel Lissek
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, 15K North Drive, Bldg 15k, MSC 2670, Bethesda, MD 20892 2670, USA
Behav Res Ther 43:1391-424. 2005.... - Reinstatement of conditioned fear in humans is context dependent and impaired in amnesiaKevin S LaBar
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 0999, USA
Behav Neurosci 119:677-86. 2005..These results extend the known functions of the human hippocampus and highlight the importance of environmental contexts in regulating the expression of latent fear associations... - The role of social groups in the persistence of learned fearAndreas Olsson
Department of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, USA
Science 309:785-7. 2005..This prepared fear response might be reduced by close, positive interracial contact... - Emotion facilitates perception and potentiates the perceptual benefits of attentionElizabeth A Phelps
Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science, New York University, NY 10003, USA
Psychol Sci 17:292-9. 2006..This study provides the first behavioral evidence that (a) emotion enhances contrast sensitivity irrespective of attention and (b) emotion potentiates the effect of attention on contrast sensitivity... - Neurocircuitry models of posttraumatic stress disorder and extinction: human neuroimaging research--past, present, and futureScott L Rauch
Psychiatric Neuroscience Division, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA
Biol Psychiatry 60:376-82. 2006..The recent development of such imaging probes now sets the stage for directly testing hypotheses regarding the neural substrates of fear conditioning and extinction abnormalities in PTSD... - Understanding overbidding: using the neural circuitry of reward to design economic auctionsMauricio R Delgado
Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Science 321:1849-52. 2008..By combining neuroeconomic and behavioral economic techniques, we find that another factor, namely loss contemplation in a social context, may mediate overbidding in auctions...
Research Grants
- The amygdala's modulation of multiple stages of memory formationELIZABETH ANYA PHELPS; Fiscal Year: 2010..Specific Aim 3 is to explore if emotion has an impact on the re-retrieval of memories, with a goal of determining if the reactivation and reconsolidation of memory is influenced by emotion. ..
- Social Mechanisms of Affective LearningELIZABETH ANYA PHELPS; Fiscal Year: 2010..The ability to control our emotional reactions is critical in everyday adaptive function and the treatment of a range of psychological disorders, such as anxiety disorders. ..
- The amygdala's modulation of multiple stages of memory formationElizabeth Phelps; Fiscal Year: 2009..Specific Aim 3 is to explore if emotion has an impact on the re-retrieval of memories, with a goal of determining if the reactivation and reconsolidation of memory is influenced by emotion. ..
- Social Mechanisms of Affective LearningElizabeth Phelps; Fiscal Year: 2009..The ability to control our emotional reactions is critical in everyday adaptive function and the treatment of a range of psychological disorders, such as anxiety disorders. ..
- The amygdala's modulation of multiple stages of memory formationElizabeth Phelps; Fiscal Year: 2007..Specific Aim 3 is to explore if emotion has an impact on the re-retrieval of memories, with a goal of determining if the reactivation and reconsolidation of memory is influenced by emotion. ..
- Extinction and Active Coping FearElizabeth Phelps; Fiscal Year: 2006..Aim 3: To assess how the behavioral expression and neural mechanisms underlying fear extinction and active coping differs between normal subjects and patients suffering from anxiety disorders. ..
- Multiple Memory SystemsElizabeth Phelps; Fiscal Year: 2005..We propose to examine the emotional learning circumstances under which the amygdala is (or is not) critical for normal skin conductance, heart rate, eyeblink startle and subjective emotional responses (Section 5). ..
- Emotions and Choice: Mechanisms of Behavior ChangeELIZABETH ANYA PHELPS; Fiscal Year: 2010..The proposed research will combine insights from the science of decision making and emotion to develop new means to encourage behavior change. ..