Elizabeth A. Phelps

Is the human amygdala critical for the subjective experience of emotion? Evidence of intact dispositional affect in patients with amygdala lesions.

Intact performance on an indirect measure of race bias following amygdala damage.

Human emotion and memory: interactions of the amygdala and hippocampal complex.

Extinction learning in humans: role of the amygdala and vmPFC.

How arousal modulates memory: disentangling the effects of attention and retention.

How emotion enhances the feeling of remembering.

Learned fear of "unseen" faces after Pavlovian, observational, and instructed fear.

Classical fear conditioning in the anxiety disorders: a meta-analysis.

Reinstatement of conditioned fear in humans is context dependent and impaired in amnesia.

The role of social groups in the persistence of learned fear.

Contributions of the amygdala to emotion processing: from animal models to human behavior.

Emotion and cognition: insights from studies of the human amygdala.

Emotion facilitates perception and potentiates the perceptual benefits of attention.

Neurocircuitry models of posttraumatic stress disorder and extinction: human neuroimaging research--past, present, and future.

How personal experience modulates the neural circuitry of memories of September 11.

The neuroscience of a person network.

Social learning of fear.

Neural mechanisms mediating optimism bias.

The role of medial temporal lobe in item recognition and source recollection of emotional stimuli.

Emotion processing effects on interference resolution in working memory.

Evidence for recovery of fear following immediate extinction in rats and humans.

Regulating the expectation of reward via cognitive strategies.

Eye movements predict recollective experience.

Neural circuitry underlying the regulation of conditioned fear and its relation to extinction.

Understanding overbidding: using the neural circuitry of reward to design economic auctions.

The role of the striatum in aversive learning and aversive prediction errors.

Learning fears by observing others: the neural systems of social fear transmission.

From fear to safety and back: reversal of fear in the human brain.

A neural mechanism of first impressions.

Thinking like a trader selectively reduces individuals' loss aversion.

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

Changing fear: the neurocircuitry of emotion regulation.

Avoiding negative outcomes: tracking the mechanisms of avoidance learning in humans during fear conditioning.

Preventing the return of fear in humans using reconsolidation update mechanisms.

Insula and orbital frontal cortex activity underlying emotion interference resolution in working memory.

Current Opinion in Neurobiology--Cognitive neuroscience 2010.

Cuing effects of faces are dependent on handedness and visual field.

How instructed knowledge modulates the neural systems of reward learning.

Brain structure correlates of individual differences in the acquisition and inhibition of conditioned fear.

How (and Why) Emotion Enhances the Subjective Sense of Recollection.

Implicit race attitudes predict trustworthiness judgments and economic trust decisions.

Does reconsolidation occur in humans?

Neural systems underlying aversive conditioning in humans with primary and secondary reinforcers.

Emotion enhances the subjective feeling of remembering, despite lower accuracy for contextual details.

Role of the left amygdala and right orbital frontal cortex in emotional interference resolution facilitation in working memory.

Differential roles of human striatum and amygdala in associative learning.

Race and reputation: perceived racial group trustworthiness influences the neural correlates of trust decisions.

Emotion regulation reduces loss aversion and decreases amygdala responses to losses.

Anxiety and decision-making.

Serotonin transporter polyadenylation polymorphism modulates the retention of fear extinction memory.

Memory for time and place contributes to enhanced confidence in memories for emotional events.

Nonconscious fear is quickly acquired but swiftly forgotten.

The neuroscience of race.

Durable Effects of Cognitive Restructuring on Conditioned Fear.

Anxiety modulates the effects of emotion and attention on early vision.