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  1. Estrogen treatment after menopause limits negative effects of stress on cognition

    Article • The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, November 2017, Endocrine Society

    Dr Mara Mather, Dr Alexandra Ycaza Herrera

  2. Emotion and the brain in aging

    Article • Annual Review of Psychology, January 2016, Annual Reviews

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, August 2015, Frontiers

    Dr Mara Mather

  4. Review of estrogen and stress hormone interactions in women

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, August 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Mara Mather, Dr Alexandra Ycaza Herrera

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

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, July 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mara Mather

  6. Emotional Memory

    Article • June 2015, Wiley

    Dr Mara Mather

  7. Negative Arousal Increases the Effects of Stimulus Salience in Older Adults

    Article • Experimental Aging Research, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mara Mather

  8. Comparison of two isometric handgrip protocols on sympathetic arousal in women

    Article • Physiology & Behavior, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, March 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mara Mather

  11. Current research and emerging directions in emotion-cognition interactions

    Article • Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, November 2014, Frontiers

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, July 2014, Frontiers

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, May 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Mara Mather, David Clewett

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

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, April 2014, Frontiers

    Dr Mara Mather

  15. How retellings shape younger and older adults' memories

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Psychology, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, February 2014, Wiley

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Neuropsychology, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  18. How arousal modulates the visual contrast sensitivity function.

    Article • Emotion, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Emotion, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather, Dr Alexandra Ycaza Herrera

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

    Article • Emotion, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  21. Stereotype Threat in Older Adults

    Article • December 2013

    Dr Mara Mather

  22. Stereotype threat can reduce older adults' memory errors

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, October 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mara Mather

  23. Amygdala Functional Connectivity with Medial Prefrontal Cortex at Rest Predicts the Positivity Effect in Older Adults' Memory

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, August 2013, The MIT Press

    Dr Mara Mather

  24. Memory suppression can help people “unlearn” behavioral responses—but only for nonemotional memories

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, July 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mara Mather

  25. Amygdala functional connectivity is reduced after the cold pressor task

    Article • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mara Mather

  26. Age differences in thalamic low-frequency fluctuations

    Article • Neuroreport, May 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Mara Mather

  27. Look Out—It's Your Off-Peak Time of Day! Time of Day Matters More for Alerting than for Orienting or Executive Attention

    Article • Experimental Aging Research, May 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Emotion, January 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  30. Stress modulates reinforcement learning in younger and older adults.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, January 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  31. Differential Brain Activity during Emotional versus Nonemotional Reversal Learning

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, August 2012, The MIT Press

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Memory & Cognition, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mara Mather

  33. The emotion paradox in the aging brain

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, March 2012, Wiley

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Emotion, January 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  35. Evidence for Arousal-Biased Competition in Perceptual Learning

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2012, Frontiers

    Dr Mara Mather

  36. Age Differences in Brain Activity during Emotion Processing: Reflections of Age-Related Decline or Increased Emotion Regulation?

    Article • Gerontology, January 2012, Karger Publishers

    Dr Mara Mather

  37. How Reward and Emotional Stimuli Induce Different Reactions Across the Menstrual Cycle

    Article • Social and Personality Psychology Compass, January 2012, Wiley

    Dr Mara Mather

  38. Risk preferences and aging: The “certainty effect” in older adults' decision making.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, January 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  39. Updating Existing Emotional Memories Involves the Frontopolar/Orbito-frontal Cortex in Ways that Acquiring New Emotional Memories Does Not

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, November 2011, The MIT Press

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mara Mather

  41. Negative emotional outcomes impair older adults’ reversal learning

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, September 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mara Mather

  42. Positive Outcomes Enhance Incidental Learning for Both Younger and Older Adults

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, January 2011, Frontiers

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • The American Journal of Psychology, January 2011, University of Illinois Press

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Psychology and Aging, January 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Emotion, January 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  46. How Arousal Affects Younger and Older Adults' Memory Binding

    Article • Experimental Aging Research, December 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Neuroreport, October 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Mara Mather

  48. Aging and cognition

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science, May 2010, Wiley

    Dr Mara Mather

  49. The tenacious nature of memory binding for arousing negative items

    Article • Memory & Cognition, October 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mara Mather

  50. Acute Stress Increases Sex Differences in Risk Seeking in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2009, PLOS

    Dr Mara Mather

  51. To Brake or Accelerate When the Light Turns Yellow?

    Article • Psychological Science, February 2009, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mara Mather

  52. Chapter 3 When Emotion Intensifies Memory Interference

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Emotion, January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  54. Arousal-enhanced location memory for pictures

    Article • Journal of Memory and Language, February 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Mara Mather

  55. The emotional harbinger effect: Poor context memory for cues that previously predicted something arousing.

    Article • Emotion, January 2008, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  56. Does remembering emotional items impair recall of same-emotion items?

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, April 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, March 2007, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mara Mather

  58. Aging and variety seeking.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  59. Aging and goal-directed emotional attention: Distraction reverses emotional biases.

    Article • Emotion, January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Neuroreport, October 2006, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Mara Mather

  61. Emotional Arousal Can Impair Feature Binding in Working Memory

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, April 2006, The MIT Press

    Dr Mara Mather

  62. Aging and the Intersection of Cognition, Motivation, and Emotion

    Article • January 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Mara Mather

  63. Cognition, Persuasion and Decision Making in Older Consumers

    Article • Marketing Letters, December 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mara Mather, Richard Gonzalez

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

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, October 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Mara Mather

  65. The Allure of the Alignable: Younger and Older Adults' False Memories of Choice Features.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 2005, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Psychology and Aging, January 2005, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  67. Aging and Emotional Memory

    Article • January 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mara Mather

  68. Remembering chosen and assigned options

    Article • Memory & Cognition, April 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mara Mather

  69. Aging and emotional memory: The forgettable nature of negative images for older adults.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 2003, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  70. Affective Review and Schema Reliance in Memory in Older and Younger Adults

    Article • The American Journal of Psychology, January 2003, JSTOR

    Dr Mara Mather

  71. Source monitoring and suggestibility to misinformation: adult age-related differences

    Article • Applied Cognitive Psychology, January 2002, Wiley

    Dr Mara Mather

  72. How events are reviewed matters: Effects of varied focus on eyewitness suggestibility

    Article • Memory & Cognition, October 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mara Mather

  73. Role of Perceptual and Organizational Factors in Amnesics' Recall of the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure: A Comparison of Three Amnesic Groups

    Article • Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, April 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mara Mather

  74. Aging and reflective processes of working memory: Binding and test load deficits.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, January 2000, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Psychology and Aging, January 2000, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  76. Aging and reflective processes of working memory: Binding and test load deficits.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, January 2000, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Psychology and Aging, January 2000, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  78. STEREOTYPE RELIANCE IN SOURCE MONITORING: AGE DIFFERENCES AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST CORRELATES

    Article • Cognitive Neuropsychology, May 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mara Mather

  79. The weapon focus effect revisited: The role of novelty

    Article • Legal and Criminological Psychology, September 1998, Wiley

    Dr Mara Mather

  80. Evaluating characteristics of false memories: Remember/know judgments and memory characteristics questionnaire compared

    Article • Memory & Cognition, November 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mara Mather

  81. Unconscious influences on amnesics' word-stem completion

    Article • Neuropsychologia, April 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Neuropsychology, January 1996, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

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

    Article • Neuropsychology, January 1996, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  84. Aging and Variety Seeking

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  85. Why Memories May Become More Positive as People Age

    Article • Wiley

    Dr Mara Mather

  86. Memory attributions for choices: How beliefs shape our memories

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  87. Emotionally Arousing Sounds Increase Short-Term Recall of High Contrast Visual Stimuli in Younger and Older Adults

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  88. How Retellings Shape Memory in Younger and Older Adults

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  89. Retrieval-Induced Forgetting: The Effects of Age, Valence, and Social Factors

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  90. The Tenacious Nature of Binding Errors for Arousing Pictures

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  91. Memory for Choices We Made vs. Choices Others Made for Us

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  92. Differential Interference Effects of Negative Emotional States on Subsequent Semantic and Perceptual Processing

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather

  93. The Effect of Emotional Context on Facial Perception in Koreans and Americans

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mara Mather