CANLAB@BC
Where memory and emotion meet

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications


In PRess

Cho, I., Cunningham, T.J., Daley, R.T., Kensinger, E.A. & Gutchess, A. (in press). Empathy, memory, and aging during the COVID-19 pandemic. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology. link

Daley, R. T., Bowen, H. J., Fields, E. C., Parisi, K. R., Gutchess, A., & Kensinger, E. A. (2023). Individual differences in older adult frontal lobe function relate to memory and neural activity for self-relevant and emotional content. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, gbad186. Advance online publication. link

Niu, X., Utayde, M. F., Sanders, K. E. G., Denis, D., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2024). Age-related positivity effect in emotional memory consolidation from middle age to late adulthood. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 18, 1342589. link

Viher, P. V., Seitz-Holland, J., Schulz, M. S., Kensinger, E. A., Karmacharya, S., Swisher, T., Lyall, A. E., Makris, N., Bouix, S., Shenton, M. E., Kubicki, M., & Waldinger, R. J. (2024). More organized white matter is associated with positivity bias in older adults. Brain imaging and behavior, 10.1007/s11682-024-00850-5. Advance online publication. link

2023

Daley, R. T., & Kensinger, E. A. (2023). Cognitive decline, socioemotional change, or both? How the science of aging can inform future research on sacrificial moral dilemmas. Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition, 30(2), 272–299. link

Daley, R. T., Kensinger, E. A., Cunningham, T. J., & Ford, J. H. (2023). Me, myself, and everyone else: Potential impacts of episodic processes on national and personal memories. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 12(1), 34–37. link

Ford, J. H., Fields, E. C., Garcia, S. M., Cunningham, T. J., & Kensinger, E. A. (2023). Perceived event resolution-rather than time-allows older adults to reduce the negativity of their memories. Memory (Hove, England), 31(3), 421–427. link

Martinez, B. S., Denis, D., Kim, S. Y., DiPietro, C. H., Stare, C., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2023). The effects of cognitive reappraisal and sleep on emotional memory formation. Cognition & emotion, 37(5), 942–958. link

2022

Bottary, R., Fields, E. C., Kensinger, E. A., & Cunningham, T. J. (2022). Age and chronotype influenced sleep timing changes during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of sleep research31(2), e13495. link

Budson, A. E., Richman, K. A., & Kensinger, E. A. (2022). Consciousness as a Memory System. Cognitive and behavioral neurology : official journal of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology, 35(4):263-297. link

Cho, I., Daley, R. T., Cunningham, T. J., Kensinger, E. A., & Gutchess, A. (2022). Aging, Empathy, and Prosocial Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences77(4), e57–e63. link

Cunningham TJ, Stickgold R and Kensinger EA (2022) Investigating the effects of sleep and sleep loss on the different stages of episodic emotional memory: A narrative review and guide to the future. Front. Behav. Neurosci. 16:910317. link

Cunningham, T. J., Fields, E. C., Denis, D., Bottary, R., Stickgold, R., & Kensinger, E. A. (2022). How the 2020 US Presidential election impacted sleep and its relationship to public mood and alcohol consumption. Sleep health, 8(6), 571–579. link

Daley, R. T., & Kensinger, E. A. (2022). Age-related differences in Default Mode Network resting-state functional connectivity but not gray matter volume relate to sacrificial moral decision-making and working memory performance. Neuropsychologia, 177, 108399. link

Daley, R. T., Cunningham, T. J., & Kensinger, E. A. (2022). Moral decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic: Associations with age, negative affect, and negative memory. Frontiers in psychology, 13, 974933. link

Denis, D., Kim, S. Y., Kark, S. M., Daley, R. T., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2022). Slow oscillation-spindle coupling is negatively associated with emotional memory formation following stress. The European journal of neuroscience55(9-10), 2632–2650. link

Denis, D., Sanders, K., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2022). Sleep preferentially consolidates negative aspects of human memory: Well-powered evidence from two large online experiments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(44), e2202657119. link

Fields, E. C., Kensinger, E. A., Garcia, S. M., Ford, J. H., & Cunningham, T. J. (2022). With age comes well-being: older age associated with lower stress, negative affect, and depression throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Aging & mental health, 26(10), 2071–2079. link

Ford, J. H., Kim, S. Y., Kark, S. M., Daley, R. T., Payne, J. D., & Kensinger, E. A. (2022). Distinct stress-related changes in intrinsic amygdala connectivity predict subsequent positive and negative memory performance. The European journal of neuroscience, 56(6), 4744–4765. link

Williams, S. E., Ford, J. H., & Kensinger, E. A. (2022). The power of negative and positive episodic memories. Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 1–35. Advance online publication. link

Thakral, P. P., Bottary, R., & Kensinger, E. A. (2022). Representing the Good and Bad: fMRI signatures during the encoding of multisensory positive, negative, and neutral events. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior151, 240–258. link

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