2023

Laing, P.A.F., Dunsmoor J.E., “Pattern separation of fear extinction memory.” Learning and Memory, vol. 30, 2023, pp. 110-115, 10.1101/lm.053760.12.   |

Salvi, C., Iannello, P., Cancer, A., Cooper, S.E., McClay, M., Dunsmoor, J.E., & Antonietti. (2023).  Does social rigidity predict cognitive rigidity? Profiles of socio-cognitive polarization. Psychological Research.  |  

Crombie, K.M., Azar A.F., Botsford C., Heilicher M., Moughrabi N., Gruichich TS., Schomaker C.M., Dunsmoor J.E. & Cisler J.M. (2023). Aerobic exercise after extinction learning reduces return of fear and enhances memory of items encoded during extinction learning, Mental Health and Physical Activity, 100510. | 

Laing, P.A.F., Keller N.E., Pestilli F., Dunsmoor J.E., (2023). Separable White Matter Pathways Associated With Counterconditioning and Fear Extinction, Biological Psychiatry, 574. | 

Cooper S.E., Dunsmoor J.E., Koval, K.A., Pino, E.R., & Steinman, S.A. (2023). Test–retest reliability of human threat conditioning and generalization across a 1-to-2-week interval. Psychophysiology, 60, e14242.  |

2022

Hennings AC, Cooper SE, Lewis-Peacock JA, & Dunsmoor JE. (2022). Pattern analysis of neuroimaging data reveals novel insights on threat learning and extinction in humans. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 142, 104918. |

Dunsmoor JE, Murty VP, Clewett D, Phelps EA, Davachi L (2022). Tag–and–capture: How salient experiences target and rescue nearby events in memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. |  

Dunsmoor JE, Cisler JM, Fonzo GA, Creech SK, & Nemeroff CB (2022). Laboratory models of posttraumatic stress disorder: The elusive bridge to translation. Neuron, 110, 1754–1776. |

Keller NE, Hennings AC, Leiker EK, Lewis–Peacock JA, & Dunsmoor JE (2022). Rewarded extinction increases amygdalar connectivity and stabilizes long–term memory traces in the vmPFC. Journal of Neuroscience. |

Cooper SE, van Dis EAM, Krypotos AM, Hagenaars MA, Nemeroff CB, Lissek S, Engelhard IM, & Dunsmoor JE (2022). A meta-analysis of conditioned fear generalization in anxiety-related disorders. Neuropsychopharmacology. |

Hennings AC, McClay M, Drew M, Lewis-Peacock JA, Dunsmoor JE (2022). Neural reinstatement reveals divided organization of fear and extinction memories in the human brain. Current Biology.  |

Clewett D, Dunsmoor JE, Bachman SL, Phelps EA, Davachi L (2022). Survival of the salient: Aversive learning rescues otherwise forgettable memories via neural reactivation and post–encoding hippocampal connectivity. Neurobiology of Learning & Memory. [online ahead of print]. |

Steinman SA, Dunsmoor JE, Gazman Z, Stovezky Y, Pascucci O, Pomerenke J, Phelps EA, Fyer A, & Simpson HB (2022). A preliminary test of novelty-facilitated extinction in individuals with pathological anxiety. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16. |

2021

Cooper SE & Dunsmoor JE (2021). Fear conditioning and extinction in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review. Neuroscience Biobehavioral Reviews. |

Cowan ET, Schapiro AC, Dunsmoor JE, Murty VP (2021). Memory consolidation as an adaptive process. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. |

Hennings AC, Lewis-Peacock JA, Dunsmoor JE (2021). Emotional learning retroactively enhances item memory but distorts source attribution. Learning & Memory.|

Goldfarb EV, Blow T, Dunsmoor JE, & Phelps EA. Elemental and configural threat learning bias extinction generalization. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. |

Salvi C, Leiker EK, Baricca B, Molinari MA, Eleopra R, Nichelli PF, Grafman J, Dunsmoor JE (2021). The effect of dopaminergic replacement therapy on creative thinking and insight problem-solving in Parkinson’s disease patients. Frontiers in Psychology. |

Salvi C, Iannello P, Cancer A, McClay M, Rago S, Dunsmoor JE, Antonietti A (2021). Going viral: Social and cognitive factors influence fake news detection and proliferation during COVID–19 pandemic. Frontiers in Communication. |

Hennings AC, Bibb SA, Lewis-Peacock JA, Dunsmoor JE (2021). Thought suppression inhibits the generalization of fear extinction. Behavioural Brain Research. |

Papini S, Dunsmoor JE, Smits JAJ (2021). The impact of prior and ongoing threat on the false alarm threshold for facial discrimination. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. |

 

2020
McClay M, Hennings AC, Reidel A, Dunsmoor JE (2020). Generalization of conditioned fear along a dimension of increasing positive valence. Neuropsychologia, 148. |
Hennings AC, McClay M, Lewis-Peacock JA, & Dunsmoor JE (2020). Contextual Reinstatement Promotes Extinction Generalization in Healthy Adults but Not PTSD. Neuropsychologia. |
Houtekamer MC, Henckens MJAG, Mackey WE, Dunsmoor JE, Homberg JR, & Kroes MCW (2020). Investigating the efficacy of the reminder-extinction procedure to disrupt contextual threat memories in humans using immersive Virtual Reality. Scientific Reports, 10, 1-18. |
Morey RA, Haswell CC, Stjepanović D, Mid-Atlantic MIRECC Workgroup, Dunsmoor JE, & LaBar KS (2020). Neural correlates of conceptual-level fear generalization in posttraumatic stress disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology. |

Goodman J, McClay M, & Dunsmoor JE (2020). Threat-induced modulation of hippocampal and striatal memory systems during navigation of a virtual environment. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. |

Keller NE, Hennings AC, & Dunsmoor JE (2020). Behavioral and neural processes in counterconditioning: past and future directions. Behavior Research & Therapy, 125. |

Fullana MA, Dunsmoor JE, Schruers KRJ, Savage HS, Bach DR, & Harrison BJ (2020). Human fear conditioning: From neuroscience to the clinic. Behavioral Research and Therapy. |

2019

Keller NE & Dunsmoor JE (2019). The effects of aversive-to-appetitive counterconditioning on implicit and explicit fear memory. Learning & Memory. |

Keller NE, Hennings AC, & Dunsmoor JE (2019). Behavioral and neural processes in counterconditioning: Past and future directions. Behavioral Research and Therapy. |

Picó-Pérez M, Alemany-Navarro M, Dunsmoor JE, Radua J, Albajes-Eizagirrre A, Vervliet B, Cardoner N, Benet O, Harrison BJ, Soriano-Mas C, & Fullana MA (2019). Common and distinct neural correlates of fear extinction and cognitive reappraisal: A meta-analysis of fMRI studies. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. | 

Kroes MCW, Dunsmoor JE, Hakimi N, Oosterwaal S, NYU PROSPEC collaboration, Meager MR, & Phelps EA (2019). Patients with dorsolateral prefrontal cortex lesions are capable of discriminatory threat learning but appear impaired in cognitive regulation of subjective fear. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. |

Dunsmoor JE, Kroes MCW, Murty VP, Braren SH, & Phelps EA (2019). Emotional enhancement of memory for neutral information: The complex interplay between arousal, attention, and anticipation. Biological Psychology. | 

Starita F, Kroes MCW, Davachi L, Phelps EA, & Dunsmoor JE (2019). Threat learning promotes generalization of episodic memory. Journal in Experimental Psychology: General. | 

Dunsmoor JE & Kroes MCW (2019). Episodic memory and Pavlovian conditioning: ships passing in the night. Currents Opinions in Behavioral Science. |

2018

FeldmanHall O & Dunsmoor JE (2018). Viewing adaptive social choice through the lens of associative learning. Perspectives on Psychological Science. |

Dunsmoor JE, Kroes MCW,  Moscatelli CM, Evans MD, Davachi L, & Phelps EA (2018). Event Segmentation Protects Emotional Memories from Competing Experiences Encoded Close in Time. Nature Human Behaviour. |  

FeldmanHall O, Dunsmoor JE, Tompary A, Hunter LE, Todorov A, & Phelps EA (2018). Stimulus generalization as a mechanism for learning to trust. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences. | 

2017

Dunsmoor JE, Otto AR, & Phelps EA (2017). Stress promotes generalization of older but not recent threat memories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. |

FeldmanHall O, Dunsmoor JE, Kroes MCW, & Phelps EA (2017). Associative learning of social value in dynamic groups. Psychological Science. | 

Kroes MCW*, Dunsmoor JE*, Mackey W, McClay M, & Phelps EA (2017). Context conditioning in humans using commercially available immersive Virtual Reality. Scientific Reports. *equal contribution | 

Kroes MCW, Dunsmoor JE, Lin Q, & Phelps EA (Accepted). An isolated reminder selectively and retroactively strengthens, but does not disrupt, memory for threatening events. Scientific Reports. 

Murphy GL & Dunsmoor JE (2017). Do salient features overshadow learning of other features in category learning? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 43, 219-23. | 

Dunsmoor JE, Kroes MC, Braren SH, & Phelps EA (2017). Threat intensity widens fear generalization gradients, Behavioral Neuroscience, 131, 168-175. |

2016

Patil A, Murty VP, Dunsmoor JE,  Phelps EA, & Davachi L (2016). Reward retroactively enhances memory consolidation for related items. Learning & Memory. |  

Dunsmoor JE, Kubota JT, Li J, Coehlo CAO, & Phelps EA (2016). Racial stereotypes impair flexibility of emotional learning, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. | 

Ritchey M, Murty VP, & Dunsmoor JE (2016). Adaptive memory systems for remembering the salient and the seemingly mundane. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

2015

Dunsmoor JE, Niv Y, Daw N, & Phelps EA (2015). Rethinking extinction, Neuron, 88, 47-63. | 

Dunsmoor JE & Paz R (2015). Fear generalization and anxiety: Behavioral and neural mechanisms. Biological Psychiatry, 78, 336-343. | 

Dunsmoor JE, Murty VP, Davachi L, & Phelps EA (2015). Emotional learning selectively and retroactively strengthens episodic memories for related events. Nature, 520, 345-348. |  

Dunsmoor JE, Campese VD, Ceceli AO, LeDoux JE, & Phelps EA (2015). Novelty-facilitated extinction: Providing a novel outcome in place of an expected threat diminishes recovery of defensive responses. Biological Psychiatry, 78, 203-209. | 

Dunsmoor JE & Murphy GL (2015). Categories, concepts, and conditioning: How humans generalize fear. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19, 73-77. | 

Dymond S, Dunsmoor JE, Vervliet B, Roche B, & Hermans D. (2015). Fear generalization in humans: Systematic review and implications for anxiety disorder research. Behavior Therapy. | 

Coelho CAO, Dunsmoor JE, & Phelps EA (2015). Compound stimulus extinction reduces spontaneous recovery in humans. Learning & Memory. |

Morey RA, Dunsmoor JE,  Haswell CC, et al. (2015). Fear learning circuitry is biased toward generalization of fear associations in posttraumatic stress disorder, Translational Psychiatry. | 

2014

Åhs F, Dunsmoor JE, Zielinski D, & LaBar KS (2014). Spatial proximity amplifies valence in emotional memory and defensive approach-avoidance. Neuropsychologia, 70, 476-485.  

Dunsmoor JE & Murphy GL (2014). Stimulus typicality determines how broadly fear is generalized. Psychological Science, 25, 1816-1821. | 

Dunsmoor JE, Kragel PA, Martin A, & LaBar KS (2014). Aversive learning modulates cortical representations of object categories. Cerebral Cortex, 24, 2859-2872. | 

Dunsmoor JE, Åhs F, Zielinski D, & LaBar KS (2014). Extinction in multiple virtual reality contexts diminishes fear reinstatement in humans. Neurobiology of Learning & Memory, 113, 157-164. | 

2013

Dunsmoor JE & LaBar KS (2013). Effects of discrimination training on fear generalization gradients and perceptual classification in humans. Behavioral Neuroscience, 127, 350-356. |

Dunsmoor JE & LaBar KS (2013). Neural basis of human fear learning. In: Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience, Vuilleumier P and Armony J eds. Cambridge University Press. 

2012

Dunsmoor JE & LaBar KS (2012). Brain activity associated with the omission of an aversive event reveals effects of fear learning and generalization. Neurobiology of Learning & Memory, 97, 301-312. | 

Dunsmoor JE, Martin A, & LaBar KS (2012). The role of conceptual knowledge in learning and retention of conditioned fear. Biological Psychology, 89, 300-305. | 

2011

Cain MS, Dunsmoor JE, LaBar KS, & Mitroff SR (2011) Anticipatory anxiety hinders detection of a second target in dual-target search. Psychological Science, 22, 866-871. | 

Dunsmoor JE, Prince SE, Murty VP, Kragel PA, & LaBar KS (2011) Neurobehavioral mechanisms of human fear generalization. Neuroimage, 55, 1878-1888. | 

Dunsmoor JE, White AJ, & LaBar KS (2011) Conceptual similarity promotes generalization of higher-order fear learning. Learning & Memory, 18, 156-160. | 

Dunsmoor JE, Åhs F, & LaBar KS (2011) Neurocognitive mechanisms of fear conditioning and vulnerability to anxiety. Frontiers Hum Neuroscience, 5, 35. | 

2010

Schmajuk NA, Kutlu MG, Dunsmoor JE, & Laurrauri, JA (2010). Attention, associations, and configurations in conditioning. In: Computational Models of Conditioning, Schmajuk NA ed. Cambridge University Press. 

2009

Dunsmoor JE & Schmajuk NA (2009). Interpreting patterns of brain activation in human fear conditioning with an attentional-associative learning model. Behavioral Neuroscience, 123, 851-855. |  

Dunsmoor JE, Mitroff SR, & LaBar KS (2009). Generalization of conditioned fear along a dimension of increasing fear intensity. Learning and Memory, 16, 460-469. | 

2008

Dunsmoor JE, Bandettini PA, & Knight DC (2008). Neural correlates of unconditioned response diminution during Pavlovian conditioning. Neuroimage, 40, 811-817. | 

2007

Dunsmoor JE, Bandettini PA, & Knight DC (2007). Impact of continuous versus intermittent CS-UCS pairing on human brain activation during Pavlovian fear conditioning. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, 635-642. |