2024
Cisler, J.M., Dunsmoor, J.E., Fonzo G.A., Nemeroff C.B., Latent-state and model-based learning in PTSD, Trends in Neurosciences, Volume 47, Issue 2, 2024, Pages 150-162. | 
Crombie, K.M, Azar A.F., Botsford, C., Heilicher, M., Jaeb, M., Sagorac G.T., Schomaker, C.M., Williams, R., Stowe, Z.N., Dunsmoor, J.E., Cisler, J.M., Decoding context memories for threat in large-scale neural networks, Cerebral Cortex, Volume 34, Issue 2, February 2024. |
Tamman, A.J.F., Abdallah C.G., Dunsmoor J.E., Cisler J.M., Neural differentiation of emotional faces as a function of interpersonal violence among adolescent girls, Journal of Psychiatric Research, Volume 172, 2024, Pages 90-101, ISSN 0022-3956. |
Keller, N.E., Salvi, C., Leiker, E.K. Gruber M.J., Dunsmoor, J.E., States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts. npj Sci. Learn. 9, 22 (2024). |
Salvi, C., Keller, N., Cooper, S.E., Leiker, E., Dunsmoor, J.E., Aha! and D’oh! experiences enhance learning for incidental information—new evidence supports the insight memory advantage. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci (2024). |
Cisler, J.M., Dunsmoor, J.E., Privratsky, A.A., & James, G.A. (2024). Decoding neural reactivation of threat during fear learning, extinction, and recall in a randomized clinical trial of L-DOPA among women with PTSD. Psychological Medicine, 54(6), 1091–1101. |
2023
Clewett, D., Dunsmoor, J.E., Novel strategies for expanding memory’s penumbra in aging, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 27, Issue 2,2023, Pages 120-121,ISSN 1364-6613. |
Crombie, K.M., Adams, T.G., Dunsmoor, J.E., Greenwood, B.N., Smits, J.A., Nemeroff, C.B., Cisler, J.M., Aerobic exercise in the treatment of PTSD: An examination of preclinical and clinical laboratory findings, potential mechanisms, clinical implications, and future directions, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Volume 94, 2023, 102680, ISSN 0887-6185. |
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. |
Bach, D.R., Sporrer, J., Abend, R., Beckers, T., Dunsmoor, J.E., Fullana, M.A., Gamer, M., Gee, D.G., Hamm, A., Hartley, CA., Herringa, R.J., Jovanovic, T., Kalisch, R., Knight, D.C., Lissek, S., Lonsdorf, T.B., Merz, C.J., Milad, M., Morriss, J., Phelps, E.A., Pine, D.S., Olsson, A., van Reekum, C.M., Schiller, D., Consensus design of a calibration experiment for human fear conditioning, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. |
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. |
Keller, N.E., Cooper, S.E., McClay, M., Dunsmoor, J.E., Counterconditioning reduces contextual renewal in a novel context but not in the acquisition context, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory,Volume 201,2023,107749,ISSN 1074-7427. |
Cooper, S. E., Perkins, E. R., Webler, R. D., Dunsmoor, J. E., & Krueger, R. (2023, October 27). Integrating Threat Conditioning and the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) to Advance the Study of Anxiety-Related Psychopathology. |
Salvi, C., Barr, N., Dunsmoor, J. E., & Grafman, J. (2023). Insight problem solving ability predicts reduced susceptibility to fake news, bullshit, and overclaiming. Thinking & Reasoning, 29(4). |
Cooper, S. E., Hennings, A. C., Bibb, S., Lewis-Peacock, J., & Dunsmoor, J. E. (2023, October 15). Threat learning by proxy: Semantic structures facilitate emotional memory integration throughout the MTL and medial prefrontal cortex. |
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 J.E., (2022). Pattern analysis of neuroimaging data reveals novel insights on threat learning and extinction in humans. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 142, 104918. |
Dunsmoor J.E., Murty V.P., Clewett D, Phelps E.A., Davachi L (2022). Tag–and–capture: How salient experiences target and rescue nearby events in memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. |
Dunsmoor J.E., Cisler J.M., Fonzo G.A., Creech S.K., & Nemeroff C.B., (2022). Laboratory models of posttraumatic stress disorder: The elusive bridge to translation. Neuron, 110, 1754–1776. |
Keller N.E., Hennings A.C., Leiker E.K., Lewis–Peacock J.A., & Dunsmoor J.E., (2022). Rewarded extinction increases amygdalar connectivity and stabilizes long–term memory traces in the vmPFC. Journal of Neuroscience. |
Cooper S.E., van Dis E.A.M., Krypotos A.M., Hagenaars M.A., Nemeroff C.B., Lissek S, Engelhard I.M., & Dunsmoor J.E., (2022). A meta-analysis of conditioned fear generalization in anxiety-related disorders. Neuropsychopharmacology. |
Hennings A.C., McClay M, Drew M, Lewis-Peacock J.A., Dunsmoor J.E., (2022). Neural reinstatement reveals divided organization of fear and extinction memories in the human brain. Current Biology. |
Clewett D, Dunsmoor J.E., Bachman S.L., Phelps E.A., 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 S.A., Dunsmoor J.E., Gazman Z, Stovezky Y, Pascucci O, Pomerenke J, Phelps E.A., Fyer A, & Simpson H.B. (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. |
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. |