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Relative changes from prior reward contingencies can constrain brain correlates of outcome monitoring (2013)
Journal Article
Mushtaq, F., Stoet, G., Bland, A., & Schaefer, A. (2013). Relative changes from prior reward contingencies can constrain brain correlates of outcome monitoring. PLoS ONE, 8(6), Article e66350. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066350

It is well-known that the affective value of an environment can be relative to whether it reflects an improvement or a worsening from a previous state. A potential explanation for this phenomenon suggests that relative changes from previous reward co... Read More about Relative changes from prior reward contingencies can constrain brain correlates of outcome monitoring.

Different varieties of uncertainty in human decision-making (2012)
Journal Article
Bland, A., & Schaefer, A. (2012). Different varieties of uncertainty in human decision-making. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 6, Article 85. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2012.00085

The study of uncertainty in decision-making is receiving greater attention in the fields of cognitive and computational neuroscience. Several lines of evidence are beginning to elucidate different variants of uncertainty. Particularly, risk, ambiguit... Read More about Different varieties of uncertainty in human decision-making.

Visual attention and emotional memory: Recall of aversive pictures is partially mediated by concurrent task performance (2012)
Journal Article
Pottage, C., & Schaefer, A. (2012). Visual attention and emotional memory: Recall of aversive pictures is partially mediated by concurrent task performance. Emotion, 12(1), 33-38. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024574

The emotional enhancement of memory is often thought to be determined by attention. However, recent evidence using divided attention paradigms suggests that attention does not play a significant role in the formation of memories for aversive pictures... Read More about Visual attention and emotional memory: Recall of aversive pictures is partially mediated by concurrent task performance.

Uncertainty and Cognitive Control (2011)
Journal Article
Mushtaq, F., Bland, A., & Schaefer, A. (2011). Uncertainty and Cognitive Control. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, Article 249. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00249

A growing trend of neuroimaging, behavioral, and computational research has investigated the topic of outcome uncertainty in decision-making. Although evidence to date indicates that humans are very effective in learning to adapt to uncertain situati... Read More about Uncertainty and Cognitive Control.

The emotional startle effect is disrupted by a concurrent working memory task (2011)
Journal Article
King, R., & Schaefer, A. (2011). The emotional startle effect is disrupted by a concurrent working memory task. Psychophysiology, 48(2), 269-276. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01062.x

Working memory (WM) processes are often thought to play an important role in the cognitive regulation of negative emotions. However, little is known about how they influence emotional processing. We report two experiments that tested whether a concur... Read More about The emotional startle effect is disrupted by a concurrent working memory task.

Electrophysiological correlates of remembering emotional pictures (2011)
Journal Article
Schaefer, A., Pottage, C., & Rickart, A. (2011). Electrophysiological correlates of remembering emotional pictures. NeuroImage, 54(1), 714-724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.07.030

Extensive evidence shows that emotional events tend to be remembered in greater detail and with an enhanced sense of vividness compared to neutral events. The current study investigated the neural correlates of this phenomenon during retrieval using... Read More about Electrophysiological correlates of remembering emotional pictures.

Are coarse scales sufficient for fast detection of visual threat? (2010)
Journal Article
Mermillod, M., Droit-Volet, S., Devaux, D., Schaefer, A., & Vermeulen, N. (2010). Are coarse scales sufficient for fast detection of visual threat?. Psychological Science, 21(10), 1429-1437. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797610381503

It has recently been suggested that low-spatial-frequency information would provide rapid visual cues to the amygdala for basic but ultrarapid behavioral responses to dangerous stimuli. The present behavioral study investigated the role of different... Read More about Are coarse scales sufficient for fast detection of visual threat?.