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Neuroscience

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Overview

Brian Knutson is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and specializes in neuroscience. Their publication record includes significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, pharmacology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and neurology. The primary focus areas of their research span several subfields with an emphasis on neural mechanisms and brain function.

Their main fields of study are:

  • Neuroscience

Within neuroscience, their subfields of study include:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Pharmacology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Neurology

Brian Knutson has addressed various core topics in neuroscience and psychology, notably:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Their recent papers include:

  • The rise of affectivism, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Multi-band FMRI compromises detection of mesolimbic reward responses, 2021, NeuroImage
  • Brain activity forecasts video engagement in an internet attention market, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Social media users produce more affect that supports cultural values, but are more influenced by affect that violates cultural values., 2021, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research, 2023, Nature Climate Change

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Brian Knutson include:

  • Leanne M. Williams
  • Laura M. Hack
  • Xue Zhang
  • Boris D. Heifets
  • Peter van Roessel

The scientist's work is often published in these venues:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • NeuroImage
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PNAS Nexus
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • The reward circuit: linking primate anatomy and human imaging.

    Suzanne N Haber;Brian Knutson

  • Anticipation of increasing monetary reward selectively recruits nucleus accumbens.

    Brian Knutson;Charles M. Adams;Grace W. Fong;Daniel Hommer

  • Dissociation of reward anticipation and outcome with event-related fMRI

    Brian Knutson;Grace W. Fong;Charles M. Adams;Jerald L. Varner

  • The Neural Basis of Financial Risk Taking

    Camelia M. Kuhnen;Brian Knutson

  • FMRI visualization of brain activity during a monetary incentive delay task.

    Brian Knutson;Andrew Westdorp;Erica Kaiser;Daniel Hommer

  • Neural predictors of purchases.

    Brian Knutson;Scott Rick;G. Elliott Wimmer;Drazen Prelec

  • Cultural variation in affect valuation.

    Jeanne L. Tsai;Brian Knutson;Helene H. Fung

  • Distributed neural representation of expected value.

    Brian Knutson;Jonathan Taylor;Matthew Kaufman;Richard Peterson

  • Reward-Motivated Learning: Mesolimbic Activation Precedes Memory Formation

    R. Alison Adcock;R. Alison Adcock;Arul Thangavel;Arul Thangavel;Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli;Brian Knutson

  • A region of mesial prefrontal cortex tracks monetarily rewarding outcomes: characterization with rapid event-related fMRI

    Brian Knutson;Grace W Fong;Shannon M Bennett;Charles M Adams

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging of reward prediction

    Brian Knutson;Jeffrey C Cooper

  • Facial expressions of emotion influence interpersonal trait inferences

    Brian Knutson

  • Anticipatory affect: neural correlates and consequences for choice

    Brian Knutson;Stephanie M Greer

  • Ultrasonic vocalizations as indices of affective states in rats.

    Brian Knutson;Jeffrey S Burgdorf;Jaak Panksepp

  • Selective Alteration of Personality and Social Behavior by Serotonergic Intervention

    Brian Knutson;Owen M. Wolkowitz;Steve W. Cole;Theresa Chan

  • Incentive-Elicited Brain Activation in Adolescents: Similarities and Differences from Young Adults

    James M. Bjork;Brian Knutson;Grace W. Fong;Daniel M. Caggiano

  • Dysfunction of ventral striatal reward prediction in schizophrenia.

    Georg Juckel;Florian Schlagenhauf;Michael Koslowski;Torsten Wüstenberg;Torsten Wüstenberg

  • Ventral Striatal Hyporesponsiveness During Reward Anticipation in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    Anouk Scheres;Michael P. Milham;Brian Knutson;Francisco Xavier Castellanos

  • Neural Responses to Monetary Incentives in Major Depression

    Brian Knutson;Jamil P. Bhanji;Rebecca E. Cooney;Lauren Y. Atlas

  • Dissociable neural representations of future reward magnitude and delay during temporal discounting.

    Kacey Ballard;Brian Knutson

  • Neural Predictors of Purchases

    Scott Rick;Brian Knutson;Elliott Wimmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel W. Hommer
Daniel W. Hommer National Institutes of Health
Florian Schlagenhauf
Florian Schlagenhauf Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Jana Wrase
Jana Wrase Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Jaak Panksepp
Jaak Panksepp Washington State University
Georg Juckel
Georg Juckel Ruhr University Bochum
Jeffrey Burgdorf
Jeffrey Burgdorf Northwestern University
Torsten Wüstenberg
Torsten Wüstenberg Heidelberg University
Laura L. Carstensen
Laura L. Carstensen Stanford University
Andreas Ströhle
Andreas Ströhle Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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