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Catherine A. Hartley

Catherine A. Hartley

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
34
Citations
5977
World Ranking
10124
National Ranking
5339

Catherine A. Hartley publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Catherine A. Hartley sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 79 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Catherine A. Hartley D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Catherine A. Hartley sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Catherine A. Hartley is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their work also covers developmental and educational psychology, behavioral neuroscience, and applied psychology.

Their main research topics include memory and neural mechanisms, child and animal learning development, neural and behavioral psychology studies, mental health research topics, memory processes and influences, stress responses and cortisol, and behavioral health and interventions.

Hartley has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication venues include eLife, Biological Psychiatry, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychological Science, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hartley include Kate Nussenbaum, Alexandra O. Cohen, Camille V. Phaneuf, Xinxu Shen, and Aaron S. Heller.

Selected recent papers by Hartley include:

  • Association between real-world experiential diversity and positive affect relates to hippocampal-striatal functional connectivity, 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • Moving Developmental Research Online: Comparing In-Lab and Web-Based Studies of Model-Based Reinforcement Learning, 2020, Collabra Psychology
  • Mechanisms of learning and plasticity in childhood and adolescence, 2020, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Valence biases in reinforcement learning shift across adolescence and modulate subsequent memory, 2021, eLife
  • Realizing the Clinical Potential of Computational Psychiatry: Report From the Banbury Center Meeting, February 2019, 2020, Biological Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Changing Fear: The Neurocircuitry of Emotion Regulation

    Catherine A Hartley;Elizabeth A Phelps

  • Anxiety and decision-making.

    Catherine A. Hartley;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Altered fear learning across development in both mouse and human.

    Siobhan S. Pattwell;Stéphanie Duhoux;Catherine A. Hartley;David C. Johnson

  • FAAH genetic variation enhances fronto-amygdala function in mouse and human

    Iva Dincheva;Andrew T. Drysdale;Catherine A. Hartley;David C. Johnson

  • From Creatures of Habit to Goal-Directed Learners: Tracking the Developmental Emergence of Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Johannes H. Decker;A. Ross Otto;Nathaniel Douglass Daw;Catherine A. Hartley

  • Odorant-Induced and Sniff-Induced Activation in the Cerebellum of the Human

    Noam Sobel;Vivek Prabhakaran;Catherine A. Hartley;John E. Desmond

  • Blind smell: brain activation induced by an undetected air-borne chemical.

    Noam Sobel;Vivek Prabhakaran;Catherine A. Hartley;John E. Desmond

  • The neuroscience of adolescent decision-making.

    Catherine A Hartley;Leah H Somerville

  • Reinforcement learning across development: What insights can we draw from a decade of research?

    Kate Nussenbaum;Catherine A. Hartley

  • Brain Structure Correlates of Individual Differences in the Acquisition and Inhibition of Conditioned Fear

    Catherine A. Hartley;Bruce Fischl;Bruce Fischl;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Active Avoidance: Neural Mechanisms and Attenuation of Pavlovian Conditioned Responding.

    Emily A. Boeke;Justin M. Moscarello;Joseph E. LeDoux;Joseph E. LeDoux;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Association between real-world experiential diversity and positive affect relates to hippocampal-striatal functional connectivity.

    Aaron S. Heller;Tracey C. Shi;Tracey C. Shi;C. E. Chiemeka Ezie;C. E. Chiemeka Ezie;Travis R. Reneau

  • Agency and the Calibration of Motivated Behavior

    Justin M. Moscarello;Catherine A. Hartley

  • Stressor controllability modulates fear extinction in humans.

    Catherine A. Hartley;Alyson Gorun;Marianne C. Reddan;Franchesca Ramirez

  • Sensitive periods in affective development: nonlinear maturation of fear learning.

    Catherine A Hartley;Francis S Lee

  • Sniffing longer rather than stronger to maintain olfactory detection threshold.

    Noam Sobel;Rehan M. Khan;Catherine A. Hartley;Edith V. Sullivan

  • Experiential reward learning outweighs instruction prior to adulthood

    Johannes H. Decker;Frederico S. Lourenco;Bradley B. Doll;Catherine A. Hartley

  • Serotonin transporter polyadenylation polymorphism modulates the retention of fear extinction memory

    Catherine A. Hartley;Morgan C. McKenna;Rabia Salman;Andrew Holmes

  • Interoceptive ability predicts aversion to losses.

    Peter Sokol-Hessner;Catherine A. Hartley;Jeffrey R. Hamilton;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Stress attenuates the flexible updating of aversive value.

    Candace M. Raio;Catherine A. Hartley;Temidayo A. Orederu;Jian Li

  • Neurocognitive development of motivated behavior: Dynamic changes across childhood and adolescence

    Dylan G. Gee;Kevin G. Bath;Carolyn M. Johnson;Heidi C. Meyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth A. Phelps
Elizabeth A. Phelps Harvard University
B. J. Casey
B. J. Casey Barnard College
Francis S. Lee
Francis S. Lee Cornell University
Samuel J. Gershman
Samuel J. Gershman Harvard University
Edith V. Sullivan
Edith V. Sullivan Stanford University
Quentin J. M. Huys
Quentin J. M. Huys University College London
Leah H. Somerville
Leah H. Somerville Harvard University
Noam Sobel
Noam Sobel Weizmann Institute of Science
Lila Davachi
Lila Davachi Columbia University

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