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Elizabeth A. Kensinger

Elizabeth A. Kensinger

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Neuroscience

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76
Citations
22229
World Ranking
1913
National Ranking
916

Psychology

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76
Citations
22084
World Ranking
1716
National Ranking
1013

Overview

Elizabeth A. Kensinger is affiliated with Boston College in the United States, with a research focus spanning neuroscience and psychology. Their work is particularly concentrated in cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology, with subfields also including developmental and educational psychology, social psychology, and neuropsychology and physiological psychology.

Research topics regularly addressed by Kensinger include memory processes and influences, memory and neural mechanisms, and aspects of identity, memory, and therapy. They also investigate sleep and related disorders alongside sleep and wakefulness research. Additionally, Kensinger contributes to aging and gerontology research as well as studies on neural and behavioral psychology.

Kensinger has authored multiple recent papers, including:

  • The power of negative and positive episodic memories (2022), published in Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
  • With age comes well-being: older age associated with lower stress, negative affect, and depression throughout the COVID-19 pandemic (2021), published in Aging & Mental Health
  • Comparing the Impact of COVID-19-Related Social Distancing on Mood and Psychiatric Indicators in Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) and Non-SGM Individuals (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Consciousness as a Memory System (2022), published in Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology
  • The Human Affectome (2023), published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kensinger include Tony J. Cunningham, Ryan T. Daley, Eric C. Fields, Jessica D. Payne, and Jaclyn H. Ford.

Kensinger's publications are often found in several key venues, among them:

  • SLEEP
  • Cognition & Emotion
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuropsychologia
  • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Memory enhancement for emotional words: Are emotional words more vividly remembered than neutral words?

    Elizabeth A. Kensinger;Suzanne Corkin

  • Two routes to emotional memory: Distinct neural processes for valence and arousal

    Elizabeth A. Kensinger;Suzanne Corkin

  • Remembering the Details: Effects of Emotion:

    Elizabeth A. Kensinger

  • Remembering Emotional Experiences: The Contribution of Valence and Arousal

    Elizabeth A Kensinger

  • Emotion and autobiographical memory

    Alisha C. Holland;Elizabeth A. Kensinger

  • Sleep Preferentially Enhances Memory for Emotional Components of Scenes

    Jessica D. Payne;Robert Stickgold;Kelley Swanberg;Elizabeth A. Kensinger

  • Negative Emotion Enhances Memory Accuracy Behavioral and Neuroimaging Evidence

    Elizabeth A. Kensinger

  • Processing emotional pictures and words: Effects of valence and arousal.

    Elizabeth A. Kensinger;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Effects of normal aging and Alzheimer's disease on emotional memory.

    Elizabeth A. Kensinger;Barbara Brierley;Nick Medford;John H. Growdon

  • Amygdala activity is associated with the successful encoding of item, but not source, information for positive and negative stimuli.

    Elizabeth A. Kensinger;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Effect of negative emotional content on working memory and long-term memory.

    Elizabeth A. Kensinger;Suzanne Corkin

  • Effects of Emotion on Memory Specificity: Memory Trade-Offs Elicited by Negative Visually Arousing Stimuli.

    Elizabeth A. Kensinger;Rachel J. Garoff-Eaton;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Memory for Specific Visual Details can be Enhanced by Negative Arousing Content.

    Elizabeth A. Kensinger;Rachel J. Garoff-Eaton;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Context Is Routinely Encoded During Emotion Perception

    Lisa Feldman Barrett;Elizabeth A. Kensinger;Elizabeth A. Kensinger

  • Memory and emotion

    E.A. Kensinger;D.L. Schacter;M. Lewis;J.M. Haviland Jones

  • Neural processes supporting young and older adults' emotional memories

    Elizabeth A. Kensinger;Daniel L. Schacter

  • NEVER forget: negative emotional valence enhances recapitulation.

    Holly J. Bowen;Sarah M. Kark;Elizabeth A. Kensinger

  • WHEN TRUE MEMORIES SUPPRESS FALSE MEMORIES: EFFECTS OF AGEING

    Elizabeth A. Kensinger;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Age Differences in Memory for Arousing and Nonarousing Emotional Words

    Elizabeth A. Kensinger

  • Sleep’s Role in the Consolidation of Emotional Episodic Memories:

    Jessica D. Payne;Elizabeth A. Kensinger

  • Aging, self-referencing, and medial prefrontal cortex.

    Angela H. Gutchess;Elizabeth A. Kensinger;Daniel L. Schacter

Frequent Co-Authors

Jessica D. Payne
Jessica D. Payne University of Notre Dame
Daniel L. Schacter
Daniel L. Schacter Harvard University
Angela H. Gutchess
Angela H. Gutchess Brandeis University
Christopher R. Madan
Christopher R. Madan University of Nottingham
Donna Rose Addis
Donna Rose Addis University of Toronto
Andrew E. Budson
Andrew E. Budson Boston University
Scott D. Slotnick
Scott D. Slotnick Boston College
Suparna Rajaram
Suparna Rajaram Stony Brook University
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University

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