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Elizabeth A. Phelps

Elizabeth A. Phelps

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Neuroscience

D-Index
105
Citations
57661
World Ranking
643
National Ranking
359

Psychology

D-Index
105
Citations
57707
World Ranking
484
National Ranking
310

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Elizabeth A. Phelps is affiliated with Harvard 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 as key subfields.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Elizabeth A. Phelps has contributed to various peer-reviewed journals and frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Neuropsychopharmacology

Some recent notable papers include:

  • Prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and threat processing: implications for PTSD, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Tag and capture: how salient experiences target and rescue nearby events in memory, 2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Temporally and anatomically specific contributions of the human amygdala to threat and safety learning, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Trait somatic anxiety is associated with reduced directed exploration and underestimation of uncertainty, 2022, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Survival of the salient: Aversive learning rescues otherwise forgettable memories via neural reactivation and post-encoding hippocampal connectivity, 2021, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Joseph E. Dunsmoor
  • Lila Davachi
  • Lindsey Drayton
  • Rolf Van Der Sanden
  • Patrick Scheffmann

Awards received by Elizabeth A. Phelps include:

  • William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA), 2019
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2002

Best Publications

  • Contributions of the Amygdala to Emotion Processing: From Animal Models to Human Behavior

    Elizabeth A. Phelps;Joseph E. LeDoux

  • Emotion and Cognition: Insights from Studies of the Human Amygdala

    Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Extinction Learning in Humans: Role of the Amygdala and vmPFC

    Elizabeth A. Phelps;Mauricio R. Delgado;Katherine I. Nearing;Joseph E. LeDoux

  • Human emotion and memory: interactions of the amygdala and hippocampal complex.

    Elizabeth A Phelps

  • Lesions of the human amygdala impair enhanced perception of emotionally salient events

    Adam K. Anderson;Adam K. Anderson;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • HUMAN AMYGDALA ACTIVATION DURING CONDITIONED FEAR ACQUISITION AND EXTINCTION : A MIXED-TRIAL FMRI STUDY

    Kevin S LaBar;J.Christopher Gatenby;John C Gore;Joseph E LeDoux

  • Neurocircuitry models of posttraumatic stress disorder and extinction: human neuroimaging research--past, present, and future.

    Scott L. Rauch;Lisa M. Shin;Lisa M. Shin;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Performance on Indirect Measures of Race Evaluation Predicts Amygdala Activation

    Elizabeth A. Phelps;Kevin J. O'Connor;William A. Cunningham;E. Sumie Funayama

  • Preventing the return of fear in humans using reconsolidation update mechanisms

    Daniela Schiller;Marie H. Monfils;Marie H. Monfils;Candace M. Raio;David C. Johnson

  • Classical fear conditioning in the anxiety disorders : a meta-analysis

    Shmuel Lissek;Alice S. Powers;Erin B. McClure;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Activation of the left amygdala to a cognitive representation of fear

    Elizabeth A. Phelps;Kevin J. O'Connor;J. Christopher Gatenby;John C. Gore

  • Recognition of facial emotion in nine individuals with bilateral amygdala damage.

    R Adolphs;D Tranel;S Hamann;A.W Young

  • Emotion Facilitates Perception and Potentiates the Perceptual Benefits of Attention

    Elizabeth A. Phelps;Sam Ling;Marisa Carrasco

  • Impaired fear conditioning following unilateral temporal lobectomy in humans

    Kevin S. LaBar;Joseph E. LeDoux;Dennis D. Spencer;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Neural mechanisms mediating optimism bias.

    Tali Sharot;Tali Sharot;Alison M. Riccardi;Candace M. Raio;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Perceptions of moral character modulate the neural systems of reward during the trust game

    Mauricio R. Delgado;Robert H. Frank;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Neural Circuitry Underlying the Regulation of Conditioned Fear and Its Relation to Extinction

    Mauricio R. Delgado;Katherine I. Nearing;Joseph E. LeDoux;Joseph E. LeDoux;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Emotional networks in the brain

    Joseph E. LeDoux;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Social learning of fear.

    Andreas Olsson;Elizabeth A Phelps

  • Memory deficits for implicit contextual information in amnesic subjects with hippocampal damage.

    Marvin M. Chun;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Elizabeth A. Phelps

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph E. LeDoux
Joseph E. LeDoux New York University
Mauricio R. Delgado
Mauricio R. Delgado The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Daniela Schiller
Daniela Schiller Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Joseph E. Dunsmoor
Joseph E. Dunsmoor The University of Texas at Austin
Marisa Carrasco
Marisa Carrasco New York University
Nathaniel D. Daw
Nathaniel D. Daw Princeton University
Lila Davachi
Lila Davachi Columbia University
Catherine A. Hartley
Catherine A. Hartley New York University
Mahzarin R. Banaji
Mahzarin R. Banaji Harvard University
Kevin S. LaBar
Kevin S. LaBar Duke University

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