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Overview

Jay A. Gottfried is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Engineering, with significant contributions to the subfields of Sensory Systems, Biomedical Engineering, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Insect Science.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Insect Pheromone Research and Control
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques

Jay A. Gottfried has authored numerous papers in various respected venues. Some recent publications include:

  • "Olfactory modulation of the medial prefrontal cortex circuitry: Implications for social cognition," 2021, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • "Encoding fear intensity in human sweat," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "High-precision mapping reveals the structure of odor coding in the human brain," 2023, Nature Neuroscience
  • "What Does the Human Olfactory System Do, and How Does It Do It?", 2023, Annual Review of Psychology
  • "Titrating the Smell of Fear: Initial Evidence for Dose-Invariant Behavioral, Physiological, and Neural Responses," 2021, Psychological Science

The researcher frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Clara U. Raithel
  • John A. Detre
  • Thorsten Kahnt
  • Gülce Nazlı Dikeçligil
  • Christina Zelano

Among their publication outlets, the most frequent venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Biology
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Imaging Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Encoding predictive reward value in human amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex

    Jay A. Gottfried;John O'Doherty;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Optimized EPI for fMRI studies of the orbitofrontal cortex.

    Ralf Deichmann;J. A. Gottfried;Chloe Hutton;Robert Turner

  • The Nose Smells What the Eye Sees: Crossmodal Visual Facilitation of Human Olfactory Perception

    Jay A Gottfried;Raymond J Dolan

  • Central mechanisms of odour object perception.

    Jay A. Gottfried

  • Nasal respiration entrains human limbic oscillations and modulates cognitive function

    Christina Zelano;Heidi Jiang;Guangyu Zhou;Nikita Arora

  • Appetitive and aversive olfactory learning in humans studied using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging

    Jay A. Gottfried;John O'Doherty;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Human orbitofrontal cortex mediates extinction learning while accessing conditioned representations of value

    Jay A Gottfried;Raymond J Dolan

  • Functional heterogeneity in human olfactory cortex: An event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study

    Jay A. Gottfried;Ralf Deichmann;Joel S. Winston;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Aversive Learning Enhances Perceptual and Cortical Discrimination of Indiscriminable Odor Cues

    Wen Li;James D. Howard;Todd B. Parrish;Jay A. Gottfried

  • Integrated neural representations of odor intensity and affective valence in human amygdala

    Joel S. Winston;Jay A. Gottfried;James M. Kilner;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Odor quality coding and categorization in human posterior piriform cortex

    James D. Howard;Jane Plailly;Marcus Grueschow;Marcus Grueschow;Marcus Grueschow;John Dylan Haynes;John Dylan Haynes

  • Subliminal Smells can Guide Social Preferences

    Wen Li;Isabel Moallem;Ken A. Paller;Jay A. Gottfried

  • Remembrance of Odors Past: Human Olfactory Cortex in Cross-Modal Recognition Memory

    Jay A Gottfried;Adam P.R Smith;Michael D Rugg;Raymond J Dolan

  • On the scent of human olfactory orbitofrontal cortex: Meta-analysis and comparison to non-human primates

    Jay A. Gottfried;David H. Zald

  • Smell: central nervous processing.

    Jay A Gottfried

  • Attention to Odor Modulates Thalamocortical Connectivity in the Human Brain

    Jane Plailly;James D. Howard;Darren R. Gitelman;Jay A. Gottfried

  • Dissociable codes of odor quality and odorant structure in human piriform cortex.

    Jay A. Gottfried;Joel S. Winston;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Identity-specific coding of future rewards in the human orbitofrontal cortex

    James D. Howard;Jay A. Gottfried;Philippe N. Tobler;Thorsten Kahnt

  • Stimulus-specific enhancement of fear extinction during slow-wave sleep

    Katherina K Hauner;James D Howard;Christina Zelano;Jay A Gottfried

  • Olfactory predictive codes and stimulus templates in piriform cortex.

    Christina Zelano;Aprajita Mohanty;Jay A. Gottfried

  • The muted sense: neurocognitive limitations of olfactory language

    Jonas K. Olofsson;Jay A. Gottfried

  • Neurobiology of Sensation and Reward

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Frequent Co-Authors

David H. Zald
David H. Zald Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dana M. Small
Dana M. Small McGill University
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London

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