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Jorge L. Armony

Jorge L. Armony

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Psychology

D-Index
48
Citations
16910
World Ranking
5802
National Ranking
399

Overview

Jorge L. Armony is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in neuroscience, psychology, and medicine. Their scholarly work encompasses several core fields including cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, clinical psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's research primarily focuses on several main topics, including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Jorge L. Armony has published articles in a range of venues with multiple papers appearing in:

  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • European Journal of Neuroscience
  • Scientific Reports
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their recent scientific publications include:

  • Rapid hippocampal plasticity supports motor sequence learning, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Human motor sequence learning drives transient changes in network topology and hippocampal connectivity early during memory consolidation, 2022, Cerebral Cortex
  • Increased default mode network activation in depression and social anxiety during upward social comparison, 2025, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Improving Spatial Normalization of Brain Diffusion MRI to Measure Longitudinal Changes of Tissue Microstructure in the Cortex and White Matter, 2020, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • The vocal side of empathy: neural correlates of pain perception in spoken complaints, 2023, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Soren Wainio-Theberge
  • Florencia Jacobacci
  • Edson Amaro
  • Jorge Jovicich
  • Julien Doyon

Best Publications

  • Effects of attention and emotion on face processing in the human brain: An event-related fMRI study

    Patrik Vuilleumier;Jorge L. Armony;Jon Driver;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Distinct spatial frequency sensitivities for processing faces and emotional expressions.

    Patrik Vuilleumier;Jorge L Armony;Jorge L Armony;Jon Driver;Raymond J Dolan

  • Distant influences of amygdala lesion on visual cortical activation during emotional face processing.

    Patrik Vuilleumier;Mark P Richardson;Jorge L Armony;Jorge L Armony;Jon Driver

  • The role of the amygdala in emotional processing: a quantitative meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies.

    Karine Sergerie;Caroline Chochol;Jorge L. Armony

  • Activations related to “mirror” and “canonical” neurones in the human brain: an fMRI study

    Julie Grèzes;Jorge L. Armony;James B. Rowe;Richard E. Passingham;Richard E. Passingham

  • Fear Conditioning Enhances Different Temporal Components of Tone-Evoked Spike Trains in Auditory Cortex and Lateral Amygdala

    Gregory J Quirk;Jorge L Armony;Joseph E LeDoux

  • An fMRI study of intentional and unintentional (embarrassing) violations of social norms

    S. Berthoz;J. L. Armony;R. J. Blair;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Modulation of spatial attention by fear-conditioned stimuli: an event-related fMRI study

    Jorge L. Armony;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Amygdala–Hippocampal Involvement in Human Aversive Trace Conditioning Revealed through Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Christian Büchel;Raymond J. Dolan;Jorge L. Armony;Karl J. Friston

  • Auditory Processing across the Sleep-Wake Cycle: Simultaneous EEG and fMRI Monitoring in Humans

    Chiara M. Portas;Karsten Krakow;Phillip Allen;Oliver Josephs

  • Objects automatically potentiate action: an fMRI study of implicit processing.

    J. Grèzes;M. Tucker;J. Armony;R. Ellis

  • Amygdala response in patients with acute PTSD to masked and unmasked emotional facial expressions

    Jorge L. Armony;Vincent Corbo;Marie-Hélène Clément;Alain Brunet

  • Neural overlap in processing music and speech.

    Isabelle Peretz;Dominique Vuvan;Marie-Élaine Lagrois;Jorge L. Armony

  • Amygdala responses to nonlinguistic emotional vocalizations.

    Shirley Fecteau;Pascal Belin;Pascal Belin;Yves Joanette;Jorge L. Armony

  • Is voice processing species-specific in human auditory cortex? An fMRI study.

    Shirley Fecteau;Jorge L. Armony;Jorge L. Armony;Yves Joanette;Pascal Belin

  • Stimulus generalization of fear responses: effects of auditory cortex lesions in a computational model and in rats.

    Jorge L. Armony;David Servan-Schreiber;Lizabeth M. Romanski;Jonathan D. Cohen;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Affective response to one's own moral violations

    Sylvie Berthoz;Julie Grèzes;Jorge L. Armony;Richard E. Passingham

  • Differential Effects of Amygdala Lesions on Early and Late Plastic Components of Auditory Cortex Spike Trains during Fear Conditioning

    Jorge L. Armony;Gregory J. Quirk;Joseph E. LeDoux

  • The Cambridge handbook of human affective neuroscience

    Jorge Armony;Patrik Vuilleumier

  • Computational modeling of emotion: Explorations through the anatomy and physiology of fear conditioning

    Jorge L. Armony;David Servan-Schreiber;Jonathan D. Cohen;Joseph E. LeDoux

  • How the Brain Processes Emotional Information

    Jorge L. Armony;Joseph E. Ledoux

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Lepage
Martin Lepage Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Alain Brunet
Alain Brunet McGill University
Isabelle Peretz
Isabelle Peretz University of Montreal
Pierre Jolicoeur
Pierre Jolicoeur University of Montreal
Julie Grèzes
Julie Grèzes École Normale Supérieure
Jonathan D. Cohen
Jonathan D. Cohen Princeton University
Sylvie Berthoz
Sylvie Berthoz Institut Mutualiste Montsouris
Ashok Malla
Ashok Malla McGill University
David Sander
David Sander University of Geneva
Marcelo T. Berlim
Marcelo T. Berlim McGill University

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