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Overview

Joseph E. Dunsmoor is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with significant work in subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's research addresses several main topics including Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Memory Processes and Influences, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, as well as Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research.

Joseph E. Dunsmoor has published articles in several frequent venues, notably Neuropsychopharmacology, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biological Psychiatry, and Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by this scientist are:

  • "Laboratory models of post-traumatic stress disorder: The elusive bridge to translation" (2022), Neuron
  • "Tag and capture: how salient experiences target and rescue nearby events in memory" (2022), Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "Memory consolidation as an adaptive process" (2021), Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • "A meta-analysis of conditioned fear generalization in anxiety-related disorders" (2022), Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Going Viral: How Fear, Socio-Cognitive Polarization and Problem-Solving Influence Fake News Detection and Proliferation During COVID-19 Pandemic" (2021), Frontiers in Communication

The scientist often collaborates with other researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Samuel E. Cooper
  • Josh M. Cisler
  • Augustin C. Hennings
  • Jarrod A. Lewis-Peacock
  • Mason McClay

Best Publications

  • Fear Generalization in Humans: Systematic Review and Implications for Anxiety Disorder Research

    Simon Dymond;Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Bram Vervliet;Bryan Roche

  • Fear Generalization and Anxiety: Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms

    Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Rony Paz

  • Emotional learning selectively and retroactively strengthens memories for related events

    Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Vishnu P. Murty;Lila Davachi;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Rethinking Extinction

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  • Generalization of conditioned fear along a dimension of increasing fear intensity

    Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Stephen R. Mitroff;Kevin S. LaBar

  • Neurobehavioral mechanisms of human fear generalization.

    Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Steven E. Prince;Vishnu P. Murty;Philip A. Kragel

  • Fear learning circuitry is biased toward generalization of fear associations in posttraumatic stress disorder

    RA Morey;JE Dunsmoor;CC Haswell;VM Brown

  • Categories, concepts, and conditioning: how humans generalize fear.

    Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Gregory L. Murphy

  • Role of conceptual knowledge in learning and retention of conditioned fear.

    Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Alex Martin;Kevin S. LaBar

  • Novelty-facilitated extinction: providing a novel outcome in place of an expected threat diminishes recovery of defensive responses.

    Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Vinn D. Campese;Ahmet O. Ceceli;Joseph E. LeDoux

  • Reward retroactively enhances memory consolidation for related items

    Anuya Patil;Vishnu P. Murty;Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Impact of continuous versus intermittent CS-UCS pairing on human brain activation during Pavlovian fear conditioning.

    Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Peter A. Bandettini;David C. Knight

  • Neural correlates of unconditioned response diminution during Pavlovian conditioning.

    Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Peter A. Bandettini;David C. Knight

  • A meta-analysis of conditioned fear generalization in anxiety-related disorders

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  • Aversive Learning Modulates Cortical Representations of Object Categories

    Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Philip A. Kragel;Alex Martin;Kevin S. LaBar

  • Memory consolidation as an adaptive process

    Emily T Cowan;Anna C Schapiro;Joseph E Dunsmoor;Vishnu P Murty

  • Stimulus generalization as a mechanism for learning to trust

    Oriel FeldmanHall;Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Alexa Tompary;Lindsay E. Hunter

  • Stimulus Typicality Determines How Broadly Fear Is Generalized

    Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Gregory L. Murphy

  • Conceptual similarity promotes generalization of higher order fear learning

    Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Allison J. White;Kevin S. LaBar

  • Laboratory models of post-traumatic stress disorder: The elusive bridge to translation

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  • Extinction in multiple virtual reality contexts diminishes fear reinstatement in humans

    Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Fredrik Ahs;David J. Zielinski;Kevin S. LaBar

  • Effects of discrimination training on fear generalization gradients and perceptual classification in humans.

    Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Kevin S. LaBar

  • Behavioral and neural processes in counterconditioning: Past and future directions

    Nicole E. Keller;Augustin C. Hennings;Joseph E. Dunsmoor

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth A. Phelps
Elizabeth A. Phelps Harvard University
Kevin S. LaBar
Kevin S. LaBar Duke University
Lila Davachi
Lila Davachi Columbia University
Stephen R. Mitroff
Stephen R. Mitroff George Washington University
Gregory L. Murphy
Gregory L. Murphy New York University
Rajendra A. Morey
Rajendra A. Morey Duke University
Bram Vervliet
Bram Vervliet KU Leuven
Miquel A. Fullana
Miquel A. Fullana Clínic Barcelona
Carles Soriano-Mas
Carles Soriano-Mas University of Barcelona
Alex Martin
Alex Martin National Institutes of Health

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