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Karen S. Quigley is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and medicine, with notable contributions in subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, and social psychology.

Their work addresses a range of main topics, including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Action Observation and Synchronization

Several recent papers authored or coauthored by Quigley illustrate their research focus. These include:

  • "Functions of Interoception: From Energy Regulation to Experience of the Self" (2020) published in Trends in Neurosciences
  • "Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions" (2023) published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "Context-aware experience sampling reveals the scale of variation in affective experience" (2020) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Interoception as modeling, allostasis as control" (2021) published in Biological Psychology
  • "Publication guidelines for human heart rate and heart rate variability studies in psychophysiology-Part 1: Physiological underpinnings and foundations of measurement" (2024) published in Psychophysiology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Quigley include Lisa Feldman Barrett, Jordan E. Theriault, Ajay B. Satpute, Katie Hoemann, and Jolie B. Wormwood.

Quigley has published multiple works in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Psychophysiology, PLoS ONE, and Biological Psychology.

In addition to articles, Quigley has contributed to books published by Bloomsbury Publishing plc, including "Performing the Unstageable" (2020) and "Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories" (2020).

Best Publications

  • Respiratory sinus arrhythmia: Autonomic origins, physiological mechanisms, and psychophysiological implications.

    Gary G. Berntson;John T. Cacioppo;Karen S. Quigley

  • Autonomic determinism: the modes of autonomic control, the doctrine of autonomic space, and the laws of autonomic constraint.

    Gary G. Berntson;John T. Cacioppo;Karen S. Quigley

  • Evidence for a Large-Scale Brain System Supporting Allostasis and Interoception in Humans.

    Ian R. Kleckner;Jiahe Zhang;Alexandra Touroutoglou;Lorena Chanes;Lorena Chanes

  • An active inference theory of allostasis and interoception in depression

    Lisa Feldman Barrett;Karen S. Quigley;Paul Hamilton

  • Autonomic cardiac control. III. Psychological stress and cardiac response in autonomic space as revealed by pharmacological blockades.

    Gary G. Berntson;John T. Cacioppo;Philip F. Binkley;Bert N. Uchino

  • Cardiac psychophysiology and autonomic space in humans: empirical perspectives and conceptual implications.

    Gary G. Berntson;John T. Cacioppo;Karen S. Quigley

  • Interoceptive Sensitivity and Self-Reports of Emotional Experience

    Lisa Feldman Barrett;Karen S. Quigley;Eliza Bliss-Moreau;Keith R. Aronson

  • Autonomic cardiac control. II: Noninvasive indices and basal response as revealed by autonomic blockades

    John T. Cacioppo;Gary G. Berntson;Philip F. Binkley;Karen S. Quigley

  • An approach to artifact identification: application to heart period data.

    Gary G. Berntson;Karen S. Quigley;Jaye F. Jang;Sarah T. Boysen

  • Emotion fingerprints or emotion populations? A meta-analytic investigation of autonomic features of emotion categories.

    Erika H. Siegel;Molly K. Sands;Wim Van den Noortgate;Paul Condon

  • Autonomic space and psychophysiological response

    Gary G. Berntson;John T. Cacioppo;Karen S. Quigley;Vincent T. Fabro

  • The hundred-year emotion war: are emotions natural kinds or psychological constructions? Comment on Lench, Flores, and Bench (2011).

    Kristen A. Lindquist;Erika H. Siegel;Karen S. Quigley;Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Functions of Interoception: From Energy Regulation to Experience of the Self

    Karen S. Quigley;Scott Kanoski;Warren M. Grill;Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Beginning with biology: "Aspects of cognition" exist in the service of the brain's overall function as a resource-regulator.

    Jordan E. Theriault;Matt Coleman;Mallory J. Feldman;Joseph D. Fridman

  • The metrics of cardiac chronotropism: Biometric perspectives

    Gary G. Berntson;John T. Cacioppo;Karen S. Quigley

  • Processing of ordinality and transitivity by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

    Sarah T. Boysen;Gary G. Berntson;Traci A. Shreyer;Karen S. Quigley

  • Measures of postural stability.

    Hans Chaudhry;Thomas Findley;Karen S. Quigley;Bruce Bukiet

  • Methodological recommendations for a heartbeat detection‐based measure of interoceptive sensitivity

    Ian R. Kleckner;Jolie Baumann Wormwood;W. Kyle Simmons;W. Kyle Simmons;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Chronic Widespread Pain, Mental Health, and Physical Role Function in OEF/OIF Veterans

    Drew A. Helmer;Helena K. Chandler;Karen S. Quigley;Melissa Blatt

  • A shift in perspective: Decentering through mindful attention to imagined stressful events.

    Lauren A. M. Lebois;Lauren A. M. Lebois;Esther K. Papies;Kaundinya Gopinath;Romeo Cabanban

  • Feeling your body or feeling badly: evidence for the limited validity of the Somatosensory Amplification Scale as an index of somatic sensitivity.

    Keith R Aronson;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Karen S Quigley

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University
Gary G. Berntson
Gary G. Berntson The Ohio State University
John T. Cacioppo
John T. Cacioppo University of Chicago
W. Kyle Simmons
W. Kyle Simmons Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
Wilfred R. Pigeon
Wilfred R. Pigeon University of Rochester Medical Center
Maggie Shiffrar
Maggie Shiffrar Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Howard Leventhal
Howard Leventhal Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sarah T. Boysen
Sarah T. Boysen The Ohio State University
Bert N. Uchino
Bert N. Uchino University of Utah

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