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Overview

Kevin N. Ochsner is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. Their work spans multiple subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Applied Psychology.

Their research topics cover a range of areas related to mental health and brain function, including:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

Kevin N. Ochsner has published extensively in several frequent venues, showing a pattern of contributions to the following journals:

  • Affective Science
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Scientific Reports
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kevin N. Ochsner include:

  • Emotion Naming Impedes Both Cognitive Reappraisal and Mindful Acceptance Strategies of Emotion Regulation, 2021, Affective Science
  • Mindful attention promotes control of brain network dynamics for self-regulation and discontinues the past from the present, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Failure to engage the temporoparietal junction/posterior superior temporal sulcus predicts impaired naturalistic social cognition in schizophrenia, 2021, Brain
  • Social emotion regulation strategies are differentially helpful for anxiety and sadness., 2020, Emotion
  • Large-scale network dynamics in neural response to emotionally negative stimuli linked to serotonin 1A binding in major depressive disorder, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry

Throughout their career, Kevin N. Ochsner has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Peter J. Mucha
  • David M. Lydon-Staley
  • Emily B. Falk
  • Yoona Kang
  • Dani S. Bassett

Best Publications

  • The cognitive control of emotion.

    Kevin N. Ochsner;James J. Gross

  • Rethinking Feelings: An fMRI Study of the Cognitive Regulation of Emotion

    Kevin N. Ochsner;Silvia A. Bunge;James J. Gross;John D. E. Gabrieli

  • For better or for worse: neural systems supporting the cognitive down- and up-regulation of negative emotion.

    Kevin N. Ochsner;Rebecca D. Ray;Jeffrey C. Cooper;Elaine R. Robertson

  • Functional imaging studies of emotion regulation: a synthetic review and evolving model of the cognitive control of emotion.

    Kevin N. Ochsner;Jennifer A. Silvers;Jason T. Buhle

  • Cognitive Reappraisal of Emotion: A Meta-Analysis of Human Neuroimaging Studies

    Jason T. Buhle;Jennifer A. Silvers;Tor D. Wager;Richard Lopez

  • The Experience of Emotion

    Lisa Feldman Barrett;Batja Mesquita;Kevin N. Ochsner;James J. Gross

  • Prefrontal-subcortical pathways mediating successful emotion regulation.

    Tor D. Wager;Matthew L. Davidson;Brent L. Hughes;Martin A. Lindquist

  • Social effects of oxytocin in humans: context and person matter.

    Jennifer A. Bartz;Jamil Zaki;Niall Bolger;Kevin N. Ochsner

  • Neural Systems Underlying the Suppression of Unwanted Memories

    Michael C. Anderson;Kevin N. Ochsner;Brice Kuhl;Jeffrey Cooper

  • Cognitive Emotion Regulation: Insights From Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

    Kevin N. Ochsner;James J. Gross

  • The neuroscience of empathy: progress, pitfalls and promise

    Jamil Zaki;Kevin N Ochsner

  • Gender Differences in Emotion Regulation: An fMRI Study of Cognitive Reappraisal:

    Kateri McRae;Kevin N. Ochsner;Iris B. Mauss;John J. D. Gabrieli

  • Reflecting upon Feelings: An fMRI Study of Neural Systems Supporting the Attribution of Emotion to Self and Other

    Kevin N. Ochsner;Kyle Knierim;David H. Ludlow;Josh Hanelin

  • Implicit memory: A selective review.

    D.L. Schacter;C.Y.P. Chiu;K. N. Ochsner

  • A meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies of self-and other judgments reveals a spatial gradient for mentalizing in medial prefrontal cortex

    Bryan T. Denny;Hedy Kober;Tor D. Wager;Kevin N. Ochsner

  • Are affective events richly recollected or simply familiar? The experience and process of recognizing feelings past.

    Kevin N. Ochsner

  • The emergence of social cognitive neuroscience.

    Kevin N. Ochsner;Matthew D. Lieberman

  • Born to choose: the origins and value of the need for control

    Lauren A. Leotti;Sheena S. Iyengar;Kevin N. Ochsner

  • The development of emotion regulation: an fMRI study of cognitive reappraisal in children, adolescents and young adults

    Kateri McRae;James J. Gross;Jochen Weber;Elaine R. Robertson

  • Prefrontal–striatal pathway underlies cognitive regulation of craving

    Hedy Kober;Peter Mende-Siedlecki;Ethan F. Kross;Jochen Weber

  • Amygdala Responses to Emotionally Valenced Stimuli in Older and Younger Adults

    Mara Mather;Turhan Canli;Tammy English;Sue Whitfield

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Gross
James J. Gross Stanford University
Jamil Zaki
Jamil Zaki Stanford University
Hedy Kober
Hedy Kober Yale University
Michael F. Green
Michael F. Green University of California, Los Angeles
Kateri McRae
Kateri McRae University of Denver
Niall Bolger
Niall Bolger Columbia University
Stephen M. Kosslyn
Stephen M. Kosslyn Harvard University
Larry J. Siever
Larry J. Siever Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ethan Kross
Ethan Kross University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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