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Overview

Luiz Pessoa is a researcher affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their main field of study is Neuroscience, with a significant focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, which accounts for the majority of their publications. Other subfields include Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Statistics and Probability, Social Psychology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's work covers several core topics, including Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neural dynamics and brain function, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Face Recognition and Perception, and Mental Health Research Topics.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Luiz Pessoa include:

  • "Refocusing neuroscience: moving away from mental categories and towards complex behaviours," 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "The Entangled Brain," 2022, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Additionally, the scientist has contributed to book publications, including "The Entangled Brain" published by The MIT Press in 2022, and a forthcoming themed issue titled "The Resonant Brain: A Themed Issue Dedicated to Professor Stephen Grossberg," expected from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 2025.

Luiz Pessoa frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Gang Chen, Srikanth Padmala, Kelly Morrow, Paul A. Taylor, and Robert W. Cox. These collaborators have co-authored multiple works alongside them, reflecting ongoing partnerships across numerous projects.

The scientist's work appears regularly in specific publication venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Trends in Neurosciences
  • NeuroImage
  • Aperture Neuro

Best Publications

  • On the relationship between emotion and cognition

    Luiz Pessoa

  • Emotion processing and the amygdala: from a 'low road' to 'many roads' of evaluating biological significance

    Luiz Pessoa;Ralph Adolphs

  • How do emotion and motivation direct executive control

    Luiz Pessoa

  • Neural processing of emotional faces requires attention

    L. Pessoa;M. McKenna;E. Gutierrez;L. G. Ungerleider

  • The neural correlates of moral sensitivity: a functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of basic and moral emotions.

    Jorge Moll;Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza;Paul J. Eslinger;Ivanei E. Bramati

  • Attentional control of the processing of neutral and emotional stimuli

    Luiz Pessoa;Sabine Kastner;Leslie G Ungerleider

  • Finding out about filling-in: a guide to perceptual completion for visual science and the philosophy of perception.

    Luiz Pessoa;Evan Thompson;Alva Noë

  • To what extent are emotional visual stimuli processed without attention and awareness

    Luiz Pessoa

  • Understanding brain networks and brain organization.

    Luiz Pessoa

  • Neuroimaging Studies of Attention: From Modulation of Sensory Processing to Top-Down Control

    Luiz Pessoa;Sabine Kastner;Leslie G. Ungerleider

  • Neural correlates of visual working memory: fMRI amplitude predicts task performance.

    Luiz Pessoa;Eva Gutierrez;Peter A. Bandettini;Leslie G. Ungerleider

  • Filling-in is for finding out

    Luiz Pessoa;Evan Thompson;Alva Noë

  • Modulation of emotion by cognition and cognition by emotion.

    K.S. Blair;B.W. Smith;D.G.V. Mitchell;J. Morton

  • Measuring consciousness: relating behavioural and neurophysiological approaches

    Anil K. Seth;Zoltán Dienes;Axel Cleeremans;Morten Overgaard

  • A Network Model of the Emotional Brain

    Luiz Pessoa

  • Mechanisms of motivation-cognition interaction: Challenges and opportunities

    Todd S. Braver;Marie K. Krug;Kimberly S. Chiew;Wouter Kool

  • Emotion and cognition and the amygdala: from "what is it?" to "what's to be done?".

    Luiz Pessoa

  • The prefrontal cortex and the executive control of attention.

    Andrew F. Rossi;Luiz Pessoa;Robert Desimone;Leslie G. Ungerleider

  • The neurobiology of emotion-cognition interactions: fundamental questions and strategies for future research.

    Hadas Okon-Singer;Talma Hendler;Luiz Pessoa;Alexander J. Shackman

  • Reward reduces conflict by enhancing attentional control and biasing visual cortical processing

    Srikanth Padmala;Luiz Pessoa

  • Fate of unattended fearful faces in the amygdala is determined by both attentional resources and cognitive modulation

    Luiz Pessoa;Srikanth Padmala;Thomas Morland

Frequent Co-Authors

Leslie G. Ungerleider
Leslie G. Ungerleider National Institutes of Health
Gang Chen
Gang Chen National Institutes of Health
Robert W. Cox
Robert W. Cox National Institutes of Health
Alexander J. Shackman
Alexander J. Shackman University of Maryland, College Park
Evan Thompson
Evan Thompson University of British Columbia
Talma Hendler
Talma Hendler Tel Aviv University
Janaina Mourao-Miranda
Janaina Mourao-Miranda University College London
Sabine Kastner
Sabine Kastner Princeton University
Ricardo Gattass
Ricardo Gattass Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Peter De Weerd
Peter De Weerd Maastricht University

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