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Overview

Samuel M. McClure is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research spans several areas within neuroscience and psychology, with an emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology.

Their recent publications include studies addressing memory, attention, brain connectivity, and behavioral health. Notable papers include:

  • Individual differences in value-directed remembering (2020, Cognition)
  • Noradrenaline tracks emotional modulation of attention in human amygdala (2023, Current Biology)
  • Limbic and Executive Meso- and Nigrostriatal Tracts Predict Impulsivity Differences in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (2021, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging)
  • Dimensions of childhood trauma and their direct and indirect links to PTSD, impaired control over drinking, and alcohol-related problems (2020, Addictive Behaviors Reports)
  • Neural basis of working memory in ADHD: Load versus complexity (2021, NeuroImage Clinical)

McClure's collaborative work shows frequent co-authorship with several researchers, including:

  • Gene A. Brewer
  • Blake L. Elliott
  • Kimberlee D'Ardenne
  • Dan Bang
  • Leonardo S. Barbosa

Their publications have appeared in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Biology
  • Cognition
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Addictive Behaviors Reports

Research fields of focus include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these disciplines, McClure's work further specializes in subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The primary research topics explored by McClure include:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

Best Publications

  • Separate Neural Systems Value Immediate and Delayed Monetary Rewards

    Samuel M. McClure;David I. Laibson;George Loewenstein;Jonathan D. Cohen;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Neural Correlates of Behavioral Preference for Culturally Familiar Drinks

    Samuel M. McClure;Jian Li;Damon Tomlin;Kim S. Cypert

  • Should I stay or should I go? How the human brain manages the trade-off between exploitation and exploration

    Jonathan D. Cohen;Samuel M. McClure;Angela J. Yu

  • Time Discounting for Primary Rewards

    Samuel M. McClure;Keith M. Ericson;David I. Laibson;David I. Laibson;George Loewenstein

  • The Wick in the Candle of Learning: Epistemic Curiosity Activates Reward Circuitry and Enhances Memory

    Min Jeong Kang;Ming Hsu;Ian M. Krajbich;George Loewenstein

  • Temporal Prediction Errors in a Passive Learning Task Activate Human Striatum

    Samuel M McClure;Gregory S Berns;P.Read Montague

  • Predictability modulates human brain response to reward.

    Gregory S. Berns;Samuel M. McClure;Giuseppe Pagnoni;P. Read Montague

  • Hyperscanning: Simultaneous fMRI during Linked Social Interactions

    P. Read Montague;Gregory S. Berns;Jonathan D. Cohen;Samuel M. McClure

  • BOLD responses reflecting dopaminergic signals in the human ventral tegmental area.

    Kimberlee D'Ardenne;Samuel M. McClure;Leigh E. Nystrom;Jonathan D. Cohen;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Neuroeconomics: cross-currents in research on decision-making

    Alan G. Sanfey;George Loewenstein;Samuel M. McClure;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • The Neural Substrates of Reward Processing in Humans: The Modern Role of fMRI:

    Samuel M. Mcclure;Michele K. York;P. Read Montague

  • A computational substrate for incentive salience

    Samuel M. McClure;Nathaniel Douglass Daw;P. Read Montague

  • Are executive function and impulsivity antipodes? A conceptual reconstruction with special reference to addiction

    Warren K. Bickel;David P. Jarmolowicz;E. Terry Mueller;Kirstin M. Gatchalian

  • Adolescent impatience decreases with increased frontostriatal connectivity

    Wouter van den Bos;Christian A. Rodriguez;Julie B. Schweitzer;Samuel M. McClure

  • Patients with Schizophrenia have a Reduced Neural Response to Both Unpredictable and Predictable Primary Reinforcers

    James A Waltz;Julie B Schweitzer;James M Gold;Pradeep K Kurup

  • Dynamic Gain Control of Dopamine Delivery in Freely Moving Animals

    P. Read Montague;Samuel M. McClure;Samuel M. McClure;P. R. Baldwin;Paul E. M. Phillips

  • A dual-systems perspective on addiction: contributions from neuroimaging and cognitive training.

    Samuel M. McClure;Warren K. Bickel

  • Hierarchical control over effortful behavior by rodent medial frontal cortex: A computational model.

    Clay B. Holroyd;Samuel M. McClure

  • Connectivity Strength of Dissociable Striatal Tracts Predict Individual Differences in Temporal Discounting

    Wouter van den Bos;Christian A. Rodriguez;Julie B. Schweitzer;Samuel M. McClure

  • Anchors, scales and the relative coding of value in the brain.

    Ben Seymour;Samuel M McClure

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan D. Cohen
Jonathan D. Cohen Princeton University
P. Read Montague
P. Read Montague Virginia Tech
George Loewenstein
George Loewenstein Carnegie Mellon University
Warren K. Bickel
Warren K. Bickel Virginia Tech
Rui Mata
Rui Mata University of Basel
Gregory S. Berns
Gregory S. Berns Emory University
Baba Shiv
Baba Shiv Stanford University
Brian Knutson
Brian Knutson Stanford University
Charles Spence
Charles Spence University of Oxford

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