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Overview

Stephan Hamann is affiliated with Emory University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of neuroscience, with a strong focus on cognitive neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including psychiatry and mental health, developmental and educational psychology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and clinical psychology.

The central themes in Stephan Hamann's research relate to memory and neural mechanisms, investigating how memory processes and influences operate within the brain. This includes studies on neural dynamics and brain function as well as research into functional brain connectivity. Additional topics covered involve neuroscience and neuropharmacology and the exploration of identity, memory, and therapy, along with psychosomatic disorders and their treatments.

Key recent papers authored by Stephan Hamann include:

  • Neural correlates of successful emotional episodic encoding and retrieval: An SDM meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies, 2020, Neuropsychologia
  • Neural correlates of autobiographical memory retrieval: An SDM neuroimaging meta-analysis, 2023, Cortex
  • Identifying the neurophysiological effects of memory-enhancing amygdala stimulation using interpretable machine learning, 2021, Brain stimulation
  • Cross-paradigm connectivity: reliability, stability, and utility, 2020, Brain Imaging and Behavior
  • Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying improvement of prosocial responses by a novel implicit compassion promotion task, 2021, NeuroImage

Stephan Hamann frequently publishes in venues such as UNC Libraries, Neuropsychologia, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, and Cortex, indicating a diverse array of platforms for disseminating research findings. The scholar has several collaborative relationships, regularly working with coauthors such as Cory S. Inman, Joseph R. Manns, Peter Brunner, Jon T. Willie, and Sarah McEwen.

The breadth of Stephan Hamann's research and publications demonstrate an engagement with interdisciplinary approaches in neuroscience, integrating imaging, neurophysiological, and psychological methods to explore memory mechanisms and related neural processes.

Best Publications

  • Cognitive and neural mechanisms of emotional memory

    Stephan Hamann

  • Amygdala activity related to enhanced memory for pleasant and aversive stimuli.

    Stephan B. Hamann;Timothy D. Ely;Scott T. Grafton;Clinton D. Kilts

  • Recognition of facial emotion in nine individuals with bilateral amygdala damage.

    R Adolphs;D Tranel;S Hamann;A.W Young

  • Neuroimaging support for discrete neural correlates of basic emotions: A voxel-based meta-analysis

    Katherine Vytal;Stephan Hamann

  • Neural Correlates of Positive and Negative Emotion Regulation

    Sang Hee Kim;Stephan Hamann

  • Men and women differ in amygdala response to visual sexual stimuli

    Stephan Hamann;Rebecca A Herman;Carla L Nolan;Kim Wallen;Kim Wallen

  • Sex differences in brain activation to emotional stimuli: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.

    Jennifer Strafford Stevens;Stephan Hamann

  • Neural Bases of Motivated Reasoning: An fMRI Study of Emotional Constraints on Partisan Political Judgment in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election

    Drew Westen;Pavel S. Blagov;Keith Harenski;Clint Kilts

  • Individual differences in emotion processing

    Stephan Hamann;Turhan Canli

  • Positive and negative emotional verbal stimuli elicit activity in the left amygdala.

    Stephan Hamann;Hui Mao

  • Ecstasy and Agony: Activation of the Human Amygdala in Positive and Negative Emotion

    Stephan B. Hamann;Timothy D. Ely;John M. Hoffman;Clinton D. Kilts

  • Mapping discrete and dimensional emotions onto the brain: controversies and consensus

    Stephan Hamann

  • Association of Thalamic Dysconnectivity and Conversion to Psychosis in Youth and Young Adults at Elevated Clinical Risk

    Alan Anticevic;Kristen Haut;John D. Murray;Grega Repovs

  • Neural correlates of regulating negative emotions related to moral violations.

    Carla L. Harenski;Stephan Hamann

  • Level-of-processing effects in conceptually driven implicit tasks

    Stephan B. Hamann

  • Functional connectivity changes with concentration of sevoflurane anesthesia

    Scott J Peltier;CA Chantal Kerssens;Stephan B Hamann;Peter S Sebel

  • Intact perceptual memory in the absence of conscious memory.

    Stephan B. Hamann;Larry R. Squire

  • Recognizing facial emotion

    Stephan B. Hamann;Lisa Stefanacci;Larry R. Squire;Larry R. Squire;Ralph Adolphs

  • fMRI evidence for word association and situated simulation in conceptual processing.

    W. Kyle Simmons;Stephan B. Hamann;Carla L. Harenski;Xiaoping P. Hu

  • Sex Differences in the Responses of the Human Amygdala

    Stephan Hamann

Frequent Co-Authors

Elaine F. Walker
Elaine F. Walker Emory University
Carrie E. Bearden
Carrie E. Bearden University of California, Los Angeles
Diana O. Perkins
Diana O. Perkins University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Daniel H. Mathalon
Daniel H. Mathalon University of California, San Francisco
Scott W. Woods
Scott W. Woods Yale University
Larry R. Squire
Larry R. Squire University of California, San Diego
Heidi W. Thermenos
Heidi W. Thermenos Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Theo G.M. van Erp
Theo G.M. van Erp University of California, Irvine
Aysenil Belger
Aysenil Belger University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bradley G. Goodyear
Bradley G. Goodyear University of Calgary

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