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Elizabeth A. Kensinger, Ph.D.
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Emotional
Memory Across the Adult Lifespan
will be published by Psychology Press in November, 2008.
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Emotion & Memory Accuracy
Research Articles
Payne JD, Stickgold R, Swanberg K, & Kensinger EA (in press). Sleep and memory consolidation for complex emotional scenes. Psychological Science.
Mickley KR &
Kensinger EA (2008). Neural processes supporting subsequent
recollection and familiarity of emotional items. Cognitive, Affective,
and Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 143-152.
pdf
Garoff-Eaton RJ,
Kensinger EA, & Schacter DL (2007). The neural correlates of
conceptual and perceptual false recognition. Learning and Memory, 14,
684-692.
pdf
Kensinger EA,
Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). How negative emotion enhances
the visual specificity of a memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,
19, 1872-1887.
pdf
Kensinger EA,
Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). Effects of emotion on memory
specificity in young and older adults. Journal of Gerontology:
Psychological Science, 62, 208-215.
pdf
Kensinger EA,
Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). Remembering the specific visual
details of presented objects: Neuroimaging evidence for effects of emotion.
Neuropsychologia, 45, 2951-2962.
pdf
Kensinger EA,
Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). Effects of emotion on memory
specificity: Memory trade-offs elicited by negative visually arousing stimuli.
Journal of Memory and Language, 56, 575-591.
pdf
Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (2006). When the Red Sox shocked the Yankees:
Comparing negative and positive memories. Psychonomic Bulletin and
Review, 13, 757-763.
pdf
Kensinger
EA, and Schacter DL (2006). Neural processes underlying memory attribution
on a reality-monitoring task. Cerebral Cortex, 16, 1126-1133.
pdf
Budson
AE, Todman RW, Chong H, Adams EH, Kensinger EA, Krandl TS & Wright CI (2006). False recognition of emotional word lists in aging and Alzheimer's
disease. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 19, 71-78.
pdf
Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (2006). Reality monitoring and memory distortion: Effects of negative, arousing content. Memory and Cognition, 34, 251-260.
Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (2006). Amygdala activity is associated with the
successful encoding of item, but not source, information for positive and
negative stimuli. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 2564-2570.
pdf
Kensinger
EA, Garoff-Eaton RJ, and Schacter DL (2006). Memory for specific
visual details can be enhanced by negative arousing content. Journal of
Memory and Language, 54, 99-112.
pdf
Gallo DA, Kensinger EA, & Schacter DL (2006). Prefrontal activity and
diagnostic monitoring of memory retrieval: fMRI of the criterial recollection
task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 135-148.
pdf
Kensinger
EA, Krendl AC, & Corkin S (2006). Memories of an emotional and a
nonemotional event: Effects of aging and delay interval. Experimental
Aging Research, 32, 23-45.
pdf
Kensinger
EA & Schacter DL (2005). Retrieving accurate and distorted
memories: Neuroimaging evidence for effects of emotion. NeuroImage, 27,
167-177.
pdf
Kensinger
EA, and Schacter DL (2005). Emotional content and
reality-monitoring ability: FMRI evidence for the influence of encoding
processes. Neuropsychologia, 43, 1429-1443.
pdf
Kensinger
EA, Piguet O, Krendl AC, & Corkin S (2005). Memory for
contextual details: Effects of emotion and aging. Psychology and
Aging, 20, 241-250.
pdf
Kensinger EA & Corkin S
(2004). The effects
of emotional content and aging on false memories. Cognitive,
Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 1-9.
pdf
Review Articles & Book Chapters
Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (in press). Memory and Emotion.
In M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones and L. F. Barrett (Eds.), The Handbook
of Emotion, 3rd Edition. New York: Guilford.
pdf
Kensinger EA (2007). Negative emotion
enhances memory accuracy: Behavioral and neuroimaging evidence.
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 213-218.
pdf
Schacter DL, Gallo
DA, & Kensinger EA (2007). The cognitive neuroscience of implicit
and false memories: Perspectives on processing specificity. In J.S.
Naime (Ed.) The foundations of remembering: Essays honoring Henry L.
Roediger III (pp. 353-377). New York: Psychology Press.
pdf
How Valence and Arousal Affect Memory's Vividness
Research Articles
Kensinger EA (2008). Age
differences in memory for arousing and nonarousing emotional words.
Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 63, P13-18.
pdf
Mickley KR &
Kensinger EA (2008). Neural processes supporting subsequent
recollection and familiarity of emotional items. Cognitive, Affective,
and Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 143-152.
pdf
Kensinger EA
& Schacter DL (2006). Processing emotional pictures and words:
Effects of valence and arousal. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral
Neuroscience, 6, 110-126.
pdf
Kensinger EA
& Corkin S (2004). Two routes to emotional memory: Distinct processes for
valence and arousal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
USA, 101, 3310-3315.
pdf
Kensinger EA
& Corkin S (2003). Memory enhancement for emotional words: Are emotional
words more vividly remembered than neutral words? Memory and
Cognition, 31, 1169-1180.
pdf
Kensinger EA & Corkin S (2003). Effects of negative emotional
content on
working memory and long-term memory. Emotion, 3, 378-393.
pdf
Kensinger EA, Clarke RJ, & Corkin S (2003). The neural processes underlying
successful encoding and retrieval: A functional magnetic resonance
imaging study using a divided attention paradigm. Journal of
Neuroscience, 23, 2407-2415.
pdf
Kensinger EA & Corkin S (2003). Effect of
divided attention on the memory benefit for negative as compared to neutral
words. Brain
and Cognition, 51,
223-225.
pdf
Review Articles & Book Chapters
Kensinger EA &
Schacter DL (2008). Memory and Emotion. In M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones
and L. F. Barrett (Eds.), The Handbook of Emotion, 3rd
Edition. New York: Guilford.
pdf
Kensinger
EA (2006). Neuroimaging the formation and retrieval of emotional
memories. To appear in Brain Mapping: New Research.
Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
pdf
Kensinger
EA (2004). Remembering emotional experiences: The contribution of
valence and arousal. Reviews in the Neurosciences, 15, 241-251.
pdf
Memory in Aging and Age-Related Disease
Research Articles
Kensinger EA (2008). Age
differences in memory for arousing and nonarousing emotional words.
Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 63, P13-18.
pdf
Kensinger EA &
Schacter DL (2008). Neural processes supporting young and older adults'
emotional memories. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20,
1161-1173.
pdf
Kensinger EA,
O'Brien J, Swanberg K, Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). The
effects of emotional content on reality-monitoring performance in young and
older adults. Psychology and Aging, 22, 752-764.
pdf
Kensinger EA,
Gutchess AH, & Schacter DL (2007). Effects of aging and encoding
instructions on emotion-induced memory trade-offs. Psychology and
Aging, 22, 781-795.
pdf
Gutchess AH,
Kensinger EA, Yoon C, & Schacter DL (2007). Ageing and the self-reference
effect in memory. Memory, 15, 822-837.
pdf
Kensinger EA,
Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). Effects of emotion on memory
specificity in young and older adults. Journal of Gerontology:
Psychological Sciences, 62,
208-215.
pdf
Budson
AE, Todman RW, Chong H, Adams EH, Kensinger EA, Krandl TS & Wright CI (2006). False recognition of emotional word lists in aging and Alzheimer's
disease. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 19, 71-78.
pdf
Kensinger
EA, Krendl AC, & Corkin S (2006). Memories of an emotional and a
nonemotional event: Effects of aging and delay interval. Experimental
Aging Research, 32, 23-45.
pdf
Kensinger
EA, Piguet O, Krendl AC, & Corkin S (2005). Memory for
contextual details: Effects of emotion and aging. Psychology and
Aging, 20, 241-250.
pdf
Kensinger EA, & Corkin S
(2004). The effects
of emotional content and aging on false memories. Cognitive,
Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 1-9.
pdf
Kensinger
EA, Anderson A, Growdon
JH, & Corkin
S (2004). Effects of Alzheimer
disease on memory for verbal emotional information. Neuropsychologia,
42, 791-800.
pdf
Kensinger
EA, Shearer DK, Growdon JH, & Corkin S (2003).
Working memory in mild Alzheimer’s disease and early Parkinson’s
disease. Neuropsychology, 17,
230-239.
pdf
Kensinger EA,
Brierley B, Medford N, Growdon JH, & Corkin S (2002).
The effect of normal aging and Alzheimer’s disease on emotional
memory. Emotion,
2, 118-134.
pdf
Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (1999). When true memories suppress false memories: Effects of
aging. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 16, 399-415.
pdf
Review Articles & Book Chapters
Kensinger EA
(2008). How emotion affects older adults' memories for event details.
Memory, Jul 4, 1-12 [Epub ahead of print].
pdf
Kensinger EA (in
press). Cognition in aging and age-related disease. In L.R. Squire
(Ed.). The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Oxford: Elsevier
Press.
pdf
Kensinger EA (2006).
Remembering emotional information: effects of aging and Alzheimer's disease.
Progress in Alzheimer's Disease
Research. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
pdf
Kensinger EA & Corkin S (2004). Cognition in Aging and Age-Related Disease. In
Adelman G and Smith BH (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (Web,
CD-Rom)New York: Elsevier Press.
pdf
Kensinger EA & Corkin (2003). Neural Changes in Aging. In Encyclopedia of
Cognitive Science. London: Macmillian, Ltd.
pdf
Kensinger EA & Corkin (2003). Alzheimer's Disease. In Encyclopedia of
Cognitive Science. London: Macmillian, Ltd.
pdf
Emotion Processing in Aging
Leclerc CM & Kensinger EA
(2008). Effects of age on detection of emotional information.
Psychology and Aging, 23, 209-215.
pdf
Leclerc CM &
Kensinger EA (2008). Age-related differences in medial prefrontal
activation in response to emotional images. Cognitive, Affective, and
Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 153-164.
pdf
Gutchess AH, Kensinger EA, Yoon C, & Schacter DL (in press). Aging and the self-reference effect in memory. Memory.
Gutchess AH,
Kensinger EA, & Schacter DL (2007). Aging, self-referencing, and medial
prefrontal cortex. Social Neuroscience, 2, 117-133.
pdf
Role of the Temporal Lobe in Semantic Memory
Research Articles
Skotko
B, Kensinger EA, Locascio JJ, Einstein JG, Rubin DC, Tupler LA, Krendl AC, & Corkin S (2004). Puzzling thoughts for H.M.: Can new semantic memories
be anchored to old semantic memories? Neuropsychology, 18,
756-769.
pdf
O'Kane
G*, Kensinger EA*, & Corkin S (2004). Evidence for semantic learning
in amnesia: A study with the amnesic patient H.M. Hippocampus, 14, 417-425.
(*equal authorship)
pdf
Siri S,
pdf
Kensinger EA,
Siri S, Cappa SF, & Corkin S (2002). Role
of the anterior temporal lobe in repetition and semantic priming: Evidence
from a patient with a category-specific deficit.
Neuropsychologia, 41, 71-84.
pdf
Schmolck
H, Kensinger EA, Corkin S, &Squire LR (2002).
Semantic knowledge in patient H.M. and other patients with bilateral
and medial and lateral temporal lobe lesions.
Hippocampus, 12, 520-533.
pdf
Kensinger
EA, Ullman MT, & Corkin S
(2001). Bilateral medial temporal
lobe damage does not prevent the retrieval and use of grammatical or lexical
information: evidence from the amnesic patient H.M. Hippocampus,
11, 347-360.
pdf
Review Articles & Book Chapters
Kensinger EA & Corkin (in press). Amnesia: Point and Counterpoint. In R. Menzel
(Ed.) Learning and Memory - A Comprehensive Reference. Oxford:
Elsevier Press.
pdf
Kensinger EA & Giovanello KS (2005). The status of semantic and episodic
memory in amnesia. Progress in Neuropsychology Research: Brain Mapping
and Language. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
pdf
ARTICLES BY YEAR
Kensinger EA (in
press). Cognition in aging and age-related disease. In L.R. Squire
(Ed.). The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Oxford: Elsevier
Press.
pdf
pdf
Payne JD, Stickgold R, Swanberg K, & Kensinger EA (in press). Sleep and memory consolidation for complex emotional scenes. Psychological Science.
Kensinger EA & Choi ES (in press). Hemispheric processing and the visual specificity of emotional memories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
Kensinger EA (in press). Remembering the details: Effects of emotion. Emotion Review.
Mickley KR, Muscatell KA, & Kensinger EA (in press). Using the RSVP paradigm to investigate the processes contributing to emotional memory. Brain and Cognition.
Waring JD, Payne JD, Schacter DL, & Kensinger EA (in press). Impact of individual differences upon emotion-induced memory trade-offs. Cognition and Emotion.
Kensinger EA & Leclerc CM (in press). Age-related changes in the neural mechanisms supporting emotion processing and emotional memory. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology.
Kensinger EA
(2008). How emotion affects older adults' memories for event details.
Memory, Jul 4, 1-12 [Epub ahead of print].
pdf
Kensinger EA (2008). Age
differences in memory for arousing and nonarousing emotional words.
Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 63, P13-18.
pdf
Kensinger EA &
Schacter DL (2008). Memory and Emotion. In M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones
and L. F. Barrett (Eds.), The Handbook of Emotion, 3rd
Edition. New York: Guilford.
pdf
Kensinger EA &
Schacter DL (2008). Neural processes supporting young and older adults'
emotional memories. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20,
1161-1173.
pdf
Leclerc CM & Kensinger EA
(2008). Effects of age on detection of emotional information.
Psychology and Aging, 23, 209-215.
pdf
Leclerc CM &
Kensinger EA (2008). Age-related differences in medial prefrontal
activation in response to emotional images. Cognitive, Affective, and
Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 153-164.
pdf
Mickley KR &
Kensinger EA (2008). Neural processes supporting subsequent
recollection and familiarity of emotional items. Cognitive, Affective,
and Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 143-152.
pdf
Garoff-Eaton RJ,
Kensinger EA, & Schacter DL (2007). The neural correlates of
conceptual and perceptual false recognition. Learning and Memory, 14,
684-692.
pdf
Gutchess AH,
Kensinger EA, & Schacter DL (2007). Aging, self-referencing, and medial
prefrontal cortex. Social Neuroscience, 2, 117-133.
pdf
Gutchess AH,
Kensinger EA, Yoon C, & Schacter DL (2007). Ageing and the self-reference
effect in memory. Memory, 15, 822-837.
pdf
Kensinger EA (2007). Age
differences in memory for arousing and nonarousing emotional words.
Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.
pdf
Kensinger EA (2007). Negative emotion
enhances memory accuracy: Behavioral and neuroimaging evidence.
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 213-218.
pdf
Kensinger EA,
Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). Effects of emotion on memory
specificity in young and older adults. Journal of Gerontology:
Psychological Science, 62, 208-215.
pdf
Kensinger EA,
Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). Effects of emotion on memory
specificity: Memory trade-offs elicited by negative visually arousing stimuli.
Journal of Memory and Language, 56, 575-591.
pdf
Kensinger EA,
Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). How negative emotion enhances
the visual specificity of a memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,
19, 1872-1887.
pdf
Kensinger EA,
Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). Remembering the specific visual
details of presented objects: Neuroimaging evidence for effects of emotion.
Neuropsychologia, 45, 2951-2962.
pdf
Kensinger EA,
Gutchess AH, & Schacter DL (2007). Effects of aging and encoding
instructions on emotion-induced memory trade-offs. Psychology and
Aging, 22, 781-795.
pdf
Kensinger EA,
O'Brien J, Swanberg K, Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). The
effects of emotional content on reality-monitoring performance in young and
older adults. Psychology and Aging, 22, 752-764.
pdf
Schacter DL, Gallo
DA, & Kensinger EA (2007). The cognitive neuroscience of implicit
and false memories: Perspectives on processing specificity. In J.S.
Naime (Ed.) The foundations of remembering: Essays honoring Henry L.
Roediger III (pp. 353-377). New York: Psychology Press.
pdf
Budson
AE, Todman RW, Chong H, Adams EH, Kensinger EA, Krandl TS & Wright CI (2006). False recognition of emotional word lists in aging and Alzheimer's
disease. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 19, 71-78.
pdf
Gallo DA, Kensinger EA, & Schacter DL (2006). Prefrontal activity and
diagnostic monitoring of memory retrieval: fMRI of the criterial recollection
task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 135-148.
pdf
Kensinger EA (2006).
Remembering emotional information: effects of aging and Alzheimer's disease.
Progress in Alzheimer's Disease
Research. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
pdf
Kensinger
EA, Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2006). Memory for specific
visual details can be enhanced by negative arousing content. Journal of
Memory and Language, 54, 99-112.
pdf
Kensinger
EA, Krendl AC, & Corkin S (2006). Memories of an emotional and a
nonemotional event: Effects of aging and delay interval. Experimental
Aging Research, 32, 23-45.
pdf
Kensinger
EA & Schacter DL (2006). Amygdala activity is associated with the
successful encoding of item, but not source, information for positive and
negative stimuli. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 2564-2570.
pdf
Kensinger
EA & Schacter DL (2006). Neural processes underlying memory attribution
on a reality-monitoring task. Cerebral Cortex, 16, 1126-1133.
pdf
Kensinger
EA & Schacter DL (2006). Reality monitoring and memory distortion:
Effects of negative, arousing content. Memory and Cognition, 34,
251-260.
pdf
Kensinger EA
& Schacter DL (2006). Processing emotional pictures and words:
Effects of valence and arousal. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral
Neuroscience, 6, 110-126.
pdf
Kensinger
EA & Schacter DL (2006). When the Red Sox shocked the Yankees:
Comparing negative and positive memories. Psychonomic Bulletin and
Review, 13, 757-763.
pdf
pdf
Kensinger
EA, Piguet O, Krendl AC, & Corkin S (2005). Memory for
contextual details: Effects of emotion and aging. Psychology and
Aging, 20, 241-250.
pdf
Kensinger
EA & Schacter DL (2005). Retrieving accurate and distorted
memories: Neuroimaging evidence for effects of emotion. NeuroImage, 27,
167-177.
pdf
Kensinger
EA & Schacter DL (2005). Emotional content and
reality-monitoring ability: FMRI evidence for the influence of encoding
processes. Neuropsychologia, 43, 1429-1443.
pdf
Kensinger
EA (2004). Remembering emotional experiences: The contribution of
valence and arousal. Reviews in the Neurosciences, 15, 241-251.
pdf
Kensinger
EA, Anderson A, Growdon
JH, & Corkin
S (2004). Effects of Alzheimer
disease on memory for verbal emotional information. Neuropsychologia,
42, 791-800.
pdf
Kensinger EA & Corkin S (2004). Cognition in Aging and Age-Related Disease. In
Adelman G and Smith BH (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (Web,
CD-Rom)New York: Elsevier Press.
pdf
Kensinger EA & Corkin S
(2004). The effects
of emotional content and aging on false memories. Cognitive,
Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 1-9.
pdf
Kensinger EA
& Corkin S (2004). Two routes to emotional memory: Distinct processes for
valence and arousal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
USA, 101, 3310-3315.
pdf
O'Kane
G*, Kensinger EA*, & Corkin S (2004). Evidence for semantic learning
in amnesia: A study with the amnesic patient H.M. Hippocampus, 14, 417-425.
(*equal authorship)
pdf
Skotko
B, Kensinger EA, Locascio JJ, Einstein JG, Rubin DC, Tupler LA, Krendl AC, & Corkin S (2004). Puzzling thoughts for H.M.: Can new semantic memories
be anchored to old semantic memories? Neuropsychology, 18,
756-769.
pdf
Kensinger EA, Clarke RJ, & Corkin S (2003). The neural processes underlying
successful encoding and retrieval: A functional magnetic resonance
imaging study using a divided attention paradigm. Journal of
Neuroscience, 23, 2407-2415.
pdf
Kensinger EA & Corkin (2003). Alzheimer's Disease. In Encyclopedia of
Cognitive Science. London: Macmillian, Ltd.
pdf
Kensinger EA & Corkin S (2003). Effect of
divided attention on the memory benefit for negative as compared to neutral
words. Brain
and Cognition, 51,
223-225.
pdf
Kensinger EA & Corkin S (2003). Effects of negative emotional
content on
working memory and long-term memory. Emotion, 3, 378-393.
pdf
Kensinger EA
& Corkin S (2003). Memory enhancement for emotional words: Are emotional
words more vividly remembered than neutral words? Memory and
Cognition, 31, 1169-1180.
pdf
Kensinger
EA & Corkin (2003). Neural Changes in Aging. In Encyclopedia of
Cognitive Science. London: Macmillian, Ltd.
pdf
Kensinger
EA, Shearer DK, Growdon JH, & Corkin S (2003).
Working memory in mild Alzheimer’s disease and early Parkinson’s
disease. Neuropsychology, 17,
230-239.
pdf
Siri S,
pdf
Kensinger EA,
Brierley B, Medford N, Growdon JH, & Corkin S (2002).
The effect of normal aging and Alzheimer’s disease on emotional
memory. Emotion,
2, 118-134.
pdf
pdf
Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (1999). When true memories suppress false memories: Effects of
aging. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 16, 399-415.
pdf
Schmolck
H, Kensinger EA, Corkin S, & Squire LR (2002).
Semantic knowledge in patient H.M. and other patients with bilateral
and medial and lateral temporal lobe lesions.
Hippocampus, 12, 520-533.
pdf