laboratory of cognition and emotion

publications:

2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 1995-2001

2010
  • Luiz Pessoa (2010) Attention and Emotion. Scholarpedia, 5(2):6314.

  • Padmala. S. and Pessoa. L. Interactions between cognition and motivation during response inhibition. Neuropsychologia 2010 Jan;48(2):558-565. 

  • Padmala. S. and Pessoa. L. Moment-to-moment fluctuations in fMRI amplitude and inter-region coupling are predictive of inhibitory performance. Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience. In press.

2009

  • Seung-Lark Lim, Srikanth Padmala, Pessoa L. Segregating the significant from the mundane on a moment-to-moment basis via direct and indirect amygdala contributions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2009 Sep;106(39):16841-16846.

  • Damaraju E, Huang YM, Barrett LF, Pessoa L. Affective learning enhances activity and functional connectivity in early visual cortex. Neuropsychologia 2009 Apr;47(12):2480-2487.

  • Pessoa L. How do emotion and motivation direct executive control? Trends Cogn. Sci. 2009 Apr;13(4):160-6.

  • Engelmann JB, Damaraju E, Padmala S, Pessoa L. Combined effects of attention and motivation on visual task performance: transient and sustained motivational effects. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 2009;3:4.

  • Japee S, Crocker L, Carver F, Pessoa L, Ungerleider LG. Individual differences in valence modulation of face-selective M170 response. Emotion 2009 Feb;9(1):59-69.

  • Rossi AF, Pessoa L, Desimone R, Ungerleider LG. The prefrontal cortex and the executive control of attention. Exp. Brain Res. 2009 Jan;192(3):489-97.

  • Pessoa L, Rossi A, Japee S, Desimone R, Ungerleider LG. Attentional control during the transient updating of cue information. Brain Research 2009, 149-158.

2008
  • Leslie G. Ungerleider and Luiz Pessoa (2008). What and where pathways. Scholarpedia, 3(11):5342.

  • Seth AK, Dienes Z, Cleeremans A, Overgaard M, & Pessoa L. Measuring consciousness: relating behavioural and neurophysiological approaches. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2008.12(8):314-21.

  • Shen-Mou Hsu, Hetrick WP, & Pessoa L. Depth of facial expression processing depends on stimulus visibility: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence of priming effects. Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience 2008 Sep;8(3):282-92.

  • Padmala, S & Pessoa, L. Affective learning enhances visual detection and responses in primary visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 2008.28(24):6202-6210.

  • Pessoa L. On the relationship between emotion and cognition. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2008. Feb;9(2):148-58.

  • Seung-Lark Lim, Pessoa L. Affective learning increases sensitivity to graded emotional faces. Emotion 2008. Feb;8(1):96-103

  • Seung-Lark Lim, Padmala S, Pessoa L. Affective learning modulates spatial competition during low-load conditions. Neuropsychologia 2008;46(5):1267-78.


2007
  • Siman-Tov T, Mendelsohn A, Schonberg T, Avidan G, Podlipsky I, Pessoa L, Gadoth N, Ungerleider LG, Hendler T. Journal of Neuroscience 2007 Oct 17;27(42):11271-8

  • Shen-Mou Hsu, Pessoa L. Dissociable effects of bottom-up and top-down factors in the processing of unattended fearful faces. Neuropsychologia, 2007 45(13):3075-86.

  • Blair KS, Smith BW, Mitchell DG, Morton J, Vythilingam M, Pessoa L, Fridberg D, Zametkin A, Sturman D, Nelson EE, Drevets WC, Pine DS, Martin A, Blair RJ. Modulation of emotion by cognition and cognition by emotion. Neuroimage, 2007 Mar;35(1):430-40

  • Engelmann, J. & Pessoa, L. Motivation sharpens exogenous spatial attention. Emotion 7(3):668-74. 

  • Thielscher, A. & Pessoa,  L. Neural correlates of  perceptual choice and decision making in  Fear-Disgust  discrimination. The Journal of Neuroscience,  Mar; 27(11);2908-2917.

  • Szczepanowski, R. & Pessoa, L. Fear perception: Can objective and subjective awareness measures be dissociated? Journal of Vision.

  • Pessoa, L., Padmala, S., (2007). Decoding near-threshold perception of fear from distributed single-trial brain activation. Cerebral Cortex, Apr; 20.


2006
  • Pereira, M.G., Volchan, E., de Souza, G.G., Oliveira, L., Campagnoli, R., Pinheiro, W.W., & Pessoa, L. (2006). Sustained and transient modulation of performance induced by emotional picture viewing. Emotion,6, 622-634.

  • Pessoa, L., Japee, S., Sturman, D., & Ungerleider, L.G. (2006). Target visibility and visual awareness modulate amygdala responses to fearful faces. Cerebral Cortex, Mar; 16; 366-375.


2005
  • Fátima Smith Erthal, Letícia de Oliveira, Izabela Mocaiber, Mirtes Garcia Pereira, Walter Machado-Pinheiro, Eliane Volchan, & Pessoa, L. (2005). Load-dependent modulation of affective picture processing. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 5(4):388-395.

  •  Pessoa, L., Padmala, S., & Morland, T. (2005). Fate of the unattended fearful faces in the amygdala is determined by both attentional resources and cognitive modulation. NeuroImage, Oct 15;28(1):249-255.

  •  Pessoa, L. & Padmala, S. (2005). Quantitative prediction of perceptual decisions during near-threshold fear detection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 102, 5612-5617.

  • Pessoa, L. (2005). To what extent are emotional stimuli processed without attention and awareness? Current Opinion of Neurobiology, 15, 188-196.

  • Pessoa, L., & Ungerleider, L.G. (2005). Visual attention and emotional perception. In L. Itti, G. Rees, and J.K. Tsotsos (Eds.), Neurobiology of Attention. San Diego, CA: Elsev

  • Pessoa, L., Japee, S., & Ungerleider, L.G. (2005). Visual awareness and the detection of fearful faces. Emotion, Jun;5(2):243-7.


2004
  • Pessoa, L. & Ungerleider, L.G. (2004). Top-down mechanisms for working memory and attentional processes. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The New Cognitive Neurosciences, 3rd Edition, pp. 919-930, MIT Press.

  • Pessoa, L., & Ungerleider, L.G. (2004). Neuroimaging studies of attention and the processing of emotion-laden stimuli. Progress in Brain Research, 144:171-82.

  • Ishai, A., Pessoa, L., Bikle, C., & Ungerleider, L.G. (2004). Repetition suppression of faces is modulated by emotion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 101, 9827-9832.

  • Pessoa, L., & Ungerleider, L.G. (2004). Neural correlates of change detection and change blindness in visual working memory. Cerebral Cortex, 14, 511-520.


2003
  • Pessoa, L., Kastner, S., & Ungerleider, L.G. (2003). Neuroimaging studies of attention: From modulation of sensory processing to top-down control. Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 3990-3998.

  • Mourão-Miranda, J., Volchan, E., Moll, J., de Oliveira-Souza, R., Oliveira, L., Bramati, I., Gattass, R., & Pessoa, L. (2003). Contributions of stimulus valence and arousal to visual system activation during emotional perception fMRI. Neuroimage , 20, 1955-1963.


2002
  • Pessoa, L., Gutierrez, E., Bandettini, P.B., & Ungerleider, L.G (2002). Neural correlates of visual working memory: fMRI amplitude predicts task performance. Neuron, 35, 975-987.

  • Pessoa, L., McKenna, M., Gutierrez, E., & Ungerleider, L.G (2002). Neural processing of emotional faces requires attention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 99, 11458-11463.

  • Moll, J., Oliveira-Souza, R., Eslinger, P., Bramati I., Mourao-Miranda, J., Andreiuolo P., & Pessoa, L. (2002). The neural correlates of moral sensitivity: A functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of basic and moral emotions. Journal of Neuroscience, 22, 2730-2736.  

  • Oliveira, L., Volchan, E., Pessoa, L., Marques, R.F., Pantoja, J.H.; Joffily, M., Souza-Neto, D., & Rocha-Miranda, C.E (2002). Contour integration in the primary visual cortex of the opossum. NeuroReport, 13, 2001-2004.

  • Pessoa, L., Kastner, S., & Ungerleider. L.G (2002). Attentional control of the processing of neutral and emotional stimuli. Cognitive Brain Research, 15, 31-45.


1995-2001
  • Neumann, H., Pessoa, L., & Hansen, T (2001). Visual filling-in for computing perceptual surface properties. Biological Cybernetics, 85, 355-369.

  • Noë A, Pessoa L, & Thompson, E. (2000). Beyond the grand illusion: what change blindness really teaches us about vision. Visual Cognition, 7, 93-106.

  • Ross, W., & Pessoa, L. (2000) Lightness from contrast: A selective integration model. Perception & Psychophysics, 62, 1160-1181.

  • Pessoa, L., Exel, S. (1999). Attentional strategies for object recognition. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1606, 850-859.

  • Neumann, H., Pessoa, L., & Hansen, T. (1999). Interaction of ON and OFF pathways for visual contrast measurement. Biological Cybernetics, 81, 515-32.

  • Pessoa, L & Leitão, AP (1999). Complex cell prototype representation for face recognition. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 10, 1528-1531.

  • Neumann, H., Pessoa, L., & Mingolla, E. (1998). A neural network architecture of brightness perception: Non-linear contrast detection and geometry-driven diffusion. Image and Vision Computing, 16, 423-446.

  • Grossberg, S., & Pessoa, L. (1998). Texture segregation, surface representation, and figure-ground separation. Vision Research, 38, 2657-2684.

  • Pessoa, L., Thompson, E., & Noë, A. (1998). Finding out about filling-in: A guide to perceptual completion for visual science and the philosophy of perception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 65-144.

  • Pessoa, L., Mingolla, E., & Arend, L. (1996). The perception of lightness in 3-D curved objects.  Perception & Psychophysics, 58, 1293-1305.

  • Pessoa, L., Beck, J., & Mingolla, E. (1996). Perceived texture segregation in chromatic element-arrangement patterns: High intensity interference. Vision Research, 36, 1745-1760.

  • Pessoa, L. (1996). Mach band attenuation by adjacent stimuli: experiment and filling-in simulations.   Perception, 25, 425-442.

  • Pessoa, L. (1996). Mach bands: How many models are possible?  Recent experimental findings and modeling attempts.  Vision Research, 36, 3205-3227.

  • Pessoa, L., Mingolla, E., and Neumann, H. (1995). A contrast- and luminance-driven multiscale network model of brightness perception. Vision Research, 35, 2201-2223.