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Florin Dolcos

Professor

Primary Affiliation

Mechanisms of Cognitive Control

Affiliations

Status Full-time Faculty

Home Department of Psychology

Phone 244-4120

Email fdolcos@illinois.edu

Address 2157 Beckman Institute, 405 North Mathews Avenue

  • Biography

    Florin Dolcos is a professor of psychology and a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute’s Cognitive Neuroscience Group. He performed his Ph.D. research in cognitive and affective neurosciences at the University of Alberta’s Centre for Neuroscience and Duke University’s Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, and his postdoctoral training in cognitive, affective, and clinical neurosciences at Duke University’s Brain Imaging and Analysis Center. Dolcos joined the University of Illinois following an assistant professor appointment in the University of Alberta’s Department of Psychiatry.

  • Honors
    • 2008: CPRF Award, Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation
    • 2007: Young Investigator Award, the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
    • 2006: Laird Cermak Award for Early Contributions to Memory Research, the Memory Disorders Research Society
    • 2006: NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada
  • Research

    Research Interests:

    • Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging (Affect & Cognition).

    • Affective Disorders (Depression & Anxiety).

    • Social Cognition (Social Neuroscience).

    • Brain Imaging (fMRI & ERP).

    • Individual Differences (Personality, Sex, Age).

    • Affective Neuroscience (Emotion-Cognition Interactions).

    Dolcos researches the neural correlates of affective-cognitive interactions in healthy and clinical populations, as studied with brain imaging techniques such as functional MRI and ERP. His program can be divided into the following main directions:

    1. Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Impact of Emotion on Cognition. This direction investigates the mechanisms underlying the enhancing and impairing effects of emotion on various cognitive/executive processes (perception, attention, working memory, episodic memory, decision making). A novel direction emerging from this research investigates the neural mechanisms linking and dissociating the opposing effects of emotion. This is important because they tend to co-occur in both healthy functioning and clinical conditions. For instance, enhanced distraction produced by task-irrelevant emotional information can also lead to better memory for the distracters themselves. Also, enhanced memory for traumatic events in PTSD can also lead to impaired cognition due to increased emotional distractibility.

    2. Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Impact of Cognition on Emotion. The impact of cognition on emotion is typically exerted as cognitive control of emotion, or emotion regulation. This direction is corollary to my first direction, and is important to pursue, because optimal cognitive control of emotional responses is a key component of healthy emotional behavior, whereas maladaptive regulation strategies constitute a core feature of affective disorders. Thus, in our studies we also manipulate emotion regulation strategies (e.g., suppression, reappraisal, attentional deployment), to investigate the regulatory mechanisms mediating the beneficial or detrimental impact of emotion on cognition.

    3. Neural Mechanisms of Emotion-Cognition Interactions in Social Contexts. My research also targets mechanisms of emotion-cognition interactions in social contexts. This newly emerging direction in my research program is also important, because proper processing and interpretation of emotional social cues are key components of successful social behavior. Therefore, we are also investigating the neural mechanisms of processing emotional information as social cues, and of their impact on behavior.

    4. The Role of Individual Differences in Emotion-Cognition Interactions. Although the first three lines of research have clear clinical relevance, it is important to also directly investigate the very same issues in clinical cohorts. Therefore, my research program also includes collaborations with clinical researchers that investigate neural mechanisms of emotion-cognition interactions in patients with mood and anxiety disorders (depression, PTSD), as well as investigation of changes associated with therapeutic interventions. Investigation of individual differences, however, is important not only for understanding clinical conditions, but also for integrative understanding of the factors that influence individual variation in the vulnerability to, or resilience against, emotional and cognitive challenges leading to disturbances. Thus, in my research, I have also investigated the role of gender, age, personality, and genetic differences in emotion-cognition interactions. Especially relevant are emerging large-scale studies using comprehensive behavior-personality-brain approaches emphasizing integrative understanding that is critical for the development of training and preventive programs aimed to increase resilience and reduce vulnerability to emotional disturbances.
     

  • 2021

    • Bogdan, P.C., Moore, M., Kuznetsov, I., Frank, J., Federmeier, K.D., Dolcos, S., & Dolcos, F. (2021, in press). Common Mechanisms for Direct and Observational Social Learning Indexed by Centroparietal Positivity: ERP Evidence from a Role-Swapping Ultimatum Game. Psychophysiology.
    • Cognitive Control of Emotions in Challenging Contexts (2021). Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. ISBN: 978-2-88971-054-6; doi: 10.3389/978-2-88971-054-6. Editors: Nils Kohn, Carmen Morawetz, Jiajin Yuan, Mathias Weymar, Florin Dolcos. E-Book available here: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/9627/cognitive-control-of-emotions-in-challenging-contexts
    • Dolcos, F. & Dolcos, S. (2021, in press). Neural Perspectives on Emotion-Cognition Interactions. Encyclopedia of Behavioural Neuroscience (2nd Edition). Editors in Chief: George Koob & Sergio Della Sala.
    • Dolcos, F., Hohl, K., Hu, Y., & S. Dolcos (2021, in press). Cognitive Reappraisal and Coping Self-Efficacy Mediate the Link between Religious Coping and Well-being. Journal of Religion and Health, doi: 10.1007/s10943-020-01160-y.
    • Dolcos, S., Hu, Y., Williams, C., Bogdan, P. C., Hohl, K., Berenbaum, H., & Dolcos, F. (2021). Cultivating Affective Resilience: Proof-of-Principle Evidence of Translational Benefits from a Novel Cognitive-Emotional Training Intervention. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:585536, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.585536.
    • Katsumi, Y., Kondo, N., Dolcos, S., Dolcos, F., & Tsukiura, T. (2021, in press). Intrinsic functional network contributions to the relationship between trait empathy and subjective happiness. NeuroImage.
    • Kohn, N., Morawetz, C., Yuan, J., Weymar, M., & Dolcos, F. Cognitive Control of Emotions in Challenging Contexts (2021, in press). Editorial to Special Issue (see #4).
    • Moore, M., Katsumi, Y., Dolcos, S., & Dolcos, F. (2021, in press). Electrophysiological Correlates of Social Decision Making: An EEG Investigation of a Modified Ultimatum Game. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (JoCN).
    • Moore, M., Maclin, E.L., Iordan, A.D., Katsumi, Y., Larsen, R., Bagshaw, A., Mayhew, S., Shafer, A.T., Sutton, B.P., Fabiani, M., Gratton, G., & Dolcos, F. (2021, in press) Implementation and Validation of a Protocol for Tri-Modal Simultaneous Investigation of Human Brain Function: Proof-of-Concept Evidence. Human Brain Mapping (HBM).
    • Sigumoto, H., Dolcos, F., & Tsukiura, T. (2021, in press). Memory of My Victory and Your Defeat: Contributions of Reward- and Memory-Related Regions to the Encoding of Winning Events in Competitions with Others. Neuropsychologia.

    2020

    • Dolcos, F., Bogdan, P.C., O’Brien, M., Iordan, A.D., Madison, A., Buetti, S., Lleras, A., & Dolcos, S. (2020). The Impact of Focused Attention on Emotional Evaluation: An Eye-Tracking Investigation. Emotion, doi: 10.1037/emo0000895.
    • Dolcos, F., Katsumi, Y., Bogdan, P.C., Shen, C., Jun, S., Buetti, S., Lleras, A., Freeman Bost, K., Weymar, M., & Dolcos, S. (2020). The impact of focused attention on subsequent emotional recollection: A functional MRI investigation. Neuropsychologia, 138, doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107338. Part of the Special Issue in Honor of Endel Tulving.
    • Dolcos, F., Katsumi, Y., Moore, M., Berggrenc, N., Gelder, B., Derakshan, N., Hamm, A.O., Koster, E.H.W., Ladouceur, C.D., Okon-Singer, H., Pegna, A.J., Richter, T., Schweizer, S., Van den Stock, J., Ventura-Bort, C., Weymar, M., & Dolcos, S. (2020). Neural Correlates of Emotion-Attention Interactions: From Perception, Learning and Memory to Individual Differences and Training Interventions. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (NBR), 108: 559-601, doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.08.017.
    • Dolcos, F., Katsumi, Y., Shen, P.C., Bogdan, P.C., Jun, S., Larsen, R., Heller, W., Freeman Bost, K., & Dolcos, S. (2020). The Impact of Focused Attention on Emotional Experience: A Functional MRI Investigation. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience (CABN), doi: 10.3758/s13415-020-00816-2.
    • Hu, Y., Moore, M., Bertels, Z., Phan, K. L., Dolcos, F., & Dolcos, S. (2020). Smaller Amygdala Volume and Increased Neuroticism Predict Anxiety Symptoms in Healthy Subjects: A Volumetric Approach Using Manual Tracing. Neuropsychologia, 145:106564; doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.11.008.
    • Katsumi, Y., Dolcos, F., Moore, M., Barsolow, B. D., Fabiani, M. & Dolcos, S. (2020). Electrophysiological Correlates of Racial In-group Bias in Observing Nonverbal Social Encounters: An EEG Investigation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (JoCN), 32 (1): 167–186, doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01475.
    • Shafer, A.T., Benoit, J.R., Brown, M.G., Greenshaw, A.J., Van Vliet, K.J., Vohra, S., Dolcos, F., Singhal, A. (2020). Differences in attentional control and white matter microstructure in adolescents with attentional, affective, and behavioral disorders. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 1-16, 599-614, doi: 10.1007/s11682-019-00211-7.
    • Ventura-Bort, C., Wendt, J., Wirkner, J., König, J., Lotze, M., Hamm, A.O., Dolcos, F., & Weymar, M. (2020). Neural substrates of long-term item and source memory for emotional associates: A fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 147:107561. 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107561. Part of the Special Issue in Honor of Endel Tulving.

    2019

    • Iordan, A., Dolcos, F., & Dolcos, S. (2019). Brain Activity and Network Interactions in the Impact of Internal Emotional Distraction. Cerebral Cortex, 29(6), 2607–2623; doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhy129.
    • Katsumi, Y., Dolcos, S., Dixon, R. A., Fabiani, M., Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., & Dolcos, F. (2019). Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Emotional Suppression in Aging: A Functional MRI Investigation. Psychology and Aging, doi: 10.1037/pag0000437.
    • Moore, M., Shafer, A. T., Bakhtiari, R., Dolcos, F., & Singhal, A. (2019). Integration of spatio-temporal dynamics in emotion-cognition interactions: A simultaneous fMRI-ERP investigation using the emotional oddball task. NeuroImage, 202, 116078. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116078.
    • Ng, G.H.P., Buetti, S., Dolcos, S., Dolcos, F., & Lleras, A. (2019). Distractor rejection in parallel search tasks takes time but does not benefit from context repetition. Visual Cognition, doi: 10.1080/13506285.2019.1676353.
    • Tian, L., Zimmerman, B., Akhtar, A., Yu, K.J., $Moore, M., Wu, J., Larsen, R. J., Lee, J. W., Li, J., Liu, Y., Metzger, B., Qu, S., Guo, X., Mathewson, K.E., Fan, J. A., Cornman, J., Fatina, M., Xie, Z., Ma, Y., Zhang, J., Zhang, Y., Dolcos, F., Fabiani, M., Gratton, G., Bretl, T., Hargrove, L.J., Braun, P.V., Huang, Y., & Rogers, J. A. (2019). Large-area MRI-compatible epidermal electronic interfaces for prosthetic control and cognitive monitoring. Nature Biomedical Engineering, 3, 194-205, doi: 10.1038/s41551-019-0347-x.
    • Vohra, S., Punja, S., Sibinga, E. , Baydala, L. , Wikman, E. , Singhal, A. , Dolcos, F., & Van Vliet, K. J. (2019). Mindfulness-based stress reduction for mental health in youth: a cluster randomized controlled trial. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 24: 29-35. doi:10.1111/camh.12302.

    2018

    • DiGangi, J. A., Gorka, S., Afshar, K., Babione, J. M., Schroth, C., Greenstein, J. E., Proescher, E., Dolcos, F., & Phan, K. L. (2018). Differential Impact of Post-deployment Stress and PTSD on Neural Reactivity to Emotional Stimuli in Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 96, 9-14; doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2017.09.019.
    • Dolcos, F., $Katsumi, Y., $Denkova, E., & Dolcos, S. (2018). Factors Influencing Opposing Effects of Emotion on Cognition: A Review of Evidence from Research on Perception and Memory. Book chapter in Physics of the Mind and Brain Disorders: Integrated Neural Circuits Supporting the Emergence of Mind (Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems, New York; Editors: Opris, I. & Casanova, M.F.).
    • Moore, M., Culpepper, S., Phan, K.L., Strauman, T.J., Dolcos, F., & Dolcos, S. (2018). Neuro-Behavioral Mechanisms of Resilience against Emotional Distress: An Integrative Brain-Personality-Symptom Approach using Structural Equation Modeling. Personality Neuroscience, 1, E8; doi:10.1017/pen.2018.11.
    • Ventura-Bort, C., Dolcos, F., Wendt, J., Wirkner, J., Hamm, A. O., & Weymar, M. (2018). Item and Source Memory for Emotional Associates is Mediated by Different Retrieval Processes. Neuropsychologia; doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.12.015.

    2017

    • Dolcos, F., $Katsumi, Y., $Denkova, E., Weymar, M., & Dolcos, S. (2017). Current Issues and Emerging Directions in the Impact of Emotion on Memory: A Review of Evidence from Brain Imaging Investigations. Book chapter in Memory in Social Context (Springer; Editors: Tsukiura, T. & Umeda, S.).
    • Dolcos, F., Katsumi, Y., Weymar, M., Moore, M., Tsukiura, T., & Dolcos, S. (2017). Emerging directions in Emotional Episodic Memory. Frontiers in Psychology: Emotion Science. 8:1867; doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01867.
    • Grot, S., Légaré, V. P., Lipp, O., Soulières, I., Dolcos, F., & Luck, D. (2017). Abnormal Prefrontal and Parietal Activity Linked to Deficient Active Binding in Working Memory in Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 188, 68-74; doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2017.01.021].
    • Hur, J., Iordan, A.D., Dolcos, F., & Berenbaum, H. (2017). Emotional Influences on Perception and Working Memory. Cognition and Emotion, 31(6), 1294-1302; doi: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1213703.
    • Iordan, A.D. & Dolcos, F. (2017). Brain Activity and Network Interactions Linked to Valence-Related Differences in the Impact of Emotional Distraction. Cerebral Cortex, 27(1), 731-749; doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhv242.
    • Katsumi, Y., Kim, S., Sung, K., Dolcos, F., & Dolcos, S. (2017). When Nonverbal Greetings “Make it or Break it”: The role of ethnicity and gender differences in the effect of handshake on social appraisals. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior (JoNB), 41(4), 345-365; doi:10.1007/s10919-017-0257-0.
    • Van Vliet, K.J., Foskett, A.J., Williams, J.L, Singhal, A., Dolcos, F., & Vohra, S. (2017). Impact of a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program from the Perspective of Adolescents with Serious Mental Health Concerns. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 22(1), 16-22; doi: 10.1111/camh.12170.
    • Wang, Z., Liu, D., Chang, S., Dolcos, F., Beck, D., & Huang, T. (2017). Image Aesthetics Assessment using Deep Chatterjee's Machine. Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN); doi: 10.1109/IJCNN.2017.7965953.

    2016

    • Dolcos, F. & Denkova, E. Dissocier les Effets Facilitants et les Effets Délétères de l’Emotion sur la Cognition (2016). Santé Mentale au Québec, 41:1, 15-34; doi: 10.7202/1036964ar.
    • Dolcos, S., Hu, Y., Iordan, A. D., Moore, M., & Dolcos, F. (2016). Optimism and the Brain: Trait Optimism Mediates the Protective Role of the Orbitofrontal Cortex Gray Matter Volume against Anxiety. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN), 11(2), 263-271, doi: 10.1093/scan/nsv106].
    • Dolcos, S.; Hu, Y. F.; Iordan, A. D.; Moore, M.; Dolcos, F., Optimism and the Brain: Trait Optimism Mediates the Protective Role of the Orbitofrontal Cortex Gray Matter Volume against Anxiety. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2016, 11, (2), 263-271.
    • Moore, M., Iordan, A., Hu, Y., Kragel, J., Dolcos, S., & Dolcos, F. (2016). Localized or Diffuse: A Volumetric Investigation of the Relation between Prefrontal Cortical Regions and the Habitual Engagement of Cognitive Reappraisal. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN), 11(8), 1317-1325; doi: 10.1093/scan/nsw043.
    • Ventura-Bort, C., Löw, A., Moltó, J., Poy, R., Dolcos, F., Hamm, A.O., & Weymar, M. (2016). Binding Neutral Information to Emotional Contexts: Brain Dynamics of Long-Term Recognition Memory. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience (CABN), 16(2), 234-247; doi:10.3758/s13415-015-0385-0.
    • Ventura-Bort, C., Löw, A., Wendt, J., Dolcos, F., Hamm, A.O., & Weymar, M. (2016). When Neutral Turns Significant: Brain Dynamics of Rapidly Formed Associations between Neutral Stimuli and Emotional Contexts. European Journal of Neuroscience, 44: 2176–2183; doi: 10.1111/ejn.13319.
    • Ventura-Bort, C.; Low, A.; Wendt, J.; Molto, J.; Poy, R.; Dolcos, F.; Hamm, A. O.; Weymar, M., Binding Neutral Information to Emotional Contexts: Brain Dynamics of Long-Term Recognition Memory. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience 2016, 16, (2), 234-247.

    2015

    • Brown, M. R. G.; Benoit, J. R. A.; Juhás, M.; Lebel, R. M.; MacKay, M.; Dametto, E.; Silverstone, P. H.; Dolcos, F.; Dursun, S. M.; Greenshaw, A. J., Neural Correlates of High-Risk Behavior Tendencies and Impulsivity in an Emotional Go/Nogo fMRI Task. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 2015, 9, 24, DOI:10.3389/fnsys.2015.00024.
    • Brown, M.R.G.; Benoit, J.R.A.; Juhás, M.; Dametto, E.; Tse, T.T.; MacKay, M.; Sen, B.; Carroll, A.; Hodlevskyy, O.; Silverstone, P.H.; Dolcos, F.; Dursun, S.M.; Greenshaw, A.J., fMRI Investigation of Response Inhibition, Emotion, Impulsivity, and Clinical High-Risk Behaviour in Adolescents. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 2015, in press.
    • Denkova, E.; Dolcos, S.; Dolcos, F., Neural Correlates of ‘Distracting’ from Emotion During Autobiographical Recollection. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2015, 10, (2), 219-230, DOI:10.1093/Scan/Nsu039.
    • Dolcos, F.; Denkova, E., Dissociating Enhancing and Impairing Effects of Emotion on Cognition, In Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary, Searchable, and Linkable Resource. Scott, R., Kosslyn, S., Eds.; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015, 1-18.
    • Dolcos, F.; Wang, L.; Mather, M., Current Research and Emerging Directions in Emotion Cognition Interactions. Edited E-Book Resulted from the Frontiers Research Topic “The Impact of Emotion on Cognition - Dissociating between Enhancing and Impairing Effects.” Frontiers Media SA. Florin, D., Wang, L., Mather, M., Eds. 2015, 740, DOI:10.3389/978-2-88919-438-4.
    • Dolcos, S.; Hu, Y.; Iordan, D.A.; Moore, M.; Dolcos, F., Optimism and the Brain: Trait Optimism Mediates the Protective Role of the Orbitofrontal Cortex Gray Matter Volume against Anxiety. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN) 2015, in press.
    • Hu, Y. F.; Iordan, A.; Dolcos, S.; Dolcos, F., Trait Anxiety Mediates the Link between Inferior Frontal Cortex Volume and Negative Affective Bias in Healthy Participants. Psychophysiology 2015, 52, S83-S83.
    • Hur, J., $Iordan, A.D., Berenbaum, H., & Dolcos, F. (2015). Emotion-Attention Interactions in Fear Conditioning: Moderation by Executive Load, Neuroticism, and Awareness. Biological Psychology, 121, 213-220; doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.10.007.
    • Iordan, A. D.; Moore, M.; Larsen, R.; Maclin, E. L.; Shafer, A. T.; Singhal, A.; Fabiani, M.; Gratton, G.; Dolcos, F., Implementation and Validation of a Protocol for Multi-Modal Investigation of Human Brain Function. Psychophysiology 2015, 52, S44-S44.
    • Katsumi, Y.; Moore, M.; Bertels, Z.; Iordan, A. D.; Dolcos, F.; Dolcos, S., The Effect of Handshake on Neural and Physiological Correlates of Observing Dynamic Social Interactions. Psychophysiology 2015, 52, S83-S83.
    • Moore, M.; Katsumi, Y.; Iordan, A. D.; Dolcos, S.; Dolcos, F., Spatial and Temporal Correlates of Social Decision Making: A Combined Fmri-Erp Investigation. Psychophysiology 2015, 52, S45-S45.

    2014

    • Carpenter-Thompson, J. R.; Akrofi, K.; Schmidt, S. A.; Dolcos, F.; Husain, F. T., Alterations of the Emotional Processing System May Underlie Preserved Rapid Reaction Time in Tinnitus. Brain Research 2014, 1567, 28-41, DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2014.04.024.
    • Dolcos, F., The Fast and the Slow Sides of Cortisol’s Effects on Emotional Interference and Sustained Attention. Frontiers in Neuroscience 2014, 8, DOI:Artn 268.DOI:10.3389/Fnins.2014.00268.
    • Dolcos, F.; Denkova, E., Current Emotion Research in Cognitive Neuroscience: Linking Enhancing and Impairing Effects of Emotion on Cognition. Emotion Review 2014, 6, (4), 362-375, DOI:10.1177/1754073914536449.
    • Dolcos, F.; Wang, L.; Mather, M., Current Research and Emerging Directions in Emotion-Cognition Interactions. Review Paper and Editorial for the Frontiers Research Topic “The Impact of Emotion on Cognition – Dissociating between Enhancing and Impairing Effects.” Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 2014, 8, 83, DOI:10.3389/fnint.2014.00083.
    • Moore, M.; Hu, Y. F.; Woo, S.; O’Hearn, D.; Iordan, A. D.; Dolcos, S.; Dolcos, F., A Comprehensive Protocol for Manual Segmentation of the Medial Temporal Lobe Structures. Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments 2014 (89), DOI:ARTN e50991 DOI 10.3791/50991.
    • Shafer, A. T.; Dolcos, F., Dissociating Retrieval Success from Incidental Encoding Activity During Emotional Memory Retrieval, in the Medial Temporal Lobe. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 2014, 8, 15, DOI:10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00177.
    • Shafer, A. T.; Dolcos, F., Dissociating Retrieval Success from Incidental Encoing Activity During Emotional Memory Retrieval, in the Medial Temporal Lobe. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 2014, 8, 15, DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00177.

    2013

    • Chiu, Y.-C.; Dolcos, S.; Gonsalves, B. D.; Cohen, N. J., On Opposing Effects of Emotion on Contextual or Relational Memory. Frontiers in Psychology 2013, 4, 103.
    • Denkova, E.; Dolcos, S.; Dolcos, F., The Effect of Retrieval Focus and Emotional Valence on the Inferior Frontal Cortex Activity During Autobiographical Recollection. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 2013, 7, 8, DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00192.
    • Dolcos, F., Linking Enhancing and Impairing Effects of Emotion – the Case of PTSD. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 2013, 7, 26.
    • Dolcos, F.; Iordan, A. D.; Kragel, J.; Stokes, J.; Campbell, R.; McCarthy, G.; Cabeza, R., Neural Correlates of Opposing Effects of Emotional Distraction on Working Memory and Episodic Memory: An Event-Related FMRI Investigation. Frontiers in Psychology 2013, 4, 16, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00293.
    • Iordan, A. D.; Dolcos, S.; Denkova, E.; Dolcos, F., Sex Differences in the Response to Emotional Distraction: An Event-Related fMRI Investigation. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience 2013, 13, (1), 116-134.
    • Iordan, A. D.; Dolcos, S.; Dolcos, F., Neural Signatures of the Response to Emotional Distraction: A Review of Evidence from Brain Imaging Investigations. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2013, 7, 21, DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00200.
    • Llewellyn, N.; Dolcos, S.; Jordan, A. D.; Rudolph, K. D.; Dolcos, F., Reappraisal and Suppression Mediate the Contribution of Regulatory Focus to Anxiety in Healthy Adults. Emotion 2013, 13, (4), 610-615, DOI: 10.1037/a0032568.

    2012

    • Brown, M. R. G.; Lebel, R. M.; Dolcos, F., Effects of Emotional Context on Impulse Control. Neuroimage 2012, 63, 434-446.
    • Denkova, E.; Dolcos, S.; Dolcos, F., Reliving Emotional Personal Memories: Affective Biases Linked to Personality and Sex-Related Differences. Emotion 2012, 12, (3), 515-528.
    • Dolcos, F.; Denkova, E.; Dolcos, S., Neural Correlates of Emotional Memories: A Review of Evidence from Brain Imaging Studies. Psychologia 2012, 55, (2), 80-111.
    • Dolcos, S.; Sung, K.; Argo, J. J.; Flor-Henry, S.; Dolcos, F., The Power of a Handshake: Neural Correlates of Evaluative Judgments in Observed Social Interactions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2012, 24, (12), 2292-2305.
    • Shafer, A. T.; Dolcos, F., Neural Correlates of Opposing Effects of Emotional Distraction on Perception and Episodic Memory: An Event-Related fMRI Investigation. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 2012, DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00070.
    • Shafer, A. T.; Matveychuk, D.; Penney, T.; O'Hare, A. J.; Stokes, J.; Dolcos, F., Processing of Emotional Distraction Is Both Automatic and Modulated by Attention: Evidence from an Event-Related FMRI Investigation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2012, 24, (5), 1233-1252.
    • Singhal, A.; Shafer, A. T.; Russell, M.; Gibson, B.; Wang, L. H.; Vohra, S.; Dolcos, F., Electrophysiological Correlates of Fearful and Sad Distraction on Target Processing in Adolescents with Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Symptoms and Affective Disorders. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 2012, 6, 119
    • Wang, L. H.; Potter, G. G.; Krishnan, R. K. R.; Dolcos, F.; Smith, G. S.; Steffens, D. C., Neural Correlates Associated with Cognitive Decline in Late-Life Depression. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2012, 20, (8), 653-663.

    2011

    • Denkova, E.; Chakrabarty, T.; Dolcos, S.; Dolcos, F., Brain Imaging Investigation of the Neural Correlates of Emotional Autobiographical Recollection. Journal of Visualized Experiments 2011, 54, DOI: 10.3791/2396.
    • Dolcos, F.; Iordan, A. D.; Dolcos, S., Neural Correlates of Emotion-Cognition Interactions: A Review of Evidence from Brain Imaging Investigations. Journal of Cognitive Psychology 2011, 23, (6), 669-694.
    • Dolcos, S.; Sung, K.; Denkova, E.; Dixon, R. A.; Dolcos, F., Brain Imaging Investigation of the Neural Correlates of Emotion Regulation. Journal of Visualized Experiments 2011, 54, DOI: 10.3791/2430.
    • Hayes, J. P.; LaBar, K. S.; McCarthy, G.; Selgrade, E.; Nasser, J.; Dolcos, F.; Morey, R. A., Reduced Hippocampal and Amygdala Activity Predicts Memory Distortions for Trauma Reminders in Combat-Related PTSD. Journal of Psychiatric Research 2011, 45, (5), 660-669.
    • Morey, R. A.; Hariri, A. R.; Gold, A. L.; Hauser, M. A.; Munger, H. J.; Dolcos, F.; McCarthy, G., Serotonin Transporter Gene Polymorphisms and Brain Function during Emotional Distraction from Cognitive Processing in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. BioMed Central - Psychiatry 2011, 11, (76), http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/11/76.
    • Ritchey, M.; Dolcos, F.; Eddington, K. M.; Strauman, T. J.; Cabeza, R., Neural Correlates of Emotional Processing in Depression: Changes with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Predictors of Treatment Response. Journal of Psychiatric Research 2011, 45, (5), 557-587.
    • Shafer, A.; Iordan, A.; Cabeza, R.; Dolcos, F., Brain Imaging Investigation of the Memory-Enhancing Effect of Emotion. Journal of Visualized Experiments 2011, 51, doi: 10.3791/2433.
    • Sung, K.; Dolcos, S.; Flor-Henry, S.; Zhou, C.; Gasior, C.; Argo, J.; Dolcos, F., Brain Imaging Investigation of the Neural Correlates of Observing Virtual Social Interactions. Journal of Visualized Experiments 2011, 53, DOI: 10.3791/2379.
    • Wong, G.; Dolcos, S.; Denkova, E.; Morey, R.; Wang, L.; McCarthy, G.; Dolcos, F., Brain Imaging Investigation of the Impairing Effect of Emotion on Cognition. Journal of Visualized Experiments 2011, 60, DOI: 10.3791/2434.

    2010

    • Chuah, L.Y.M., Dolcos, F., Chen, A.K., Zheng. H., Parimal, S., Chee, M.W.L (2010). Sleep deprivation and interference by emotional distracters. SLEEP, 33(10):1305-1313.
    • Pannu Hayes, J., LaBar, K.S., McCarthy, G., Selgrade, E., Nasser, J., Dolcos, F., VISN 6 Mid-Atlantic MIRECC workgroup, & Morey, R.A (2010). Reduced hippocampal and amygdala activity predicts memory distortions for trauma reminders in combat-related PTSD. Journal of Psychiatric Research (in press).
    • St. Jacques, P.L., Dolcos, F., & Cabeza, R. (2010). Effects of aging on functional connectivity of the amgydala during negative evaluation: A network analysis of fMRI data. Neurobiology of Aging, 31, 315-327.
    • Ritchey, M., Dolcos, F., Eddington, K.M., Strauman, T.J., Cabeza, R. (2010). Neural correlates of emotional processing in depression: Changes with cognitive behavioral therapy and predictors of treatment response. Journal of Psychiatric Research (in press).
    • Denkova, E.; Wong, G.; Dolcos, S.; Sung, K.; Wang, L. H.; Coupland, N.; Dolcos, F., The Impact of Anxiety-Inducing Distraction on Cognitive Performance: A Combined Brain Imaging and Personality Investigation. PLOS One 2010, 5, (11), e14150; doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014150. 
    • Pannu Hayes, J.; LaBar, K. S.; McCarthy, G.; Selgrade, E.; Nasser, J.; Dolcos, F., VISN 6 Mid-Atlantic MIRECC workgroup, & Morey, R.A (2010). Reduced Hippocampal and Amygdala Activity Predicts Memory Distortions for Trauma Reminders in Combat-Related PTSD. Journal of Psychiatric Research 2010, 45, (5), 660-660.
    • Shafer, A.; Iordan, A.; Cabeza, R.; Dolcos, F., Brain Imaging Investigation of the Memory-Enhancing Effect of Emotion. Journal of Visualized Experiments 2010, 51, doi: 10.3791/2433.

    2009

    • *St. Jacques, P.L., *Dolcos, F., & Cabeza, R. (2009). Effects of aging on functional connectivity of the amygdala for subsequent memory of negative pictures: A network analysis of fMRI data. Psychological Science, 20(1), 74-84.
    • Dolcos, F. (2009). The Impact of Emotion on Memory: Evidence from Brain Imaging Studies. VDM Verlag Book (ISBN: 3639188659); 160 pages.
    • Morey, R.A., Dolcos, F., Petty, C.M., Cooper, D.A., Pannu Hayes, J., LaBar, K.S, McCarthy, G. (2009). The role of trauma related distractors on neural systems for working memory and emotion processing in posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 43, 809–817.
    • Eddington, K. M., Dolcos, F., Noll McLean, A., Krishnan, K.R., Cabeza, R., Strauman, T.J. (2009). Neural correlates of idiographic goal priming in depression: Goal-specific dysfunctions in the orbitofrontal cortex. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 4(3): 238–246.

    2008

    • Dolcos, F., Denkova (Ninova), E. (2008). Neural correlates of encoding emotional memories: Functional Neuroimaging Evidence. Cell Science Reviews, 5(2), 78-122.
    • Dolcos, F., Diaz-Granados P., Wang, L., & McCarthy, G. (2008). Opposing influences of emotional and non-emotional distracters upon sustained prefrontal cortex activity during a delayed-response working memory task. Neuropsychologia, 46, 326–335.
    • Ritchey, M., Dolcos, F., & Cabeza, R. (2008). Role of amygdala connectivity in the persistence of emotional memories over time: An event-related fMRI investigation. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 2494-2504.
    • Wang L., LaBar K.S., Smoski S., Rosenthal M.Z., Dolcos F., Lynch T.R., Krishnan R.R., & McCarthy G. (2008). Prefrontal mechanisms for executive control over emotional distraction are altered in major depression. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 163, 143-155.
    • Wang, L., Krishan, R.R., Steffens, D.C., Potter, G., Dolcos, F., & McCarthy, G. (2008). Depressive state- and disease-related alterations in neural responses to affective and executive challenges in geriatric depression. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 165, 863-871.

    2007

    • Dolcos, F., Miller, B., Jha, A., & McCarthy, G. (2007). Regional brain differences in the effect of distraction during a delay interval of a working memory task. Brain Research, 1152, 171-181.
    • Eddington, K.M., Dolcos, F., Cabeza, R., Strauman, T.J. (2007). Neural correlates of promotion and prevention goal activation: An fMRI study using an idiographic approach. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(7), 1152-1162.

    2006

    • Dolcos F., LaBar K.S., Cabeza R. (2006). The Memory-Enhancing Effect of Emotion: Functional Neuroimaging Evidence. Book Chapter in Memory and Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Uttl B, Ohta N, Siegenthaler AL, Eds): Blackwell Publishing, 107-133.
    • Dolcos, F., Kragel, P., Wang, L., McCarthy, G. (2006). Role of the inferior frontal cortex in coping with distracting emotions. NeuroReport, 17(15), 1591-1594.
    • Dolcos, F., McCarthy, G. (2006). Brain systems mediating cognitive interference by emotional distraction. The Journal of Neuroscience, 26(7), 2072-2079.

    2005

    • Dolcos, F., LaBar, K.S., & Cabeza, R. (2005). Remembering one year later: Role of the amygdala and the medial temporal lobe memory system during retrieval of emotional memories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 102(7), 2626-2631.

    2004

    • Cabeza, R., Daselaar, S.M., Dolcos, F., Prince, S.E., Budde, M., & Nyberg, L (2004). Task-independent vs. task-specific age effects on brain activity during working memory, visual attention, and episodic retrieval. Cerebral Cortex, 14, 364-375.
    • Cabeza, R., Prince, S.E., Daselaar, S.M., Greenberg, D.L., Budde, M., Dolcos, F., LaBar, K.S., Rubin, D.C. (2004). Brain activity during episodic retrieval of autobiographical and laboratory events: An fMRI study using a novel photo paradigm. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16(9), 1583-94.
    • Dolcos, F., LaBar, K., & Cabeza, R. (2004). Interaction between the amygdala and the medial temporal lobe memory system predicts better memory for emotional events. Neuron, 42, 855-863.
    • Dolcos, F., LaBar, K.S., & Cabeza, R. (2004). Dissociable effects of arousal and valence on prefrontal activity indexing emotional evaluation and subsequent memory: An event-related fMRI study. NeuroImage, 23, 64-74.

    2003

    • Cabeza, R., Dolcos, F., Prince, S. E., Rice, H. J., Weissman, D., & Nyberg, L. (2003). Attention-related activity during episodic memory retrieval: A cross-function fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 41, 390–399.
    • Dolcos, F., Graham, R., LaBar, K., Cabeza, R. (2003). Coactivation of the amygdala and hippocampus predicts better recall for emotional than for neutral pictures. Brain & Cognition, 51, 221-223.

    2002

    • Cabeza, R., Dolcos, F., Graham, R., Nyberg, L. (2002). Similarities and differences in the neural correlates of episodic memory retrieval and working memory. NeuroImage , 16, 317-330.
    • Dolcos, F., & Cabeza, R. (2002). Event-related potentials of emotional memory: Encoding pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral pictures. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2(3), 252-263.
    • Dolcos, F., Rice, H. J., Cabeza, R (2002). Hemispheric asymmetries and aging: Right hemisphere decline or asymmetry reduction. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. (Special Issue: Aging Brain and the Aging Cognitive and Sensorimotor Processes), 26, 819–825.