Christina M. Villanueva

The paper investigates how incentive valence engages different basal ganglia circuits during movement initiation, finding distinct neural patterns for reward and threat conditions.

This study uses TREV to measure cardiac contractility during threat anticipation and finds it correlates with neural activity and emotional responses better than skin conductance responses.

The paper investigates how amygdala pathways to frontopolar cortex and medial temporal lobe modulate temporal memory for emotional events, finding distinct effects on memory accuracy and recency bias.

The paper examines how different regions of the lateral prefrontal cortex represent threat and controllability during threat anticipation, finding that the lateral frontal pole uniquely integrates these signals.