Deborah Talmi

Contribution of the Late Positive Potential to Emotional Memory: A Joint Neuro-Cognitive Approach to Memory Prediction

The paper investigates how the late positive potential (LPP) relates to memory for emotional items, finding that early LPP predicts memory for emotional items but not neutral ones.

Interactions between the representations of pain and reward suggest dynamic shifts in reference point

The paper investigates how the brain computes expected utility from mixed prospects of pain and reward using fMRI, finding interactions between pain and reward representations in specific brain regions.

Can neural correlates of encoding explain the context dependence of reward-enhanced memory?

The paper investigates how reward affects memory encoding and recall, finding context-dependent effects and supporting a model of strategic and context-driven mechanisms.

Adaptive coding of pain prediction error in the anterior insula

This study identifies the left dorsal anterior insula as a region coding pain prediction error adaptively, responding to unexpected pain and contextual information.

An EEG study on the effect of being overweight on anticipatory and consummatory reward in response to pleasant taste stimuli

This study examines how overweight individuals respond to food cues and consumption using EEG, finding reduced attention to cues but no difference in reward response.

In for a pound, in for a penny: How the opportunity to gain reward influences the competition for memory resources

The paper tests how reward prediction affects memory, finding that high-reward items are better remembered when mixed with low-reward items, but forgetting rates are not influenced by reward.

Emotion increases the similarity between neural representations of pictures, but not their perceived similarity.

The paper investigates how emotion affects neural similarity between pictures and perceived similarity, finding increased neural similarity in specific brain regions for emotional stimuli, but no change in perceived similarity ratings.

Development of a Semantically Related Emotional and Neutral Stimulus Set

The paper develops a stimulus set of emotional and neutral images that controls for semantic relatedness and other confounding factors to improve memory research.

The use of 'artificial saliva' as a neutral control condition in gustatory research

This study finds that artificial saliva, commonly used as a neutral control in gustatory research, is perceived as aversive by participants, challenging its assumed neutrality.

The Effects of Social Stress on Memory: If, How and When

This study investigates the impact of psychosocial stress on memory, finding modest effects and highlighting individual differences in stress responsivity.

Adapting the novel-object recognition task to quantify how much attention rodents allocate to motivationally-salient objects

This study adapts the novel-object recognition task to measure how C57BL/6J male mice allocate attention to objects labeled with female odour versus other odours or novel objects.

Boundary effects of expectation in human pain perception

The paper investigates how prediction error affects pain perception, finding that larger prediction errors reduce cue influence on perceived pain intensity.

A retrieved context model of the emotional modulation of memory

The paper extends the Context Maintenance and Retrieval Model to explain emotional modulation of memory by showing how emotional memories are better retained due to context binding during encoding and retrieval.

Sensitivity to Pain Expectations: A Bayesian Model of Individual Differences

This paper develops a Bayesian model of pain perception that accounts for individual differences in pain expectations, showing it better predicts pain ratings than simpler models.

Testing the possibility of model-based Pavlovian control of attention to threat

This study demonstrates model-based Pavlovian control of value-modulated attention capture using SSVEP measurements in a threat conditioning task.

Dissociation of immediate and delayed effects of emotional arousal on episodic memory

The paper examines how emotional arousal affects memory encoding and consolidation, finding that enhancements occur at both immediate and delayed tests but with distinct underlying processes.

Local context influences memory for emotional stimuli but not electrophysiological markers of emotion-dependent attention

The paper investigates how list context affects memory for emotional stimuli but not electrophysiological markers of emotion-related attention, suggesting retrieval dynamics may explain emotional memory enhancement.

A comparison between the neural correlates of laser and electric pain stimulation and their modulation by expectation

This study compares how expectation modulates neural responses to laser and electric pain stimulation, finding similar modulation but differences in anticipatory correlates.

Temporal dissociation of salience and prediction error responses to appetitive and aversive taste

This study investigates ERP responses to appetitive and aversive tastes, finding distinct patterns for salience and prediction error, challenging existing interpretations of the feedback-related negativity.

Acute memory deficits in chemotherapy-treated adults

This study investigates acute memory deficits in chemotherapy-treated adults, finding accelerated forgetting and increased intrusions after treatment.