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Mara Mather, PhD

Professor of Gerontology, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering

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Publications

  • Is there a maximum desirable heart rate variability? Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2021 09; 128:87-89.. View in PubMed
  • Noradrenaline in the aging brain: Promoting cognitive reserve or accelerating Alzheimer’s disease? Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2021 08; 116:108-124.. View in PubMed
  • Commentary on Aging and Positive Mood: Longitudinal Neurobiological and Cognitive Correlates Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2020 09; 28(9):957-958. . View in PubMed
  • Isometric exercise facilitates attention to salient events in women via the noradrenergic system Neuroimage. 2020 04 15; 210:116560. . View in PubMed
  • Higher locus coeruleus MRI contrast is associated with lower parasympathetic influence over heart rate variability Neuroimage. 2017 04 15; 150:329-335. . View in PubMed
  • The Locus Coeruleus: Essential for Maintaining Cognitive Function and the Aging Brain Trends Cogn Sci. 2016 Mar; 20(3):214-226. . View in PubMed
  • The Affective Neuroscience of Aging Annu Rev Psychol. 2016; 67:213-38. . View in PubMed
  • How fMRI Can Inform Cognitive Theories Perspect Psychol Sci. 2013 Jan; 8(1):108-13. . View in PubMed
  • Introduction to the Special Section: 20 Years of fMRI-What Has It Done for Understanding Cognition? Perspect Psychol Sci. 2013 Jan; 8(1):41-3.. View in PubMed
  • Risk preferences and aging: the “certainty effect” in older adults’ decision making Psychol Aging. 2012 Dec; 27(4):801-16. . View in PubMed
  • The emotion paradox in the aging brain Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2012 Mar; 1251:33-49. . View in PubMed
  • Arousal-Biased Competition in Perception and Memory Perspect Psychol Sci. 2011 Mar; 6(2):114-33. . View in PubMed
  • Sex differences in how stress affects brain activity during face viewing Neuroreport. 2010 Oct 06; 21(14):933-7. . View in PubMed
  • Psychol Sci. 2009 Feb; 20(2):174-6. . View in PubMed
  • The limits of arousal’s memory-impairing effects on nearby information Am J Psychol. 2009; 122(3):349-69. . View in PubMed
  • The emotional harbinger effect: poor context memory for cues that previously predicted something arousing Emotion. 2008 Dec; 8(6):850-60. . View in PubMed

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