Publications
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Preprints
Aschbacher, K., Mather, M., Lehrer, P., Gevirtz, R., Epel, E., & Peiper, N. C. (2023). Toward digital precision care: Large-scale age and gender norms for heart rate variability biofeedback metrics from a real-world digital mental health intervention. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/47up5
Kim, A. J., Senior, J., Chu, S., & Mather, M. (2023, August 23). Aging impairs reactive attentional control but not proactive distractor inhibition. Retrieved from https://psyarxiv.com/kvfst/
Kennedy, B. L., & Mather, M. (2023, January 25). About time? The role of time perspective in the priority for positive over negative emotion in attention. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/wgdkx
In Press
Bachman, S. L., Cole, S., Yoo, H. J., Nashiro, K., Min, J., Mercer, N., Nasseri, P., Thayer, J. F., Lehrer, P., & Mather, M., (in press). Daily heart rate variability biofeedback training decreases locus coeruleus MRI contrast in younger adults in a randomized clinical trial. International Journal of Psychophysiology. PDF | OpenNeuro
Liu, K. Y., Whitsel, E. A., Heiss, G., Palta, P., Reeves, S., Lin, F. V., Mather, M., Roiser, J. P., & Howard, R. (in press). Heart rate variability and risk of agitation in Alzheimer’s disease: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study. Brain Communications. Read Online
Yoo, H. J., Nashiro, K., Dutt, S., Min, J., Cho, C., Thayer, J. F., Lehrer, P., Chang, C., & Mather, M. (in press). Daily biofeedback to modulate heart rate oscillations affects structural volume in hippocampal subregions targeted by the locus coeruleus in older adults but not younger adults. Neurobiology of Aging. PDF | OpenNeuro
2023
Bachman, S. L., Attanti, S., & Mather, M. (2023). Isometric handgrip exercise speeds working memory responses in younger and older adults. Psychology and aging, 38(4), 305–322. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000728 Read Online
Cho, C., Yoo, H. J., Min, J., Nashiro, K., Thayer, J. F., Lehrer, P. M., & Mather, M. (2023). Changes in medial prefrontal cortex mediate effects of heart rate variability biofeedback on positive emotional memory biases. Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback, 48(2), 135-147. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10484-023-09579-1 Read Online
Dahl, M. J., Bachman, S. L., Dutt, S., Düzel, S., Bodammer, N. C., Lindenberger, U., Kühn, S., Werkle-Bergner, M., & Mather, M. (2023). The integrity of dopaminergic and noradrenergic brain regions is associated with different aspects of late-life memory performance. Nature Aging. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-023-00469-z Read online | PDF
Dahl, M. J., Kulesza, A., Werkle-Bergner, M., & Mather, M. (2023). Declining locus coeruleus-dopaminergic and noradrenergic modulation of long-term memory in aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Neurosci Biobehav Rev, 153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105358 Read online
Ehrenberg, A. J., Kelberman, M. A., Liu, K. Y., Dahl, M. J., Weinshenker, D., Falgàs, N., Dutt, S., Mather, M. et al. (2023). Priorities for research on neuromodulatory subcortical systems in Alzheimer’s disease: Position paper from the NSS PIA of ISTAART. Alzheimer’s & Dementia. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12937 Read Online
Min, J., Koenig, J., Nashiro, K., Yoo, H. J., Cho, C., Thayer, J. F., Mather, M. (2023). Sex differences in neural correlates of emotion regulation in relation to resting heart rate variability. Brain Topography, 36, 698-709. Read Online | PDF
Min, J., Rouanet, J., Martini, A. C., Nashiro, K., Yoo, H. J., Porat, S., Cho, C., Wan, J., Cole, S. W., Head, E., Nation, D. A., Thayer, J. F., & Mather, M. (2023). Modulating heart rate oscillation affects plasma amyloid beta and tau levels in younger and older adults. Sci Rep, 13(1), 3967. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30167-0 Read Online | OSF
Nashiro, K., Min, J., Yoo, H. J., Cho, C., Bachman, S. L., Dutt, S., Thayer, J. F., Lehrer, P. M., Feng, T., Mercer, N., Nasseri, P., Wang, D., Chang, C., Marmarelis, V. Z., Narayanan, S., Nation, D. A., & Mather, M. (2023). Increasing coordination and responsivity of emotion-related brain regions with a heart rate variability biofeedback randomized trial. Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 23(1), 66–83. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-022-01032-w Read Online | OpenNeuro
Nashiro, K., Yoo, H. J., Cho, C., Min, J., Feng, T., Nasseri, P., Bachman, S. L., Lehrer, P., Thayer, J. F., & Mather, M. (2023). Effects of a Randomised Trial of 5-Week Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Intervention on Cognitive Function: Possible Benefits for Inhibitory Control. Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback, 48(1), 35–48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10484-022-09558-y Read Online | OpenNeuro
Sible, I. J., Jang, J. Y., Dutt, S., Yew, B., Alitin, J. P. M., Li, Y., Blanken, A. E., Ho, J. K., Marshall, A. J., Kapoor, A., Shenasa, F., Gaubert, A., Nguyen, A., Sturm, V. E., Mather, M., Rodgers, K. E., Shao, X., Wang, D. J., & Nation, D. A. (2023). Older Adults With Higher Blood Pressure Variability Exhibit Cerebrovascular Reactivity Deficits. American journal of hypertension, 36(1), 63–68. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajh/hpac108 Read Online
Sible, I. J., Yoo, H. J., Min, J., Nashiro, K., Chang, C., Nation, D. A., & Mather, M. M. (2023). Short-term blood pressure variability is inversely related to regional amplitude of low frequency fluctuations in older and younger adults. Aging Brain, 4. Read Online
Yoo, H. J., Nashiro, K., Min, J., Cho, C., Mercer, N., Bachman, S. L., Nasseri, P., Dutt, S., Porat, S., Choi, P., Zhang, Y., Grigoryan, V., Feng, T., Thayer, J. F., Lehrer, P., Chang, C., Stanley, J. A., Marmarelis, V. Z., Narayanan, S., . . . Mather, M. (2023). Multimodal neuroimaging data from a 5-week heart rate variability biofeedback randomized clinical trial. Scientific Data, 10, 503. Read Online | OpenNeuro
2022
Bachman, S. L., Nashiro, K., Yoo, H. J., Wang, D., Thayer, J. F. & Mather, M. (2022). Associations between locus coeruleus MRI contrast and physiological responses to acute stress in younger and older adults. Brain Research, 1796, 148070. Preprint | Read Online | OpenNeuro
Dahl, M. J., Mather, M., Werkle-Bergner, M., Kennedy, B. L., Guzman, S., Hurth, K., Miller, C. A., Qiao, Y., Shi, Y., Chui, H. C., & Ringman, J. M. (2022). Locus coeruleus integrity is related to tau burden and memory loss in autosomal-dominant Alzheimer’s disease. Neurobiology of Aging, 112, 39-54. Preprint | Read Online
Dahl, M. J., Mather, M., Werkle-Bergner, M. (2022). Noradrenergic modulation of rhythmic neural activity shapes selective attention. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(1), 38-52. Read Online | PDF
Gallant, S. N., Kennedy, B. L., Bachman, S. L., Huang, R., Lee, T. H. & Mather, M. (2022). Behavioral and fMRI evidence that arousal enhances bottom-up attention and memory selectivity in young but not older adults. Neurobiology of Aging, 120, 149-166. Read Online | Preprint
Greening, S. G., Lee, T. H., Burleigh, L., Gregoire, L., Robinson, T., Jiang, X., Mather, M., & Kaplan, J. (2022). Mental imagery can generate and regulate acquired differential fear conditioned reactivity. Scientific Reports, 12(997). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05019-y Read Online | OpenNeuro
Kapoor, A., Yew, B., Jang, J. Y., Dutt, S., Li, Y., Alitin, J. P. M., Gaubert, A., Ho, J. K., Blanken, A. E., Sible, I. J., Marshall, A., Shao, X., Mather, M., Wang, D. J. J., & Nation, D. A. (2022). Older adults with perivascular spaces exhibit cerebrovascular reactivity deficits. NeuroImage, 264, 119746. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119746 Read Online
Loprinzi, P., Olafson, D., Scavuzzo, C., Lovorn, A., Mather, M., Frith, E., & Fujiwara, E. (2022). Effects of acute exercise on emotional memory. Cognition & Emotion, 36(4), 660–689. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2050890 Read Online
Min, J., Nashiro, K., Yoo, H. J., Cho, C., Nasseri, P., Bachman, S. L., Porat, S., Thayer, J. F., Chang, C., Lee, T. H. & Mather, M. (2022). Emotion down-regulation targets interoceptive brain regions while emotion up-regulation targets other affective brain regions. Journal of Neuroscience, 42 (14), 2973-2985. PDF | OpenNeuro | Read Online
Nashiro, K., Yoo, H. J., Min, J., Cho, C., Nasseri, P., Zhang, Y., Lehrer, P., Thayer, J. F., and Mather, M. (2022). Effects of a randomised trial of 5-week heart rate variability biofeedback intervention on mind wandering and associated brain function. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 22, 1349-1357. PDF | Read Online | OpenNeuro
Porat, S., Sibilia, F., Yoon, J., Shi, Y., Dahl, M. J., Werkle-Bergner, M., Düzel, S., Bodammer, N., Lindenberger, U., Kühn, S., & Mather, M. (2022). Age Differences in Diffusivity in the Locus Coeruleus and its Ascending Noradrenergic Tract. NeuroImage, 119022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119022 Read Online
Yoo, H. J., Nashiro, K., Min, J., Cho, C., Bachman, S. L., Nasseri, P., Porat, S., Dutt, S., Grigoryan, V., Choi, P., Thayer, J. F., Leher, P., Chang, C., & Mather, M. (2022). Heart rate variability (HRV) changes and cortical volume changes in a randomized trial of five weeks of daily HRV biofeedback in younger and older adults. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 181, 50-63. Read Online | OpenNeuro
2021
Bachman, S. L., Dahl, M. J., Werkle-Bergner, M., Düzel, S., Forlim, C. G., Lindenberger, U., Kühn, S., Mather, M. (2021). Locus coeruleus MRI contrast is associated with cortical thickness in older adults. Neurobiology of Aging, 100, 72-82. Read Online | Preprint | PDF
Dutt, S., Li. Y., Mather M., & Nation, D. A. for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. (2021). Brainstem substructures and cognition in prodromal Alzheimer’s disease. Brain Imaging and Behavior. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11682-021-00459-y Read Online | PDF
Koenig, J., Abler, B., Agartz, I., Akerstedt, T., Andreassen, O. A., Anthony, M., Bar, K. J., Bertsch, K., Brown, R. C., Brunner, R., Carnevali, L., Critchley, H. D., Cullen, K. R., de Geus, E. J. C., de la Cruz, F., Dziobek, I., Ferger, M. D., Fischer, H., Flor, H., . . . Quintana, D. S. (2021). Cortical thickness and resting-state cardiac function across the lifespan: A cross-sectional pooled mega-analysis. Psychophysiology, 58(7), e13688. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13688 Read Online
Mather, M. (2021). Is there a maximum desirable heart rate variability? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 128, 87-89. Read Online | PDF
Mather, M. (2021). Noradrenaline in the aging brain: Promoting cognitive reserve or accelerating Alzheimer’s disease? Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 116, 108-124. Read Online | PDF
Montagrin, A., Martins-Klein, B., Sander, D., & Mather, M. (2021). Effects of hunger on emotional arousal responses and attention/memory biases. Emotion, 21, 148-158. Read Online | PDF | OSF
Thayer, J. F., Mather, M., & Koenig, J. (2021). Stress and aging: A neurovisceral integration perspective. Psychophysiology, 58(7), e13804. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13804 Read Online
2020
Dahl, M. J., Mather, M., Sander, M. C., & Werkle-Bergner, M. (2020). Noradrenergic responsiveness supports selective attention across the adult lifespan. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(22), 4372-4390. Read Online | OSF
Dutt, S., Li, Y., Mather, M., & Nation, D. A. for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. (2020). Brainstem volumetric integrity in preclinical and prodromal Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 77(4), 1579-1594. Read Online | PDF
Gallant, S. N., Durbin, K. A., Mather, M. (2020). Age differences in vulnerability to distraction under arousal. Psychology and Aging, 35, 780-791. Read Online | OSF
Kennedy, B. L., Huang, R., & Mather, M. (2020). Age differences in emotion-induced blindness: Positivity effects in early attention. Emotion, 20, 1266-1278. Preprint | PDF | OSF
Lee, T. H., Kim, S. H., Katz, B., & Mather, M. (2020). The decline in intrinsic connectivity between the salience network and locus coeruleus in older adults: Implications for distractibility. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 12(2). Read Online | OpenNeuro
Mather, M. (2020). Commentary on Aging and Positive Mood: Longitudinal Neurobiological and Cognitive Correlates. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 28, 957-958. Read Online | PDF
Mather, M. (2020). How arousal-related neurotransmitter systems compensate for age-related decline. In A. Gutchess & A. Thomas (Ed.). The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Aging: A Life Course Perspective (pp.101-120). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PDF
Mather, M. (2020). How do cognitively stimulating activities affect cognition and the brain throughout life? Psychological Science in the Public Interest. 21, 1. Read Online | PDF
Mather, M. (2020). Introduction to the 2019 J. Don Read Early Career Award: Sarah J. Barber. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 9(3), 271-273. Read Online
Mather, M. (2020). The locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system role in cognition and how it changes with aging. In D. Poeppel, G. Mangun, & M. Gazzaniga (Ed.). The Cognitive Neurosciences (6th ed., pp.91-104). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. PDF
Mather, M., Huang, R., Clewett, D., Nielsen, S. E., Velasco, R., Tu, K., Han, S., & Kennedy, B. (2020). Isometric exercise facilitates attention to salient events in women via the noradrenergic system. NeuroImage, 210, 116560. Read Online | OSF
Nasseri, P., Herrera, A. Y., Gillette, K., Faude, S., White, J. D., Velasco, R., & Mather, M. (2020). Hormonal contraceptive phases matter: Resting-state functional connectivity of emotion-processing regions under stress. Neurobiology of Stress, 13, 100276. Read Online | OpenNeuro
Raffington, L., Falck, J., Heim, C., Mather, M., & Shing, Y. L. (2020). Effects of stress on 6-to-7-year-old children’s emotional memory differs by gender. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 199, 104924. Read Online | PDF | OSF
Sun, W., Tang, Y., Qiao, Y., Ge, X., Mather, M., Ringman, J., & Shi, Y. (2020). A probabilistic atlas of locus coeruleus pathways to transentorhinal cortex for connectome imaging in Alzheimer’s disease. NeuroImage, 223, 117301. Read Online
Ycaza Herrera, A. Y., Velasco, R., Faude, S., White, J., Opitz, P. C., Huang, R., Tu, K., & Mather, M. (2020). Brain activity during a post-stress working memory task differs between the hormone-present and hormone-absent phase of hormonal contraception. Neurobiology of Stress, 13, 100248. Read Online | OpenNeuro
2019
Betts, M. J., Kirilina, E., Otaduy, M., Ivanov, D., Acosta-Cabronero, J., Callaghan, M., Lambert, C., Cardenas-Bianco, A., Pine, K., Passamonti, L., Loane, C., Keuken, M. C., Trujillo, P., Lusebrink, F., Mattern, H., Liu, K., Priovoulos, N., Fließbach, K., Dahl, M. J., Maaß, A., Madelung, C. F., Meder, D., Ehrenberg, A. J., Speck, O., Weiskopf, N., Dolan, R., Inglis, B., Tosun, D., Morawski, M., Zucca, F. A., Siebner, H. R., Mather, M., Uludag, K., Heinsen, H., Poser, B. A., Howard, R., Zecca, L., Rowe, J. B., Grinberg, L. T., Jacobs, H. I. L., Duzel, E., Hammerer, D. (2019). Locus coeruleus imaging as a biomarker for noradrenergic dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases. Brain. PDF
Dahl, M. J., Mather, M., Düzel, S., Bodammer, N. C., Lindenberger, U., Kühn, S., & Werkle-Bergner, M. (2019). Rostral locus coeruleus integrity is associated with better memory performance in older adults. Nature Human Behaviour. Abstract | Read Online | Preprint
Durbin, K. A., Barber, S. J., Brown, M., & Mather, M. (2019). Optimism for the future in younger and older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 74(4), 565-574. PDF | OSF
Kennedy, B. L., & Mather, M. (2019). Neural mechanisms underlying age-related changes in attentional selectivity. In G. R. Samanez-Larkin (Ed.), The aging brain: Functional adaptation across adulthood (pp. 45–72). Washington DC: American Psychological Association. Preprint
Sakaki, M., Ueno, T., Ponzio, A., Harley, C., & Mather M. (2019). Emotional arousal amplifies competitions across goal-relevant representation: A neurocomputational framework, Cognition, 187, 108-125. PDF | OSF
Ycaza Herrera, A., Faude, S., Nielsen, S., Locke, M., & Mather, M. (2019). Effects of hormonal contraceptive phase and progestin generation on stress-induced cortisol and progesterone release. Neurobiology of Stress, 10. Read online | OSF
Ycaza Herrera, A., Wang, J., & Mather, M. (2019). The gist and details of sex differences in cognition and the brain: how parallels in sex differences across domains are shaped by the locus coeruleus and catecholamine systems. Progress in Neurobiology, 176, 120-133. doi:10.1016/j.pneurobio.2018.05.005. PMID: 29772255. Read online | PDF
2018
Clewett, D., Huang, R., Velasco, R., Lee, T. H., & Mather, M. (2018). Locus coeruleus activity strengthens prioritized memories under arousal. Journal of Neuroscience, . Read online | PDF | OSF
Durbin, K. A., Clewett, D., Huang, R., & Mather, M. (2018). Age differences in selective memory of goal-relevant stimuli under threat. Emotion, 18(6), 906-911. PDF | OSF
Lee, T. H., Greening, S. G., Ueno, T., Clewett, D., Ponzio, A., Sakaki, M., & Mather, M. (2018). Arousal increases neural gain via the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system in younger adults but not in older adults. Nature Human Behavior, 2, 356-366. Read online | PDF | OSF
Martins, B., Florjanczyk, J., Jackson, N. J., Gatz, M., & Mather, M. (2018). Age differences in cognitive effort of emotion regulation: Pupil response distinguishes reappraisal and distraction for older but not younger adults. Psychology and Aging, 33(2), 338-349. PubMed | OSF
Mather, M., & Fanselow, M. S. (2018). Editorial overview: Interactions between emotion and cognition. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 19, iv-vi. PDF
Mather, M., & Thayer, J. (2018). How heart rate variability affects emotion regulation brain networks. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 19, 98-104. Read online | PDF
Sutherland, M. R., & Mather, M. (2018). Arousal (but not valence) amplifies the impact of salience. Cognition and Emotion, 32(3), 616-622. Read online | PDF | data files | OSF
Yoo, H. J., Thayer, J. F., Greening, S., Lee, T. H., Ponzio, A., Min, J., Sakaki, M., Nga, L., Mather, M., & Koenig, J. (2018). Brain structural concomitants of resting state heart rate variability in the young and old—Evidence from two independent samples. Brain Structure and Function, 223, 727-737. Read online | OSF
2017
Barber, S. J., Castrellon, J. J., Opitz, P., & Mather, M. (2017). Younger and older adults’ collaborative recall of shared and unshared emotional pictures. Memory & Cognition, 45, 716-730. Read online | OSF
Clewett, D., Sakaki, M., Huang, R., Nielsen, S., & Mather, M. (2017). Arousal amplifies biased competition between high and low priority memories more in women than in men: the role of elevated noradrenergic activity. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 80, 80-91. Read online | OSF
Clewett, D., Sakaki, M., Nielsen, S., Petzinger, G., & Mather, M. (2017). Noradrenergic mechanisms of arousal’s bidirectional effects on episodic memory. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 137, 1-14. Read online | PDF | OSF
Mather, M., Yoo, H. J., Clewett, D. V., Lee, T. H., Greening, S. G., Ponzio, A., Min, J., & Thayer, J. F. (2017). Higher locus coeruleus MRI contrast is associated with lower parasympathetic influence over heart rate variability. NeuroImage, 150, 329-335. Read online | PDF | data file | OSF
Nashiro, K., Guevara-Aguirre, J., Braskie, M., Hafzalla, G., Velasco, R., Balasubramian, P., Wei, M., Thompson, P., Mather, M., Nelson, M. Guevara, A., Teran, E., & Longo, V. (2017). Brain structure and function associated with younger adults in growth hormone receptor-deficient humans. Journal of Neuroscience, 1929-16. Read online
Nashiro, K., Sakaki, M., Braskie, M. N., & Mather, M. (2017). Resting-state networks associated with cognitive processing show more age-related decline than those associated with emotional processing. Neurobiology of Aging, 54, 152-162. PDF | OSF
Sutherland, M.R., McQuiggan, D.A., Ryan, J.D., & Mather, M. (2017). Perceptual salience does not influence emotional arousal’s impairing effects on top-down attention. Emotion, 17(4), 700-706. OSF
Ycaza Herrera, A., Hodis, H., Mack, W., & Mather, M. (2017). Estradiol therapy after menopause mitigates effects of stress on cortisol and working memory. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Read online | PDF | OSF
2016
Barber, S. J., Opitz, P. C., Martins, B., Sakaki, M., & Mather, M. (2016). Thinking about a limited future enhances the positivity of younger and older adults’ recall: Support for socioemotional selectivity theory. Memory & Cognition, 44, 869-882. Read online | OSF
Clewett, D., Lee, T.H., Greening, S., Ponzio, A., Margalit, E., & Mather, M. (2016). Neuromelanin marks the spot: Identifying a locus coeruleus biomarker of cognitive reserve in healthy aging. Neurobiology of Aging, 37, 117-126. PDF | OSF
Doré, B.P., Meksin, R., Mather, M., Hirst, W., & Ochsner, K.N. (2016). Highly accurate prediction of emotions surrounding the attacks of September 11, 2001 over 1-, 2-, and 7-year prediction intervals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 788-795. PDF
Greening, S., Lee, T.H., & Mather, M. (2016). Individual differences in anticipatory somatosensory cortex activity for shock is positively related with trait anxiety and multisensory integration Brain Sciences. PDF | OSF
Herrera, A. Y., Nielsen, S. E.,, & Mather, M. (2016). Stress-induced increases in progesterone and cortisol in naturally cycling women. Neurobiology of Stress, 3, 96-104. PDF | data files | OSF
Martins, B., Sheppes, G., Gross, J. J., & Mather, M. (2016). Age differences in emotion regulation choice: Older adults use distraction less than younger adults in high intensity positive contexts. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbw028 PDF | data files | OSF
Martins, B., & Mather, M. (2016). Default mode network and later-life emotion regulation: Linking functional connectivity patterns and emotional outcomes. In A. D. Ong & C. E. Lockenhoff, Emotion, Aging, and Health, 9-29. PDF
Mather, M. (2016). The affective neuroscience of aging. Annual Review of Psychology, 67, 213-238. Read online or download PDF
Mather, M. (2016). Commentary: Modulation of Prepulse Inhibition and Startle Reflex by Emotions: A Comparison between Young and Older Adults Frontiers Aging Neuroscience, 8. Read online
Mather, M., Clewett, D., Sakaki, M., & Harley, C.W. (2016). Norepinephrine ignites local hot spots of neuronal excitation: How arousal amplifies selectivity in perception and memory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39. Read online | PDF | Overview and Commentaries
Mather, M., & Harley, C.W. (2016). The locus coeruleus: Essential for maintaining cognitive function and the aging brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 214-226. Read online | PDF
Mather, M. & Ponzio, A. (2016). Emotion and aging. In L. Feldman Barrett, M. Lewis, & J. Haviland-Jones (Eds.), Handbook of Emotions. pp. 319-335. PDF
Sakaki, M., Yoo, H. J., Nga, L., Lee, T. H., Thayer, J., & Mather, M. (2016). Heart rate variability is associated with amygdala functional connectivity with MPFC across younger and older adults. NeuroImage, 139, 44-52. PDF | OSF
2015
Barber, S. J., Mather, M., & Gatz, M. (2015). How stereotype threat affects healthy older adults’ performance on clinical assessments of cognitive decline: The key role of regulatory fit. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 70, 891-900. OSF
Greening, S. G., & Mather, M. (2015). How arousal influences neural competition: What dual competition does not explain. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38, e77. read online PDF
Herrera, A. Y., & Mather, M. (2015). Actions and interactions of estradiol and glucocorticoids in cognition and the brain: Implications for aging women. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 55, 36-52. read online PDF
Hirst, W., Phelps, E. A., Meksin, R., Vaidya, C. J., Johnson, M. K., Mitchell, K. J., Buckner, R. L., Budson, A. E., Gabrieli, J. D. E., Lustig, C., Mather, M., Ochsner, K. N., Schacter, D., Simons, J. S., Lyle, K. B., Cuc, A. F., Olsson, A. (2015). A ten-year follow-up of a study of memory for the attack of September 11, 2001: Flashbulb memories and memories for flashbulb events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 604-623.
Lee, T. H., Greening, S. G., & Mather, M. (2015). Encoding of goal-relevant stimuli is strengthened by emotional arousal in memory. Front. Psychol., 6:1173. Read online data files OSF
Martins, B., Ponzio, A., Velasco, R., Kaplan, J., & Mather, M. (2015). Dedifferentiation of emotion regulation strategies in the aging brain.Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 840-847. PDF Read online OSF
Mather, M. (2015). Emotional memory. In S. K. Whitbourne (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Adulthood and Aging, 1-4. Read online PDF
Nielsen, S.E., Barber, S. J., Chai, A., Clewett, D. V., & Mather, M. (2015). Sympathetic arousal increases a negative memory bias in young women with low sex hormone levels. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 62, 96-106. PDF data files OSF
Nielsen, S.E., & Mather, M. (2015). Comparison of two isometric handgrip protocols on sympathetic arousal in women. Physiology and Behavior, 142,5-13. PDF data files OSF
Sutherland, M.R., & Mather, M. (2015). Negative arousal increases the effects of stimulus salience in older adults. Experimental Aging Research, 41, 259-271. OSF
2014
Barber, S. J., & Mather, M. (2014). Stereotype threat in older adults: When and why does it occur, and who is most affected? To appear in P. Verhaeghen & C. Hertzog (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Everyday Problem Solving During Adulthood. PDF
Barber, S. J., & Mather, M. (2014). How retellings shape younger and older adults’ memories. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 26, 263-279. Read online OSF
Braver, T. S., Krug, M. K., Chiew, K. S., Kool, W., Westbrook, J. A., Clement, N. J., Adcock, R. A., Barch, D. M., Botvinick, M. M., Carver, C. S., Cools, R., Custers, R., Dickinson, A. R., Dweck, C. S., Fishbach, A., Gollwitzer, P. M., Hess, T. M., Isaacowitz, D. M., Mather, M., Murayama, K., Pessoa, L., Samanez-Larkin, G. R., Somerville, L. H. (2014). Mechanisms of motivation-cognition interaction: Challenges and opportunities. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. PDF
Clewett, D., Bachman, S., & Mather, M. (2014). Age-related reduced prefrontal-amygdala structural connectivity is associated with lower trait anxiety. Neuropsychology. PDF OSF
Clewett, D.,* Luo, S.*, Hsu, E., Ainslie, G., Mather, M., & Monterosso, J. (2014). Increased functional coupling between the left fronto-parietal network and anterior insula predicts steeper delay discounting in smokers. Human Brain Mapping. *co-first authors PDF
Clewett, D. V., & Mather, M. (2014). Not all that glittered is gold: neural mechanisms that determine when reward will enhance or impair memory. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8:194. Read online
Clewett, D., Schoeke, A., Mather, M. (2014). Locus coeruleus neuromodulation of memories encoded during negative or unexpected action outcomes. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 111, 65-70. PDF OSF
Dolcos, F., Wang, L., & Mather, M. (2014). On opposing effects of emotion on cognition: Current research and emerging directions.Frontiers Integrative Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2014.00083 Read online
Greening, S. G., Lee, T. H., & Mather, M. (2014). A dual process for the cognitive control of emotional significance: Implications for emotion regulation and disorders of emotion. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8:253. Read online
Lee, T. H., Baek, J., Lu, Z.L., & Mather, M. (2014). How arousal modulates the visual contrast sensitivity function. Emotion. PDF data files OSF
Lee, T. H., Sakaki, M., Cheng, R., Velasco, R., & Mather, M. (2014). Emotional arousal amplifies the effects of biased competition in the brain. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. PDF data files OSF
Ponzio, A., & Mather, M. (2014). Hearing something emotional influences memory for what was just seen: How arousal amplifies effects of competition in memory consolidation. Emotion. PDF data files (excel) OSF
Sakaki, M., Fryer, K., & Mather, M. (2014). Emotion strengthens high priority memory traces but weakens low priority memory traces. Psychological Science. PDF data files OSF
Sakaki, M., Kuhbandner, C., Mather, M., & Pekrun, R. (2014). Memory suppression can help people “unlearn” behavioral responses — but only for non-emotional memories. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. PDF data files OSF
Sakaki, M., Ycaza, A. E., & Mather, M. (2014). Association learning for emotional harbinger cues: When do previous emotional associations impair and when do they facilitate subsequent learning of new associations? Emotion. PDF data files OSF
2013
Barber, S. J., & Mather, M. (2013). Stereotype threat can enhance, as well as impair, older adults’ memory. Psychological Science, 24, 2522-2529. OSF
Barber, S. J., & Mather, M. (2013). Stereotype threat can reduce older adults’ memory errors. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 1888-1895. Read online OSF
Clewett, D., Schoeke, A., & Mather, M. (2013). Amygdala functional connectivity is reduced after the cold pressor task. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. DOI 10.3758/s13415-013-0162-x PDF abstract and supplementary material OSF
Gorlick, M. A., Giguere, G., Glass, B. D., Nix, B. N., Mather, M., & Maddox, W. T. (2013). Attenuating age-related learning deficits: Emotional valenced feedback interacts with task complexity. Psychology and Aging, 13, 250-261. PDF
Knight, M., & Mather, M. (2013). Look out–it’s your off-peak time of day! Time of day matters more for alerting than for orienting or executive attention. Experimental Aging Research, 39, 305-321. PDF data files OSF
Lighthall, N. R., Gorlick, M. A., Schoeke, A., Frank, M. J., & Mather, M. (2013). Stress modulates reinforcement learning in younger and older adults. Psychology and Aging, 28, 35-46. PDF data files OSF
Mather, M., Cacioppo, J. T., & Kanwisher, N. (2013). Introduction to the special section: 20 years of fMRI–What has it done for understanding cognition? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8, 41-43. PDF
Mather, M., Cacioppo, J. T., & Kanwisher, N. (2013). How fMRI can inform cognitive theories. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8, 108-113. PDF
Mather, M., & Nga, L. (2013). Age differences in thalamic low frequency fluctuations. NeuroReport, 24, 349-353. PDF
Nashiro, K., Sakaki, M., Huffman, D., & Mather, M. (2013). Both younger and older adults have difficulty updating emotional memories.Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 68, 224-227. PDF data files OSF
Nashiro, K., Sakaki, M., Nga, L., & Mather, M. (2013). Age-related similarities and differences in brain activity underlying reversal learning. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 7:37. Read online OSF
Sakaki, M., Nga, L., & Mather, M. (2013). Amygdala functional connectivity with medial prefrontal cortex at rest predicts the positivity effect in older adults. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25, 1206-1224 PDF OSF
2012
Barber, S. J., & Mather, M. (2012). Forgetting in context: The effects of age, emotion, and social factors on retrieval-induced forgetting.Memory & Cognition, 40, 874-888. OSF
Lee, T.H., Itti, L., & Mather, M. (2012). Evidence for arousal-biased competition in perceptual learning. Frontiers in Emotion Science, 3:241. Read online data files OSF
Lighthall, N. R., Sakaki, M., Vasunilashorn, S., Nga, L., Somayajula, S. Chen, E. Y., Samii, N., & Mather, M. (2012). Gender differences in reward-related decision processing under stress. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7, 476-484. PDF OSF
Mather, M. (2012). The emotion paradox in the aging brain. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1251, 33-49. PDF
Mather, M, & Lighthall, N. R. (2012). Risk and reward are processed differently in decisions made under stress. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21, 36-41. PDF
Mather, M., Mazar, N., Gorlick, M. A., Lighthall, N. R., Burgeno, J., Schoeke, A. & Ariely, D. (2012). Risk preferences and aging: The “Certainty Effect” in older adults’ decision making. Psychology and Aging, 27, 801-816. PDF data file (Excel format) OSF
Mather, M, & Sutherland, M. (2012). The selective effects of emotional arousal on memory. Psychological Science Agenda. Read online
Nashiro, K., Sakaki, M., & Mather, M. (2012). Age differences in brain activity during emotion processing: Reflections of age-related decline or increased emotion regulation? Gerontology, 58, 156-163. PDF
Nashiro, K., Sakaki, M., Nga, L., & Mather, M. (2012). Differential brain activity during emotional vs. non-emotional reversal learning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 1794-1805. PDF OSF
Sakaki, M., & Mather, M. (2012). How reward and emotional stimuli induce different reactions across the menstrual cycle. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6, 1-17. PDF
Sakaki, M., Niki, K., & Mather, M. (2012). Beyond arousal and valence: The importance of the biological versus social relevance of emotional stimuli. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, 115-139. PDF Supplementary materials OSF
Sutherland, M. R., & Mather, M. (2012). Negative arousal amplifies the effects of saliency in short-term memory. Emotion, 12, 1367-1372. OSF
2011
Feng, M. C., Courtney, C. G., Mather, M., Dawson, M. E., & Davison, G. C. (2011). Age-related affective modulation of the startle eyeblink response: Older adults startle most when viewing positive pictures. Psychology and Aging, 26, 752-760. PDF
Ko, S. G., Lee, T. H., Yoon, H. Y., Kwon, J. H., & Mather, M. (2011). How does context affect assessments of facial emotion? The role of culture and age. Psychology and Aging, 26, 48-59. PDF data file data variables
Mather, M., & Schoeke, A. (2011). Positive outcomes enhance incidental learning for both younger and older adults. Front. Neurosci., 5:129. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2011.00129 Read it online OSF
Mather, M., & Sutherland, M. R. (2011). Arousal-biased competition in perception and memory. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 114-133. PDF Read online
Nashiro, K., & Mather, M. (2011). The effect of emotional arousal on memory binding in normal aging and Alzheimer’s Disease. American Journal of Psychology, 124, 301-312. PDF data files OSF
Nashiro, K., & Mather, M. (2011). How arousal affects younger and older adults’ memory binding. Experimental Aging Research, 37, 108-128. PDF data files OSF
Nashiro, K., Mather, M., Gorlick, M. A., & Nga, L. (2011). Negative emotional outcomes impair older adults’ reversal learning. Cognition & Emotion, 25, 1014-1028. PDF read it online data files OSF
Nielsen, L., & Mather, M. (2011). Emerging perspectives in social neuroscience and neuroeconomics of aging. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6, 149-164. PDF
Sakaki, M., Gorlick, M. A., & Mather, M. (2011). Differential interference effects of negative emotional states on subsequent semantic and perceptual processing. Emotion, 11, 1263-1278. PDF data files OSF
Sakaki, M., Niki, K., & Mather, M. (2011). Updating existing emotional memories involves the frontopolar/orbitofrontal cortex in ways that acquiring new emotional memories does not. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 3498-3514. PDF OSF
2009
Hirst, W., Phelps, E. A., Buckner, R. L., Budson, A. E., Cuc, A., Gabrieli, J. D. E., Johnson, M. K., Lyle, K. B., Lustig, C., Mather, M., Meksin, R., Mitchell, K. J., Ochsner, K. N., Schacter, D. L., Simons, J. S., Vaidya, C. J. (2009). Long-term memory for the terrorist attack of September 11: Flashbulb memories, event memories, and the factors that influence their retention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 161-176.
Knight, M., & Mather, M. (2009). Reconciling findings of emotion-induced enhancement and impairment of preceding items. Emotion, 9,763-781. PDF
Kryla-Lighthall, N., & Mather, M. (2009). The role of cognitive control in older adults’ emotional well-being. In Berngtson, V., Gans, D., Putney, N., & Silverstein, M. (Eds.), Handbook of Theories of Aging, 2nd Edition, Springer Publishing, 323-344. PDF
Lighthall, N. R., Mather, M., & Gorlick, M. A. (2009). Acute stress increases sex differences in risk seeking in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task. PLoS ONE. PDF read it online OSF
Mather, M. (2009). When emotion intensifies memory interference. Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 51, 101-120. PDF
Mather, M., Gorlick, M. A., & Lighthall, N. R. (2009). To brake or accelerate when the light turns yellow? Stress reduces older adults’ risk taking in a driving game. Psychological Science, 20, 174-176. PDF read it online
Mather, M., Gorlick, M. A., & Nesmith, K. (2009). The limits of arousal’s memory impairing effects on nearby information. American Journal of Psychology, 122, 349-370. PDF read it online
Mather, M., & Sutherland, M. (2009). Disentangling the effects of arousal and valence on memory for intrinsic details. Emotion Review, 1, 118-119. PDF
Novak, D. L., & Mather, M. (2009). The tenacious nature of memory binding for arousing negative items. Memory & Cognition, 37, 945-952. PDF read it online
2008
Mather, M., & Knight, M. (2008). The emotional harbinger effect: Poor context memory for cues that previously predicted something arousing. Emotion, 8, 850-860. PDF read it online OSF
Mather, M., & Nesmith, K. (2008). Arousal-enhanced location memory for pictures. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 449-464. PDF read it online
2007
Henkel, L. A., & Mather, M. (2007). Memory attributions for choices: How beliefs shape our memories. Journal of Memory and Language, 57, 163-176. PDF OSF
Kennedy, Q., & Mather, M. (2007). Aging, affect and decision making. In K.D. Vohs, R.F Baumeister, & G. Loewenstein (Eds.), Do Emotions Help or Hurt Decision Making? A Hedgefoxian perspective (pp. 245-265). New York, Russell Sage Foundation Press. PDF
Knight, M., Seymour, T. L., Gaunt, J. T., Baker, C., Nesmith, K., & Mather, M. (2007). Aging and goal-directed emotional attention: Distraction reverses emotional biases. Emotion, 7, 705-714. PDF
Mather, M. (2007). Emotional arousal and memory binding: An object-based framework. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2, 33-52. PDF
Novak, D. L., & Mather, M. (2007). Aging and variety seeking. Psychology and Aging, 22, 728-737. PDF
Sison, J. A. G., & Mather, M. (2007). Does remembering emotional items impair recall of same-emotion items? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 282-287. PDF
2006
Budson, A. E.., Mather, M., & Chong, H. (2006). Memory for choices in Alzheimer’s Disease. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 22, 150-158. PDF
Carstensen, L. L., Mikels, J. A., & Mather, M. (2006). Aging and the intersection of cognition, motivation and emotion. In J. Birren & K. W. Schaie (Eds.), Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, 343-362. PDF
Knight, M., & Mather, M. (2006). The affective neuroscience of aging and its implications for cognition. In T. Canli (Ed.), The Biological Bases of Personality and Individual Differences. Guilford Press, 159-183. PDF
Mather, M. (2006). A review of decision making processes: Weighing the risks and benefits of aging. In L. L. Carstensen & C. R. Hartel (Eds.), When I’m 64. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 145-173. PDF
Mather, M. (2006). Why memories may become more positive with age. In B. Uttl, N. Ohta, & A. L. Siegenthaler (Eds.), Memory and Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Blackwell Publishing, 135-159. PDF
Mather, M., & Knight, M. R. (2006). Angry faces get noticed quickly: Threat detection is not impaired among older adults. Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 61, P54-P57. PDF
Mather, M., Mitchell, K. J., Raye, C. L., Novak, D. L., Greene, E. J., & Johnson, M. K. (2006). Emotional arousal can impair feature binding in working memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 614-625. PDF zip file with behavioral data
Mitchell, K. J., Mather, M., Johnson, M. K., Raye, C. L., Greene, E. J. (2006). An fMRI investigation of short-term source and item memory for negative pictures. NeuroReport, 17, 1543-1546. PDF
2005
Mather, M., & Carstensen, L. L. (2005). Aging and motivated cognition: The positivity effect in attention and memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 496-502. PDF
Mather, M., & Knight, M. (2005). Goal-directed memory: The role of cognitive control in older adults’ emotional memory. Psychology and Aging, 20, 554-570. PDF Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award winner
Mather, M., Knight, M., & McCaffrey, M. (2005). The allure of the alignable: Younger and older adults’ false memories of choice features.Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 134, 38-51. PDF
Yoon, C., Laurent, G., Fung, H., Gonzalez, R. Gutchess, A. H., Hedden, T., Lambert-Pandraud, R., Mather, M., Park, D. C., Peters, E., & Skurnik, I. (2005). Cognition, persuasion and decision making in older consumers. Marketing Letters, 16, 429-441. PDF
2004
Kennedy, Q., Mather, M., & Carstensen, L. L. (2004). The role of motivation in the age-related positivity effect in autobiographical memory. Psychological Science, 15, 208-214. PDF
Mather, M. (2004). Aging and emotional memory. In D. Reisberg and P. Hertel, (Eds.) Memory and Emotion. NY: Oxford University Press, 272-307. PDF
Mather, M., Canli, T., English, T., Whitfield, S., Wais, P., Ochsner, K., Gabrieli, J. D. E., Carstensen, L. L. (2004). Amygdala responses to emotionally valenced stimuli in older and younger adults. Psychological Science, 15, 259-263. PDF
2003
Charles, S. T., Mather, M., & Carstensen, L. L. (2003). Aging and emotional memory: The forgettable nature of negative images for older adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132, 310-324. PDF
Mather, M., & Carstensen, L. L. (2003). Aging and attentional biases for emotional faces. Psychological Science, 14, 409-415. PDF dot probe RT data
Mather, M., & Johnson, M. K. (2003). Affective review and schema reliance in memory in older and younger adults. American Journal of Psychology, 116, 169-189. PDF
Mather, M., Shafir, E., & Johnson, M. K. (2003). Remembering chosen and assigned options. Memory & Cognition, 31, 422-433. PDF
Mitchell, K. J., Johnson, M. K., & Mather, M. (2003). Source monitoring and suggestibility to misinformation: Adult age-related differences.Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 107-119. PDF
2001
Lane, S., Mather, M., Villa, D., & Morita, S. (2001). How events are reviewed matters: Effects of varied focus on eyewitness suggestibility. Memory & Cognition, 29, 940-947. PDF
2000
Kixmiller, J. S., Verfaellie, M., Mather, M., & Cermak, L. S. (2000). Role of perceptual and organizational factors in amnesics’ recall of the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure: A comparison of three amnesic groups. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 22, 198-207.
Mather, M., & Johnson, M. K. (2000). Choice-supportive source monitoring: Do our decisions seem better to us as we age? Psychology and Aging, 15, 596-606. PDF
Mather, M., Shafir, E., & Johnson, M. K. (2000). Misrememberance of options past: Source monitoring and choice. Psychological Science, 11, 132-138. PDF
Mitchell, K. J., Johnson, M. K., Raye, C. L., Mather, M., & D’Esposito, M. (2000). Aging and reflective processes of working memory: Binding and test load deficits. Psychology and Aging, 15. 527-541. PDF
1999 and earlier
Mather, M., Johnson, M. K., & De Leonardis, D. M. (1999). Stereotype reliance in source monitoring: Age differences and neuropsychological test correlates. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 16, 437-458. PDF
Mitchell, K. J., Livosky, M., & Mather, M. (1998). The weapon focus effect revisited: The role of novelty. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 3, 287-303. PDF
Cermak, L.S., Mather, M., & Hill, R. (1997). Unconscious influences on amnesics’ word-stem completion. Neuropsychologia, 35, 605-610. PDF
Johnson, M.K., Nolde, S.F., Mather. M., Kounios, J., Schacter, D.L., & Curran, T. (1997). The similarity of brain activity associated with true and false recognition memory depends on test format. Psychological Science, 8, 250-257. PDF
Mather, M., Henkel, L.A., & Johnson, M.K. (1997). Evaluating characteristics of false memories: Remember/know and memory characteristics questionnaire compared. Memory & Cognition, 25(4), 826-837. PDF
Cermak, L.S., Verfaellie, M., Lanzoni, S., Mather, M. & Chase, K.A. (1996). The spacing effect on the recall and recognition ability of amnesic patients. Neuropsychology, 10, 219-227. PDF