| Norepinephrine ignites local hotspots of neuronal excitation: How arousal amplifies selectivity in perception and memory M Mather, D Clewett, M Sakaki, CW Harley Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39, 2016 | 299 | 2016 |
| Gender differences in reward-related decision processing under stress NR Lighthall, M Sakaki, S Vasunilashorn, L Nga, S Somayajula, EY Chen, ... Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 7 (4), 476-484, 2012 | 232 | 2012 |
| Age differences in brain activity during emotion processing: Reflections of age-related decline or increased emotion regulation K Nashiro, M Sakaki, M Mather Gerontology 58 (2), 156-163, 2012 | 182 | 2012 |
| Heart rate variability is associated with amygdala functional connectivity with MPFC across younger and older adults M Sakaki, HJ Yoo, L Nga, TH Lee, JF Thayer, M Mather Neuroimage 139, 44-52, 2016 | 118 | 2016 |
| Emotion strengthens high-priority memory traces but weakens low-priority memory traces M Sakaki, K Fryer, M Mather Psychological Science 25 (2), 387-395, 2014 | 114 | 2014 |
| Beyond arousal and valence: The importance of the biological versus social relevance of emotional stimuli M Sakaki, K Niki, M Mather Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 12 (1), 115-139, 2012 | 111 | 2012 |
| Emotional arousal amplifies the effects of biased competition in the brain TH Lee, M Sakaki, R Cheng, R Velasco, M Mather Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 9 (12), 2067-2077, 2014 | 102 | 2014 |
| Type I error inflation in the traditional by-participant analysis to metamemory accuracy: A generalized mixed-effects model perspective. K Murayama, M Sakaki, VX Yan, GM Smith Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 40 (5), 1287, 2014 | 81 | 2014 |
| How reward and emotional stimuli induce different reactions across the menstrual cycle M Sakaki, M Mather Social and personality psychology compass 6 (1), 1-17, 2012 | 81 | 2012 |
| Thinking about a limited future enhances the positivity of younger and older adults’ recall: Support for socioemotional selectivity theory SJ Barber, PC Opitz, B Martins, M Sakaki, M Mather Memory & cognition 44 (6), 869-882, 2016 | 63 | 2016 |
| Amygdala functional connectivity with medial prefrontal cortex at rest predicts the positivity effect in older adults' memory M Sakaki, L Nga, M Mather Journal of cognitive neuroscience 25 (8), 1206-1224, 2013 | 59 | 2013 |
| Arousal increases neural gain via the locus coeruleus–noradrenaline system in younger adults but not in older adults TH Lee, SG Greening, T Ueno, D Clewett, A Ponzio, M Sakaki, M Mather Nature Human Behaviour 2 (5), 356-366, 2018 | 43 | 2018 |
| Curiosity in old age: A possible key to achieving adaptive aging M Sakaki, A Yagi, K Murayama Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 88, 106-116, 2018 | 41 | 2018 |
| Process account of curiosity and interest: A reward-learning perspective K Murayama, L FitzGibbon, M Sakaki Educational Psychology Review, 1-21, 2019 | 36 | 2019 |
| Brain structural concomitants of resting state heart rate variability in the young and old: evidence from two independent samples HJ Yoo, JF Thayer, S Greening, TH Lee, A Ponzio, J Min, M Sakaki, L Nga, ... Brain Structure and Function 223 (2), 727-737, 2018 | 36 | 2018 |
| Association learning for emotional harbinger cues: When do previous emotional associations impair and when do they facilitate subsequent learning of new associations? M Sakaki, AE Ycaza-Herrera, M Mather Emotion 14 (1), 115, 2014 | 36 | 2014 |
| Differential interference effects of negative emotional states on subsequent semantic and perceptual processing. M Sakaki, MA Gorlick, M Mather Emotion 11 (6), 1263, 2011 | 32 | 2011 |
| Resting-state networks associated with cognitive processing show more age-related decline than those associated with emotional processing K Nashiro, M Sakaki, MN Braskie, M Mather Neurobiology of aging 54, 152-162, 2017 | 31 | 2017 |
| Effects of the brief viewing of emotional stimuli on understanding of insight solutions M Sakaki, K Niki Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 11 (4), 526-540, 2011 | 30 | 2011 |
| Beyond self-report: A review of physiological and neuroscientific methods to investigate consumer behavior L Bell, J Vogt, C Willemse, T Routledge, LT Butler, M Sakaki Frontiers in psychology 9, 1655, 2018 | 26 | 2018 |
Mara MatherProfessor of Gerontology and Psychology, University of Southern CaliforniaVerified email at usc.edu
