Publications

  • Jaiswal S, Chakravarthula LN and Padmala S. Additive effects of monetary loss and positive emotion in the human brain, eNeuro, 11(4) (2024)
  • Sivakumaran S, Chakravarthula LN and Padmala S. Role of Contingency in reward-emotion interactions during the categorization of emotional facial expressions, Motivation Science, (2024)
  • Chakravarthula LN and Padmala S. Negative emotion reduces the discriminability of reward outcomes in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 18:1 (2023)

  • Chakravarthula LN and Padmala S. Arousal-driven interactions between reward motivation and categorization of emotional facial expressions, Frontiers in Psychology (Emotion Science), 13:985652 (2022)

  • Chen G, Padmala S, Chen Y, Taylor PA, Cox RW, and Pessoa L, To pool or not to pool: Can we ignore cross-trial variability in FMRI?, NeuroImage, 225, 117496 (2021)

  • Limbachia C, Morrow K, Khibovska A, Meyer C, Padmala S, and Pessoa L, Controllability over stressor decreases responses in key threat-related brain areas, Communications Biology, 4(1), 1-11 (2021)

  • LCL. Portugal, RCS. Alves, ….., S. Padmala, G. Chen, L. Pessoa, and MG. Pereira, Interactions between emotion and action in the brain, NeuroImage, 214, 116728 (2020)

  • S. Padmala, N. Sambuco, and L. Pessoa. Interactions between reward motivation and emotional processing, Progress in Brain Research, 247:1-21 (2019)

  • C-T Meyer*, S. Padmala* and L. Pessoa, Dynamic threat processing, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(4):, 522-542 (2019)

  • C. Sours, J. Kinnison, S. Padmala, R-P. Gullapalli and L. Pessoa, Altered segregation between task-positive and task-negative regions in mild traumatic brain injury, Brain Imaging and Behavior, 12(3):, 697-709 (2018)

  • S. Padmala*, N. Sambuco*, M. Codispoti and L. Pessoa., Attentional capture by simultaneous pleasant and unpleasant emotional distractors, Emotion, 18(8):, 1189-1194 (2018)

  • S. Padmala, M. Sirbu, and L. Pessoa, Potential reward reduces the adverse impact of negative distractor stimuli, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12: 1402-1413 (2017)

  • L-R Dougherty, S-L Blankenship, P-A Spechler, S. Padmala and L.Pesso, An fMRI Study of Cognitive Reappraisal in Children: Divergent Effects on Brain and Behavior, Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 37:, 634-644 (2015)

  • J-M Choi*, S. Padmala* and L. Pessoa, Counteracting effect of threat on reward enhancements during working memory, Cognition and Emotion, 29: 1517-1526 (2015)

  • Yokoyama T*, S. Padmala* and L. Pessoa, Reward learning and negative emotion during rapid attentional competition, Frontiers in Psychology, 6: 269 (2015)

  • L-R Dougherty, S-L Blankenship, P-A Spechler, S. Padmala and L.Pessoa, An fMRI Study of Cognitive Reappraisal in Children: Divergent Effects on Brain and Behavior, Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 37: 634-644 (2015)

  • J-M Choi*, S. Padmala*, P. Spechler, and L. Pessoa, Pervasive competition between threat and reward in the brain, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9: 737-750 (2014)

  • G. Bissonette, R. Gentry, S. Padmala, L. Pessoa and M. Roesch, Impact of appetitive and aversive outcomes on brain responses: linking the animal and human literature, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 8: 24 (2014)

  • S. Padmala and L. Pessoa, Motivation versus aversive processing during perception, Emotion, 14(3): , 450-454 (2014)

  • B. McMenamin, S. Langeslag, M. Sirbu, S. Padmala, and L. Pessoa, Network organization unfolds over time during periods of anxious anticipation, The Journal of Neuroscience, 34(34):, 11261-11273 (2014)

  • K. Hu*, S. Padmala* and L. Pessoa, Interactions between reward and threat during visual processing, Neuropsychologia, 51(9):, 1763-72 (2013)

  • K. Hu, A. Bauer, S. Padmala and L. Pessoa, Threat of bodily harm has opposing effects on cognition, Emotion, 12(1):, 28-32 (2012)

  • J-M Choi, S. Padmala and L. Pessoa, Impact of state anxiety on the interaction between threat monitoring and cognition, Neuroimage, 59(2):, 1912-23 (2012)

  • L. Pessoa, S. Padmala, A. Kenzer, and A. Bauer, Interactions between cognition and emotion during response inhibition, Emotion, 12(1):, 192-7 (2012)

  • J. Kinnison, S. Padmala, J-M Choi and L. Pessoa, Network analysis reveals increased integration during emotional and motivational processing, The Journal of Neuroscience, 32(24):, 8361-72 (2012)

  • S. Padmala and L. Pessoa, Reward reduces conflict by enhancing attentional control and biasing visual cortical processing, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(11):, 3419-32 (2011)

  • S. Padmala, A. Bauer and L. Pessoa, Negative emotion impairs conflict-driven executive control, Frontiers in Psychology, 2: 192(2011)

  • S. Padmala and L. Pessoa, Interactions between cognition and motivation during response inhibition, Neuropsychologia, 48, 558-565 (2010)

  • S. Padmala and L. Pessoa, Moment-to-moment fluctuations in fMRI amplitude and inter-region coupling are predictive of inhibitory performance, Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 10, 279-297 (2010)

  • S. Padmala, S-L. Lim and L. Pessoa, Pulvinar and affective significance: responses track moment-to-moment stimulus visibility, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2010)

  • J. Engelmann, E. Damaraju, S. Padmala, and L. Pessoa, Combined effects of attention and motivation on visual task performance: Transient and sustained motivational effects, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 3: 4 (2009)

  • S-L. Lim, S. Padmala and L. Pessoa, Segregating the significance from the mundane on a moment-to-moment basis via direct and indirect amygdala contributions, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 106, 16841-16846 (2009)

  • S-L. Lim, S. Padmala and L. Pessoa, Affective learning modulates spatial competition during low-load conditions, Neuropsychologia, 46: 1267-1278 (2008)

  • S. Padmala and L. Pessoa, Affective learning enhances visual detection and responses in the primary visual cortex, Journal of Neuroscience, 28(24):, 6202-6210 (2008)

  • L. Pessoa and S. Padmala, Decoding near-threshold perception of fear from distributed single-trial brain activation, Cerebral Cortex, 17(3):, 691-701 (2007)

  • L. Pessoa and S. Padmala, Quantitative prediction of perceptual decisions during near-threshold fear detection, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 102, 5612-5617 (2005)

  • L. Pessoa, S. Padmala and T. Morland, Fate of the unattended fearful faces in the amygdala is determined by both attentional resources and cognitive modulation, NeuroImage, 28(1):, 249-55 (2005)