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Eliciting Positive Emotions via Perceived Control and Memory Recall


Wang, Kainan S, Yang, Y-Y, Delgado, MR (In press). How perception of control shapes decision making. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.
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Wang, KS, and Delgado, MR. (2021). The Protective Effects of Perceived Control During Repeated Exposure to Aversive Stimuli. Front. Neurosci. 15:625816. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2021.625816
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Wang, KS, Kashyap, M Delgado, MR. (2020). The influence of contextual factors on the subjective value of control. Emotion.
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Speer, ME & Delgado, MR. (2019). The social value of positive autobiographical memory retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
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Wang KS & Delgado MR. (2019). Corticostriatal circuits encode the subjective value of perceived control. Cerebral Cortex. 29(12):5049-5060.
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Ly V, Wang KS, Bhanji J, Delgado MR. (2019).  A reward-based framework of perceived control. Front Neurosci. 2019 Feb 12;13:65. 
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Romaniuk, L, Sandu, A, Waiter, GD, McNeil, CJ, Xueyi, S, Harris, MA, Macfarlane, JA, Lawrie, SM, Deary, IJ, Murray, AD, Delgado, MR, Steele, J, McIntosh, AM, Whalley, HC (2019).  The Neurobiology of Personal Control During Reward Learning and Its Relationship to Mood.  Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 4(2):190-199. 
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Speer, M.E. & Delgado, M.R. (2018).  Neural and psychological mechanisms underlying emotion-cognition interactions in memory and decision making.  Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. Wiley.
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Lempert, K.M., Speer, M.E., Delgado, M.R., Phelps, E.A. (2017). Positive autobiographical memory retrieval reduces temporal discounting. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 1;12(10):1584-1593. 
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Cho C., Smith D.V., Delgado M.R. (2016). Reward sensitivity enhances ventrolateral prefrontal cortex activation during free choice. Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience 10:529.
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Bhanji, J.P., Kim, E.S., Delgado, M.R. (2016).  Perceived control alters the effect of acute stress on persistence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.  145(3): 356-65.
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Dickerson, K.C. & Delgado, M.R. (2015). Contributions of the hippocampus to feedback learning. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 15(4):861-77.
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Leotti, L.A., Cho, C., Delgado, M.R. (2015).  The neural basis underlying the experience of control in the human brain.  In Haggard, P. & Eitam, B., Eds. The Sense of Agency.  Oxford University Press.
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Speer, M.E., Bhanji, J.P., Delgado, M.R. (2014).  Savoring the past: Positive memories evoke value representations in the striatum.  Neuron. 84(4):847-56.
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Bhanji, J.P. & Delgado, M.R. (2014).  Perceived control influences neural responses to setbacks and promotes persistence. Neuron. 83(6):1369-1375.
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Lewis, A.H., Niznikiewicz, M.A., Delamater, A.R., Delgado, M.R. (2013). Avoidance-based human Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer.  European Journal of Neuroscience.  38(12):3740-8.
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Delgado, M.R. & Dickerson, K.C. (2012). Reward-related learning via multiple memory systems.  Biological Psychiatry. 72(2):134-41.
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Leotti, L.A. & Delgado, M.R. (2011) The inherent reward of choice. Psychological Science, 22:1310-1318.
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Nadler, N., Delgado, M.R., Delameter, A. (2011) Pavlovian to instrumental transfer of control in a human learning task. Emotion, 11 (5):1112-1123.
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Dickerson, K.C., Li, J., Delgado, M.R. (2011) Parallel contributions of distinct human memory systems during probabilistic learning.  NeuroImage. 55(1):266-76.
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Sharot, T., Martorella, E.A., Delgado, M.R., Phelps, E.A. (2007) How personal experience modulates the neural circuitry of memories of September 11.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 104(1): 389-394.
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Sharot, T., Delgado, M.R., Phelps, E.A. (2004) How emotion enhances the feeling of remembering. Nature Neuroscience, 7 (12): 1376-1380.
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Tricomi, E.M., Delgado, M.R., Fiez, J.A. (2004) Modulation of caudate activity by action contingency. Neuron, 41 (2): 281-92.
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Seamon, J.G. & Delgado, M.R., (1999) Recognition memory and affective preference for depth-rotated solid objects: Part-based structural descriptions may underlie the mere exposure effect. Visual Cognition, 6(2):145-64.
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