Publications

1. Harris B, McClay M, Clewett D. Cognitive reappraisal influences the organization of emotional episodes in memory.. Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2026.
2. Flores GD, Damon ZF, Ford M, Gancz NN, Savoca PW, Esfand SM, Chu KA, Querdasi FR, McCann CF, Westman JG, Labus JS, Clewett D, Parr AC, Hsiao EY, Jacobs J, Silvers J, Callaghan BL. A protocol for the Teen Bugs study: An integrative, multi-omics approach to understanding the role of the gut microbiome and mesocorticolimbic system in adolescent mental health following early adverse caregiving.. Brain, behavior, & immunity - health, 2026.
3. Güler B, Karahamza S, Sentürk YD, Bein O, Clewett D, Günseli E. Working Memory Facilitates Event Segmentation Via Boundary-triggered Reactivation and Partial Accumulation during Events.. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2026.
4. Peck F, Clewett D. Eye movements reveal an impairing role of context reinstatement in temporal memory retrieval.. Cognition, 2026.
5. Morrow E, Huang R, Clewett D. Dopaminergic processes predict temporal distortions in event memory.. Nature communications, 2026.
6. Kumar R, Savalia T, Clewett D, Cohen AO. A dynamic affective surprise signal influences episodic memory.. Cognition, 2026.
7. Clewett D, Huang R, Davachi L. Locus coeruleus activation "resets" hippocampal event representations and separates adjacent memories.. Neuron, 2025.
8. Morrow E, Huang R, Clewett D. Dopaminergic processes predict temporal distortions in event memory.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2025.
9. Clewett D, Huang R, Davachi L. Locus coeruleus activation 'resets' hippocampal event representations and separates adjacent memories.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2025.
10. McClay M, Rouhani N, Clewett D. Negative emotional events retroactively disrupt semantic scaffolding of temporal-order memory.. Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 2025.
11. Rouhani N, Clewett D, Antony JW. Building and Breaking the Chain: A Model of Reward Prediction Error Integration and Segmentation of Memory.. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2024.
12. Cowan ET, Chanales AJ, Davachi L, Clewett D. Goal Shifts Structure Memories and Prioritize Event-defining Information in Memory.. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2024.
13. Morrow E, Clewett D. Distortion of overlapping memories relates to arousal and anxiety.. Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2024.
14. Greer J, Ali A, Laksman C, Huang R, McClay M, Clewett D. Effortful retrieval of semantic memories induces forgetting of related negative and neutral episodic memories.. Cognition, 2024.
15. Clewett D, McClay M. Emotional arousal lingers in time to bind discrete episodes in memory.. Cognition & emotion, 2024.
16. McClay M, Sachs ME, Clewett D. Dynamic emotional states shape the episodic structure of memory.. Nature communications, 2023.
17. Greer J, Morrow E, Clewett D. Subliminal backdoors to forgetting emotional memories.. Trends in cognitive sciences, 2022.
18. Clewett D, Dunsmoor J. Novel strategies for expanding memory's penumbra in aging.. Trends in cognitive sciences, 2022.
19. Dunsmoor JE, Murty VP, Clewett D, Phelps EA, Davachi L. Tag and capture: how salient experiences target and rescue nearby events in memory.. Trends in cognitive sciences, 2022.
20. Clewett D, Dunsmoor J, Bachman SL, Phelps EA, Davachi L. Survival of the salient: Aversive learning rescues otherwise forgettable memories via neural reactivation and post-encoding hippocampal connectivity.. Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2021.
21. Clewett D, Gasser C, Davachi L. Pupil-linked arousal signals track the temporal organization of events in memory.. Nature communications, 2020.
22. Thorp J, Clewett D, Riegel M. Two Routes to Incidental Memory under Arousal: Dopamine and Norepinephrine.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2020.
23. Mather M, Huang R, Clewett D, Nielsen SE, Velasco R, Tu K, Han S, Kennedy BL. Isometric exercise facilitates attention to salient events in women via the noradrenergic system.. NeuroImage, 2020.
24. Clewett D, Murty VP. Echoes of Emotions Past: How Neuromodulators Determine What We Recollect.. eNeuro, 2019.
25. Clewett D, DuBrow S, Davachi L. Transcending time in the brain: How event memories are constructed from experience.. Hippocampus, 2019.
26. Lee TH, Greening SG, Ueno T, Clewett D, Ponzio A, Sakaki M, Mather M. Arousal increases neural gain via the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system in younger adults but not in older adults.. Nature human behaviour, 2018.
27. Durbin KA, Clewett D, Huang R, Mather M. Age differences in selective memory of goal-relevant stimuli under threat.. Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 2018.
28. Clewett DV, Huang R, Velasco R, Lee TH, Mather M. Locus Coeruleus Activity Strengthens Prioritized Memories Under Arousal.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2018.
29. Clewett D, Davachi L. The Ebb and Flow of Experience Determines the Temporal Structure of Memory.. Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2017.
30. Clewett D, Sakaki M, Huang R, Nielsen SE, Mather M. Arousal amplifies biased competition between high and low priority memories more in women than in men: The role of elevated noradrenergic activity.. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2017.
31. Mather M, Joo Yoo H, Clewett DV, Lee TH, Greening SG, Ponzio A, Min J, Thayer JF. Higher locus coeruleus MRI contrast is associated with lower parasympathetic influence over heart rate variability.. NeuroImage, 2017.
32. Clewett D, Sakaki M, Nielsen S, Petzinger G, Mather M. Noradrenergic mechanisms of arousal's bidirectional effects on episodic memory.. Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2016.
33. Mather M, Clewett D, Sakaki M, Harley CW. GANEing traction: The broad applicability of NE hotspots to diverse cognitive and arousal phenomena.. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2016.
34. Clewett DV, Lee TH, Greening S, Ponzio A, Margalit E, Mather M. Neuromelanin marks the spot: identifying a locus coeruleus biomarker of cognitive reserve in healthy aging.. Neurobiology of aging, 2015.
35. Nielsen SE, Barber SJ, Chai A, Clewett DV, Mather M. Sympathetic arousal increases a negative memory bias in young women with low sex hormone levels.. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2015.
36. Mather M, Clewett D, Sakaki M, Harley CW. Norepinephrine ignites local hotspots of neuronal excitation: How arousal amplifies selectivity in perception and memory.. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2015.
37. Aminoff EM, Freeman S, Clewett D, Tipper C, Frithsen A, Johnson A, Grafton ST, Miller MB. Maintaining a cautious state of mind during a recognition test: a large-scale fMRI study.. Neuropsychologia, 2014.
38. Freeman SM, Clewett DV, Bennett CM, Kiehl KA, Gazzaniga MS, Miller MB. The posteromedial region of the default mode network shows attenuated task-induced deactivation in psychopathic prisoners.. Neuropsychology, 2014.
39. Clewett DV, Mather M. Not all that glittered is gold: neural mechanisms that determine when reward will enhance or impair memory.. Frontiers in neuroscience, 2014.
40. Clewett D, Schoeke A, Mather M. Locus coeruleus neuromodulation of memories encoded during negative or unexpected action outcomes.. Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2014.
41. Clewett D, Bachman S, Mather M. Age-related reduced prefrontal-amygdala structural connectivity is associated with lower trait anxiety.. Neuropsychology, 2014.
42. Clewett D, Luo S, Hsu E, Ainslie G, Mather M, Monterosso J. Increased functional coupling between the left fronto-parietal network and anterior insula predicts steeper delay discounting in smokers.. Human brain mapping, 2014.
43. Clewett D, Schoeke A, Mather M. Amygdala functional connectivity is reduced after the cold pressor task.. Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2013.
44. Hermundstad AM, Bassett DS, Brown KS, Aminoff EM, Clewett D, Freeman S, Frithsen A, Johnson A, Tipper CM, Miller MB, Grafton ST, Carlson JM. Structural foundations of resting-state and task-based functional connectivity in the human brain.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013.
45. Aminoff EM, Clewett D, Freeman S, Frithsen A, Tipper C, Johnson A, Grafton ST, Miller MB. Individual differences in shifting decision criterion: a recognition memory study.. Memory & cognition, 2012.