Education and Training

Awards and Honors

• Rising Star Award, Association for Psychological Science, 2024.

Publications

1. Aguirre CG, Woo JH, Alhabbal L, Fujioka T, Moore R, Ye T, Castrellon JJ, Soltani A, Izquierdo A. Sex differences in task engagement and lapse rate during reward learning.. Oxford open neuroscience, 2026.
2. Aguirre CG, Woo JH, Alhabbal L, Fujioka T, Moore R, Ye T, Castrellon JJ, Soltani A, Izquierdo A. Sex differences in task engagement and lapse rate during reward learning.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2026.
3. Castrellon JJ, Zald DH, Samanez-Larkin GR, Seaman KL. Adult age-related differences in susceptibility to social conformity pressures in self-control over daily desires.. Psychology and aging, 2023.
4. Castrellon JJ, Hakimi S, Parelman JM, Yin L, Law JR, Skene JAG, Ball DA, Malekpour A, Beskind DH, Vidmar N, Pearson JM, Skene JHP, Carter RM. Social cognitive processes explain bias in juror decisions.. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2023.
5. Castrellon JJ, Hakimi S, Parelman JM, Yin L, Law JR, Skene JAG, Ball DA, Malekpour A, Beskind DH, Vidmar N, Pearson JM, Carter RM, Skene JHP. Neural Support for Contributions of Utility and Narrative Processing of Evidence in Juror Decision Making.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2022.
6. Castrellon JJ, Meade J, Greenwald L, Hurst K, Samanez-Larkin GR. Dopaminergic modulation of reward discounting in healthy rats: a systematic review and meta-analysis.. Psychopharmacology, 2020.
7. Botvinik-Nezer R, Holzmeister F, Camerer CF, Dreber A, Huber J, Johannesson M, Kirchler M, Iwanir R, Mumford JA, Adcock RA, Avesani P, Baczkowski BM, Bajracharya A, Bakst L, Ball S, Barilari M, Bault N, Beaton D, Beitner J, Benoit RG, Berkers RMWJ, Bhanji JP, Biswal BB, Bobadilla-Suarez S, Bortolini T, Bottenhorn KL, Bowring A, Braem S, Brooks HR, Brudner EG, Calderon CB, Camilleri JA, Castrellon JJ, Cecchetti L, Cieslik EC, Cole ZJ, Collignon O, Cox RW, Cunningham WA, Czoschke S, Dadi K, Davis CP, Luca A, Delgado MR, Demetriou L, Dennison JB, Di X, Dickie EW, Dobryakova E, Donnat CL, Dukart J, Duncan NW, Durnez J, Eed A, Eickhoff SB, Erhart A, Fontanesi L, Fricke GM, Fu S, Galván A, Gau R, Genon S, Glatard T, Glerean E, Goeman JJ, Golowin SAE, González-García C, Gorgolewski KJ, Grady CL, Green MA, Guassi Moreira JF, Guest O, Hakimi S, Hamilton JP, Hancock R, Handjaras G, Harry BB, Hawco C, Herholz P, Herman G, Heunis S, Hoffstaedter F, Hogeveen J, Holmes S, Hu CP, Huettel SA, Hughes ME, Iacovella V, Iordan AD, Isager PM, Isik AI, Jahn A, Johnson MR, Johnstone T, Joseph MJE, Juliano AC, Kable JW, Kassinopoulos M, Koba C, Kong XZ, Koscik TR, Kucukboyaci NE, Kuhl BA, Kupek S, Laird AR, Lamm C, Langner R, Lauharatanahirun N, Lee H, Lee S, Leemans A, Leo A, Lesage E, Li F, Li MYC, Lim PC, Lintz EN, Liphardt SW, Losecaat Vermeer AB, Love BC, Mack ML, Malpica N, Marins T, Maumet C, McDonald K, McGuire JT, Melero H, Méndez Leal AS, Meyer B, Meyer KN, Mihai G, Mitsis GD, Moll J, Nielson DM, Nilsonne G, Notter MP, Olivetti E, Onicas AI, Papale P, Patil KR, Peelle JE, Pérez A, Pischedda D, Poline JB, Prystauka Y, Ray S, Reuter-Lorenz PA, Reynolds RC, Ricciardi E, Rieck JR, Rodriguez-Thompson AM, Romyn A, Salo T, Samanez-Larkin GR, Sanz-Morales E, Schlichting ML, Schultz DH, Shen Q, Sheridan MA, Silvers JA, Skagerlund K, Smith A, Smith DV, Sokol-Hessner P, Steinkamp SR, Tashjian SM, Thirion B, Thorp JN, Tinghög G, Tisdall L, Tompson SH, Toro-Serey C, Torre Tresols JJ, Tozzi L, Truong V, Turella L, van 't Veer AE, Verguts T, Vettel JM, Vijayarajah S, Vo K, Wall MB, Weeda WD, Weis S, White DJ, Wisniewski D, Xifra-Porxas A, Yearling EA, Yoon S, Yuan R, Yuen KSL, Zhang L, Zhang X, Zosky JE, Nichols TE, Poldrack RA, Schonberg T. Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams.. Nature, 2020.
8. Burr DA, Castrellon JJ, Zald DH, Samanez-Larkin GR. Emotion dynamics across adulthood in everyday life: Older adults are more emotionally stable and better at regulating desires.. Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 2020.
9. Castrellon JJ, Young JS, Dang LC, Cowan RL, Zald DH, Samanez-Larkin GR. Mesolimbic dopamine D2 receptors and neural representations of subjective value.. Scientific reports, 2019.
10. Juarez EJ, Castrellon JJ, Green MA, Crawford JL, Seaman KL, Smith CT, Dang LC, Matuskey D, Morris ED, Cowan RL, Zald DH, Samanez-Larkin GR. Reproducibility of the correlative triad among aging, dopamine receptor availability, and cognition.. Psychology and aging, 2019.
11. Seaman KL, Smith CT, Juarez EJ, Dang LC, Castrellon JJ, Burgess LL, San Juan MD, Kundzicz PM, Cowan RL, Zald DH, Samanez-Larkin GR. Differential regional decline in dopamine receptor availability across adulthood: Linear and nonlinear effects of age.. Human brain mapping, 2019.
12. Castrellon JJ, Seaman KL, Crawford JL, Young JS, Smith CT, Dang LC, Hsu M, Cowan RL, Zald DH, Samanez-Larkin GR. Individual Differences in Dopamine Are Associated with Reward Discounting in Clinical Groups But Not in Healthy Adults.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2018.
13. Dang LC, Samanez-Larkin GR, Castrellon JJ, Perkins SF, Cowan RL, Zald DH. Individual differences in dopamine D2 receptor availability correlate with reward valuation.. Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2018.
14. Seaman KL, Brooks N, Karrer TM, Castrellon JJ, Perkins SF, Dang LC, Hsu M, Zald DH, Samanez-Larkin GR. Subjective value representations during effort, probability and time discounting across adulthood.. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2018.
15. Dang LC, Samanez-Larkin GR, Smith CT, Castrellon JJ, Perkins SF, Cowan RL, Claassen DO, Zald DH. FTO affects food cravings and interacts with age to influence age-related decline in food cravings.. Physiology & behavior, 2017.
16. Dang LC, Samanez-Larkin GR, Castrellon JJ, Perkins SF, Cowan RL, Newhouse PA, Zald DH. Spontaneous Eye Blink Rate (EBR) Is Uncorrelated with Dopamine D2 Receptor Availability and Unmodulated by Dopamine Agonism in Healthy Adults.. eNeuro, 2017.
17. Barber SJ, Castrellon JJ, Opitz P, Mather M. Younger and older adults' collaborative recall of shared and unshared emotional pictures.. Memory & cognition, 2017.
18. Dang LC, Castrellon JJ, Perkins SF, Le NT, Cowan RL, Zald DH, Samanez-Larkin GR. Reduced effects of age on dopamine D2 receptor levels in physically active adults.. NeuroImage, 2017.
19. Dang LC, Samanez-Larkin GR, Castrellon JJ, Perkins SF, Cowan RL, Zald DH. Associations between dopamine D2 receptor availability and BMI depend on age.. NeuroImage, 2016.