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Kryklywy, J. H., Vyas, P., Maclean, K. E., & Todd, R. M. (2023). Characterizing affiliative touch in humans and its role in advancing haptic design. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15056
Ji, C., Kim, L., Mikami, A., Reid, E., Robinson, R., Todd, R., Karasavva, V., Maclean, K., & Isbister, K. (2023). Sharing feelings via mini robot gestures. Proceedings of the 2nd Empathy-Centric Design Workshop. https://doi.org/10.1145/3588967.3588968
Forys, B. J., Tomm, R. J., Stamboliyska, D., Terpstra, A. R., Clark, L., Chakrabarty, T., Floresco, S. B., & Todd, R. M. (2023). Gender impacts the relationship between mood disorder symptoms and effortful avoidance performance. Eneuro, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.1523/eneuro.0239-22.2023
Terpstra, A. R., Vila-Rodriguez, F., LeMoult, J., Chakrabarty, T., Nair, M., Humaira, A., Gregory, E. C., & Todd, R. M. (2023). Cognitive-affective processes and suicidality in response to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment resistant depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 321, 182–190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.10.041
Kryklywy, J. H., Ehlers, M. R., Beukers, A. O., Moore, S. R., Todd, R. M., & Anderson, A. K. (2022). Decomposing neural representational patterns of discriminatory and hedonic information during somatosensory stimulation. Eneuro, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1523/eneuro.0274-22.2022
Walsh, L., Whitehead, P., & Todd, R. (2023, January 22). Participatory sense-making in dance improvisation. Repertório. https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/revteatro/article/view/48558
Kryklywy, J. H., Lu, A., Roberts, K. H., Rowan, M., & Todd, R. M. (2022). Lateralization of autonomic output in response to limb-specific threat. Eneuro, 9(5). https://doi.org/10.1523/eneuro.0011-22.2022
Terpstra, A.R., Vila-Rodriguez, F., LeMoult, J., Chakrabarty, T., Nair, M., Humaira, A., Gregory, E.C., Todd, R.M. (2022) Cognitive-affective processes and suicidality in response to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment resistant depression, Journal of Affective Disorders, Volume 321, Pages 182-190, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.10.041
James H. Kryklywy, Amy Lu, Kevin H. Roberts, Matt Rowan, Rebecca M. Todd (2022) Lateralization of Autonomic Output in Response to Limb-Specific Threat, eNeuro (5) ENEURO.0011-22.2022; DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0011-22.2022 https://www.eneuro.org/content/9/5/ENEURO.0011-22.2022.full
Shenoy, A., Peng, T.-H., Todd, R. M., Eng, J. J., Silverberg, N. D., Tembo, T., & Pollock, C. L. (2022). Rate of perceived stability as a measure of balance exercise intensity in people post-stroke. Disability and Rehabilitation, 44(26), 8480–8486. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2021.2022777
James H. Kryklywy, Maria G. M. Manaligod & Rebecca M. Todd (2021) Within and beyond an integrated framework of attentional capture: A perspective from cognitive-affective neuroscience, Visual Cognition, 29:9, 618-621, DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2021.1935371
Ge, R., Humaira, A., Gregory, E., Alamian, G., MacMillan, E. L., Barlow, L., Todd, R., Nestor, S., Frangou, S., & Vila-Rodriguez, F. (2022). Predictive value of acute neuroplastic response to RTMS in treatment outcome in depression: A concurrent TMS-fmri trial. American Journal of Psychiatry, 179(7), 500–508. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.21050541
Dudarev, V., Manaligod, M.G.M., Enns, J. T., & Todd, R. M. (2021). In the hands of the beholder: Wearing a covid-19 mask increases its attractiveness. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211037128. Download PDF
Kryklywy, J.H., Dudarev, V. & Todd, R.M. (2021). Sense and timing: Localizing objects during emotional distraction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Kryklywy, J. H., Roach, V. A., & Todd, R. M. (2021). Assessing the efficacy of tablet-based simulations for learning pseudo surgical instrumentation. PLoS ONE, 16(1): e0245330 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245330. Download PDF
Reh, R., Williams, L. J., Todd, R. M., & Ward, L.M. (2021). Warped Rhythms: Epileptic activity during critical periods disrupts the development of neural networks for human communication. Behavioural and Brain Research, 399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2020.113016. Download pdf
Kryklywy, J.H., Ehlers, M.R., Anderson, A.K. & Todd, R.M. (2020) From architecture to evolution: Multisensory evidence of decentralized emotion. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24: 916-929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.08.002. Download PDF
Ransom, M., Fazelpour, S., Kryklywy, J. H., Markovic, J., Thompson, E. T., & Todd, R. M. (2020). Affect-biased attention and predictive processing. Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104370 Download pdf
Todd, R.M., Miskovic, J., Chikazoe, J., Anderson, A.K. (2020). Emotional Objectivity: Neural Representations of Emotions and Their Interaction with Cognition. Annual Review of Psychology, 71. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010419-051044
Roberts, K. H., Manaligod, M. G. M., Ross, C. J. D., Mueller, D. J., Wieser, M. J., & Todd, R. M. (2019). Affectively-biased Competition Favoring Rewarding Expressions is Not Modulated by Common Variation in Norepinephrine Receptor Function. bioRxiv. http://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.202
Ehlers, M. R., Ross, C. J. D., & Todd, R. M. (2019).The influence of the noradrenergic/stress system on perceptual biases for reward.Cognitive, Behavioral, and Affective Neuroscience. Download pdf
Kryklywy, J. H. & Todd, R. M. (2018). Experiential history as a tuning parameter for attention. Journal of Cognition, 1, 24. http://doi.org/10.5334/joc.25. https://www.journalofcognition.org/articles/10.5334/joc.25/
Whitman, J.C., Zhao, J., Roberts, K. H., & Todd, R. M. (2018). Political orientation and climate concern shape attention to climate change.Climatic Change, 147, 383-94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2147-9. Download 
Roberts, K. H., Truong, G., Kingstone, A., & Todd, R. M. (2017). The blur of pleasure: Appetitively appealing stimuli decrease subjective perceptual acuity. Psychological Science. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/10.1177/0956797617702698. Download
Ehlers, M. R. & Todd, R. M. (2017) Acute psychophysiological stress impairs human associative learning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. Download
Todd, R. M., & Manaligod, M. G. M. (2017). Implicit guidance of attention: The Priority State Space framework. Cortex. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2017.08.
Ehlers, M. R. & Todd, R. M. (2017). Genesis and maintenance of attentional biases: The role of the locus coeruleus-noradrenaline system. Neural Plasticity, special issue: New insights into the role of the locus coeruleus-noradrenergic system in memory and perception dysfunction. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/6817349 Download
Whitman J. C. , Zhao J., & Todd R. M. (2017). Alternation between different types of evidence attenuates judgments of severity. PLoS ONE 12(7): e0180585. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180585 Download
Dixon, M. L., Thiruchselvan, R., Todd, R. M., & Christoff, K. (2017). Emotion and the prefrontal cortex: An integrative review. Psychological Bulletin. doi:10.1037/bul0000096 Download
Truong, G., Roberts K.H., and Todd, R.M. (2017). I saw mine first: A prior-entry effect for newly acquired ownership. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000295
Todd, R. M., Ehlers, M. R., & Anderson, A. K. (2016). What BANE can offer GANE: Individual differences in function of hotspot mechanisms. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Download
Truong, G. & Todd, R. M. (2016). SOAP Opera: self as object and agent in prioritizing attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Download
Kendall, L. N., Rafaelli, Q., Kingstone A., & Todd, R. M. (2016). Schematic faces are not real faces: Enhanced emotion detection and altered neural processing as faces become more iconic. Cognitive Research 1 (19). DOI:10.1186/s41235-016-0021-8. Download
Ellamil, M. Fox, K. C. R., Dixon, M. L., Pritchard, S., Todd, R. M., Thompson, E. T., & Christoff, K. (2016). Dynamics of neural recruitment surrounding the spontaneous arising of thoughts in experienced mindfulness practitioners. Neuroimage, 136: 186-96. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.04.034.
Picardo, R., Baron, A. S., Anderson, A. K., & Todd, R. M. (2016). Tuning to the positive: Age-related differences on subjective perception of facial emotion. PLoS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145643 Download
Todd, R. M., MacDonald, M. J., Sedge, P., Robertson, A. Jetly, R., Taylor, M. J., Pang, E. W. (2015). Soldiers with PTSD see a world full of threat: MEG reveals enhanced tuning to combat-related cues. Biological Psychiatry.
Palombo, D. J., McKinnon, M., McIntosh, A. R., Anderson, A. K., Todd, R. M., & Levine, B. (2015). The neural correlates of memory for a life-threatening event: An fMRI study of passengers from flight AT236. Clinical Psychological Science.
Todd, R. M., Ehlers, M. R., Mueller, D. J., Robertson, A.,Freeman, N., Palombo, D. J., Levine, B., & Anderson, A. K. (2015). Neurogenetic variations in norepinephrine availability enhance perceptual vividness. Journal of Neuroscience 35(16), 6506-6516. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4489-14.2015. Download
Todd, R. M. & Thompson, E. T. (2014). Broadening and synthesizing the cognitive-emotional brain (commentary). Brain and Behavioral Sciences.
Todd, R. M., Taylor, M. J., Robertson, A., Cassel, D. B., Doesberg, S. M., Lee, D. H., Shek, P. N., Pang, E. W. (2014). Temporal-spatial neural activation patterns linked to perceptual encoding of emotional salience. PLoS ONE 9(4): e93753. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0093753
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Markovic, J., Anderson, A. K., & Todd, R. M. (2014). Tuning to the significant: Neural and genetic processes underlying affective enhancement of visual perception and memory. Behavioural Brain Research, 259, 229-241. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.11.018 Download
Todd, R. M., Müller, D. J., Palombo, D. J., Robertson, A., Eaton, T., Freeman, N., Levine, B., Anderson, A. K. (2013). Deletion variant in the ADRA2B gene increases coupling between emotional responses at encoding and later retrieval of emotional memories. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory , http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2013.10.008
Todd, R. M., Schmitz, T. W., Susskind, J., & Anderson, A. K. (2013). Shared neural substrates of emotionally enhanced perceptual and mnemonic vividness. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 7(May), 40. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00040
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Todd, R. M., Müller, D. J., Lee, D. H., Robertson, A., Eaton, T., Freeman, N., … Anderson, A. K. (2013). Genes for Emotion-Enhanced Remembering Are Linked to Enhanced Perceiving. Psychological Science. doi:10.1177/0956797613492423
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Niu, Y., Todd, R. M., & Anderson, a K. (2012). Affective salience can reverse the effects of stimulus-driven salience on eye movements in complex scenes. Frontiers in Psychology, 3:336. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00336
Todd, R. M., Talmi, D., Schmitz, T. W., Susskind, J., & Anderson, A. K. (2012). Psychophysical and Neural Evidence for Emotion-Enhanced Perceptual Vividness. The Journal of Neuroscience, 32(33), 11201–11212. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0155-12.2012
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Niu, Y., Todd, R. M., Kyan, M., & Anderson, A. K. (2012). Visual and emotional salience influence eye movements. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 9(3), 13:1–13:18. doi:10.1145/2325722.2325726
Todd, R. M., Cunningham, W. A, Anderson, A. K., & Thompson, E. (2012). Affect-biased attention as emotion regulation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16(7), 365–72. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2012.06.003
Todd, R. M., Lee, W., Evans, J. W., Lewis, M. D., & Taylor, M. J. (2012). Withholding response in the face of a smile: age-related differences in prefrontal sensitivity to Nogo cues following happy and angry faces. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2(3), 340–50. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2012.01.004
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Todd, R. M., Palombo, D. J., Levine, B., & Anderson, A. K. (2011). Genetic differences in emotionally enhanced memory. Neuropsychologia, 49(4), 734–44. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.11.010
Todd, R. M., Evans, J. W., Morris, D., Lewis, M. D., & Taylor, M. J. (2011). The changing face of emotion: age-related patterns of amygdala activation to salient faces. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6(1), 12–23. doi:10.1093/scan/nsq007
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Evans, J. W., Todd, R. M., Taylor, M. J., & Strother, S. C. (2010). Group specific optimisation of fMRI processing steps for child and adult data. NeuroImage, 50(2), 479–90. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.11.039
Todd, R. M., & Anderson, A. K. (2009). The neurogenetics of remembering emotions past. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(45), 18881–2. doi:10.1073/pnas.0910755106
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Todd, R. M., & Anderson, A. K. (2009). Six degrees of separation: the amygdala regulates social behavior and perception. Nature Neuroscience, 12(10), 1217–8. doi:10.1038/nn1009-1217
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Lahat, A., Todd, R. M., Mahy, C. E. V., Lau, K., & Zelazo, P. D. (2009). Neurophysiological correlates of executive function: a comparison of European-canadian and chinese-canadian 5-year-old children. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 3(January), 72:1–10. doi:10.3389/neuro.09.072.2009
Lewis, M. D., Granic, I., Lamm, C., Zelazo, P. D., Stieben, J., Todd, R. M., … Pepler, D. (2008). Changes in the neural bases of emotion regulation associated with clinical improvement in children with behavior problems. Development and Psychopathology, 20(3), 913–39. doi:10.1017/S0954579408000448
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Todd, R. M., Lewis, M. D., Meusel, L, & Zelazo, P. D. (2008). The time course of social-emotional processing in early childhood: ERP responses to facial affect and personal familiarity in a Go-Nogo task. Neuropsychologia, 46(2), 595–613. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.10.011
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Lewis, M. D., Todd, R. M., & Honsberger, M. J. M. (2007). Event-related potential measures of emotion regulation in early childhood. Neuroreport, 18(1), 61–5. doi:10.1097/WNR.0b013e328010a216
Lewis, M. D., & Todd, R. M. (2007). The self-regulating brain: Cortical-subcortical feedback and the development of intelligent action. Cognitive Development, 22(4), 406–430. doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2007.08.004
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Lewis, M. D., & Todd, R. M. (2005). Getting emotional: A neural perspective on emotion, intention, and consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 12(8-10), 210–235.
Ehlers, M. R. & Todd, R. M. (2017). Emotional memory. In A. C. Miu, J. R. Homberg, & K. Lesch (Eds.), Genes, Brain and Emotions: From Resilience to Psychopathology, Oxford University Press.
Todd, R. M., Anderson, A. K., & Phelps, E. (2017). Attending to the world without an amygdala. In R. Adolphs & D. Amaral (Eds.), Life without an amygdala. Guilford.
Todd, R. M., & Anderson, A. K. (2013). Salience, State, and Expression: The Influence of Specific Aspects of Emotion on Attention and Perception. In K. Ochsner & S. M. Kosslyn (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 2. Oxford University Press.
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Todd, R. M., & Anderson, A. K. (2010). Through the lens of emotion: Emotionality, arousal and attention in the amygdala. In E. Balcetis & G. D. Lassiter (Eds.), The social psychology of visual perception (pp. 149–171). New York, NY: Psychology Press.
Lewis, M. D., Todd, R. M., & Xu, X. (2010). The development of emotion regulation: A neuropsychological perspective. In R. Lerner, M. Lamb & A. Freund, (Eds.), Lifespan development handbook, vol 2. Wiley.
Todd, R. M., & Lewis, M. D. (2008). Self-regulation in the developing brain. In J. Reed & J. Warner-Rogers (Eds.), Child neuropsychology: Concepts, theory and practice (pp. 285–315). Wiley-Blackwell.
Zelazo, P., Gao, H., & Todd, R. M. (2007). The development of consciousness in childhood. In P. Zelazo, M. Moscovitch, & E. Thompson (Eds.), Cambridge companion to consciousness (pp. 405-435). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.