- Bauer, E. A., Watanabe, B. K., & MacNamara, A. (in press). Reinforcement learning and the reward positivity with aversive outcomes. Psychophysiology, e14460.
- Cheng, Y., Peters, B. R. & MacNamara, A. (2023). Positive emotion up-regulation is resistant to working memory load: An electrocortical investigation of reappraisal and savoring. Psychophysiology, 60(12): e14385.
- Ruchensky, J. R., Bauer, E. A., Edens, J. F. & MacNamara, A. (2023). Triarchic psychopathy and affective picture processing: An event-related potential study. Biological Psychology, 182:108628.
- Bauer, E. A., Wilson, K. A., Phan, K. L., Shankman, S. A. & MacNamara, A. (2023). An fMRI-EEG Profile Underlying Comorbidity Load and Prospective Increases in Dysphoria in a Focal Fear Sample. Biological Psychiatry, 93(4): 352-361.
- Wilson, K. A. & MacNamara, A. (2022). Transdiagnostic fear and anxiety: prospective prediction using the NPU threat task. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science.
- Granros, M., MacNamara, A., Klumpp, H., Phan, K. L. & Burkhouse, K. L. (2022). Neural Reactivity to Affective Stimuli and Internalizing Symptom Dimensions in a Transdiagnostic Patient Sample. Depression and Anxiety, 39(12): 770-779.
- MacNamara, A., Joyner, K., & Klawohn, J. (2022). Event-related potential studies of emotion regulation: A review of recent progress and future directions. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 176: 73-88. (Invited contribution for the special issue: “Emotion Regulation”).
- Bautista, F., MacDonald, S. E., Bauer, E. A., Cheng, Y., & MacNamara, A. (2022). Generalization of reappraisal to novel negative stimuli as evidenced by the LPP. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 176, 164-170. (Invited contribution for the special issue: “Emotion Regulation”).
- Bauer, E. A. & MacNamara, A. (2022). Group Differences in Agency Modulate Error Monitoring. Psychophysiology. e14011.
- Cheng, Y., Jackson, T. B. & MacNamara, A. (2022). Modulation of threat extinction by working memory load: An event-related potential study. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 150: 104031.
- Pavlov, Y. G., Adamian, N., … MacNamara, A.,… Mushtaq, F. (2021). #EEGManyLabs: Investigating the Replicability of Influential EEG Experiments. Cortex, 144: 213-229.
- Bauer, E. A. & MacNamara, A. (2021). Comorbid Anxiety and Depression: Opposing Effects on the Electrocortical Processing of Negative Imagery in a Focal Fear Sample. Depression and Anxiety. 38(7):
690-699. - Barley, B., Bauer, E. A., Wilson, K. A. & MacNamara, A. (2021). Working memory load reduces the electrocortical processing of positive pictures. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 21(2): 347-354.
- Bauer, E. A., Thomas, G. & MacNamara, A. (2021). The Controllability of Aversive and Neutral Pictures: An Event-Related Potential Study. Behavioural Brain Research 408: 113265.
- Wilson, K. A.*, Clark, D. A. * & MacNamara, A. (2021). Using item response theory to select emotional pictures for psychophysiological experiments. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 162: 166-179. (Invited contribution for the special issue: “Open Science”; edited by Peter Clayson, Andreas Keil & Michael Larson).
- Wilson, K. A. & MacNamara, A. (2021). Savor the moment: willful increase in positive emotion and the persistence of this effect across time. Psychophysiology.
- Kinney, K. L., Burkhouse, K. L., Chang, F., MacNamara, A., Klumpp, H. & Phan, K. L. (2021). Neural Mechanisms and Predictors of SSRI and CBT Treatment of Anxiety: A Randomized Trial Focused on Emotion and Cognitive Processing. Journal of Anxiety Disorders.
- MacNamara, A., Imburgio, M. J., Hill, K. E., Banica, I., Weinberg, A. & Foti, D. (2021). Authors’ reply to the commentary on “Establishing norms for error-related brain activity during the arrow Flanker task among young adults”. Neuroimage, 232: 117908.
- Ruchensky, J. R., Bauer, E. A. & MacNamara, A. (2020). Intolerance of uncertainty, depression and the error-related negativity. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 153: 45-52.
- Imburgio, M. J., Banica, I., Hill, K. E., Weinberg, A., Foti, D. & MacNamara, A. (2020). Establishing norms for error-related brain activity among young adults. Neuroimage, 213, Article 116694.
- Bauer, E. A. *, MacNamara, A. *, Sandre, A., Lonsdorf, T. B., Weinberg, A., Morriss, J. & van Reekum, C. M. (2020). Intolerance of uncertainty and threat generalization: A replication and extension. Psychophysiology, 57(5): e13546.
- Stange, J. P., MacNamara, A., Kennedy, A. E., Hajcak, G., Phan, K. L. & Klumpp, H. (2020). Brain-behavioral adaptability predicts response to cognitive behavioral therapy for emotional disorders: A
person-centered event-related potential study. Neuropsychologia, 145, 106408. (Invited contribution for the special issue: “The Neural Basis of Emotion”; edited by Stephan Hamann, Luiz Pessoa & Tor D. Wager). - Brooker, R. J., Keil, E. J., MacNamara, A., Nyman, T., John-Henderson, N. A., Van Lieshout, R. & Schmidt, L.A. (2020). Maternal neural reactivity during pregnancy predicts infant temperament. Infancy, 25: 46-66.
- Imburgio, M. J. & MacNamara, A. (2019). Cognitive reappraisal in an unpredictable world: prior context matters. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 146: 173-179. (Part of the special issue: “What is cognitive control without affect?”; edited by Gilles Pourtois, Wim Notebaert, Senne Bream & Henk van Steenbergen).
- MacNamara, A., Jackson, T. B., Fitzgerald, J. M., Hajcak, G. & Phan, K. L. (2019). Working memory load and negative picture processing: Neural and behavioral associations with panic, social anxiety and positive affect. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 4: 151-159.
- MacNamara, A. & Barley, B. (2018). Event-related potentials to threat of predictable and unpredictable shock. Psychophysiology, 55(10): e13206
- MacNamara, A. (2018). In the Mind’s Eye: The late positive potential to negative and neutral mental imagery and intolerance of uncertainty. Psychophysiology, 55(5): e13024
- MacNamara, A., Rabinak, C. A., Kennedy, A. E., & Phan, K. L. (2018). Convergence of fMRI and ERP measures of emotional face processing. Psychophysiology, 55(2): e12988.
- Goldschmidt, A.B., Dickstein, D.P., MacNamara, A., Phan, K.L., O’Brien, S., Le Grange, D., Fisher, J.O., & Keedy, S. (2018). A pilot study of neural correlates of loss of control eating in children with overweight/obesity: Probing intermittent access to food as a means of eliciting disinhibited eating. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 43(8): 846-855
- Waszczuk, M. A., Zimmerman, M., Ruggero, C. J., Li, K., MacNamara, A., Weinberg, A., Hajcak, G., Watson, D. & Kotov, R. (2017). What do clinicians treat: diagnoses or symptoms? The incremental validity of a symptom-based, dimensional characterization of emotional disorders in predicting medication prescription patterns. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 79: 80-88
- MacNamara, A., Klumpp, H., Kennedy, A. E., Langenecker, S. A. & Phan, K. L. (2017). Transdiagnostic neural correlates of affective face processing in anxiety and depression. Depression and Anxiety, 34(7): 621-631.
- Fitzgerald, J. M., MacNamara, A., Kennedy, A. E., Rabinak, C. A., Rauch, S. A. M., Liberzon, I. & Phan, K. L. (2017). Individual Differences in Cognitive Reappraisal Use and Emotion Regulatory Brain Function in Combat-Exposed Veterans with and without PTSD. Depression and Anxiety, 34(1): 79-88.
- Stange, J. P., MacNamara, A., Barnas, O. Kennedy, A. E., Hajcak, G., Phan, K. L., & Klumpp, H. (2017). Neural Markers of Attention to Aversive Pictures Predict Response to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Anxiety and Depression. Biological Psychology, 123: 269-277.
- Xing, M., Tadayonnejad, R., MacNamara, A., Ajilore, O., DiGangi, J., Phan, K. L., Leow, A. & Klumpp, H. (2017). Resting-State Theta Band Connectivity and Graph Analysis in Generalized Social Anxiety Disorder. Neuroimage: Clinical, 13: 24-32.
- Gorka, S. M. *, MacNamara, A. *, Aase, D. M., Proescher, E., Greenstein, J. E., Walters, R., Passi, H., Kennedy, A. E., DiGangi, J. A., Rabina, C. A., Afshar, K., Fitzgerald, J. M., Hajcak, G., & Phan, K. L. (2016). Impact of Alcohol Use Disorder Comorbidity on Defensive Reactivity to Errors in Veterans with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 30(7): 733-742.
- MacNamara, A., DiGangi, J. & Phan, K. L. (2016). Aberrant circuits in the anxious brain: A review of spontaneous and task-dependent functional connectivity studies. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 1(3): 278-287.
- MacNamara, A., Kotov, R. & Hajcak, G. (2016). Diagnostic and symptom-based predictors of emotional processing in generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder: An event-related potential study. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 40(3): 275-289.
- MacNamara, A. & Phan, K. L. (2016). Psychobiological operationalization of RDoC constructs: methodological and conceptual opportunities and challenges. Psychophysiology, 53(3): 406-409.
- Fitzgerald, J. M., MacNamara, A., Kennedy, A. E., Rabinak, C. A., Rauch, S. A. M., Hajcak, G. & Phan, K. L. (2016). An electrocortical investigation of voluntary emotion regulation in combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuorimaging, 249: 113-121.
- MacNamara, A., Rabinak, C. A., Kennedy, A. E., Fitzgerald, D. A., Liberzon, I., Stein, M. B., Phan, K. L. (2016). Emotion regulatory brain function and SSRI treatment in PTSD: Neural correlates and predictors of change. Neuropsychopharmacology, 41(2): 611-618.
- MacNamara, A., Vergés, A., Kujawa, A., Fitzgerald, K. D., Monk, C. S. & Phan, K. L. (2016). Age-related changes in emotional face processing across childhood and into young adulthood: evidence from event-related potentials. Developmental Psychobiology, 58(1): 27-38.
- Kujawa, A., MacNamara, A., Fitzgerald, K., Monk, C. & Phan, K. L. (2015). Enhanced Neural Reactivity to Threatening Faces in Anxious Youth: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 43(8): 1493-1501.
- MacNamara, A., Rabinak, C. A., Fitzgerald, D. A., Zhou, X. J., Shankman, S. A., Milad, M. R., & Phan, K. L. (2015). Neural correlates of individual differences in fear learning. Behavioural Brain Research, 287: 34-41.
- Kappenman, E. S.*, MacNamara, A.* & Proudfit, G. H. (2014). Electrocortical evidence for rapid allocation of attention to threat in the dot-probe task. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(4): 577-583.
- Rabinak, C. A.*, MacNamara, A.*, Kennedy, A. E., Angstadt, M., Stein, M. B., Liberzon, I. & Phan, K. L. (2014). Focal and aberrant prefrontal engagement during emotion regulation in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. Depression and Anxiety, 31(10): 851-861.
- MacNamara, A., & Proudfit, G. H. (2014). Cognitive load and emotional processing in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Electrocortical evidence for increased distractibility. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 123(3): 557-565.
- Schmidt, J., MacNamara, A., Proudfit, G. H. & Zelinsky, G. J. (2014). More target features in visual working memory leads to poorer search guidance: Evidence from Contralateral Delay Activity. Journal of Vision, 14(3):8, 1-19.
- MacNamara, A., Post, D., Kennedy, A. E., Rabinak, C. A. & Phan, K. L. (2013). Electrocortical Processing of Social Signals of Threat in Combat-related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Biological Psychology, 94(2): 441-449.
- Wheaton, M., Holman, A., Rabinak, C. A., MacNamara, A., Proudfit, G. H. & Phan, K. L. (2013). Danger and disease: Electrocortical responses to threat- and disgust-eliciting images. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 90(2): 235-239.
- Hajcak, G., MacNamara, A., Foti, D., Ferri, J. & Keil, A. (2013). The dynamic allocation of attention to emotion: Simultaneous and independent evidence from the late positive potential and steady state visual evoked potentials. Biological Psychology, 92(3): 447-455.
- Parvaz, M. A., MacNamara. A., Goldstein, R. Z., & Hajcak, G. (2012). Event-related frontal alpha as a marker of lateral prefrontal cortex activation during cognitive reappraisal. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 12(4): 730-740.
- MacNamara, A., Schmidt, J., Hajcak, G. & Zelinsky, G. J. (2012). Electrocortical and ocular indices of attention to fearful and neutral faces presented under high and low working memory load. Biological Psychology, 91(3): 349-356.
- MacNamara, A., Ferri, J. & Hajcak, G. (2011). Working memory load reduces the LPP and this effect is attenuated with increasing anxiety. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 11(3): 321-331.
- MacNamara, A., Ochsner, K. N. & Hajcak, G. (2010). Previously reappraised: the lasting effect of description type on picture-elicited electrocortical activity. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6(3): 348-358.
- MacNamara, A., & Hajcak, G. (2010). Distinct electrocortical and behavioral evidence for increased attention to threat in Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Depression and Anxiety, 27(3): 234-243.
- Hajcak, G., MacNamara, A., & Olvet, D. M. (2010). Event-related potentials, emotion, and emotion regulation: An Integrative Review. Developmental Neuropsychology, 35(2): 129-155.
- MacNamara, A., & Hajcak, G. (2009). Anxiety and spatial attention moderate the neural response to aversive pictures. Neuropsychologia, 47(13): 2975-2980.
- MacNamara, A., Foti, D., & Hajcak, G. (2009). Tell me about it: Neural activity elicited by emotional pictures and preceding descriptions. Emotion, 9(4): 531-543.
*Denotes shared first authorship