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Updating positive and negative stimuli in working memory in depression.

• Sara M. Levens, Ian H. Gotlib
• Journal of experimental psychology. General
• 2010

Difficulties in the ability to update stimuli in working memory (WM) may underlie the problems with regulating emotions that lead to the development and perpetuation of mood disorders such as… (More)

Sticky thoughts: depression and rumination are associated with difficulties manipulating emotional material in working memory.

• Jutta Joormann, Sara M. Levens, Ian H. Gotlib
• Psychological science
• 2011

Cognitive inflexibility may play an important role in rumination, a risk factor for the onset and maintenance of depressive episodes. In the study reported here, we assessed participants' ability to… (More)

Impaired selection of relevant positive information in depression.

• Sara M. Levens, Ian H. Gotlib
• Depression and anxiety
• 2009

BACKGROUND A hallmark characteristic of depression is the inability to regulate the effect of emotional material on cognition. Previous research has demonstrated that depressed individuals are less… (More)

Emotion processing effects on interference resolution in working memory.

• Sara M. Levens, Elizabeth A. Phelps
• Emotion
• 2008

The interaction between emotion and working memory maintenance, load, and performance has been investigated with mixed results. The effect of emotion on specific executive processes such as… (More)

Updating emotional content in recovered depressed individuals: Evaluating deficits in emotion processing following a depressive episode.

• Sara M. Levens, Ian H. Gotlib
• Journal of behavior therapy and experimental…
• 2015

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Previous research has demonstrated that depressed individuals have difficulty both disengaging from negative information and maintaining positive information in working… (More)

Rumination and impaired resource allocation in depression.

• Sara M. Levens, Luma Muhtadie, Ian H. Gotlib
• Journal of abnormal psychology
• 2009

Depression is characterized by a range of cognitive deficits that theorists posit are due to the resource capturing properties of rumination. The present study was designed to examine the relation… (More)

Insula and Orbital Frontal Cortex Activity Underlying Emotion Interference Resolution in Working Memory

• Sara M. Levens, Elizabeth A. Phelps
• J. Cognitive Neuroscience
• 2010

Previous research has shown that emotional information aids conflict resolution in working memory [WM; Levens, S. M., & Phelps, E. A. Emotion processing effects on interference resolution in working… (More)

Frontostriatal white matter integrity mediates adult age differences in probabilistic reward learning.

• Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin, Sara M. Levens, Lee M. Perry, Robert F. Dougherty, Brian Knutson
• The Journal of neuroscience : the official…
• 2012

Frontostriatal circuits have been implicated in reward learning, and emerging findings suggest that frontal white matter structural integrity and probabilistic reward learning are reduced in older… (More)

Role of the left amygdala and right orbital frontal cortex in emotional interference resolution facilitation in working memory.

• Sara M. Levens, Orrin Devinsky, Elizabeth A. Phelps
• Neuropsychologia
• 2011

Previous research has shown that emotional information aids conflict resolution in working memory (Levens & Phelps, 2008). Using a Recency-probes working memory (WM) paradigm, Levens and Phelps found… (More)

Cognitive reappraisal ability buffers against the indirect effects of perceived stress reactivity on Type 2 diabetes.

• Sara J Sagui, Sara M. Levens
• Health psychology : official journal of the…
• 2016

OBJECTIVE Stress contributes to poor health outcomes; importantly, a stress reaction begins with the negative appraisal of a situation. The ability to use cognitive reappraisal, an emotion regulation… (More)

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