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  1. Are fear memories ever really gone - or has it just become temporarily inaccessible?

    Article • Behavioral Neuroscience, March 2026, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Joaquín Alfei

  2. Rethinking memory impairments: Retrieval failure.

    Article • Psychological Review, February 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Gonzalo Urcelay, Dr. Joaquín Alfei

  3. The Routledge International Handbook of Comparative Psychology

    Article • August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Joaquín Alfei

  4. Fear memory modulation by incentive down and up-shifts

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, March 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Joaquín Alfei

  5. Apparent reconsolidation interference without generalized amnesia

    Article • Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, June 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Joaquín Alfei

  6. Generalization and recovery of post-retrieval amnesia.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, November 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Tom Beckers, Dr. Joaquín Alfei

  7. Limited replicability of drug-induced amnesia after contextual fear memory retrieval in rats

    Article • Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, December 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Joaquín Alfei

  8. Post-weaning housing conditions influence freezing during contextual fear conditioning in adult rats

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, February 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Joaquín Alfei

  9. Failures to replicate blocking are surprising and informative—Reply to Soto (2018).

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, April 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Joaquín Alfei

  10. A comparison of behavioral and pharmacological interventions to attenuate reactivated fear memories

    Article • Learning & Memory, July 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Joaquín Alfei

  11. The elusive nature of the blocking effect: 15 failures to replicate.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, September 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Joaquín Alfei

  12. An appetitive experience after fear memory destabilization attenuates fear retention: involvement GluN2B-NMDA receptors in the Basolateral Amygdala Complex

    Article • Learning & Memory, August 2016, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Joaquín Alfei

  13. Prediction error and trace dominance determine the fate of fear memories after post-training manipulations

    Article • Learning & Memory, July 2015, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Joaquín Alfei

  14. Memory destabilization is critical for the success of the reactivation–extinction procedure

    Article • Learning & Memory, January 2014, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Joaquín Alfei