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  1. Effects of reward anticipation on memory encoding and cognitive control outcomes: A meta-analysis

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, September 2026, Elsevier

    Holly Bowen

  2. EEG reveals that negative memories are associated with increased neural recapitulation during early stages of memory retrieval

    Article • July 2026, Center for Open Science

    Holly Bowen

  3. Examining working and episodic memory in young adults with anhedonia

    Article • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Holly Bowen

  4. Negative Framing of COVID-19 Information Affects Older Adults’ Memory Function

    Article • Journal of Applied Gerontology, February 2025, SAGE Publications

    Holly Bowen

  5. Effects of reward anticipation on memory encoding and cognitive control outcomes: A meta-analysis

    Article • August 2024, Center for Open Science

    Holly Bowen

  6. Untangling the threads of motivated memory: Independent influences of reward and emotion

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Holly Bowen

  7. Individual Differences in Older Adult Frontal Lobe Function Relate to Memory and Neural Activity for Self-Relevant and Emotional Content

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, December 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Holly Bowen

  8. Reward motivation more consistently modulates memory for younger compared to older adults in a directed forgetting task.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, June 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Holly Bowen

  9. Positive biases and psychological functioning during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, June 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Holly Bowen

  10. Associations between positive memory count and hazardous substance use in a trauma‐exposed sample: Examining the moderating role of emotion dysregulation

    Article • Journal of Clinical Psychology, March 2023, Wiley

    Holly Bowen

  11. Positive Biases and Psychological Functioning During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • July 2022, Center for Open Science

    Holly Bowen

  12. Cognitive biases in perceptions of posttraumatic growth: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • Clinical Psychology Review, June 2022, Elsevier

    Holly Bowen

  13. Neurobiological mechanisms of selectivity in motivated memory

    Article • January 2022, Elsevier

    Holly Bowen

  14. An ERP investigation of age differences in the negativity bias for self-relevant and non–self-relevant stimuli

    Article • Neurobiology of Aging, July 2021, Elsevier

    Holly Bowen

  15. Examining Memory in the Context of Emotion and Motivation

    Article • Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Holly Bowen

  16. Reward motivation influences response bias on a recognition memory task

    Article • Cognition, October 2020, Elsevier

    Holly Bowen

  17. Influence of Reward Motivation on Directed Forgetting in Younger and Older Adults

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, July 2020, Frontiers

    Holly Bowen

  18. Age differences in ventromedial prefrontal cortex functional connectivity during socioemotional content processing

    Article • Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal, July 2020, Scientific Journal Publishers Ltd

    Holly Bowen

  19. Frontostriatal functional connectivity supports reward-enhanced memory in older adults

    Article • Neurobiology of Aging, June 2020, Elsevier

    Holly Bowen

  20. Neural mechanisms supporting emotional and self-referential information processing and encoding in older and younger adults

    Article • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, April 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Holly Bowen

  21. Prior Emotional Context Modulates Early Event-Related Potentials to Neutral Retrieval Cues

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, November 2019, The MIT Press

    Holly Bowen

  22. Neural mechanisms supporting emotional and self-relevant information processing and encoding in older and younger adults

    Article • September 2019, Center for Open Science

    Holly Bowen

  23. Reward Motivation Influences Response Bias on a Recognition Memory Task

    Article • July 2019, Center for Open Science

    Holly Bowen

  24. Fronto-striatal Functional Connectivity Supports Reward-Enhanced Memory in Older Adults

    Article • April 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Holly Bowen

  25. Early Reactivation of Emotion in ERPs to Neutral Retrieval Cues

    Article • March 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Holly Bowen

  26. Age differences in the neural response to negative feedback

    Article • Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Holly Bowen

  27. Memory-related functional connectivity in visual processing regions varies by prior emotional context

    Article • Neuroreport, September 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Holly Bowen

  28. NEVER forget: negative emotional valence enhances recapitulation

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sarah Kark, Holly Bowen

  29. Recapitulation of emotional source context during memory retrieval

    Article • Cortex, June 2017, Elsevier

    Holly Bowen

  30. Cash or Credit? Compensation in Psychology Studies: Motivation Matters

    Article • May 2017, University of California Press

    Holly Bowen

  31. Effects of emotion and motivation on memory dissociate in the context of losses​

    Article • Learning and Motivation, May 2017, Elsevier

    Holly Bowen

  32. Commentary: Episodic Memory Retrieval Functionally Relies on Very Rapid Reactivation of Sensory Information

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, April 2016, Frontiers

    Sarah Kark, Holly Bowen

  33. A Diffusion Model Analysis of Decision Biases Affecting Delayed Recognition of Emotional Stimuli

    Article • PLOS One, January 2016, PLOS

    Holly Bowen

  34. Neural responses to monetary incentives in younger and older adults

    Article • Brain Research, July 2015, Elsevier

    Holly Bowen

  35. Reward-Enhanced Memory in Younger and Older Adults

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, May 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Holly Bowen

  36. Chronic exposure to violent video games is not associated with alterations of emotional memory

    Article • Applied Cognitive Psychology, January 2011, Wiley

    Holly Bowen

  37. Motivational incentives modulate age differences in visual perception.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, January 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Holly Bowen