2026
Soderberg KM, Jang G, Kragel PA. (2026). Sensory encoding of emotion conveyed by the face and visual context. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
Kwon M, Bo K, Botvinik-Nezer R, Kragel PA, Van Oudenhove L, Wager TD. (2026). Convergent and selective representations of pain, appetitive processes, aversive processes, and cognitive control in the insula. Nature Communications.
Thieu MK, Sethi M, Aberman E, Kragel PA. (2026). Human superior colliculus pathways represent the form and motion of looming objects. Cell Reports.
Ma Y, Kragel PA. (2026). Map-like representations of emotion knowledge in hippocampal-prefrontal systems. Nature Communications.
Ma Y, Kragel PA. (2026). A grid-like basis for affective space in human ventromedial prefrontal cortex. bioRxiv.
2025
Jang G, Kragel PA. (2025). Understanding human amygdala function with artificial neural networks. The Journal of Neuroscience.
Ma Y, Vafaie N, Kragel PA. (2025). Embedding emotion concepts in cognitive maps. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
Migó M, Cooper JA, Kragel PA, Treadway MT. (2025). Spontaneous thought separates into clusters of negative, positive, and flexible thinking. Communications Psychology.
Zhang J, Chen D, Deming P, Srirangarajan T, Theriault JE, Kragel PA, Hartley L, Lee KM, McVeigh K, Wager TD, Wald LL, Satpute AB, Quigley KS, Whitgield-Gabrieli S, Barrett LF, Bianciardi M. (2025). Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human allostatic–interoceptive system using 7 Tesla fMRI. Nature Neuroscience.
Treadway MT, Etuk SM, Cooper JA, Hossein S, Hahn E, …, Kragel PA, Felger JC, Haroon E, Miller, AH. (2025). A randomized proof-of-mechanism trial of TNF antagonism for motivational deficits and related corticostriatal circuitry in depressed patients with high inflammation. Molecular psychiatry.
Jung H, Amini M, Hunt BJ, Murphy EI, Sadil P, Halchenko YO, Petre B, Miao Z, Kragel PA, Han X, Heilicher MO, … Wager TD. (2025). Spacetop: A multimodal fMRI dataset unifying naturalistic processes with a rich array of experimental tasks. Scientific Data.
2024
Thieu MK, Ayzenberg V, Lourenco SF, Kragel PA. (2024). Visual looming is a primitive for human emotion. iScience.
Fischbach AK, Satpute AB, Quigley K, Kragel PA, Chen D, Bianciardi M, Wald LL, … & Theriault JE. (2024). 7-Tesla evidence for columnar and rostral–caudal organization of the human periaqueductal grey response in the absence of threat: a working memory study. Journal of Neuroscience.
Wang Y, Kragel PA, Satpute AB. (2024). Neural predictors of fear depend on the situation. Journal of Neuroscience.
2023
Kragel PA, Treadway MT, Admon R, Pizzagalli DA, & Hahn EC. (2023) A mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain. Nature Human Behaviour.
Bogaerts K, Van Den Houte M, Jongen D, Ly HG, Coppens E, Schruers K, Van Diest I, Jan T, … & Van den Berg. (2023) Brain mediators of negative affect-induced physical symptom reporting in patients with functional somatic syndromes. Translational Psychiatry.
Hossein S, Cooper JA, DeVries BA, Nuutinen MR, Hahn EC, Kragel PA, & Treadway MT. (2023). Effects of Actute Stress and Depression on Functional Connectivity Between Prefrontal Cortex and the Amygdala. Molecular Psychiatry.
Grogans SE, Bliss-Moreau E, Buss KA, Clark LA, Fox AS, Keltner D, Cowen AS, Kim JJ, Kragel PA, … & Shackman AJ. (2023). The Nature and Neurobiology of Fear and Anxiety: State of the Science and Opportunities for Acceleratiing Discovery. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
2022
van ’t Hof SR, Oudenhove LV, Janssen E, Klein S, Reddan MC, Kragel PA, Stark R, & Wager TD. (2022). The brain activation-based sexual image classifier (BASIC): a sensitive and specific fMRI activity pattern for sexual image processing. Cerebral Cortex.
Ceko M, Kragel PA, Woo CW, Lopez-Sola M, & Wager TD. (2022). Common and stimulus-type-specific brain representations of negative affect. Nature Neuroscience.
Petre B, Kragel PA, Atlas LY, Geuter S, Jepma M, Koban L, … & Wager TD. (2022). A multistudy analysis reveals that evoked pain intensity representation is distributed across brain systems. PLoS Biology.
Kragel PA, Hariri AR, & LaBar KS. (2022). The Temporal Dynamics of Spontaneous Emotional Brain States and Their Implications for Mental Health. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Han X, Ashar YK, Kragel PA, Petre B, Schelkun V, Atlas LY, … & Wager TD. (2022). Effect sizes and test-retest reliability of the fMRI-based neurologic pain signature. NeuroImage.
Gupta A, Bhatt RR, Rivera-Cancel A, Makkar R, Kragel PA, Rodriguez T, … & Zucker N. (2022). Complex functional brain network properties in anorexia nervosa. Journal of Eating Disorders.
Ashar YK, Gordon A, Schubiner H, Uipi C, Knight K, Anderson Z, Carlisle J, Polisky L, Geuter S, … & Wager TD. (2022). Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA psychiatry.
Hatoum AS, Reineberg A E, Kragel PA, Wager TD, & Friedman NP. (2022). Inferring the genetic influences on psychological traits using MRI connectivity predictive models: Demonstration with cognition. Complex Psychiatry.
2021
Kragel PA, Ceko M, Theriault J, Chen D, Satpute AB, Wald LL, Lindquist MA, Barrett LF, Wager TD. (2021). A human colliculus-pulvinar-amygdala pathway encodes negative emotion. Neuron.
Wang W, Schuette PJ, La-Vu MQ, Tobias BC, Ceko M, Kragel PA, Reis FMCV, Ji S, Sehgal M, … Adhikari A. (2021). Dorsal premammillary projection to periaqueductal gray controls escape vigor from innate and conditioned threats. Elife.
Kragel PA, Han X, Kraynak TE, Gianaros PJ, Wager TD. (2021). Functional MRI Can Be Highly Reliable, but It Depends on What You Measure: A Commentary on Elliott et al. Psychological Science.
2020
Van Oudenhove L*, Kragel PA*, Dupont P, Ly H, Pazmany E, Enzlin P, Rubio A, Delon-Martin C, … , Wager TD. (2020).Common and distinct neural representations of aversive somatic and visceral stimulation. Nature Communications. *Authors contributed equally.
Azari B, Westlin C, Satpute AB, Hutchinson B, Kragel PA, Hoemann K, ... & Dy J. (2020). Comparing supervised and unsupervised approaches to emotion categorization in the human brain, body, and subjective experience. Scientific Reports.
2019
Kragel PA, Reddan M, LaBar KS, Wager TD. (2019). Emotion schemas are embedded in the human visual system. Science Advances.
Kragel PA, Biancardi M, Matthewson G, Wald LL, Wager TD, Barrett LF, Satpute AB. (2019). Functional Involvement of Human Periaqueductal Gray in Cognitive Control. Journal of Neuroscience..
Satpute AB, Kragel PA, Barrett LF, Wager TD, Bianciardi M. (2019). Deconstructing arousal: wakeful, autonomic and affective arousal. Neuroscience Letters.
2018
Kragel PA, Koban L, Barrett LF, Wager TD. (2018). Representation, Pattern Information, and Brain Signatures: From Neurons to Neuroimaging. Neuron.
Kragel PA, Kano M, Van Oudenhove L, Ly HG, Dupont P, Rubio A, Delon-Martin C, Bonaz B, … Wager TD. (2018).Generalizable representations of pain, cognitive control, and negative emotion in medial frontal cortex. Nature Neuroscience.
2017
Rubin DC, Li D, Hall SA, Kragel PA, Bernstein D. (2017). Taking tests in the magnet: Brain mapping standardized tests. Human Brain Mapping.
Zucker NL, Wagner HR, Kragel PA, Mayer EA, Wang J, Kang MS, Merwin RM, Hopkins H, LaBar KS. (2017). The clinical significance of posterior insular volume in adolescent anorexia nervosa. Psychosomatic Medicine.
Li D, Zucker NL, Kragel PA, Covington VE, LaBar KS. (2017). Adolescent development of insula-dependent interoceptive regulation. Developmental Science.
2016
Kragel PA, Knodt AK, Hariri AR, LaBar KS. (2016). Decoding spontaneous emotional states in the human brain. PLoS Biology.
Kragel PA, LaBar KS. (2016). Decoding the nature of emotion in the brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Kragel PA, LaBar KS. (2016). Somatosensory representations link the perception of emotional expressions and sensory experience. eNeuro.
2015
Åhs F, Kragel PA, Zielinski DJ, Brady R, LaBar KS. (2015). Medial prefrontal pathways for the contextual regulation of extinguished fear in humans. Neuroimage.
Kragel PA, LaBar KS. (2015). Multivariate neural biomarkers of emotional states are categorically distinct. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
Kragel PA, Zucker NL, Covington VE, LaBar KS. (2015). Developmental trajectories of cortical-subcortical interactions underlying the evaluation of trust in adolescence. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
2014
Dunsmoor JE, Kragel PA, Martin A, LaBar KS. (2014). Aversive learning modulates cortical representations of object categories. Cerebral Cortex.
Kragel PA, LaBar KS. (2014). Advancing emotion theory with multivariate pattern classification. Emotion Review.
Green SR*, Kragel PA*, Fecteau ME, LaBar KS. (2014). Development and validation of an unsupervised scoring system (Autonomate) for skin conductance response analysis. International Journal of Psychophysiology. *Authors contributed equally.
2013
St Jacques PL, Kragel PA, Rubin DC. (2013). Neural networks supporting autobiographical memory retrieval in post-traumatic stress disorder. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience.
Kragel PA,LaBar KS. (2013). Multivariate pattern classification reveals autonomic and experiential representations of discrete emotions. Emotion.
2012 and earlier
Kragel PA, Carter RM, Huettel SA. (2012). What makes a pattern? Matching decoding methods to data in multivariate pattern analysis. Frontier in Neuroscience.
Prince SE, Thomas LA, Kragel PA, LaBar KS. (2012). Fear-relevant outcomes modulate the neural correlates of probabilistic classification learning. Neuroimage.
Zucker NL, Green S, Morris JP, Kragel P, Pelphrey KA, Bulik CM, LaBar KS. (2011). Hemodynamic signals of mixed messages during a social exchange. Neuroreport.
St Jacques PL*, Kragel PA*, Rubin DC. (2011). Dynamic neural networks supporting memory retrieval. Neuroimage. *Authors contributed equally.
Dunsmoor JE, Prince SE, Murty VP, Kragel PA, LaBar KS. (2011). Neurobehavioral mechanisms of human fear generalization. Neuroimage.
Botzung A, LaBar KS, Kragel P, Miles A, Rubin DC. (2010). Component Neural Systems for the Creation of Emotional Memories during Free Viewing of a Complex, Real-World Event. Frontier in Human Neuroscience.
Dolcos F, Miller B, Kragel P, Jha A, McCarthy G. (2007). Regional brain differences in the effect of distraction during the delay interval of a working memory task. Brain Research.
Dolcos F, Kragel P, Wang L, McCarthy G. (2006). Role of the inferior frontal cortex in coping with distracting emotions. Neuroreport.