May, C.P., Dien, A., & Ford, J.H. (in press). New insights into the formation and duration of flashbulb memories: Evidence from medical diagnosis memories. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Bowen, H.J., Ford, J.H., Grady, C.L., & Spaniol, J. (in press). Fronto-striatal functional connectivity supports reward-enhanced memory in older adults. Neurobiology of Aging.
Kensinger, E.A. & Ford, J.H. (2020). Retrieval of emotional events from memory. Annual Review of Psychology, 71, 251-252.
Ford, J.H. & Kensinger, E.A. (in press). Older adults recruit dorsomedial prefrontal cortex to decrease negativity during retrieval of emotionally complex real-world events. Neuropsychologia.
Ford, J.H. & Kensinger, E.A. (2019a). The role of the amygdala in emotional experience during retrieval of personal memories. Memory, 27, 1362-1370.
Ford, J.H. & Kensinger, E.A. (2019b). Age-by-emotion interactions in memory retrieval processes: An event-related potential study. Journal of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 74, 1101-1110.
Ford, J.H. & Kensinger, E.A. (2018). Older adults use a prefrontal regulatory mechanism to reduce negative memory vividness of a highly emotional real-world event. NeuroReport, 29, 1129-1134.
Ford, J.H., DiBiase, H.D, Ryu, E., & Kensinger, E.A. (2018). It gets better with time: Enhancement of age-related positivity effect in the six months following a highly negative public event. Psychology and Aging, 33, 419-424.
Ford, J.H., Gaesser, B., DiBiase, H., Berro, T., Young, L., & Kensinger, E.A. (2018). Heroic memory: Remembering the details of others’ heroism in the aftermath of a traumatic public event can foster our own prosocial response. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 32, 47-54.
Ford, J.H., DiBiase, H.D., & Kensinger, E.A. (2018). Finding the good in the bad: Age and event experience relate to the focus on positive aspects of a negative events. Cognition and Emotion, 15, 414-421.
Ford, J.H. & Kensinger, E.A. (2017a). Prefrontally-mediated alterations in the retrieval of negative events: Links to memory vividness across the adult lifespan. Neuropsychologia, 102, 82-94.
Ford, J.H. & Kensinger, E.A. (2017b). Age-related reversals in neural recruitment across memory retrieval phases. Journal of Neuroscience, 37, 5172-5182.
Ford, J.H., DiGirolamo, M., & Kensinger, E.A. (2016). Age influences the relation between subjective valence ratings and emotional word use during autobiographical memory retrieval. Memory, 24, 1023-1032.
Ford, J.H., Rubin, D.C., & Giovanello, K.S. (2016). The effects of song familiarity and age on phenomenological characteristics and neural recruitment during autobiographical memory retrieval. Psychomusicology, 26, 199-210.
Ford, J.H. & Kensinger, E.A. (2016). Effects of internal and external vividness on hippocampal connectivity during memory retrieval. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 134,78-90.
Foster, C.M., Addis, D.R., Ford, J.H., Kaufer, D.I., Burke, J.R., Browndyke, J.N., Welsh-Bohmer, K.A., & Giovanello, K.S. (2016). Prefrontal contributions to relational encoding in amnestic mild cognitive impairment. NeuroImage Clinical, 11, 158-166.
Ford, J.H. & Kensinger, E.A. (2014). The relation between structural and functional connectivity depends on age and on task goals. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 307.
Ford, J.H., Morris, J.A., & Kensinger, E.A. (2014a). Neural recruitment and connectivity during emotional memory retrieval across the adult life span. Neurobiology of Aging, 35(12), 2770-2784.
Ford, J.H., Morris, J.A., & Kensinger, E.A. (2014b). Effects of emotion and emotional valence on the neural correlates of episodic memory search and elaboration. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 825-839.
Ford, J.H., Rubin, D.C., & Giovanello, K.S. (2014). Effects of task instruction on autobiographical memory specificity in young and older adults. Memory, 22, 722-726.
Bennion, K.A., Ford, J.H., Murray, B.D., & Kensinger, E.A. (2013). Oversimplification in the study of emotional memory. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 19, 953-961.
De Brigard, F., Addis, D.R., Ford, J.H. Schacter, D.L., & Giovanello, K.S. (2013). Remembering what could have happened: Neural correlates of episodic counterfactual thinking. Neuropsychologia, 51, 2401-2414.
Ford, J.H., Giovanello, K.S., & Guskiewicz, K.M. (2013). Episodic memory in former professional football players with a history of concussion: An event-related functional neuroimaging study. Journal of Neurotrauma, 15, 1683-1701.
Giovanello, K.S., De Brigard, F., Ford, J.H., Kaufer, D., Browndyke, J., & Welsh-Bohmer, K. (2012). Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging changes during relational retrieval in normal aging and amnestic mild cognitive impairment. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 18, 1-12.
Ford, J.H., Addis, D.R., & Giovanello, K.S. (2012). Differential Effects of Arousal in Positive and Negative Autobiographical Memories. Memory, 20, 771-778.
Ford, J.H., Addis, D.R., & Giovanello, K.S. (2011). Differential neural activity during retrieval of specific and general autobiographical memories derived from musical cues. Neuropsychologia,49(9), 2514-2526.
Ford, J.H., Verfaellie, M., & Giovanello, K.S. (2010). Neural correlates of familiarity-based associative retrieval. Neuropsychologia. 48(10), 3019-3025.
Ball, C.T. & Hennessey, J.A. (2009). Subliminal priming of autobiographical memories. Memory, 17, 311-322.
Popular Press
Daley, R., Ford, J.H., & Kensinger, E.A. (2019-present). Achievements of the Aging Mind.
Monthly Psychology Today blog examining age-related changes in memory and cognition.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/achievements-the-aging-mind
Gaesser, G. & Ford, J.H. (2018, April 3). A potential benefit to memories of terrorism. Scientific American. Retrieved from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-potential-benefit-to-memories-of-terrorism/
Book Chapters
Kensinger, E.A., Ford, J.H., & Daley, R.T. (2020). Emotion and memory. In A.K. Thomas & A. Gutchess (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Aging: A Life Course Perspective (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kensinger, E.A. & Ford, J.H. (2017). Emotion and emotional memory In R. Cabeza, L. Nyberg, & D.C. Park (Eds.), Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging, 2nd Edition (pp. 337-360). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.