Representative Ones

Hu, K., Samuel, A., & Chan, A.S. (2010). Eliminating inhibition of return by changing salient nonspatial attributes in a complex environment.  Journal of  Experimental Psychology, general, 40(1), 35-50.  PDF  link 

Hu, K., & Samuel, A. G. (2011). Facilitation versus inhibition in non-spatial attribute discrimination tasks. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 73(3), 784-796.  PDF  link

Hu, K*., DeRosa, E, & Anderson, A..K*. (2018) Differential temporal salience of earning and saving. Nature Communications, 9(1), 2843,  PDF  link  

     (Media coverage 07/2018: PDF Cornell news  Newswise   NY Post   CNBC,  Financial Advisor,  Wall Street J, CNN,   Phys.org ,  etc)

Hu, K*., De Rosa, E., & Anderson, A..K*. (2024). Attentional priority and limbic activity favor gains over losses. bioRxiv, 2024-08. Link

Hu, K*.,  Hu, Y., Liu, F., Fan, Q., Xu, Hu., Li, Q., He, S., & Li, C. S. (2025). Happy and Threatening Faces Differentially Modulate Attention Focus Across Task Stages. Psychological Research. PDF

Li, L., Wang, P.,  Wei, P., Guo, X.,  Hu, K*., Li, Q.,* & Guo, C (2025) The mind in sensation seekers: Arousal trumps reward in memory processing (submitted) Link

Hu, K*., Li, L., Xu, H., Ren, Q.,  Li, Q.,* & & Li, CS.  (2025) Sensation-Seeking and Memory: Gendered Reward-Punishment Effects (submitted) Link

Hu, K., Padmala, S., Pessoa, L. (2013). Interactions between reward and threat during visual processing - an fMRI study.  Neuropsychologia, 51, 1763-1772.  PDF  link

Hu, K., Bauer, A., Padmala,  & Pessoa, L (2012). Threat of bodily harm has opposing effects on cognition.  Emotion, 12(1), 28-32. PDF  link

Murty, D., Song, S., Morrow, K., Kim, J., Hu, K.,  & Pessoa, L (2021). Distributed and multifaceted effects of threat and safety.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 34 (3): 495–516. PDF  link

Li, Q., Lai, X., Li, T., Madsen, KU., Xiao, J., Hu, K., Feng, C., Fu, D., & Liu, X. (2024). Brain responses to self-and other-unfairness under resource distribution context: Meta-analysis of fMRI studies. NeuroImage, 297, 120707. PDF  link

Hu, K* (2018) Neural activity to threat in vmPFC correlates with individual differences in anxiety and reward processing . Neuropsychologia , 117, 566-573.  PDF  link

Li, Q., Dai, W., Zheng, Y., Wang C, Yang, Z., Ren, QP.,  Hu, K.*, & Liu, X. (2022). Social comparisons differentially affect fair and unfair processing in ultimatum bargaining – an ERP study. Neuropsychologia, 108318. PDF   link

Hu, K* (2019) Investigations into ventral prefrontal cortex using mediation models. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 98: 632-642.  PDF   link

Hu, K*.,  DeRosa, E, & Anderson, A..K*. (2020) Differential color tuning of the mesolimbic reward system.  Scientific Report, 10(1), 1-12. PDF link  

Hu, K* (2019) Reward priming eliminates color-driven affect in perception.  Psychological Research, 83, 321-331.   PDF  link

Chaudhary, S., Hu, S., Hu, K., Dominguez, JC., Chao, H., & Li, CS. (2023) Sex differences in the effects of trait anxiety and age on resting-state functional connectivities of the amygdala. Journal of Affective Disorders. 14 (2023) 100646   PDF  link

Li, Q , Xu, H., Ren Q,  He S., Hu, K*,  & Li, CS. (2023) Schizophrenia patients show impaired bottom‐up processing and attentional adjustment.  Current Psychology. PDF  link

Hu, K*, Godfrey, K., Rem. Q. Wamg. S. Yang, X., & Li, Q (2022) The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on college students in USA: Two years later.  Psychiatry Research. PDF  link

Hu, K*., Hu, Y., Godfrey, K, Li, Q. & Li, CS.  (2023) A 2-year mental health follow-up study subsequent to COVID-19, Psychiatry Research, PDF  link

Wang, L., Yang, G., Zheng, Y., Li, Z., Wei, P., Li, Q., Hu, K., & Liu, X. (2021). Neural substrates of deficient cognitive control in individuals with severe internet gaming disorder. NeuroImage: Clinical, 32, 102828. PDF  link  

Li, Q., Zhong, Y,  Zheng, Y., Wang, C., Lai X., Hu, K., & Liu, X. (2021). Fairness Decision-making of Opportunity Equity in Gain and Loss Contexts. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, PDF link  

Hu, K*., DeRosa, E, & Anderson, A..K*. (2019)  Yellow is for safety: Perceptual and affective perspectives.  Psychological Research, 84, 1912–1919 ,  PDF  link

Hu, K*., Zhan, J., Li, B., He, S., & Samuel, A. G*. (2014). Multiple cueing dissociates location- and feature-based repetition effects. Vision Research, 101, 73-81.  PDF  link

Klein, R. M., Wang, Y., Dukewich, K. R., He, S., & Hu, K*., (2015). On the costs and benefits of repeating a nonspatial feature in an exogenous spatial cuing  paradigm. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 77(7), 2293-2304.  PDF  link

Hu, K*.,   Fan, Z., & He, S. (2015). Uncovering the interaction between empathetic pain and cognition. Psychological research, 79(6), 1054-1063.  PDF  link

Hu, K*., Lijffijt, M., Beauchaine, T. P., Fan, Z., Shi, H., & He, S. (2015). Influence of empathetic pain processing on cognition in schizophrenia. European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, 265(7), 623-631. PDF  link

Hu, K*., He, S., Fan, Z., & Lupiáñez, J. (2014). Beyond the inhibition of return of attention: reduced habituation to threatening faces in schizophrenia. Frontiers in psychiatry, 5. 7. PDF  link

Fang, S*., Ding, D., Ji, P., Huang, M., & Hu, K*. (2022). Cognitive Defusion and Psychological Flexibility Predict Negative Body Image in the Chinese College Students: Evidence from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(24), 16519. 

Wu, H., Meng, G., Wang, L., Xiao, J*., Hu, K*., Li Q* (2024). Understanding the relationships among adolescents’ internet dependence, reward, cognitive control processing, and learning burnout: a network perspective in China. BMC Psychiatry, 24 (599).

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