Publications

2023

Lempert, K. M., Carballeira, C., Sehgal, S., & Kable, J. (2023). Pupillometric evidence for a temporal expectations-based account of persistence under temporal uncertainty. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-023-01100-9

Lempert, K. M.*, Schaefer, L.*, Breslow, D., Peterson, T. D., Kable, J., & McGuire, J. (2023). Statistical information about reward timing is insufficient for promoting optimal persistence decisions. Cognition, 237, 105468. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-023-01100-9

*these authors contributed equally to this work.

2022

Lempert, K.M., Cohen, M.S., MacNear, K.A., Reckers, F.M., Zaneski, L., Wolk, D.A., Kable, J.W. (2022). Aging is associated with maladaptive episodic memory-guided social decision-making. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, 42: e2208681119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2208681119

Bulley, A., Lempert, K.M., Conwell, C., Irish, M. & Schacter, D.L. (accepted). Intertemporal choice reflects value comparison rather than self-control: insights from confidence judgments. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

Batistuzzo, M.C., Sheshachala, K., Alschuler, D.M., Hezel, D.M., Lewis-Fernandez, R., de Joode, N.T., Vriend, C., Lempert, K.M., Narayan, M., Marincowitz, C., Lochner, C., Stein, D.J., Narayanaswamy, J.C., van den Heuvel, O.A., Simpson, H.B., Wall, M. (2022). Cross-national harmonization of neurocognitive assessment across five sites in a global study. Neuropsychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000838

Lempert, K.M., Ramakrishnan, A., Wolf, D.H., Kable, J.W. (Stage 1 Registered Report, in-principle accepted). Effects of serotonin and dopamine on persistence for delayed rewards in humans. Nature Communications.

2020

Lempert, K.M., Mechanic-Hamilton, D.J., Xie, L., Wisse, L.E.M., de Flores, R., Wang, J., Das, S.R., Yushkevich, P.A., Wolk, D.A., Kable, J.W. (2020). Neural and behavioral correlates of episodic memory are associated with temporal discounting in older adults. Neuropsychologia, 146: 107549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107549

Lempert, K.M., MacNear, K.A., Wolk, D.A., Kable, J.W. (2020). Links between autobiographical memory richness and temporal discounting in older adults. Scientific Reports, 10: 6431. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-63373-1

2019

Lempert, K.M.*, Steinglass, J.E.*, Pinto, A., Kable, J.W., Simpson, H.B. (2019). Can delay discounting deliver on the promise of RDoC? Review. Psychological Medicine, 49, 190-199. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291718001770

2018

DiMenichi, B.C., Lempert, K.M., Bejjani, C., Tricomi, E. (2018). Writing about past failures attenuates cortisol responses and sustained attention deficits following psychosocial stress. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 12:45. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00045

Lempert, K.M., McGuire, J.T., Hazeltine, D.B., Phelps, E.A., Kable, J.W. (2018). The effects of acute stress on the calibration of persistence. Neurobiology of Stress, 8, 1-9.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2017.11.001

Diehl, M.M., Lempert, K.M., Parr, A.C., Ballard, I., Steele, V.R., Smith, D.V. (2018). Toward an integrative perspective on the neural mechanisms underlying persistent maladaptive behaviors. Meeting Commentary. European Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.14083

2017

Lempert, K.M., Lackovic, S. F., Tobe, R.H., Glimcher, P.W., Phelps, E.A. (2017). Propranolol reduces reference-dependence in intertemporal choice. Social, Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience,  12, 1394-1401. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx081

Lempert, K.M., Speer, M.E., Delgado, M.R., Phelps, E.A. (2017). Positive autobiographical memory retrieval reduces temporal discounting. Social, Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 12,  1584-1593. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx086

Steinglass, J.E.*, Lempert, K.M.*, Choo, T., Wall, M., Walsh, B.T., Fyer, A., Schneier, F., Simpson, H.B. (2017). Temporal discounting across three psychiatric disorders: Anorexia Nervosa,  Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Social Anxiety Disorder. Depression & Anxiety, 34, 463-470. https://doi.org/10.1002/da.22586

Lempert, K.M. & Kable, J.W. (2017). Separating Identity and Value in the Identity-Value Model. Psychological Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2017.1337386

2016

Lempert, K.M. & Phelps, E.A. (2016). The malleability of intertemporal choice. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 64-74.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2015.09.005

Lempert, K.M., Johnson, E., Phelps, E.A. (2016). Emotional arousal predicts intertemporal choice. Emotion, 16, 647-56. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000168 

Lempert, K.M. & Tricomi, E. (2016). The value of being wrong: Intermittent feedback delivery alters the striatal response to negative feedback. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 6, 1-14.  https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00892

Raio, C.M., Goldfarb, E.V., Lempert, K.M., Sokol-Hessner P. (2016). Classifying emotion  regulation strategies. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 17, 532.  https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn.2016.78

Lempert, K.M. & Phelps, E.A. (2016). Affect in economic decision-making in Barrett, L.F., Lewis,  M., Haviland-Jones, J.M. (eds.) Handbook of Emotions, Fourth Edition. New York: Guilford  Publications, Inc. 

2015

Reppert, T.R.*, Lempert, K.M.*, Glimcher, P.W., Shadmehr, R. (2015). Modulation of saccade vigor during value-based decision-making. Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 15369-78.  https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2621-15.2015

Lempert, K.M., Chen, Y., Fleming, S.M. (2015). Relating pupil dilation and metacognitive  confidence during auditory decision-making. PLoS One, 10: e0126588.  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126588

Lempert, K.M., Glimcher, P.W., Phelps, E.A. (2015). Emotional arousal and discount rate in intertemporal choice are reference dependent. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144,  366-73. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000047

Tricomi, E. & Lempert, K.M. (2015). Value and probability coding in a feedback-based learning task utilizing food rewards. Journal of Neurophysiology, 113, 4-13.  https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00086.2014

pre-2015

Phelps, E.A., Lempert, K.M., Sokol-Hessner, P. (2014). Emotion and decision-making: Multiple modulatory neural circuits. Annual Reviews of Neuroscience, 37, 263-87.  https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-neuro-071013-014119

Lempert, K.M. & Phelps, E.A. (2014). Neuroeconomics of Emotion and Decision-Making in Glimcher, P.W. & Fehr, E. (eds.) Neuroeconomics: Decision making and the Brain, 2nd edition.  London:  Elsevier, Inc.

Lempert, K.M., Porcelli, A.J., Delgado, M.R., Tricomi, E. (2012).  Individual differences in delay discounting under acute stress: the role of trait perceived stress. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 251.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00251

Lempert, K.M. & Pizzagalli, D.A. (2010). Delay discounting and future-directed thinking in anhedonic individuals. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 41, 258-264.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2010.02.003

*indicates equal contribution