Publications

Pan, R., Gao, C., Zhu, X., Li, B. M., & Jia, X. (2025). Positive emotion enhances memory by promoting memory reinstatement across repeated learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 45(31). 

Gao, C., Ajith, S., & Peelen, M. V. (2025). Object representations drive emotion schemas across a large and diverse set of daily-life scenes. Communications Biology, 8(1), 697. 

Pan, R., Wu, D., Hu, J., Dou, W., Gao, C., Li, B. M., & Jia, X. (2025). Temporal recall in the shadow of emotion: separate emotional contexts during encoding enhance the temporal source memory retrieval. Cognition and Emotion, 39(1), 196-209. 

Gao, C., Oh, S., Yang, X., Stanley, J. M., & Shinkareva, S. V. (2024). Neural representations of emotions in visual, auditory, and modality‐independent regions reflect idiosyncratic conceptual knowledge. Human Brain Mapping, 45(14), e70040. 

Gao, C., Ren, J., Sakaki, M., & Jia, X. (2024). Memory enhancement for emotional words is attributed to both valence and arousal. Acta Psychologica, 246, 104249. 

Jia, X., Gao, C., Wu, D., Sun, M., Zhang, X., Wang, C., & Li, B. M. (2024). Effects of encoding type and retention interval on emotional memory. Current Psychology, 43(3), 2114-2123. 

Wu, D., Gao, C., Li, B. M., & Jia, X. (2023). Negative emotion amplifies retrieval practice effect for both task-relevant and task-irrelevant information. Cognition and Emotion, 37(7), 1199-1212. 

Gao, C., Hayes, W. M., LaPierre, M., & Shinkareva, S. V. (2023). The effect of auditory valence on subsequent visual semantic processing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30(5), 1928-1938. 

Gao, C., Green, J. J., Yang, X., Oh, S., Kim, J., & Shinkareva, S. V. (2023). Audiovisual integration in the human brain: a coordinate-based meta-analysis. Cerebral Cortex, 33(9), 5574-5584. 

Gao, C., Shinkareva, S. V., & Desai, R. H. (2023). SCOPE: The South Carolina Psycholinguistic Metabase. Behavior Research Methods. 55(6), 2853-2884. 

Brown, M. J., Gao, C., Kaur, A., Qiao, S., & Li, X. (2023). Social support, internalized HIV stigma, resilience and depression among people living with HIV: A moderated mediation analysis. AIDS and Behavior, 27(4), 1106-1115. 

Ren, J., Huang, F., Gao, C., Gott, J., Schoch, S. F., Qin, S., ... & Luo, J. (2023). Functional lateralization of the medial temporal lobe in novel associative processing during creativity evaluation. Cerebral Cortex, 33(4), 1186-1206. 

Gao, C., Shinkareva, S. V., & Peelen, M. V. (2022). Affective valence of words differentially affects visual and auditory word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(9), 2144–2159. 

Gao, C., Wedell, D. H., & Shinkareva, S. V. (2022). Crossmodal negativity bias in semantic processing. Emotion, 22(6), 1270. 

Jia, X., Gao, C., Li, B., Shinkareva, S. V., & Guo, C. (2021). Effects of retrieval and emotion on within-item associative memory-evidence from ERP and oscillatory subsequent memory effects. Biological Psychology, 166, 108222. 

Gao, C., Wedell, D. H., & Shinkareva, S. V. (2021). Evaluating non-affective cross-modal congruence effects on emotion perception. Cognition and Emotion, 35(8), 1634-1651. 

Gao, C., & Shinkareva, S. V. (2021). Modality-general and modality-specific audiovisual valence processing. Cortex, 138, 127-137. 

Gao, C., Xie, W., Green, J. J., Wedell, D. H., Jia, X., Guo, C., & Shinkareva, S. V. (2021). Evoked and induced power oscillations linked to audiovisual integration of affect. Biological Psychology, 158, 108006. 

Shinkareva, S. V., Gao, C., & Wedell, D. (2020). Audiovisual representations of valence: A cross-study perspective. Affective Science, 1(4), 237-246. 

Ren, J., Huang, F., Zhou, Y., Zhuang, Li., Xu, J., Gao, C., Qin, S., & Luo, J. (2020). The function of hippocampus and middle temporal gyrus (MTG) in forming of new associations and concepts during the processing of novelty and usefulness features in creative designs, NeuroImage, 214, 1-17.

Dong, X., Gao, C., Guo, C., Li, W., & Cui, L. (2020). Time course of attentional bias in social anxiety: the effects of spatial frequencies and individual threats. Psychophysiology, 57(9), 1-9.

Kim, J., Weber, C. E., Gao, C., Schulteis, S., Wedell, D. H., & Shinkareva, S. V. (2020). A study in affect: Predicting valence from fMRI data. Neuropsychologia, 1-9.

Gao, C., Weber, C. E., Wedell, D. H., & Shinkareva, S. V. (2020). An fMRI study of affective congruence across visual and auditory modalities. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(7), 1251-1262. 

Weber, C. E., Shinkareva, S. V., Kim, J., Gao, C., & Wedell, D. H. (2020). Evaluative conditioning of affective valence states. Social Cognition, 38(2), 97-118.

Gao, C., Shi, D., & Maydeu-Olivares, A. (2020). Estimating the maximum likelihood root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) with non-normal data: A Monte-Carlo study. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 27(2), 192-201. 

Jia, X., Gao, C., Cui L., & Guo, C. (2020). Neurophysiological evidence for the retrieval practice effect under emotional context. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 147, 224-231.

Li, B., Gao, C., Wang, W., & Guo, C. (2020). The effect of conceptual priming on subsequent familiarity: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Biological Psychology, 149, 1-8.

Jia, X., Gao, C., Wang, Y., Han, M., Cui, L., & Guo, C. (2020). Emotional arousal influences remembrance of goal-relevant stimuli. Emotion, 20(8), 1357-1368.

Gao, C., Weber, C. E., & Shinkareva, S. V. (2019). The brain basis of audiovisual affective processing: Evidence from a coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Cortex, 120, 66-77.

Jia, X., Gao, C., Cui L., & Guo, C. (2019). The role of emotion arousal in the retrieval practice effect. Experimental Brain Research, 237(12), 3241-3252.

Li, B., Gao, C., Wang, J. (2019). Electrophysiological correlates of masked repetition and conceptual priming for visual objects. Brain & Behavior, e01415, 1-8.

Gao, C., Baucom, L. B., Kim, J., Wang, J., Wedell, D. H., & Shinkareva, S. V. (2019). Distinguishing abstract from concrete concepts in supramodal brain regions. Neuropsychologia. 131, 102-110.

Gao, C., Conte, S., Richards, J. E., Xie, W., & Hanayik, T. (2019). The neural sources of N170: Understanding timing of activation in face‐selective areas. Psychophysiology, 56(6), e13336. 

Jia, X., Gao, C., Cui L., & Guo, C. (2018). Does emotion arousal influence the benefit received from testing: insights from neural correlates of retrieval mode effect. NeuroReport, 29(17), 1449-1455.

Gao, C., Wedell, D. H., Green, J. J., Jia, X., Mao, X., Guo, C., & Shinkareva, S. V. (2018). Temporal dynamics of audiovisual affective processing. Biological Psychology, 139, 59-72.

Wang, W., Li, B., Gao, C., & Guo, C. (2018). The temporal dynamics of perceptual and conceptual fluency on recognition memory. Brain & Cognition, 127, 1-12.

Gao, C., Wedell, D. H., Kim, J., Weber, C. E., & Shinkareva, S. V. (2018). Modeling audiovisual integration of affect from videos and music. Cognition and Emotion, 32(3), 516-529.

Li, B., Taylor, J. R., Wang, W., Gao, C., & Guo, C. (2017). Electrophysiological signals associated with fluency of different levels of processing reveal multiple contributions to recognition memory. Consciousness and Cognition, 53, 1-13.

Liu, Y., Rosburg, T., Gao, C., Weber, C., & Guo, C. (2017). Differentiation of subsequent memory effects between retrieval practice and elaborative study. Biological Psychology, 127, 134-147.

Gao, C., Rosburg, T., Hou, M., Li, B., Xiao, X., & Guo, C. (2016). The role of retrieval mode and retrieval orientation in retrieval practice: insights from comparing recognition memory testing formats and restudying. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 16(6), 977-990.

Li, B., Wang, W., Gao, C., & Guo, C. (2016). Masked repetition priming hinders subsequent recollection but not familiarity: A behavioral and event-related potential study. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 16(5), 789-801.

Cui, X., Gao, C., Zhou, J., & Guo, C. (2016). Can color changes alter the neural correlates of recognition memory? Manipulation of processing affects an electrophysiological indicator of conceptual implicit memory. NeuroReport, 27(14), 1037-1045.

Liu, Y., Gao, C., Li, B., & Guo, C. (2016). The underlying mechanism behind testing effect: Perspective from the episodic context account. Advances in Psychological Science, 24(6), 892-899. (In Chinese)

Wang, W., Li, B., Gao, C., Xu, H., & Guo, C. (2015). Conceptual fluency increases recollection: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 377.

Li, B., Gao, C., Wang, W., & Guo, C. (2015). Processing fluency hinders subsequent recollection: an electrophysiological study. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 863.

Wang, W., Li, B., Gao, C., Xiao, X., & Guo, C. (2015). Electrophysiological correlates associated with contributions of perceptual and conceptual fluency to familiarity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 321. 

Gao, C., Hermiller, M. S., Voss, J. L., & Guo, C. (2015). Basic perceptual changes that alter meaning and neural correlates of recognition memory. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 49.

Hou, M., Gao, C., Wu, J., & Guo, C. (2014). Neural correlates of familiarity and conceptual fluency are dissociable at encoding. Chinese Science Bulletin, 59(28), 3602-3609. 

Guo, C., Gao, C., & Li, B. (2013). FN400 effect: Conceptual processing in explicit memory test. Advances in Psychological Science, 21(9), 1521-1530. (In Chinese)