Florin Dolcos

About

Florin Dolcos, PhD, is Co-Director at the Dolcos Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His primary research interests focus on the neural mechanisms underlying interactions between emotion and cognition. He employs a combination of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for spatial resolution and event-related potentials (ERP) for temporal resolution to investigate how emotion can both enhance and impair the neural correlates of memory processes in healthy young human participants. More recently, his research has expanded to explore the impact of cognition on emotion processing, as well as examining these processes in relation to individual differences across healthy young and older adults and clinical populations, including depressed and PTSD patients.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Cognitive psychology
• Neuroscience
• Computer Science
• Developmental psychology
• Social psychology
• Clinical psychology
• Psychotherapist
• Communication
• Psychiatry

Selected publications

• Religiosity and Resilience: Cognitive Reappraisal and Coping Self-Efficacy Mediate the Link between Religious Coping and Well-Being

  Journal of Religion and Health · 2021 · 136 citations

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• The Human Affectome

  Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 2023 · 57 citations

  Over the last decades, theoretical perspectives in the interdisciplinary field of the affective sciences have proliferated rather than converged due to differing assumptions about what human affective phenomena are and how they work. These metaphysical and mechanistic assumptions, shaped by academic context and values, have dictated affective constructs and operationalizations. However, an assumption about the purpose of affective phenomena can guide us to a common set of metaphysical and mechan…

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• Event-induced modulation of aperiodic background EEG: Attention-dependent and age-related shifts in E:I balance, and their consequences for behavior

  Imaging Neuroscience · 2023-12-04 · 38 citations

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  Abstract The broadband shape of the EEG spectrum, summarized using the slope of a 1/fx function, is thought to reflect the balance between excitation and inhibition in cortical regions (E:I balance). This balance is an important characteristic of neural circuits and could inform studies of aging, as older adults show a relative deficit in inhibitory activity. Thus far, no studies have leveraged the event-related temporal dynamics of 1/fx activity to better understand the phases of information pr…

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• Intrinsic functional network contributions to the relationship between trait empathy and subjective happiness

  NeuroImage · 2020 · 30 citations

  Subjective happiness (well-being) is a multi-dimensional construct indexing one's evaluations of everyday emotional experiences and life satisfaction, and has been associated with different aspects of trait empathy. Despite previous research identifying the neural substrates of subjective happiness and empathy, the mechanisms mediating the relationship between the two constructs remain largely unclear. Here, we performed a data-driven, multi-voxel pattern analysis of whole-brain intrinsic functi…

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• Pride and guilt as place-based affective antecedents to pro-environmental behavior

  Frontiers in Psychology · 2023-01-19 · 18 citations

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  The interrelated concepts of place attachment and place meaning are antecedents to pro-environmental behavior and essential for supporting decisions that foster relationships between people and places. Previous research has argued that affect is instrumental in conceptualizing place-related phenomena but has not yet been considered in terms of discrete emotions. We disentangled the empirical relationships between concepts of place and the emotions of pride and guilt to understand how they collec…

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Frequent coauthors

• Sanda Dolcos

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  72 shared

• Roberto Cabeza

  45 shared

• Gregory McCarthy

  MSD (UK) Limited (United Kingdom)

  30 shared

• Alexandru D. Iordan

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  28 shared

• Ekaterina Denkova

  University of Miami

  25 shared

• Yuta Katsumi

  Harvard University

  24 shared

• Matthew Moore

  Stanford University

  24 shared

• Rajendra A. Morey

  Duke University

  18 shared

Awards & honors

• Laird Cermak Award for Early Contributions to Memory Researc…
• Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Rese…
• NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Natural Sciences & E…
• CPRF Award from the Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation

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