I received a BA in English from Dartmouth College, and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Suffolk University. My doctoral work was completed in the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Group at Massachusetts General Hospital/Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. It examined errors on a cognitive task as a way of probing networks underpinning attention, emotion/interoception, and arousal. My future work aims to better understand how these networks interact to regulate attention and emotional processing in healthy persons, and how this fails to occur in depression and other psychiatric disorders.

Publications

Polli FE, Moes EJ, Recklitis CJ, Savage CR, Jerram M, Seidman LJ (in preparation).   Negative emotional valence impairs working memory and inhibition in healthy controls.

Polli FE, Barton JJS, Wright CI, Dickerson BC, Milad MR, Rauch SL, Manoach DS (in  preparation). Bilateral amygdala activation during antisaccade errors in healthy adults.

Polli FE, Barton JJS, Cain MS, Thakkar KN, Rauch SL, Manoach DS (under review).  Abnormal anterior cingulate activation during error processing in schizophrenia and  its relationship to performance.

Manoach DS, Ketwaroo AG, Polli FE, Thakkar KN, Barton JJS, Goff DC, Tuch DS (2007).  Reduced microstructural integrity of the white matter underlying anterior cingulate  cortex is associated with increased saccadic latency in schizophrenia. Neuroimage,  37(2), 599-610.

Moon SY, Barton JJS, Mikulski S, Polli FE, Cain MS, Hamalainen MS, Manoach DS (in press).  Where left becomes right: a magnetoencephalographic study of sensorimotor  transformation for antisaccades. Neuroimage, 36(4), 1313-23.

Manoach DS, Thakkar KN, Cain MS, Polli FE, Edelman J, Barton JJS (2007). eural activity is  modulated by trial history: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study of the  effects of a previous antisaccade. Journal of Neuroscience. 2007 Feb 14;27(7):1791- 8.

Polli FE, Barton JJS, Vangel M, Goff DC, Iguchi L, Manoach DS (2006). Schizophrenia  patients show intact immediate error-related performance adjustments on an  antisaccade task. Schizophrenia Research, 82(2-3), 191-201.

Barton JJS, Kuzin A, Polli FE, Manoach DS (2006). The use of working memory for task  prediction: what benefits accrue from different types of foreknowledge?  Neuroscience, 139(1), 385-92.

Polli FE, Barton JJS, Cain MS, Thakkar KN, Rauch SL, Manoach DS (2005). Rostral and  dorsal anterior cingulate cortex make dissociable contributions during antisaccade  error commission. Proceedings of the National Academic of Sciences: U.S.A.,  102(43), 15700-15705.