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"Emotions: Where do feelings come from?" Vanessa LoBue (Dept. of Psychology, Rutgers University - Newark)
Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 02:00pm - 05:00pm
via Zoom
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RuCCS Marquee Course Series: Making a Mind with a Brain
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Professor Vanessa Lobue, Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Child Study Center at Rutgers University. Dr. LoBue studies humans’ behavioral responses to emotionally valenced stimuli—specifically to negative or threatening stimuli—and the mechanisms that guide the development of these behaviors.
Primary Readings:
- DeLoache, J. S., & LoBue, V. (2009). The narrow fellow in the grass: Human infants associate snakes and fear. Developmental science, 12(1), 201-207.
- Dinh, H. T., Nishimaru, H., Le, Q. V., Matsumoto, J., Setogawa, T., Maior, R. S., Tomaz, C., Ono, T., & Nishijo, H. (2021). Preferential Neuronal Responses to Snakes in the Monkey Medial Prefrontal Cortex Support an Evolutionary Origin for Ophidiophobia. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 15, 653250.
- Pape, H. C., & Pare, D. (2010). Plastic synaptic networks of the amygdala for the acquisition, expression, and extinction of conditioned fear. Physiological reviews, 90(2), 419-463.
- Phelps, E. A., Lempert, K. M., & Sokol-Hessner, P. (2014). Emotion and decision making: multiple modulatory neural circuits. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 37, 263–287.
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