People

Directors

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Distinguished Professor of Psychology,
Northeastern University

Research Scientist,
Department of Psychiatry,
Massachusetts General Hospital

Lecturer in Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School

Elected fellow: AAAS, APA, APS, SESP, SPSP

Ph.D., University of Waterloo
B.Sc. Honors, University of Toronto

Karen Quigley

Associate Research Professor,
Northeastern University

Research Physiologist,
Department of Veterans Affairs,
Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Hospital

Fellow, ABMR

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Columbia University
Ph.D., Psychobiology, Ohio State University
M.A., Psychobiology, Ohio State University
B.S., Zoology, Ohio State University


Lab Members

IASL personnel

Research
Scientists

Ajay Satpute, Ph.D.

Cognitive and neural processes involved in social cognition and emotion

Spencer Lynn, Ph.D.

Computational models of signal detection and behavioral economics, investigating how a person's affective state or conceptual expectation influences perception

Postdoctoral
Fellows

Joe Andreano, Ph.D.

Changes in emotional memory due to aging

Jennifer Fugate, Ph.D.

The role of language in emotion perception

Ian Kleckner, Ph.D.

Relationship between affect and perception, using brain imaging and psychophysiological techniques.

Suzanne Oosterwijk, Ph.D.

How psychological ingredients such as core affect, conceptual knowledge, and language combine to form mental states (including emotions), using brain imaging and psychophysiological techniques

Alexandra Touroutoglou, Ph.D.

Neurobiology of affective experience

Christy Wilson-Mendenhall, Ph.D.

Neural bases of abstract and emotion knowledge and of core affective properties of experience

Graduate
Students

Eric Anderson

The influence of affect in vision and decision-making

Maria Gendron, M.A.

The role of language in emotion perception

Erika Siegel

The role of affect in visual processing

Xuan (Aggie) Zhang, M.A

The role of prosody in affective processing

Research
Staff

Keji Adebayo

Research Assistant, Massachusetts General Hospital

Nicole Betz

Lab Coordinator/Research Assistant

Tamina Daruvala

Research Assistant

Rebecca Dautoff

Research Assistant, Massachusetts General Hospital

Janine Vlassakis

Educational Outreach, Northeastern University

Emeritus

Postdoctoral Fellows (former)

Maximilien Chaumon, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Yoshiya Moriguchi, M.D., Ph.D.

Division Chief, Clinical Pathophysiology, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan

Michele M. Tugade, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Vassar College

Mariann Weierich, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Hunter College

Ph.D. Students (former)

Keith Aronson, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Social Science Research Institute
Associate Director, Children, Youth and Families Consortium

Kevin Bickart, Ph.D.

Boston University School of Medicine

Eliza Bliss-Moreau, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis

Appointments at The M.I.N.D. Institute and the California National Primate Research Center

Tamlin Conner, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, University of Otago, New Zealand

Thyra Fossum

Licensed Psychologist

Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, University of Delaware

Kristen Lindquist, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Tracey Madden, Ph.D.

Director of Talent Management for North America, BAE Systems, Nashua, NH

Myeong-Gu Seo, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, University of Maryland