People

Directors

Lisa Feldman Barrett

University Distinguished Professor,
Department of Psychology,
Northeastern University

Research Neuroscientist,
Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
,
Massachusetts General Hospital

Research Scientist,
Department of Psychiatry,
Massachusetts General Hospital

Lecturer in Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School

Elected fellow: AAAS, APA, APS, SESP, SPSP
Elected fellow, Royal Society of Canada

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

Karen Quigley

Associate Research Professor,
Department of Psychology,
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

Shir Atzil, Ph.D.

Neural bases of social reward

Jolie Baumann, Ph.D.

Influence of emotional experiences on behavior and decision making

Ian Kleckner, Ph.D.

Relationship between affect and perception, 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, M.A.

The influence of affect in vision and decision-making

Maria Gendron, M.A.

The role of language in emotion perception

Erika Siegel, M.A.

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

Victoria Spring

Research Assistant, Psychophysiology

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

Suzanne Oosterwijk, Ph.D.

University of Amsterdam

Michele M. Tugade, Ph.D.

Associate 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.

Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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