Lab Announcements

August 2021

Congratulations to Christi Westlin who just accepted a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Functional Neurological Disorder Research Group at Massachusetts General Hospital!

Congratulations to Danlei Chen who just accepted a Postdoctoral associate position in the Lewis Lab at MIT!

Congratulations to Kay Shepherd, former IASL research technician, who is now a program manager at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole!

Congratulations to Eli Sennesh who just accepted a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Bastos Lab (Department of Psychology) and Data Science Institute at Vanderbilt University!

Welcome to Chan Hong who will be working as a research technician at the IASL!"

December 2021

Congratulations to Liz Cory, former IASL research technician, who now has a position with Concentric (concentric.io).

October 2021

Congratulations to Dr. Karen Quigley for being named one of the inaugural Fellows of the Society for Psychophysiological Research.

September 2021

IASLab alumna Dr. Michele Tugade was awarded an endowed chair. She is now Professor of Psychological Science on the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair at Vassar College. Congratulations!

The IASLab welcomes Dr. Joseph Andreano’s beautiful son Max! Dr. Alexandra Touroutoglou is the godmother.

August 2021

The IASLab welcomes Sophia Tchir! Sophia joined the lab as a Research Coordinator. She earned her B.S. in Biological Sciences from Florida International University and her M.S. in Neuroscience from the University at Buffalo. She is working with Abby, Jamie, and Joe to manage a project examining the relationship between ovarian hormones, brain connectivity, affect, and memory. Sophia’s long-term goal is to contribute to research centered on human health and neurological and psychiatric diseases and conditions.

July 2021

The IASLab welcomes Philip Deming! Philip earned his B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His dissertation work investigated interactions among large-scale brain networks and how those interactions might be dysfunctional in psychopathy, a personality disorder marked by callousness and impulsivity. He will work with Dr. Karen Quigley to study how bodily signals (measured during real-world, everyday activities) are tied to emotional events. Philip is also interested in how predictive coding in the brain supports interoception and affective experience.

May 2021

The IASLab welcomes Jamie Hatch! Jamie joins the lab as a Northeastern University co-op, pursuing her Bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Neuroscience with a Minor in Linguistics. Her primary interest is the effect of neurodevelopmental disorders in language processing and production.

September 2020

The IASLab welcomes Abby Giancola, who has joined the lab as a Research Coordinator. She received her B.S. in Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell University and her M.A. in Social Psychology from the University at Buffalo. She now helps manage a project examining the relationship between ovarian hormones, brain connectivity, affect, and memory. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of affect and moral judgement and decision-making. She is also interested in using tools from psychology and neuroscience to explore other processes related to conscious human experience, such as causal reasoning and meta-awareness.

July 2020

The IASLab welcomes Jess Ndrianasy! Jess joined the lab as Lab Coordinator. Jess has recently graduated from Skidmore College, having studied Mathematics and Economics. She has previously been involved in interdisciplinary research in behavioral economics, psychology, mathematics, and chemistry. Jessica is interested in the relationships between affective neuroscience and organizational behavior, using data science approaches.

The IASLab welcomes Nate McLachlan! Nate joined the lab as a Research Technician this July. He received his B.S. in Psychology from Northeastern University. As an undergrad, he completed two research-oriented co-ops working at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University, and, for his final co-op, the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Lab. He will be assisting in the management of a study examining the relationship between ovarian hormones, brain connectivity, affect, and memory. His research interests include psychometrics, eudemonics, and the mechanisms and processes associated with the development of mood disorders.

June 2020

The IASLab welcomes Lauren Silva! Lauren joined the lab as a Research Technician this June. She received her B.S. in Psychology from Northeastern University in May. As an undergraduate, Lauren worked as a Research Assistant in the IASL and the Lifespan Emotional Development Lab, where she completed an honors thesis. She also held two full-time, six-month co-op positions at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University and in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. Lauren is currently working on a project investigating age-related changes in affect regulation.

September 2019

The IASLab welcomes Tsiona Lida, who joined the lab as a Research Technician this September. She received her MA and MSc by Research in History from The University of Edinburgh. At Edinburgh, she worked on the history of emotions in nationalist narratives and intellectual history. In 2018, Tsiona was awarded a Kennedy scholarship to pursue research at Harvard University, where she focused on the history of how emotions have been described in science: both traditional assumptions and neglected voices. Tsiona is interested in the reciprocal relationship between science and culture in shaping historically specific understandings of emotion.

July 2019

The IASLab welcomes Nada Kamona! Nada joined the lab as a Research Technician this July. She recently received her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from The George Washington University. At GWU, she worked on multiple projects as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Medical Imaging and Image Analysis Laboratory. Nada's main focus was automatic detection of simulated motion blur in digital mammograms, as well as quantitative analysis of crack's patterns in 19th-century glass flutes. Nada's interest are focused on medical image processing, quantitative data analysis, and machine-learning in a variety of medical applications.

The IASLab welcomes Liz Cory! Liz joined the lab as a Research Technician this July. She received a B.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience from Brown University. At Brown, Liz worked in the Shenhav Lab, where she examined the influence of perceived efficacy on cognitive effort allocation. Upon graduation, Liz worked as a research coordinator at the Massachusetts General Hospital bipolar clinic. Liz is interested in the intersection of affect and motivation, as well as the relationship between word-learning and emotional experience.

June 2019

The IASLab welcomes David Melnikoff! David joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow this June. He recently received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University, where he earned the James B. Grossman Dissertation Prize. Working with John Bargh and Margaret Clark, David explored how goals shape human information processing, focusing primarily on the domains of person perception and evaluation. At the IASLab, he will combine tools from social psychology and computational neuroscience to study the decision-making processes by which humans regulate their homeostatic needs.

May 2019

The IASLab welcomes Paul Savoca! Paul joined the lab as a clinical research coordinator this May. He recently graduated from Northeastern University with a B.S. in Psychology. While at Northeastern, Paul worked as both a research assistant and co-op in the IASLab on a project focused on arousal regulation and aging. In his new role, he will work on a project investigating the biopsychosocial mechanisms of superaging.

October 2018

The IASLab welcomes Yuta Katsumi! Yuta joined the IASLab as a postdoctoral fellow this October. He will receive his Ph.D. in Psychology (with a major in cognitive neuroscience) in 2018 from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At UIUC, he worked with Florin and Sanda Dolcos in investigating the neural mechanisms of emotion regulation and social cognition using fMRI and EEG. He is currently working on a project investigating age-related differences in affect regulation, and is particularly interested in examining the neural correlates of these phenomena by combining multiple (functional, structural, and molecular) brain imaging techniques.

August 2018

The IASLab welcomes Margherita De Luca! She is visiting the IASLab from Rome, Italy, where she is a PhD student in philosophy of language and linguistics. She is interested in exploring the cognitive function of language at the intersection of philosophy and the cognitive sciences. Currently, she is focusing on the semantics of emotion words and on their translatability across languages.

June 2018

The IASLab welcomes Clare Shaffer, Matt Coleman, and Danlei Chen to the team this summer!

  • Clare Shaffer joined the lab as a Research Technician this June. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Elon University, where her research pertained to non-invasive brain stimulation methods and their applications in the neural underpinnings of affect regulation. She is currently working on a project that examines age-related changes in affect regulation strategies. She is interested in continuing to study various affect regulation strategies in both clinical and non-clinical populations.
  • Matt Coleman joined the IASLab as Lab Coordinator this June. He graduated from Tulane University in 2018 with a B.S. in Neuroscience. At Tulane, Matt spent three years as an undergraduate researcher in the Learning & Brain Development Lab, where he led two independent research studies including an honors thesis. Matt is interested in studying the cognitive mechanisms underlying subjective experience and emotional well-being.
  • Danlei Chen joined the lab as a graduate student this June. She received her B.S. in Brain and Cognitive Science from University of Rochester, where she completed an honors thesis on the neural basis of anticipation after implicit learning of probabilistic events. Danlei originally joined the department working with Dr. Hutchinson on how prediction shapes attention. After transitioning to the IASL lab, she is currently working on a project investigating predictive coding.

August 2017

The IASLab welcomes Marta Palermo as a full time research tech. She is a recent graduate of Northeastern University with a Bachelor's degree in Behavioral Neuroscience. During her undergraduate studies, she was a research assistant in the IASLab and assisted with psychophysiology data collection, scoring and analysis and neuroimaging for several projects at both the NEU and MGH sites.

The IASLab welcomes Catie Nielsen and Christi Westlin as graduate students!

  • Catie Nielsen received her B.S. in Neuroscience from Brigham Young University, where she completed an honors thesis on autism, anxiety, and psychophysiology. In the lab, she is currently working on a project, funded by the Army Research Institute, that seeks to understand a person’s physiology and emotional experience within the context of their everyday life. Her research interests lie in understanding how emotions are socially constructed, and how they are affected by long-term relationships.
  • Christi Westlin received her B.A. in neuroscience from Hamilton College. She is broadly interested in studying the neural networks contributing to emotion and emotion regulation, and is currently working on a project investigating affect regulation strategies and their effects on aging.

July 2017

The IASLab welcomes Joseph Fridman. Joseph joined the lab as a Research Technician this June. He is a recent graduate of Cornell University with a B.A. through the College Scholars program. During his undergraduate studies, Joseph conducted research at the intersection of popular psychology, cognitive science, and history of science, receiving highest honors for an original thesis.

The IASLab welcomes Mallory Feldman. She will transition into a research technician position this summer. She graduated from Tufts in 2016 with a double major in Psychology and Peace and Justice Studies. Mallory has worked in the Tufts Diversity and Intergroup Relations Lab, Tufts Social Cognition Lab, and most recently Harvard’s Intergroup Neuroscience Lab. She is currently interested in concepts, embodiment, learning, feedback and their role in the construction of emotion — particularly as they do or do not play out in individual and societal similarities/differences and can be used to inform intervention.

February 2017

The IASLab welcomes Marie-Laure Cléry-Melin Galichon! She is visiting the IASLab from Paris, France, where she is a psychiatrist and a Ph.D. student in neuroscience. She is interested in mood disorders and is currently working on cognitive, motivational and emotional deficits as predictive markers of recovery in depressed patients.

November 2016

Professors Lisa Feldman Barrett and Dave DeSteno of Northeastern, and senior opinion editor James Ryerson of the New York Times, are launching a series of workshops to help scientists communicate their findings to the public.

October 2016

The IASLab's annual haunted house on October 28 raised over $2100 for the Greater Boston Food Bank. See our video about the science of fear.

September 2016

The IASLab welcomes Lianne Scholtens! She is visiting the IASLab from Utrecht, The Netherlands, where she's working on her Ph.D. in connectomics. During her visit, she will explore the role of limbic tissue in the connectome.

August 2016

The IASLab welcomes Maddy Devlin. She will be transitioning into the lab coordinator position this Fall. She is a recent graduate of Boston University with a Bachelor’s degree in psychology. During her undergraduate studies, she was a research assistant in the IASLab and assisted with studies teaching foreign cultural emotion concepts and worked with eyetracking technology. She is currently interested in the relationship between affective neuroscience and neurodevelopment.

September 2015

The IASLab welcomes Sam Lyons, Ludger Hartley, and Tuan Le Mau to the team this fall!

  • Sam Lyons will be transitioning into the lab coordinator position over the fall semester. He graduated from George Washington University in 2015 with a BA in psychology, and has assisted in research related to perinatal depression in mothers and fathers, stress and psychophysiology, and culture and emotion. He is currently interested in bridging affective science and cultural-clinical psychology.
  • Ludger Hartley is currently studying towards a BSc Psychology with International Experience degree from Bangor University. He has previously studied the effects of repetition priming on brand recognition memory and is currently interested in the neurological and behavioral effects of attended and non-attended stimuli and how these interact.
  • Tuan Le Mau received a B.Eng in Electrical & Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London (UK) and is currently registered under the Brain & Cognitive Science department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tuan has experience with quantitative analysis, brain-computer interface and personality research. He is currently interested in investigating emotion through data science approach, and making use of online social networks and Internet of Things.

August 2015

  Lisa Feldman Barrett is now on Twitter.

Congratulations to Dr. Eric Anderson and Dr. Erika Siegel on earning their PhDs this summer!

  • Eric Anderson is now a post-doctoral scholar at the Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Science at Tufts University.
  • Erika Siegel is a National Institute of Mental Health funded post-doctoral fellow in Psychology and Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. She will be working with Wendy Barry Mendes in the Emotion, Health and Psychophysiology Laboratory.

February 2015

The IASLab congratulates Erika Siegel who just accepted a Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC San Francisco where she will explore the psychophysiology of affect and emotion as part of their NIMH funded T32 Training program, Psychology and Medicine: Translational Research on Stress, Behavior and Disease.

January 2015

The IASLab congratulates Ian Kleckner who just accepted a Research Assistant Professor position a the University of Rochester Medical Center, where he will be applying affective science to research on cancer as part of their R25 Cancer Control Research and Training Fellowship.

September 2014

The IASLAb welcomes Paul Condon as a postdoctoral researcher. Paul received his Ph.D. from Northeastern University in 2014. His research focuses on the influence of compassion- and mindfulness-based meditation on emotional experiences and social behavior. He is also interested in how affective states broadly influence compassion and related interpersonal outcomes.

The IASLab welcomes Emil Moldovan, Katie Hoemann, and Nicole Betz as graduate students:

  • Emil received a B.S. in psychology at the Ohio State University and an M.A. at the College of William and Mary. Emil has experience with personality, psycholinguistics, psychopathology research. He is currently interested the neural mechanisms that determine how awareness of one's bodily states influences affective experience.
  • Katie received her B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Northwestern University and her M.A. in Cognitive Linguistics from Bangor University. She has previously studied how emotional experience is conceptualized in discourse and is interested in how language and culture influence and construct our emotional experiences.
  • Nicole received her B.S. in Psychology from Northeastern University and has previously studied emotion perception and neural correlates of negative emotions. During her graduate studies, Nicole will also be working with Dr. John Coley in the Categorization and Reasoning Lab. She is interested in investigating the development and structure of emotion concepts and the relationship between beliefs about the malleability emotion categories and emotion regulation.

December 2013

Lisa Feldman Barrett has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists. Founded in 1904 by Edward Bradford Titchener, the SEP is the oldest and most prestigious honorary society in Psychology.

September 2013

The IASLab welcomes Jiahe Zhang as a graduate student. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University and has previously studied emotion regulation and memory development in children. She is interested in examining the neural networks that contribute to emotion and emotion regulation.

May 2013

The IASLab welcomes Justin Kopec as full-time psychophysiology Research Assistant. Justin recently received his B.A. in Psychology from University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he studied emotional responses to music in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. He is currently interested in clinical applications of emotion research.

April 2013

Congratulations to our Spring 2013 Wikipedia editors! Thank you to all of our contributors as well as to our Wikipedia ambassador, Ryan Malloy! We've done some great work in the area of affective science on Wikipedia this semester and are proud to announce the following edits:

January 2013

Congratulations to our Fall 2012 Wikipedia editors for creating and editing articles relevant to the field of affective and psychological science. Many thanks as well to Wikipedia ambassadors Chris Nolder and Molly White for helping us out this semester! Below is a summary of the ISALab's most recent contributions to Wikipedia, written by our own undergraduate RAs:

September 2012

The IASLab welcomes Shir Atzil and Jolie Baumann as postdoctoral researchers: Shir comes to the lab with a Ph.D. in Psychology from Bar-Ilan University in Israel, where she studied the neural substrates of parent-infant bonding. Her work investigates the neurobiology of human affiliation and the social brain. While in the IASL, Shir will study the neural bases of social reward using different imaging techniques. Jolie received her Ph.D. from Northeastern University in 2012. Her research broadly focuses on the influence of different emotional experiences on behavior and decision making. She is interested in how people make decisions when there are potential threats or risks present and, in particular, how affect or emotion may inform decision making in such contexts.

July 2012

Lisa Feldman Barrett has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. The RSC is Canada's most prestigious national organization of distinguished scholars, artists, and scientists, analogous to the National Academy in the USA. Congratulations!

June 2012

Victoria Spring has joined the IASLab as a full-time Research Assistant. Victoria recently graduated with a degree in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she applied implicit and psychophysiological measures to study affective valence and pain offset in different types of psychopathology. She is presently interested in the influence of affect on moral decision-making, and the application of novel methods to study affect in individuals with severe psychopathology.

April 2012

With the help of Wikipedia ambassadors Molly White and Ryan Malloy, the IASLab has successfully completed the first wave of its Wikimedia Initiative, updating Wikipedia articles related to affective science. Please visit the Wikipedia pages below to take a look at what our research assistants have recently added to the online encyclopedia:

This is a continuing initiative in the lab so keep an eye out for future announcements sharing new pages that our lab has contributed to Wikipedia. Learn more about the APS Wikipedia Initiative.

Lisa Feldman Barrett was awarded Northeastern University's Excellence in Research and Creative Activity Award, at its 2012 Academic Honors Convocation.

January 2012

The IASL welcomes Morenikeji Adebayo who joins us as a research assistant at Massachusetts General Hospital. Morenikeji graduated from Williams College in 2004 with a BA in Anthropology. She has continued her education with classes in cognitive neuropsychology, philosophy of mind, health psychology, and a post-baccalaureate pre-medicine program. Morenikeji's research interests involve the nature of individual subjective experience, consciousness, perception, and how people make meaning of life.

September 2011

Ian Kleckner has joined the IASL as a postdoctoral researcher. He received his Ph.D. in Biophysics from Ohio State University where he studied the molecular mechanisms of gene regulation. He is currently interested in studying the relationships between affect and interoception (the perception of one's internal physical cues) using psychophysiology and neuroimaging methods.

June 2011

Tamina Daruvala has also joined the IASLab as a full-time Research Assistant. She recently graduated from Oberlin College as a double major in Sociology and Psychology with Honors. She is currently working on a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies and a study examining granularity in the experience and perception of emotion.

Ajay Satpute has joined the IASLab as a postdoctoral fellow. His research examines the cognitive and neural processes involved in social cognition and emotion. In the IASLab, Ajay is conducting a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies (in collaboration with Tor Wager's lab) on how people parse the brain into functionally-defined networks or sets of brain regions, and how those networks are involved in constructing psychological experiences. He will also be using meta-analysis and experimental methods to examine whether and how language may shape the experience of emotion.

April 2011

Lisa Feldman Barrett has been elected to the board of directors of the Association for Psychological Science (APS).

On April 6th, several undergraduate students from the IASLab presented posters at Northeastern's Annual Research and Scholarship Expo. This video highlights work by Emily Dugan (supervised by Maria Gendron).

March 2011

On March 26th, the IASL was represented at the San Diego Science Expo. Janine Vlassakis (Lab Coordinator), Molly Sanders-Cannon and Tara Nichols (undergraduate researchers) interacted with 615 visitors using interpretations of the lab's affect and emotion research pertaining to context, language and neuroscience.

February 2011

At the end of this month, Junchen Shang (a Ph.D. student visiting from Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) will be leaving after a year of research here at the IASL. Junchen studied how culture modulates the influence of affect on visual processing.

January 2011

We welcome Christy Wilson-Mendenhall as a postdoctoral fellow. Christy's work investigates how conceptual knowledge fundamentally shapes one's understanding of the world. She comes to the lab with a Ph.D in Psychology from Emory University's Program of Cognition and Development. While in the IASL, she will research the neural bases of abstract and emotion knowledge and of core affective properties of experience.

Welcome to visiting grad student Satoshi Nakashima. Satoshi will continue a project, in collaboration with Jennifer Fugate and Maria Gendron, to examine the effects of emotion words on the cognitive process for facial expressions.

December 2010

The IASL welcomes Dr. Karen Quigley, the new lab Co-Director. She comes most recently from the New Jersey Medical School at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in East Orange, NJ. Her work focuses on the role of peripheral physiology in affective states, including interoception and the role of core affect in vision. She also is interested in the relation of peripheral physiological changes to reports of physical symptoms vs. affective feelings. She continues her work on deployment health issues with the VA in Bedford, MA, recently completing a prospective longitudinal study of soldiers deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan, with follow-up through the first year after their return from combat deployment.

November 2010

At the Living Lab Summit at the Museum of Science in Boston, Janine Vlassakis accepted the Education All-Star Award on behalf of the IASL. In 2009-2010, Janine and her undergraduate research assistants interacted with over 400 museum visitors. In addition to the Living Lab program, Janine also educated students at Notre Dame Academy in Hingham, MA, Norwell High School, and Newton North High School this fall. She will continue this mission in Spring 2011 at other local schools.

October 2010

Jenny Porter comes to us from the Todorov Lab at Princeton University where she focused on person perception and first impressions. She received her B.S. from the University of Michigan in 2008 where she studied empathy and the role of emotion in decision-making with Stephanie Preston. Currently, Jenny is involved in several neuroimaging studies in the IASL to (1) elucidate how the brain constructs various mental states, and (2) measure the interplay of vision and affect -- how what we see influences how we feel and vice-versa.

The IASL exhibited at the USA Science & Engineering Festival this month in Washington DC. Janine Vlassakis and volunteers interacted with approximately 1,100 visitors and collected data from 96 participants.

August 2010

The IASL has moved to Northeastern University.

June 2010

The IASL is pleased to welcome Joe Andreano as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Joe completed his doctoral research with Larry Cahill at the University of California, Irvine. His thesis work used neuroimaging to study the interactions between glucocorticoid stress hormones and ovarian sex hormones in modulating the consolidation of emotional memories. His current work with the IASL will investigate changes in emotional memory that occur due to aging, specifically age-related changes in the mnemonic effects of novelty and positive valence.

We bid a fond farewell to Krystal Yu. Krystal has worked for the past year as a full-time Research Assistant, and we wish her the best of luck.

The IASL will be making a highly anticipated move to Northeastern University in August, 2010.

April 2010

Congratulations to Kristen Lindquist who has been awarded a Mind Brain Behavior postdoctoral fellowship from Harvard University.

March 2010

Congratulations to Dr. Kristen Lindquist on earning her Ph.D. in defense of her dissertation, The Brain Basis of Emotion: A Meta-analytic Review.

January 2010

The IASL welcomes Alexandra Touroutoglou and Junchen Shang to the lab! Alexandra completed her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where she studied the emotion of surprise in problem-solving. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Radiology at MGH through the IASL. Junchen Shang is a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is visiting the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory for one year (Nov 2009 - Nov 2010). Her research interest is affective learning and visual processing.

We also bid a fond farewell to Yoshiya Moriguchi. He has gone back to Tokyo where he will take the position of Section Chief of Clinical Pathophysiology at the National Institute of Mental Health, which is a division of the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry. We wish him the best of luck!

September 2009

The IASL welcomes Jasmine Mote and Erica Boothby as RAs. We also welcome Erika Segal, Jon Entis, and Aggie Zhang as first year graduate students.

August 2009

The IASL bids farewell to Mariann Weierich, who leaves us to take a position as Assistant Professor at Hunter College. Good luck, Mariann!

June 2009

The IASL welcomes Janine Vlassakis as our new lab coordinator at the BC site and for our research at the Museum of Science in Boston.

Congratulations to Jennifer Fugate who was awarded an NRSA from NIMH!

December 2008

Kristen Lindquist has received the Engelhard Pingree Fellowship from the Boston College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. It is awarded to one graduate student each year for achievement in furthering the University's research mission.

Lisa Feldman Barrett was named to the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, National Academy of Sciences.

November 2008

The IASL welcomes Yoshiya Moriguchi, M.D., Ph.D., and Spencer Lynn, Ph.D., both of whom join us as as research scientists.

October 2008

The IASL welcomes Maximilien Chaumon as a postdoctoral fellow. Max joins us from Université Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, and is located at MGH in the Bar lab.

September 2008

The IASL welcomes our newest graduate student, Kevin Bickart, who is located at Boston University.

Lisa Feldman Barrett testified before Congress on the importance of funding basic research in the social sciences.

August 2008

Hui Wen Yu joins the IASL as a new RA. Hui Wen is located at our Boston College lab site. Welcome aboard!

The IASL also welcomes Rebecca Dautoff as a new RA at our MGH lab site.

July 2008

The IASL bids farewell to Eliza Bliss-Moreau, who leaves us with her Ph.D. to take up a postdoctoral fellowship in David Amaral's primate lab at UC Davis. Good luck, Eliza!

The IASL welcomes our new postdoctoral fellow, Jennifer Fugate, who joins us from Emory University. Jennifer is located at our Boston College lab site.

May 2008

The IASL welcomes Yang-Ming Huang as a postdoctoral fellow. Yang-Ming joins us from the University of York and is located at Indiana University in the Pessoa lab.

April 2008

Congratulations to Maria Gendron who has received her Masters Degree in Psychology at Boston College. Maria will be staying on to complete her Ph.D. She is located in the Boston College lab site.