Research in our lab focuses on how emotion and cognition interact to determine how we learn about and remember important events.
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Learning, Memory
& Emotion
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We incorporate a number of ideas from psychology and neuroscience to investigate these questions. This includes Pavlovian conditioning, categorization, decision-making, and episodic memory. For these experiments we use neuroimaging, psychophysiology, and immersive virtual reality tools.
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