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Sep 18, 2024 | 
psychologicalscience.org | Lisa Feldman Barrett
James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award • James S. Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award for Transformative Scholarship • William James Fellow Award • Mentor AwardTrailblazers in the study of resilience, working memory, burnout, and diversity are among the 13 psychological scientists being honored with 2025 APS lifetime achievement awards.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Lisa Feldman Barrett
When a person views a photograph of a hairy, looming spider or a slithering snake in a laboratory experiment, scientists usually see markers of increased electrical activity deep in that person’s brain, in a region called the periaqueductal gray (PAG). When a caged mouse smells a cat and freezes, scientists observe similar changes in the mouse’s PAG. What’s the obvious conclusion? The PAG controls fight-or-flight responses of mammals in threatening situations.
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May 16, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Lisa Feldman Barrett
Training algorithms on stereotypical facial expressions is bound to mislead. By Imagine that you are interviewing for a job. The interviewer asks a question that makes you think. While concentrating, you furrow your brow and your face forms a scowl. A camera in the room feeds your scowling face to an AI model, which determines that you’ve become angry. The interview team decides not to hire you because, in their view, you are too quick to anger.
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May 13, 2024 | 
taylorfrancis.com | Suzanne Oosterwijk |Lisa Feldman Barrett
Imagine that you are cycling home. Suddenly you see a right-turning car from the corner of your eye. The car will hit you if you don’t act. Your brain immediately prepares your body for action: your heart pumps faster; your hands grip the bars of the bicycsle. You squeeze the brakes and skid to a full stop. You feel scared. The car turns without noticing you. You feel anger.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
shepherd.com | Lynne Malcolm |Daniel J. Levitin |Lisa Feldman Barrett |Guy Leschziner
I love this book because it explores the brain science behind how and why we perceive music and the role it often plays in our lives. I enjoy how he not only explains neuroscience in a clear and engaging way but also connects science with our unique human experience of emotions, memory, and individual taste. As a neuroscientist and a musician, the author draws me in with his deep understanding and enthusiasm about music.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
mdpi.com | Clare Shaffer |Alexandra Touroutoglou |Lisa Feldman Barrett |Joseph M. Andreano
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Jul 8, 2023 | 
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov | Barrett LF |Quigley KS |Lisa Feldman Barrett |Clare Shaffer
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Jun 26, 2023 | 
bigthink.com | Lisa Feldman Barrett
Aided by best-selling psychology books of the last decade, such as Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score, discussions about trauma and how to deal with it have entered popular public discourse. From police departments to school classrooms, trauma-informed approaches have taken center stage. But leading neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett challenges the popular notion that trauma resides solely in the body.
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Jun 13, 2023 | 
rowohlt.de | Elisabeth Liebl |Lisa Feldman Barrett
Neu Eine neue Sicht auf unsere Emotionen Die Freude, Freund:innen wiederzusehen, die Angst, einen geliebten Menschen zu verlieren, die Wut, wenn uns jemand ungerecht behandelt – unsere Empfindungen scheinen automatisch in uns aufzutauchen, sich in unserem Gesicht und in unserem Verhalten auszudrücken und unabhängig von unserem Willen einfach zu «geschehen». Dieses Verständnis von Emotionen gibt es bereits seit Platon. Was aber, wenn es falsch ist?
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Jun 12, 2023 | 
bigthink.com | Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett: Brains are the most expensive organ we have in our whole body. Brains cost about 20% of our metabolic budget — and they're only three pounds in size. So they're really, really expensive. So I sort of wondered, "Well, why did brains evolve in the first place?" Like, what is a brain good for? The 'Triune brain' is this idea that your brain evolved in three layers: You have the inner "lizard brain," which is supposed to contain circuits for instincts.
