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Elizabeth A. Phelps, PhD

Cognitive Neuroscientist; Psychologist; Pershing Square Professor of Human Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Harvard University; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society for Experimental Psychology, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Founding Board Member, Society for Neuroethics; Co-Author, “Emotion Language Use in Narratives of the 9/11 Attacks Predicts Long-Term Memory” (2023, Emotion), “Hippocampus Guides Adaptive Learning During Dynamic Social Interactions” (2021, Neuroscience), “Emotional Enhancement of Memory for Neutral Information” (2019, Biological Psychology), and “Emotional Brain States Carry Over and Enhance Future Memory Formation (2017, Nature Neuroscience)

 

Events

Teaching Emotional Brains

Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA or Virtually via Zoom  November 22-24, 2024

EMOTIONS & MEMORY

How the Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion and Memory Can Inform Education