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Announcements

Aug 2023

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!

 

Jun 2023

Congrats Phil who received the F32 Fellowship from the National Institute for Mental Health!

Apr 2023

Congrats Yuta and Danlei on publishing Correspondence of functional connectivity gradients across human isocortex, cerebellum and hippocampus in Communications Biology!

Mar 2023

Congrats Christi, Jordan and Yuta on publishing Improving the study of brain-behavioral relationships by revisiting basic assumptions in Trends in Cognitive Science!

Check it out here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.12.015

Feb 2023

Welcome Isabelle – a research technician joining the lab!

Sep 2022

Congrats Yuta, Jordan, Joe, Eli, Clare and Christi on publishing papers in 2022! Check them out below!

 

Barrett, L. F. (2022).  Context reconsidered: Complex signal ensembles, relational meaning and population thinking.  American Psychologist77, 894-920. (Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award in Psychology, American Psychological Association). https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001054

Feldman, M. J., Siegel, E., Barrett, L. F., Quigley, K. S., & Wormwood, J.B. (2022).  Affect and social judgment: The roles of physiological reactivity and interoceptive sensitivity. Affective Science, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00114-9

Gündem, D.,  Potočnik, J., De Winter, F-L., El Kaddouri, A., Stam, D., Peeters, R., Emsell, L., Sunaert, S., Van Oudenhove, L., Vandenbulcke, M., Barrett, L. F., & Van den Stock. J. (2022).  The neurobiological basis of affect is consistent with psychological construction theory and shares a common neural basis across emotional categories. Communications Biology, 5, 1354. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04324-6

Hoemann, K., Gendron, M., & Barrett, L. F. (2022). Assessing the power of words to facilitate emotion category learning. Affective Science, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-021-00084-4

Jungilligens, J., Paredes-Echeverro, S., Popkirov, S., Barrett, L. F., & Perez, D. L. (2022). A new science of emotion: Implications for functional neurological disorder. Brain, 145(8):2648-2663. doi: 10.1093/brain/awac204

Katsumi, Y., Theriault, J. E., Quigley, K. S., & Barrett, L. F. (2022). Allostasis as a core feature of hierarchical gradients in the human brain. Network Neuroscience, 6, 1010-1031. https://doi.org/10.1162/netn_a_00240

Katsumi, Y., Wong, B., Cavallari, M., Fong, T. G., Alsop, D. C., Andreano, J. M., Carvalho, N., Brickhouse, M., Jones, R., Libermann, T. A., Marcantonio, E. R., Schmitt, E., Shafi, M. M., Pascual-Leone, A., Travison, T., Barrett, L. F., Inouye, S. K., Dickerson, B. C., & Touroutoglou, A. (2022). Structural integrity of the anterior mid-cingulate cortex contributes to resilience to delirium in SuperAging. Brain Communications, 4(4). doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcac163.

Sennesh, E., Theriault, J., van de Meent, J-W., Barrett, L. F. & Quigley, K. S. (2022).  Deriving time-averaged active inference from control principles.  3rd International Workshop on Active InferenceDeriving time-averaged active inference from control principles (in conjunction with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases), Sept 19, 2022 (virtual). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2208.10601

Sennesh, E., Theriault, J., Brooks, D., van de Meent, J-W., Barrett, L. F. & Quigley, K. S. (2022).  Interoception as modeling, allostasis as control.  Biological Psychology, 167, 108242.

Shaffer, C., Westlin, C., Quigley, K. S., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., & Barrett, L. F.  (2022).  Allostasis, action and affect in depression: Insights from the theory of constructed emotion.  Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 18, 553-580.

Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Condon, P., Hansenkamp, W., MacKerron, G., Quigley, K. S., & Barrett, L. F.  (2022).  The Qwantify app dataset: A remote experience-sampling study of desire, emotion, and well-being. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:1054292. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1054292

Zeevi, L., Irani, M., Catana, C., Barrett, L. F., & Atzil, S. (2022).  Maternal dopamine encodes affective signals of human infants.  Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17, 503-509.

Sep 2022

Congrats Lisa on receiving the inaugural Mentoring Award from the Society for Affective Science!