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Joint Tamagawa University / Caltech Lecture-course on EMOTION
Joint Tamagawa University / Caltech Lecture-course on EMOTION
February 18-20, 2009, Caltech
The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of approaches to studying and
understanding emotion in humans and other animals. Topics will include animal
emotion, human emotion, emotion communication through faces, and how emotion
influences social behavior and decision-making. Each two-hour lecture will provide a
broad foundation and also discuss some recent findings, and include time for
discussion and questions.
●February 18
9:00-9:30am Introduction and Overview
Masamichi Sakagami (Tamagawa Univ)
Shinsuke Shimojo (Caltech)
9:30-11:30am "he psychology and neurobiology of human emotion"
Ralph Adolphs (Caltech)
1:00-3:00pm "The neurobiology of social awareness and intuition"
John Allman (Caltech)
3:00-5:00pm Poster session
●February 19
9:30-11:30am "Reward and decision-making in the human brain"
Mauricio Delgado (Rutgers University)
1:00-3:00pm "Emotions, Feelings, and Decision-Making"
Antoine Bechara (USC)
3:20-5:20pm "The face as context for emotion communication"
Reginald Adams (Pennsylvania State University)
●February 20
9:30-11:30am "Taking apart the Neural Machinery of Face Processing"
Doris Tsao (Caltech)
1:00-3:00pm "Is the face inversion effect due to quantitative or qualitative differences between upright and inverted face processing?"
Frederic Gosselin (Université de Montréal, Canada)
3:20-5:20pm "Animal models of emotion"
David Anderson (Caltech)
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